Erin Elkin

Thank you!!!!

✨ A Little Vice by Erin Elkin is the magical girl story I didn’t know I needed. A trans/sapphic romance full of heart, longing, and transformation—nostalgic, and quietly powerful. I came for the sparkles, stayed for the emotional devastation… and left with a Crunchyroll addiction.

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Lexie and I have the preliminary version of a free new game coming out on Saturday!

There was a contest on a forum we frequent to write a diceless dungeon-crawler game and we, uh...

we made the game OSR games pretend to be

Carve It on My Bones My Fair Lady meets Count of Monte Cristo but with forcefem and giant robots. Held captive against 'her' will, her body altered and augmented without her consent, the newly christened Nasidiena Melusi...

Carve It on my Hones, up through chapter three on Scribblehub now! Girls! Gays! Trauma!! Giant robots!!! Traumatized girls who are gay for giant robots!

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Transfems often have a kind of default hyper-awareness of the markers of transfemininity. We often tend to fixate on the little things that cis people miss, the subtler imperfections, ever tinier sources of dysphoria

The point is that trans women have an innate biological advantage at being chasers

my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries

- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support

youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand

1 trick I’d emphasize for cis allies writing us is connecting your transfems to queer spaces

A trans woman completely cut off from any kind of queer social group isn’t unrealistic, but she is a lot harder to get right

Give her a messy relationship to a trans scene and she is already mostly there

I will always prefer books about messy, imperfect trans women who have it rough but also have some privileges, who fuck up their own lives, and sometimes the lives of others, even while the world fucks them up too; to books about perfectly saintly trans martyrs attacked by a cruel world.

TBH, it might be legitimately less ego damaging if they're starting from the prior that everyone who blocks them is a Russian/rightwing/whatever op because obviously no sane reasonable normal person would ever possibly do anything but agree with all their posts.

Like, horrifying amorality at play here, capitulating to these power grabs is just showing your actual allies that you have no principles and can't be trusted, while showing the regime that high pressure tactics work great and they should use more of them.

We are heading toward a world where there's a bipartisan consensus that it is okay to hunt university admins for sport and uni administrators really should be thinking of the long term consequences of that before they kiss the ring.

Which character from Persephone Effect do you want to see in a chapter preview?

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That’s what I suspected, but I haven’t been able to find a public call at a quick search.

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the same text as in the post is on this graphic, followed by a cartoon of a canadian witch girl flying on a hockeystick broom

Itch and Steam got a bunch of us thinking; we need a catalogue where creative (esp. NSFW & Queer) works are less vulnerable to censorship. A storefront we won't be delisted from. One giving us the autonomy to sell our stuff our way. So we're making Conjured Ink. You can join us. https://conjured.ink

wtf. Wait, he did this in 2017?!?

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But, I think it's worrying that what's a mid-tier journal at a glance seems to be going Archive of Sexual Behavior on trans issues over the last few months, and I'm deeply curious if there's e.g., a notable GC on the editorial board or the like?

Like, what's going on here?

Namely, it suggests a multi-country study that uses policy variation to test the long term effects of puberty blockers.

This is profoundly bad on a design level, but it also de facto justifies the UK and Finland's actions.

While there's a lot to critique in the piece (it's mostly just bad in wonkish ways) it takes a lot of the Cass stance as a given and fails to mention the contrasting reviews that have since found otherwise.

Meanwhile, the stance it ends on is very similar to the RCT stance in most worrying ways.

How to improve research methodology in gender care: a non-binary choice Discussions about the evidence base for the Dutch gender care model, specifically puberty blockers, easily culminate in a binary choice between randomized controlled trials (RCTs, called ‘not ethic...

They also published this in April: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Aside from a frankly heinous play on words in the title, the article itself is a bit different from the other two. Firstly, it's mostly focused on research design, rather than supporting conversion therapy specifically.

Both of these articles are "discussion" pieces, rather than research articles. While that's not scandalous in and of itself, it's very odd that they published two big gender critical voices in the same week.

I'm also not certain if discussion pieces go through standard peer review here.

So, this piece is by Riittakerttu Kaltiala, a Finnish doctor who has a lot of influence on care for trans youth in Finland---and a collaborator on the Cass report.

Unsurprisingly, we get a lot of misrepresentations, fearmongering, and appeals to uncertainty that characterize this kind of advocacy.

So, the OP points to the publisher (T&F) as a problem. But that's kinda a misfire. The journal's reputation is what's important here. But, if we look to other recent articles from the European Journal of Developmental Psychology, there's a lot in the last few months that's...

Well....

Google scholar screenshot featuring Colin Wright’s academic work. All of the most cited articles feature “JN Pruitt,” as an author.

Like, seriously!!!! www.science.org/content/arti...

Imagine having fucked up your academic record like this, published nothing academic since and wanting a professorship at Cornell.

I mean, maybe he was applying for assistant professor of applied misogyny or something more his speed, but….

The raw entitlement of white dudes. Like even beyond being a leader of a pseudoscientific hate group: “yeah, my entire cv consists of papers that are probably fraudulent, but Cornell must be racist for not giving me this job.”

I mean, what other reason could there be not to hire Colin Wright, a man who’s career consists entirely of (1) transphobia and (2) being third author on a bunch of papers where a known fraud collected all the data.

Yeah, absolutely! The emphasis on needing a lot of very specialized technical skills for a lot of very different contexts and domains is the actual novel issue imo.

We're better off focusing resentment with the growing number of technical skills and contexts we need to manage. Website design, image editing, social media tricks in addition to classic public speaking and interpersonal skills.

These suck, and it sucks as these are devolved to artists.

Creative fields have always run on social dynamics (and always on parasocial ones too I'd wager) Artists have always spent too much time networking and promoting and playing social games.

Well, there's the off-meta strat of dying broke and alone and having your work get big posthumously, I guess.