T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics)

Another day, another leeching. I'm sure this round of bloodwork will show nothing, too!

But hey, I'm going to go scribble some words now and that's pretty okay. :)

Doesn't help the CI today means I feel like absolute dog shit. Ugh.

Jumpscared by my own newsletter email publishing this morning

So that's the kind of day it's gonna be, huh?

"Your medical goals for 2026 are to turn the angry chihuahuas inside of you into the taco bell chihuahua."

Last call! I will be meeting with Aunt Lydia to discuss her responses tonight ;)

Thank younfor the good vibes because I think they worked!!!!

If you can spare some good vibes for the dr appointment I'm about to step into I could appreciate it 😭

And yes, yes, I know that is chronic illness/spoonie life. I don't care. I just want to keep my job/health insurance and tell my stories. So sue me...

Imo I either REALLY need the distraction from the upcoming prednisone taper slide/associated anxiety around it or...the drugs are working. Maybe.

I honestly don't know, and that wigs me out more. What happens if it's temporary and it all gets stolen away again?! 😭

Are the new MCAS drugs working? I don't know. But as of rn have enough energy to:
--write some blog posts/schedule first newsletter since Sept '25
--Daydream New Story Ideas (2 in a month!)
--occasionally peck out edits

So. Yay?

Help me spread light and joy and morale support by asking Aunt Lydia some questions! As silly, selfish, or srs bzns as you wish.

And yes the name of her advice column in German *is* The Rainbow Advice Column, why do you ask?

A white woman (your butch in drag) in a teal and purple robe, blonde wig, wicker hat with wisteria clump, and tacky big costume jewlery

Aunt Lydia (aka your fabulous high femme lesbian pirate auntie, aka me in drag) is now accepting questions for an unhinged romance/relationship edition of her advice column! Please inquire within 😁

forms.gle/LmXkibVftA2x...

a cartoon character says zhu li do the thing while holding a camera Alt: a cartoon character varrick says zhu li do the thing while holding a pair of binoculars. From The legend of korra

The thing? *nods sagely* The thing.

Wanna get That Good Gay Shit in your inbox next Sunday? You can do the thing here:

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A chronic illness author win 🎉 Wrote, edited, formatted, and scheduled my first newsletter since all this shit started in September 2025. Please clap!

A piebald tabby in an enclosed, head looking out a circular opening with his feet slid out from under the bottom like feet out from under the covers

Temperature regulation for when it's 18°F out: Stuff self in table sitting over heating vent. Paws out when you get too warm.

And this girls gays and theys is why you change ONE VARIABLE AT A TIME when you are dealing with medication but since the doctors are refusing to let me do that, we get to play fun symptom roulette.

Don't know how much of this is the new drugs vs. the taper of the other drugs keeping me stable vs. my hormones choosing violence, but I hate it, thanks.

Today is one of them hard chronic illness days where my brain had plans... but my body has other plans.

I was able to get a few words in, though, even if they were just transcription of handwritten words? so that's progress.

Trying my best!

For some reason I tagged Chaz twice! I also meant to tag @womenplaydnd.bsky.social !

Maybe I'll even get my Worldcon report up before next Worldcon 😂 Although at the rate my doctors keep trying to kill me, likely not.

The away team! Ft Madame Askew and the Grand arbiter in Victorian inspired command gold and Gail Carriger and myself in engineering red

Finally got my blog post about @tusconscifi.bsky.social up!

Ft members of my favorite away team, @madameaskew.bsky.social @teagrandarbiter.bsky.social @gailcarriger.bsky.social as well as the delightful @chazkemp.bsky.social @chazkemp.bsky.social and others!

tmkutawrites.com/post/8072695...

Happy gotcha day to my delightfully head empty, sweet as sugar personal little poltergeist.🧡💙

A white cat with blue and orange heterochromia staring gormlessly at a worm toy

A white cat with blue and orange heterochromia and and orange tail staring gormlessly at a worm toy. The text "remain calm and focus on" had been imposed over the image

4 years later and he still looks at the worm with an intensity that worries me for one so smooth of brain.

And when I saw "unnecessary" they are wholeheartedly absolutely necessary and you can pry my love for snarky built environment commentary out of my cold dead gay studio-scarred hands. 😂

This being said, I am also a romance writer and I love a trope. Trust me, I can be trope-y AND snarky at the same time 😂

My crowning delight as a reader and preservation/construction professional was "recognizing" the bags of Mapei grout mentioned as an aside in the background of a scene at the Foley.

My crowning delight as an author was describing a bunch of architects on a scaffold walk as lemmings.

@benaaronovitch.bsky.social 🤝 Me

Unecessary snarky asides about the built environment, historic buildings, and architects/city planners