Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️

Asha you are a goddamn delight and it was such a pleasure to Hunt with you. I was so nervous about going to the social events but going with you was just so natural, and seeing your joys as we hunted together with Rage was a blessing. Thank you for being part of my life and having me in yours.

Happy Thanksgiving! I am grateful for many things, like having made some progress on my writing this week, my wife being the absolute best, the million-and-one ways modernity is infinitely better than anytime in history, and my spinny rainbow dragons dress.

Also I slept well, that was nice.

This book dares to ask the question:

What if Data but lesbian?

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!

gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!

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Quill and Still Amazon.com: Quill and Still eBook : Sofaer, Aaron: Kindle Store

Quill & Still: queer slice-of-life portal fantasy/isekai novel. Chemistry, prosocial civics, a million mundane uses for magic. B2 in dev edits. www.amazon.com/Quill-Still-...

And They Who Fall Shall Rest In Power: queer apocalyptic radical/anarchist-adjacent novella. www.amazon.com/They-Fall-Sh...

All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning

How about my to-be-published book because I know everyone wants to read about loss, grief, and the structural inequalities that deprive us of the right to mourn.

Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!

Lotta spammers today for some reason. Remember, always report and block on sight.

Quill & Still is definitely not medieval! (it's magical Renaissance, this matters to me).

Vigor Mortis and Bioshifter by Natalie Maher are in worlds that are very much of her own design, but they are dark and traumatic as fuck.

Fates Parallel is much more Korean + xianxia.

(These are all queer.)

“Turbulent political eras always create new media organizations. The worst of these are media which exist to exploit access to power. The best are those which dare to challenge power. And real challenges can only come from independent media. Liberal Currents has been one of the great surprises of the Trump era. Smart, bold, and unapologetic. It is exactly what muscular liberalism needs right now.” —Jonathan V. Last, Editor of The Bulwark

As masked thugs kidnap people in broad daylight, as the military is sent into U.S. cities, as the press is under assault, the owner of the 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 proudly proclaimed: “We’re not the resistance. We are nobody’s opposition.”

Look elsewhere for opposition, then: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...

goddamn, people just absolutely cannot be normal about disliking you, huh.

😍(in a keysmash voice) ma'am

Oh it sure as hell ain't complete or entire. And blue doesn't always mean progressive regardless.

I agree! They're part of the culture by dint of power and authority. And they empower and promote those who agree with them, propagating their preferences into the future.

(then again, I'm not a furry, merely a purple haired trans girl whose heart is full of DevOps/SRE and whose dream job was 18F / USDS.)

There are very few demographics bluer than software engineers and very few demographics redder than executives/VCs.

Alas the latter get all of the press. Nobody writes about the purple haired trans furries which are the plurality of Infosec / SRE.

It's so fucking good!!

this too qualifies as a jump scare on my skyline

Magic, monsters, and disaster sapphics. 😍

Take the estrogen, if you're into that.

Gay Agenda Patch 2.0.26 Balance Adjustments:

• Trans Woman class aggro multiplier and arra of effect both decreased by 15%.
Dev note: While TWs are intended as a tanking class, their passive AOE threat aura was pulling enemy packs inappropriately.

(Ctd...)

Demon World Boba Shop is extremely cozy, very nice, complete series at five books, very cute (het) romances, you should read it.

Water elemental apology greetings delighted me every time.

#booksky

Bioshifter is definitely high-tier Trauma Writing, as is everything Natalie writes. Great story, heart-ripping.

If you're looking for a maximal change of pace, might I recommend my own story, the queer cozy slice-of-life portal fantasy litRPG "Quill & Still"? xD

If you're looking for something whose themes are more about processing and growing past trauma, pick up Katalepsis by Hazel "HY" Young.

You sound earnest and I'm totally cringe enough to just be delighted because I am so incredibly happy right now.

Also my feet hurt a lot and it's three hours past my bedtime but zero regrets.

She just, I can't even, the sheer gender euphoria of that dance was off the charts. The other dances were good too, don't get me wrong..

And this is only my third time dancing (ever) so how much more fun will it be when I can follow her cues better?

My latest life hack is that if you're a trans girl you should definitely, DEFINITELY ask the pretty girl in the tux for a dance.

Maybe we're just talking past each other, don't worry about it. xD

Natalie is an unfairly good author and she enjoys destroying us (laudatory), this is Known.

Natalie says probably early 2026.