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Some Queer Short SFF - August 2025 | Charles Payseur Get more from Charles Payseur on Patreon

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - AUGUST 2025🏳️‍🌈
I round up 25 stories by @rukman.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social @rfdwrites.bsky.social @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @mererain.bsky.social @whatsmacksaid.bsky.social & MORE!!!
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On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad

My short story "Mismatch" was published in State of Matter in August, inspired by my having some feelings about traveling while trans stateofmatter.in/fiction/mism...

Some Queer Short SFF - July 2025 | Charles Payseur Get more from Charles Payseur on Patreon

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN AUGUST 2025!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's July's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

purple cover of Spellcasting On by Andi R. Christopher. It has a range of elements including a witch's hat, a heart shaped ball of yarn with a crochet hook, hammers, and violets.

Spellcasting On is out now!

Cosy sapphic romance with yarn 🧶 and magic ✨.

Available now on all the usual platforms:

buy.bookfunnel.com/psfdv1soqy

I've got a story, Unforgettable, in Volume 4 - LIMBO - of @clubchicxulub.bsky.social that I'm super excited to see published! clubchicxulub.com/club-chicxul...

A refreshing and affirming article for me this morning UK time. Do read it. With thanks to @scottlynch78.bsky.social whose repost put it into my skyline. Let's remember to share the good stuff in these dark days

In case you missed it in the comments:

My short story, Mismatch, is now available to read, published by @stateofmatter.bsky.social! stateofmatter.in/fiction/mism...

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Pride is all about inclusion… but any event without masking is not inclusive of disabled and chronically ill people.

Mask up for Pride! Make it fun! Get a mask chain or colourful stickers.

Now more than ever we must protect one another, and masking is community care.

I'm looking for a new challenge! If you're hiring for an experienced (Staff/Principal) engineer or engineering leader to help you build and grow interesting production infrastructure, let's talk: my DMs are open. Remote-friendly roles are most likely to work! RTs appreciated.

Even more fun than deleting twoots is going through my password manager and deleting unneeded accounts. Some websites are nice and have handy "delete my account" buttons. Many... do not. The number of completely unnecessary hoops I've jumped through as part of this project is too damn high.

Going back through and deleting all my tweets from the birdsite is a weird little bit of personal archaeology. Like, oh, look at all those things I used to do back before my primary hobby became "managing a chronic illness"

You do not have to consume every single tiny piece of bad news in order to be a good person. It’s ok to miss things. Traumatizing yourself isn’t the same as activism. Bearing witness to the point that you’re paralyzed with fear and horror and fury isn’t going to help us get through this.

Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between

If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social!

www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...

This whole 🧵 is 🔥

And if you wonder how we got here, re: Covid disinformation, this article from @juliadoubleday.bsky.social is a good place to consider and reflect on.

www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-pr...

I appreciate liberals suddenly caring about disinformation again, but those of us that've been tending this home fire for the past four years are gonna need y'all to recognize the covid disinformation you need to undo in your own mind if you want to stand in solidarity with disabled people.