Abra / Jessica Conwell, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻

NO U!

Between this and Fetterman's book, there are going to be some truly rancid remainders tables at Barnes and Noble next month.

A cutesy, cartoony digital drawing of Samantha the Tarantula! She has purple fur with white markings on her abdomen and legs that look like a human skeleton. A word bubble above her head shows a pink heart, because she loves you.

Researching sticker printing services! In the meantime, here's Samantha!

If only there was one screenshot that could be used to market this to Bluesky...if only...

"The power is now in your hands."

"The power is now in your hands."

If only there was one screenshot that could be used to market this to Bluesky...if only...

I'd love to say that the "Well maybe if you'd voted for democrats even harder..." motherfuckers are being real quiet right now, but we all know better.

okay, you guys did GREAT with this last time when it was a grandma in upstate NY. a friend referred a Catholic mom to me in Crystal Lake, IL who has a trans kiddo and gave me her blessing to consult the Bluesky brain trust. they're looking for trans-affirming therapists, family support groups, etc

Samantha the Tarantula, digitally painted in bark blue, cream and red in the style of Shepard Fairey's Barack Obama "Hope" poster. Instead of "Hope", it says "Her". This is an incredibly dated reference and it's okay if you don't get it.

Yes We Can (make Samantha the Tarantula the Best Character of 2025)!

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Vote for the 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards! Voting is open now for the 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards! Vote by Dec. 26th.

However, if you haven't yet, I am also one hundred percent seriously urging you to consider The Wolf Bane by Sadhbh Frost for Best Debut, as well as Abra Conwell for Pillar Of The Community for her work promoting other trans authors, as exemplified by The Thread

A promotional graphic for indie author Vivian Moira Valentine, displaying the covers for everything she released in 2025. Text reads: For Your Consideration Novel: Along Torturous Paths, Amelia Temple Book Three Novella: Shadows Over Ravenkirk 1: The Last Will And Testament Of Wilhelmina Bruttenholm Short Stories: All You Have To Do Is Want, you must [not] run away, The Bird Woman.

A promotional image for Shadows Over Ravenkirk. A drawing of Samantha The Tarantula in a crinkly frame dominates the lower left. Text surrounds it to the top and right. The background is a close-up of the cover to Shadows Over Ravenkirk 1, faded to dark blue, with Gothic protagonist Victoria staring in shock at the spider who ate her lunch. Text reads: The Transfeminine Review Reader's Choice Awards Best Character 2025 Vote Samantha The Tarantula The People's Choice.

Awards eligibility 2025!

I released 1 novel, 1 novella and 3 short stories this year, if anyone is a voter anywhere

More importantly, and this is the only award I'm semi-seriously campaigning for, Samantha The Tarantula is a strong contender for TFR's Best Character 2025, probably maybe

"Everyone would be less susceptible to propaganda & conspiracy theories if they read more books!"

Hey, real quick: Are you a child? Are you, like, a small child? Are you a small child being taught a valuable lesson by an animated wizard in a movie designed to give teachers an extra 25 minute break?

Check out my Patreon to support this project, as well as my long-form video about Twilight and cars (I have not forgotten!), and other writing and analysis work. 💚

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Speaking of The Thread, books make wonderful gifts for the holidays, as does buying or reviewing an indie author's books

A photo of two queen chess pieces, one black, one white, which historians will say were sisters.

Go off, queen.

A stock photo of two white chess pieces, a queen and a king, sitting on a wooden surface

Absolutely baddie running around everywhere to get shit done, useless man lurching back and forth while everyone else struggles to protect him from the consequences of his actions. Name a more iconic couple.

Folks, I know things are hard right now. Hatred, genocide, an uncertain future looming ever closer.... Now this isn't going to make any of that better, but if you want to forget for just one, golden moment, I urge you to go look up videos of shampoo ginger lily harvesting.

Gender Outlaws, Kate Bornstein 1994

Istg, book/writing community whimsy inspo accounts are going to make me the Joker.

Every rightwing ticking timebomb I've ever met has shelves and shelves of books with 9-inch spines written by the most vociferous antisemites on Earth, and they've read every one of them ten times over. "READ BOOKS!" is not the solution to our problems.

"Everyone would be less susceptible to propaganda & conspiracy theories if they read more books!"

Hey, real quick: Are you a child? Are you, like, a small child? Are you a small child being taught a valuable lesson by an animated wizard in a movie designed to give teachers an extra 25 minute break?

really dislike this thing where people treat reading like a magic panacea to all the world's problems there are BAD BOOKS lmao

A promotional image for Shadows Over Ravenkirk 1. It depicts the book's cover against a gray-blue background, overlaid with a close-up of the cover. The Indie Ink Awards logo is in the bottom-right corner. Text reads: Indie Ink Awards Nominee Shadows Over Ravenkirk 1: The Last Will And Testament Of Wilhelmina Bruttenholm Writing the Future We Need: Bisexual or Biromantic Representation Gay or Lesbian Representation LGBTQ+ Representation Trans or Nonbinary Representation

For Your Consideration

I'm an Indie Ink Awards nominee!

Shadows Over Ravenkirk 1: The Last Will And Testament Of Wilhelmina Bruttenholm has been nominated for the following categories! Voting begins soon at indieinkawards.com

Thank you to everyone who nominated my book, you are rad!

Another little thought-pebble for consideration:

I think part of the reason why people like Taylor Swift can become so culturally dominant is because of the whole white supremacy thing of turning white people into a monolith that robs white people of any kind of real culture. That empty space is

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This is what happens when I'm asked to design a holiday shirt for a charity.

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If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.

If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.

If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.

I don't think we talk enough about how much a friendship dissolution can fuck you up. Like, there's no societal framework to grieve something like that, not even to the shitty degree other grief is allowed. You're just supposed to shrug and move on, like you didn't just a piece of yourself...