Vivian Moira Valentine

A lot of people don't get it. You can make yourself. God that must scare some people. The vertigo it must induce. The seething envy. But you can. You don't have to be trans, you can do whatever you want.

We love our yappy gal 💖🖤

Trans Rights Readathon Trans Rights Readathon 2025

Another reminder that the Trans Rights Readathon is coming up! It starts the 17th.

And I'd love suggestions for what Kansas-based fund I should donate to.

#booksky

I was really impressed that over three days at a venue specifically for genre nerds, I sold as many books as I typically do at an afternoon market where most people are looking for locally sourced honey, and at least my publisher pays for that

I am proud to throw my support behind the Democratic frontrunner for 2028, Sage From Bluesky

Did my one convention For The Exposure

Let's skew my numbers today, shall we? Find my weirdo scifi books at www.laguettler.com

#booksky 📢💙📚

Please pretend I posted a viral-quality video recommending my very cool book for your #TransRightsReadathon here

I was going to record some book promo, but unfortunately I'd have to edit out my neighbors having a loud conversation through the adjoining wall 🙃

A selfie of Vivian, a middle-aged white trans woman, sitting in front of a bookcase. She is wearing light gothy makeup, a black Vampire: the Masquerade t-shirt, and black glasses with silver spiderweb decor. Her wavy hair is dyed purple and shaved on the left side.

The author in her natural habitat

They come unassembled and unpainted. Blood Bowl is a side game from Games Workshop, the Warhammer lads, so the modeling aspect is as big a part of the hobby as actually playing the game

... I can customize my players via a stripped-down XP system, adding traits and such

They can also have their attributes reduced due to injuries, get temporarily retired, or even die, because it's an absurd parody game

Each team has a roster of player positions you build your team from. The picture above is my Tomb Kings team, which I select from a list of skeletons and mummies ... strongly favoring the mix in the available box set 😄

Over the course of a season ...

That's not a stupid question at all!

The basic game is a one on one match using a play mat or board modeled on a (very scaled down) football pitch

The ruleset strongly encourages multiple people playing as part of a league, in which your team grows and changes over the course of multiple seasons

SKEETS UNDEFEATED

If the star player of my fake football show was a bisexual blonde who believed she was a Golden Age of Film starlet and regularly experienced homoerotic tension with players of other teams, you better believe there would be an audience for that

Excuse you, there is a small but passionate audience for fake football

Disney Adults, y'all

Amen

Doesn't that two-second clip of background characters holding hands make you feel Seen™️? Isn't that better than covering a queer indie author's lunch?

Trans-written trans media will not only give The Youths more than scraps, supporting it puts money in the pockets of actual trans people

To hell with the Mouse, support your community

How many Iranian children have to die so that Pete Hegseth feels more like a man?

Selfie of Hammam, a young Palestinian man, showing his thirteen year old brother Abood who is looking slightly down at the camera and his mother in a tent

Photo of Hammam’s mother making bread on a makeshift oven. She is wearing a black and white abaya

Photo of Abood looking in pain with a cast on his leg wearing a black and green outfit in a tent

Photo of the family’s washing station makeshift on a sandbank by their tent. His mother is washing clothes in a small bowl

🚨🚨🚨
My mother has asthma & my disabled brother is pleading for your help🤲
We are living on the sand & are homeless without a tent. My brother's condition is critical; he needs surgery to insert a metal plate, which cost €100😭
We urgently need your support to save my brother's life💔

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It is appalling that it should be so, but a major moment of understanding was when I realized that for all the weight we placed on the names and numbers of our war dead in the last Gulf War, we had killed a number of Iraqis greater by an order of magnitude and they were an afterthought

Revisiting this due to Disney/Pixar's latest homophobic bullshit.

Real craft talk from Mr. Ford

Amazing

Mainstream America: We are obsessed with Heated Rivalry and Drag Race. We love them and can't get enough.
American Democrat politicians: LGBT people are not culturally normal. We will not speak of them.

The Kombucha Lady meme Top, doesn't like: Trans troops being forced out of the military ... Bottom, reconsidering: ... before WW3 starts

I stand by this gag, tho

Deleted the skeet about the draft because it looks like that was misinformation. I knew I should have looked into that before just firing off pithy one-liners. I apologize for upsetting or worrying my friends and followers with adult sons