Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻

@nathanburgoine.bsky.social

3.6K followers 1.2K following 6.2K posts

#Queer #Canadian author; Most Recent: DOGS DON’T BREAK HEARTS (queer hi/lo ya), UPON THE MIDNIGHT QUEER (queer holiday collection), TRIAD MAGIC (queer contemp fantasy); He/him 🏳️‍🌈; Prepare for #Husky photos; 🦖 T-Rex says "Trans Rights or I Bites"

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · Oct 21

Pinned skeet time.

Hi! I’m a tall queer guy who writes (mostly) shorter queer things, though novels keep happening somehow. Mostly I tell tales that exist somewhere in the Venn of spec-fic, romance, and YA, but always queer.

I’m a huge fan of chosen families and insistent queer history.

A panel I moderated at Nottignham’s Queer the Shelves. From left to right: C.J. Debarra, K.C. Lylark, Simon Smalley, Hope Newhouse and Thom Seddon (then me).

1 12 120

Reposted by 'Nathan Boo-goine 👻

Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 4h

The issue is just funding and resources. That's it.

Really the same as in education.

You have to pay for it, and then it works wonderfully.

Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 5h

There are many problems in Ontario health care, but today I got a same-day urgent care slot for the kid, in our town (which has been recruiting doctors). We were in and out in 10 mins, prescription in hand, no thought about money or insurance for the visit of course. Things can work. (The kid is ok)

16 41

Reposted by 'Nathan Boo-goine 👻

Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 5h

Tokens get spent.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 7h

3 64 350

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 5h

Perfect.

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 5h

I heartily recommend cut-and-paste while doing this survey when it comes to sentiments you will wish to repeat multiple times (I found myself repeating "as it is based on theft and plagiarism, it has no place in academia, entertainment, or the arts" a few dozen times).

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 6h

hey canadian friends you can tell the govt what you think about AI (🚮)! survey closes at the end of the month. it's a tad long but worth it. #CanPoli
ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

ised-isde.canada.ca

3 7

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 6h

Someday, I will write an only-ensigns scenario for #StarTrekAdventures based on a space station and it will be called "Lower Docks."

(I’m sorry.)

2 15

Reposted by 'Nathan Boo-goine 👻

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 8h

Courtney Milan’s critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling Turner series is now available in one boxed set. This set contains three full-length books —Unveiled, Unclaimed, and Unraveled —a novella, Unlocked, and two short stories, Birthday Gift and Out of the Frying Pan.
/jb

Image of The Turner Series box set by Courtney Milan. Image is of a white woman wearing dress with a white top and bright pink skirts with a background of rolling green hills. Includes the books: Unveiled, Unlocked, Unclaimed, and Unraveled.

Purple background with text that says:
The Turner series.
Three brothers who have overcome extraordinary odds just to survive are taking on their biggest challenge yet: happiness.
"Quite compelling and emotionally complex." - Book list

Collage of covers for The Turner Series books by Courtney Milan: Unveiled, Unlocked, Unclaimed, and Unraveled.

1 19 88

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 8h

“You know, we as gay people, we get to choose our family.”

Reposted by 'Nathan Boo-goine 👻

Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 11h

It’s official! I can talk about it!

I’ve spent the last 2+ years leading the narrative for the Magic: the Gathering Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set!

I’m excited to see all of this release! TMNT is such a weird, wild franchise that meshes weirdly well with Magic

magic.wizards.com/en/news/feat...

Collecting Magic: The Gathering® | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: A First Look

Cowabunga! It's time to explore the new cards and treatments in Magic: The Gathering | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

magic.wizards.com

18 40 310

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 13h

As I recall it even saved an alien being that last time.

1 3

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 13h

I mean, once you make time travel possible, it feels like a course on "the universe is not your private playground" seems valid.

1 2

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 13h

I mean, yes. Murder, etc.

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 13h

Like that last conference where Dr. Mahar threw fists?

1 2

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 13h

You know the entire Stellar Sciences department pulls out their scans of the Black Dwarf every now and then and just sighs, looking at the data longingly, then putting it back under the sealed envelope of "Temporal Prime Directive" and gritting their teeth every time someone calls them theoretical.

1 2

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 13h

Also that one peer he had he, like, killed. (By request, but still.)

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 13h

Yup! I believe it a TNG Easter Egg and also saying "and eventually he made good" in the sense of "there’s always a second chance" kind of dealy.

In one of the #StarTrekAdventures 1e corebooks, one of the little fluff textboxes is Daystrom talking about that, and I always liked it.

1 2

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 13h

"Is subspace supposed to taste like mint? Because… that seems new to me."

1 2

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 13h

The peer review process always kills it for him.

1 3

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 13h

But I mean, "forcing Klingon-Federation peace for a while by making everything scalding hot if they have intent to harm each other" would probably count for consideration. Maybe even under physics or chemistry if not the politics of peace thing.

That’d be kind of a snarky half-snub, right?

1 2

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 13h

Okay, so we know it was still being awarded in Kirk’s era, because Daystrom got one (before he invented computers that killed people, oops).

If we’re talking VOY-era, Chakotay quips about earning one if he gets stranded in the past in an episode taking place in 1996, so… maybe?

2 3

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 14h

…also I wonder how weird it is for actors who had small single-episode roles that were beloved by fans. Like, Scott MacDonald is one of the MVPs of Trek (N’Vek, Tosk, Rollins, Goran’Agar…) and it always struck me as sad he never got a multi-episode character.

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, boo.

I mean, with genuine gratitude for years of amazing curation of some wonderful writers, but it’s always sad for an exit.

On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 1d

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 14h

So, one of my favourite characters/things to write in my Voyager fanfic retelling is an ongoing relationship between these two.

I mean, it’s impossible, right? Rollins was born hundreds of years before Ducane, so that’s probably never getting a HEA, right?

*innocent whistle*

Actor Jay Carnes as Lieutenant Ducane from Star Trek: Voyager.

Scott MacDonald as Ensign Rollins from Star Trek: Voyager.

2 12

Reposted by 'Nathan Boo-goine 👻

Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 17h

Trans women are women. People still fail to understand 4 simple English words the whole bloody time.

Funny thing is, personally, that I didn't get diagnosed with what they called ADD in the 70s/80s. Teachers didn't spot it. They knew there was something going on, but that didn't occur to them. 1/2

Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 17h

To me, the whole “transition from…to…” narrative has always felt rooted in cisgender cope and ignorance

Trans+ people access Trans Healthcare to be themselves - that’s it - it's that simple

For true gender liberation, the “transition” framing needs to go

LouLou (Louise) @itsloulou43.bsky.social · 19h

I don't identity as a woman
I AM A WOMAN !!!
I didn't transtion to be different
I TRANSTIONED TO BE MYSELF !!!
🩵🩷🤍
Just saying !!!

2 10 47

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 17h

I’m still berating myself for things I did a decade ago (or, y’know, this year). I try to hold some grace there. One-offs vs patterns.

(And like OP said, this doesn’t fly for, y’know, big stuff. Like, when I’ve been folded into whisper networks about sex pests or the like, you bet I'll speak up.)

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 17h

I try to be gentle when I think I’ve got someone who’ll react well to a "So, here’s a thing that happened…" that I think paints a larger picture, but sometimes you just sit there and nod and smile because, as OP said, it won’t fly.

Also we all fuck up. Maybe it *was* just a fuck up?

1 6