Alexandra Spada 🏳️🌈📚
@alexandraspada.bsky.social
It's 🔞 NSFW around these parts.
ND science fantasy writer who loves dogs, gardening, and books. Join me to read my stories 💜 Mostly trying to find joy in a dark world, and share my journey of survival.
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ND science fantasy writer who loves dogs, gardening, and books. Join me to read my stories 💜 Mostly trying to find joy in a dark world, and share my journey of survival.
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Sweet,
crumbly,
messy—
we were a coffee cake:
delicate,
delightful in the hands and mouth,
disintegration our fate.
In the end,
we dissolved
into nothing
but crumbs of memory:
clinging to our fingers,
sticky with grief.
#originalpoem #noai #poetry #sapphicpoetry #breakuppoetry #lesbianpoetry
crumbly,
messy—
we were a coffee cake:
delicate,
delightful in the hands and mouth,
disintegration our fate.
In the end,
we dissolved
into nothing
but crumbs of memory:
clinging to our fingers,
sticky with grief.
#originalpoem #noai #poetry #sapphicpoetry #breakuppoetry #lesbianpoetry
I never want to see an HP product ever again
December 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I never want to see an HP product ever again
Epistemology is about to become insanely relevant with the amount of fake info we have to wade through just to get real info
December 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Epistemology is about to become insanely relevant with the amount of fake info we have to wade through just to get real info
AI is not universally bad. It is simply a technological tool. It’s up to everyone how they use it specifically. Frankly you cannot even Google anything anymore without “using AI” (because their search is Gemini). Expecting every author to boycott a research tool is silly IMO. SFWA did nothing wrong.
December 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
AI is not universally bad. It is simply a technological tool. It’s up to everyone how they use it specifically. Frankly you cannot even Google anything anymore without “using AI” (because their search is Gemini). Expecting every author to boycott a research tool is silly IMO. SFWA did nothing wrong.
Reposted by Alexandra Spada 🏳️🌈📚
Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition."
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
Tennessee whistleblower says library board chair sought private data as part of state's book purge
A First Amendment expert told The Advocate that there are "huge" legal implications stemming from the situation.
www.advocate.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition."
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
every trans person in the US (including me) feels like the prophetess Kassandra rn
December 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
every trans person in the US (including me) feels like the prophetess Kassandra rn
Did you know? I recently learned that the father of art nouveau Alphonse Mucha was married to Sarah Bernhardt, the famous actress who used to play men on the theater stage sometimes. Mucha’s work is strongly influenced by the ethereal feminine form of Bernhardt.
December 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Did you know? I recently learned that the father of art nouveau Alphonse Mucha was married to Sarah Bernhardt, the famous actress who used to play men on the theater stage sometimes. Mucha’s work is strongly influenced by the ethereal feminine form of Bernhardt.
Reposted by Alexandra Spada 🏳️🌈📚
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
I’ll never forget when I was babysitting a toddler who was walking bowlegged across the room with a very heavy diaper and I asked him, “What are you doing?” He replied, “I’m being a cowboy.” 🤠😂 So that memory lives rent free in my brain.
December 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I’ll never forget when I was babysitting a toddler who was walking bowlegged across the room with a very heavy diaper and I asked him, “What are you doing?” He replied, “I’m being a cowboy.” 🤠😂 So that memory lives rent free in my brain.
the accuracy 😂
Me: (working on novel)
Brain: Hey, got a great idea for a novel. Not this novel.
Me: (typing) Not now, brain.
Brain: Don't you wanna know what it is?
Me: NOT NOW, BRAIN
Brain: I'm not gonna lie, it's SUPER cool
Me: LET ME FINISH THE NOVEL IN FRONT OF ME, BRAIN
Brain: Okay, I'm gonna tell you
Brain: Hey, got a great idea for a novel. Not this novel.
Me: (typing) Not now, brain.
Brain: Don't you wanna know what it is?
Me: NOT NOW, BRAIN
Brain: I'm not gonna lie, it's SUPER cool
Me: LET ME FINISH THE NOVEL IN FRONT OF ME, BRAIN
Brain: Okay, I'm gonna tell you
December 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
the accuracy 😂
Sweet,
crumbly,
messy—
we were a coffee cake:
delicate,
delightful in the hands and mouth,
disintegration our fate.
In the end,
we dissolved
into nothing
but crumbs of memory:
clinging to our fingers,
sticky with grief.
#originalpoem #noai #poetry #sapphicpoetry #breakuppoetry #lesbianpoetry
crumbly,
messy—
we were a coffee cake:
delicate,
delightful in the hands and mouth,
disintegration our fate.
In the end,
we dissolved
into nothing
but crumbs of memory:
clinging to our fingers,
sticky with grief.
#originalpoem #noai #poetry #sapphicpoetry #breakuppoetry #lesbianpoetry
December 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Sweet,
crumbly,
messy—
we were a coffee cake:
delicate,
delightful in the hands and mouth,
disintegration our fate.
In the end,
we dissolved
into nothing
but crumbs of memory:
clinging to our fingers,
sticky with grief.
#originalpoem #noai #poetry #sapphicpoetry #breakuppoetry #lesbianpoetry
crumbly,
messy—
we were a coffee cake:
delicate,
delightful in the hands and mouth,
disintegration our fate.
In the end,
we dissolved
into nothing
but crumbs of memory:
clinging to our fingers,
sticky with grief.
#originalpoem #noai #poetry #sapphicpoetry #breakuppoetry #lesbianpoetry
Do you ever get to the end of a book and you’re about 90% of the way done but you just can’t bear to finish it because you know it means you’ll be done reading about that story? Me too!
December 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Do you ever get to the end of a book and you’re about 90% of the way done but you just can’t bear to finish it because you know it means you’ll be done reading about that story? Me too!
It’s time to load up the shuttles and get off a doomed ship. It’s also time for two gay women to start catching vibes.
Read my original #scifi story Dormant Planet, always free to read. #NoAI, just me and my editor!
Chapter 6 went out this week: open.substack.com/pub/authoral...
Read my original #scifi story Dormant Planet, always free to read. #NoAI, just me and my editor!
Chapter 6 went out this week: open.substack.com/pub/authoral...
Dormant Planet: Chapter 6
No signal, no rescue, no choice.
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
It’s time to load up the shuttles and get off a doomed ship. It’s also time for two gay women to start catching vibes.
Read my original #scifi story Dormant Planet, always free to read. #NoAI, just me and my editor!
Chapter 6 went out this week: open.substack.com/pub/authoral...
Read my original #scifi story Dormant Planet, always free to read. #NoAI, just me and my editor!
Chapter 6 went out this week: open.substack.com/pub/authoral...
#HappyHalloween! Chapter 3 of my #spacehorror is out now, always FREE to read! 🚨
When alarms blare "HULL BREACH," Aisha has seconds to decide: follow evacuation orders or trust her instincts? What would you do?
Read now ⬇️ authoralexandraspada.substack.com/p/dormant-pl...
(art/words by ME, no AI)
When alarms blare "HULL BREACH," Aisha has seconds to decide: follow evacuation orders or trust her instincts? What would you do?
Read now ⬇️ authoralexandraspada.substack.com/p/dormant-pl...
(art/words by ME, no AI)
Dormant Planet: Chapter 3
Aisha tends her garden while the cat Sourdough keeps watch
authoralexandraspada.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
#HappyHalloween! Chapter 3 of my #spacehorror is out now, always FREE to read! 🚨
When alarms blare "HULL BREACH," Aisha has seconds to decide: follow evacuation orders or trust her instincts? What would you do?
Read now ⬇️ authoralexandraspada.substack.com/p/dormant-pl...
(art/words by ME, no AI)
When alarms blare "HULL BREACH," Aisha has seconds to decide: follow evacuation orders or trust her instincts? What would you do?
Read now ⬇️ authoralexandraspada.substack.com/p/dormant-pl...
(art/words by ME, no AI)
Me: writes space horror
Also me: gets scared reading my own writing 💀
Chapter 2 of Dormant Planet gave me the creeps and I literally wrote the thing. Latest chapter up on my Substack! It's free, it's bloody, and it ends on a cliffhanger because I'm evil like that 😈
Also me: gets scared reading my own writing 💀
Chapter 2 of Dormant Planet gave me the creeps and I literally wrote the thing. Latest chapter up on my Substack! It's free, it's bloody, and it ends on a cliffhanger because I'm evil like that 😈
October 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Me: writes space horror
Also me: gets scared reading my own writing 💀
Chapter 2 of Dormant Planet gave me the creeps and I literally wrote the thing. Latest chapter up on my Substack! It's free, it's bloody, and it ends on a cliffhanger because I'm evil like that 😈
Also me: gets scared reading my own writing 💀
Chapter 2 of Dormant Planet gave me the creeps and I literally wrote the thing. Latest chapter up on my Substack! It's free, it's bloody, and it ends on a cliffhanger because I'm evil like that 😈
Reposted by Alexandra Spada 🏳️🌈📚
Star Trek is so cool (btw)
October 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Star Trek is so cool (btw)
Reposted by Alexandra Spada 🏳️🌈📚
“6 inches isn’t enough and 12 inches is too much” - @michaelhobbes.bsky.social speaking about Subway has never been more correct.
September 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“6 inches isn’t enough and 12 inches is too much” - @michaelhobbes.bsky.social speaking about Subway has never been more correct.
Frayla and Nesh thought they were heading to paradise. New planet, new life, new beginning.
Instead, they're hiding in a closet listening to screams echo through their ship.
authoralexandraspada.substack.com/p/dormant-pl...
#SpaceHorror #SciFi
Instead, they're hiding in a closet listening to screams echo through their ship.
authoralexandraspada.substack.com/p/dormant-pl...
#SpaceHorror #SciFi
Dormant Planet: Chapter 2
Nesh and Frayla find themselves on an empty spaceship. Or so they think.
authoralexandraspada.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Frayla and Nesh thought they were heading to paradise. New planet, new life, new beginning.
Instead, they're hiding in a closet listening to screams echo through their ship.
authoralexandraspada.substack.com/p/dormant-pl...
#SpaceHorror #SciFi
Instead, they're hiding in a closet listening to screams echo through their ship.
authoralexandraspada.substack.com/p/dormant-pl...
#SpaceHorror #SciFi
taking a 🔫 class today for the very first time, never used one or disabled one so it will be good to have that knowledge under my belt. Yknow. Because this is America.
September 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
taking a 🔫 class today for the very first time, never used one or disabled one so it will be good to have that knowledge under my belt. Yknow. Because this is America.
I am genuinely distressed by the fact that my own family would rather erase me over supporting and defending me.
open.substack.com/pub/authoral...
open.substack.com/pub/authoral...
This Week in Trans Anxiety: Fascist Family Members
How do you survive when your family chooses fascism over you?
open.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I am genuinely distressed by the fact that my own family would rather erase me over supporting and defending me.
open.substack.com/pub/authoral...
open.substack.com/pub/authoral...
went apple picking this weekend
September 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
went apple picking this weekend
they’re just saying it out loud now. Sickening.
September 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
they’re just saying it out loud now. Sickening.
Reposted by Alexandra Spada 🏳️🌈📚
🙇🏾 thank you coffee, you saved me
September 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🙇🏾 thank you coffee, you saved me
we said goodbye to the pool for the season today 😭🥲
September 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
we said goodbye to the pool for the season today 😭🥲
a steamy summer hookup story in three acts 😏 enjoy my original memoir writing hehe #originalwriting #romance #memoir
open.substack.com/pub/authoral...
open.substack.com/pub/authoral...
How to Woo a Tourist (Bring the Weed)
A summer hookup story in three acts
open.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
a steamy summer hookup story in three acts 😏 enjoy my original memoir writing hehe #originalwriting #romance #memoir
open.substack.com/pub/authoral...
open.substack.com/pub/authoral...
My latest blog dives into what it's like to grow up in a right-wing home. And let me tell you, it's a helluva lot like dealing with the US government right now as an American.
authoralexandraspada.substack.com/p/the-same-c...
authoralexandraspada.substack.com/p/the-same-c...
The Same Chains
Surviving child abuse and US government oppression
authoralexandraspada.substack.com
August 31, 2025 at 11:44 PM
My latest blog dives into what it's like to grow up in a right-wing home. And let me tell you, it's a helluva lot like dealing with the US government right now as an American.
authoralexandraspada.substack.com/p/the-same-c...
authoralexandraspada.substack.com/p/the-same-c...