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arlington dean miles @arlingtonchamber.bsky.social · Nov 21

hey howdy the name is arlington (or arly). i use grim/voi/he pronouns. i’m a disabled, AuDHD, queer enby artist/writer based in Michigan.

i write SPN fanfics and draw SPN fanart (among other things, but those are the main ones)

if you like my work, check out my ko-fi! ko-fi.com/arlingtoncha...

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Nick @dyadiccalamity.bsky.social · 22d

First Forgotten

#LGBTQ #Queer #LGBTQrights #Transrights

Poem, by me, an ode to "First, They Came..."

First Forgotten

First, they came for the queers.
They burned our books,
Banned our presence,
And imprisoned those who would not comply.

When the war was over,
Many were dead.
Those that weren’t?
Still outlawed, still imprisoned.

You don’t remember?
You didn’t learn this?
Of course not.
That’s what they wanted.

They erased our lives
But not our memories.
First, they came for the queers.
But we weren’t part of the fucking poem.

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arlington dean miles @arlingtonchamber.bsky.social · 23d

i just started #AGameinYellow today and i’m already 1/3 of the way in, like damn @haileypiperfights.bsky.social once again yanking me in with her queer horny horror and i could not be happier
(plus the Malevolent fan in me is thrilled)

#booksky #queerhorror

A screenshot from the Storygraph of arlington’s reading journal for A Game in Yellow by Hailey Piper. There are two entries with the 1st reading 13 October 2025 Started Reading. The second entry reads 13 October 2025 97 pages out of 275, piper at it again with the horny queer horror.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · Sep 26

Anyway, evergreen

Tumblr post by superorganism: You have to be annoying and do everything as passionately as possible because we live in a world where everyone operates through sixteen layers of post irony and to love with recklessness is literally counterculture.

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Cyn'laine @cynlaine.bsky.social · Sep 26

Yooooo autism is here! 😍😍
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#art #furby #autism #autumn

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ace tilton ratcliff @mortuaryreport.bsky.social · Sep 20

sometimes it feels like the chronically ill AuDHD experience is just waiting too long to eat every single day (for any number of reasons, intentionally or otherwise) and then realizing i feel much more human once i have accomplished the task of consuming nutrients

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arlington dean miles @arlingtonchamber.bsky.social · Sep 12

this poem feels apt for the current uniquely american calamity we once again find ourselves in. my empathy is reserved for those who don’t build their entire platform on normalizing the avoidable deaths of gun violence and villainizing marginalized communities. apparently too high of a bar for some.

a page from the book Chrysanthemums and Forget-Me-Nots by arlington winchester. the title of the poem is our blood isn’t your communion

Content warning: religious violence, genocide, gory imagery

They’ll never stop asking me if I believe in god
Even as my insides paint the pavement
They’ll never stop asking you if you believe in god
Even as your body is paraded on the news
They’ll never stop asking us if we believe in god
Even as we beg to the heavens for this to stop

What point is there in believing in a god that allows this hatred to fester and putrefy, allows blood to be spilled in its name
When we are executed at the altar of greed, fury, fear at the eager hands of its disciples
Water from a baptism forced into our lungs, thoughts and prayers as first aid and eulogy

They’re killing us; they’re killing people they teach us to hate from the very beginning, based on poorly translated centuries old mythology and generational tradition. They’re killing us as they did our ancestors, burning our history before we can tell it. History is repeating because the winners are the ones with the money and power; the losers are stripped of their humanity and lives in honor of their wrathful god. We’re dying. From the U.S. to Palestine, from Ukraine to Brazil, from Pakistan to Mexico. We’re dying. Remember & Mourn & Fight & Protect & Dream.

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · Aug 30

As always, there's a Helluva Boss clip for this moment

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · Sep 1

the world is better because it has trans people in it

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Sep 11

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · Sep 11

Remembering Charlie Kirk's Greatest Hits

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · Sep 5

Support your trans friends

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 3

As we see ANOTHER huge drop in the cost of curing tuberculosis, I am reminded that 1. drugs are not expensive because they're made of platinum or something, and 2. the fruits of activism are often harvested over many years. Thanks to all the folks who made this happen. www.stoptb.org/news/breakin...

Breaking News: Historical Drop of DR-TB Treatment Cost Below $300 After Third Major Cut in 2025 by Stop TB’s Global Drug Facility | Stop TB Partnership

www.stoptb.org

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arlington dean miles @arlingtonchamber.bsky.social · Sep 3

hey howdy y’all welcome to GhoulsnHalos and i’s entry to the DeanCas BDSM Bang! i was so excited to be paired with them and love how it all turned out.

check out the fic here: archiveofourown.org/works/698472...

#spnfanart #spnfanfic #fanart #destiel #deanwinchester #castiel #arlingtondraws

a digital art drawing of Baby from supernatural. boxes are piled in the backseat. there is a dark pink background with text reading Heart Like a Chevrolet Impala.

a digital art drawing of looking directly down at dean from above, naked on his stomach with his limbs spread wide on a bed, his wrists are tied with pink rope. his face is shoved into a pillow and lays atop white sheets. dark blue wax shimmers on his back, with the wax spilt out to spell Castiel along his spine.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · Sep 2

Literature is when the protagonist is also their own antagonist

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arlington dean miles @arlingtonchamber.bsky.social · Sep 2

August marked two reading milestones 1) 40% completion of @thestorygraph.com Reads the World challenge and 2) surpassing my 2023 record of 70 books in a year (and we’re not even done yet!) I’ve got 12 books checked out between two libraries, wish me luck 🫡
#grpl #supportlocallibraries #booksky

an infographic of my August reading stats from The Storygraph, featuring two pie charts of fiction vs nonfiction and print vs digital, as well as a bar chart of top 5 genres and a line chart of number of pages read per day. The text reads
Books: 8
Pages: 2,170
Average rating: 4.63
Highest rated reads: As We Have Always Done — rated 5 stars; The Diablo’s Curse — rated 4.75 stars; The Serviceberry — rated 4.75 stars
Average book length was 264 pages, average time to finish was 5 days.
The fiction vs nonfiction pie chart reads fiction 63% and nonfiction 38%
The bar chart of top genres reads LGBTQIA+ at 4 books, Young Adult at 3 books, Fantasy, Short Stories, amd Romance at 2 books each.
The print vs digital pie chart reads print 88% and digital 12%.

an infographic collage of book covers read during August. From left to right in the first row shows
All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From by Izzy Wasserstein
Family Don’t End in Blood edited by Lynn S. Zubernis
Beijing Comrades by Bei Tong
Stars in Their Eyes by Jessica Walton and Aśka
From left to right in the second row shows
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell with Faith Erin Hicks
The Diablo’s Curse by Gabe Cole Novoa
As We Have Always Done by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 30

Less than 2 hours left and we just passed 43,000 responses!

survey.gendercensus.com

If your gender defies the binary, please do join in - and share with anyone you think might be into it [unless they are asleep because 1.5 hours is not very long].

#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #gender #survey #pride #GSM

Gender Census 2025

Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.

survey.gendercensus.com

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arlington dean miles @arlingtonchamber.bsky.social · Aug 30

new #gubbins high score let’s goooo

werehere.beehiiv.com/subscribe

#dftba #nerdfighteria #we’rehere

a gubbins postcard from august 30th. at the top are five pictures of the gubbins used, from left to right it shows 4 stars, a magnet, a trumpet, a lemon, and a UFO. The text reads You scored 9740 points, and found 16 words. At the bottom are the ten longest words found: layerings, unjumble, stavings, chickens, sunshine, delights, rabbits, riders, billed, and gears.

arlington dean miles @arlingtonchamber.bsky.social · Aug 28

rewatching s1 of #GenV in preparation for s2 next month and oh my god shetty really is queen of manipulation. gaslight gatekeep girlboss, using her psychology powers for evil.
meanwhile cate is fighting for her life and being blackmailed into manipulating her own friends. ughhhh #theboys

arlington dean miles @arlingtonchamber.bsky.social · Aug 9

July was a slower month for reading but still got some good ones in!
shout out to TYEF for sending me a copy of #TheWickedBargain, loved seeing great transmasc representation 🏳️‍⚧️
#booksky #supportlocallibraries #transcharacters

an infographic of my July reading stats from The Storygraph, featuring two pie charts of fiction vs nonfiction and print vs digital, as well as a bar chart of top 5 genres and a line chart of number of pages read per day. The text reads
Books: 8
Pages: 2,086
Average rating: 4.44
Highest rated reads: Martyr! — rated 5 stars; The Wicked Bargain — rated 4.75 stars; The Queer Games Avant Garde — rated 4.5 stars
Average book length was 270 pages, average time to finish was 6 days.
The fiction vs nonfiction pie chart reads fiction 75% and nonfiction 25%
The bar chart of top genres reads LGBTQIA+ at 8 books, Young Adult at 3 books each, Fantasy and Horror at 2 books each, and Short Stories at 1 book.
The print vs digital pie chart reads print 75% and digital 25%.

an infographic collage of book covers read during July. From left to right in the first row shows
A People’s History of Grand Rapids by Jeff Smith
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Cranberry Cove by Hailey Piper
Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky
From left to right in the second row shows
Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories edited by Michael Earp
The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games by Bo Ruberg
Benothinged by Alvar Theo
The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa

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arlington dean miles @arlingtonchamber.bsky.social · Aug 9

come join us!

SPN Bang Bang @spn-bang-bang.bsky.social · Aug 9

CLAIMS NOW OPEN
We have a few fics still available, and we are now opening claims up to non-registered artists.

See the Claims Gallery Here: airtable.com/appqPujGOXGv...

If you would like to participate, you may put in a claim by clicking here: airtable.com/appqPujGOXGv...

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Jul 30

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Title: Gender Census 2025.

Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part.

Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

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arlington dean miles @arlingtonchamber.bsky.social · Jul 25

nobody tell randy feltface

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · Jul 25

The battery lickers are coming for us in the replies.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · Jul 25

Do not lick batteries.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Jul 23

"Understanding" is a pretty beautiful compound word...in this case "under" has a somewhat archaic meaning of "among" (also still present in "under these circumstances.")

So understanding is "Standing among" as-in a mind that figuratively shares space with the concepts in question.

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arlington dean miles @arlingtonchamber.bsky.social · Jul 21

me too, dean, me too

Ariel 💚💙 @corrupttouch.bsky.social · Jul 21

Daily Dean - Day 202 💚

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progesterin @erinys.uwu.lgbt · Jul 13

serving cunt isn't about the cunt between your legs it's about the cunt in your heart

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