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Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster

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⚧️ she/her. Author: It's Your Funeral, Mountain, The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl (Out NOW!!!). Repped by Azantian Literary Agency. Website: https://emilyriesbeck.com/

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Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · Mar 31

Happy #TransgenderDayOfVisibility! I'm Emily Riesbeck. I write books, mostly about or containing women falling in love with each other. While not all my books are about being trans, it is one of the core facets of myself that i draw from.

My website has previews of all my books: emilyriesbeck.com

Emily holds up a copy of The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl and smiles. She's wearing a white dress.

Page 18 of the pirate and the porcelain girl. Ferra, a young woman wrpaped in banadages, slips off the wall she's crying, tumbling to the ground screaming where her fragile porcelain face shatters.

Page 10 from Mountain. The Pilgrim follows The Climber as they ascend towards Mountain's base. The Pilgrim, tired after a long journey, stos to rest for a moment, then realizes that the Climber will leave without her if she doesn't keep up. Begrudgingly, she plods on.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8h

As y'all have probably heard, there has been a lot of ICE activity on the North Side of Chicago today. At least four people were kidnapped by ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Folks mobilized throughout the day to do ICE Watch and Rapid Response work.

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Bayleaf 🍃 @iceghost.bsky.social · 1d

Hey hey! Issue 1 is out today!

Part of a comic page inks from strange tales issue 1

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 1d

“Unfortunately our only options at this point are destroying all art forever or not creating the world’s first trillionaires”

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Tess "The Egg Prime Directive" Tanenbaum @drtanenbaum.bsky.social · 6d

This is such an important point about HRT that gets lost in the noise: you will feel whether or not it is right for you long before any "permanent changes" set in.

This is one of those areas of medicine where letting people experiment freely and without judgement is the single best path forward.
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Tamsin the Reanimated Girl™ @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 6d

That said, if you're considering HRT, my advice is simple: DO IT.

HRT is one of the safest medical treatments there is, and you'll likely know if it's working for you pretty quickly. Within a few weeks, my quality of life had improved to the point where my wife noticed and commented on it.

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 5d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 5d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

www.reuters.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military.

They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 5d

Remaining feds left the scene in a large caravan, deploying more tear gas straight into the crowd - and right at my feet - as they left.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

At the Broadview, IL ICE detention center—

IL state troopers are already pushing non-violent demonstrators out of the street and away from the ICE facility. One arrest so far.

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Geist @rattlegeist.bsky.social · 6d

Threaded Knight

A porcelain doll soldier with gold filigree & spools of glowing thread stands alone, holding a sword and a rifle.

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Dave Scheidt @davescheidt.com · 7d

Conventions are wayyyy too pricy to table at these days and stifling the future growth of both aspiring and up and coming creators.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 7d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 7d

alternative title: "Leonardo Decaprio Wins By Doing Absolutely Nothing" (i thought it was pretty good, the second act specifically was great)

poster for paul thomas anderson's One Battle After Another.

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 8d

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8d

If you live in Illinois, we need your help.

This will take less than five minutes and will truly pressure your local elected officials to stand with the people rather than ICE.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8d

That’s why I need to ask everyone in Illinois for a favor.

Contact your elected officials TODAY and tell them to stand with the people — not ICE — for a press conference demanding transparency + legality this Friday at 1930 Beach Street, 9AM.

Here’s a template: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Broadview Email + VM templates

URGE YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS TO STAND AGAINST ICE ICE is terrorizing our community. From abducting immigrants and subjecting them to inhumane conditions to brutalizing protesters for exercising their ...

docs.google.com

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 9d

is there any way we can just swap a bunch of useless dem senators at the national level with the dozen dem state senators in chicago who have been running around to mobilize their communities and confront ICE directly

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 9d

State Sen. Robert Peters accuses Trump of engaging in a "propaganda campaign of terror."

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9d

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night.

All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9d

1. It's shutdown day, and anti-trans provisions are on the line... either today, or in a few more weeks if a clean continuing resolution passes.

Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants.

Here is your shutdown guide.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Shutdown Day Guide For LGBTQ+ People: "Continuing Resolutions" And New Anti-Trans Posts From The White House

Shutdown day is here, and there has been a lot of competing coverage on Republican priorities, Democrat's demands, and what shutdown politics means for LGBTQ+ people in America.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Jasmine W. @ LA Printer's Fair B-69 @mythjae.bsky.social · 9d

Incredibly frustrating that we can't choose which distribution channels we want to use with the one tool that bridges access from indie presses to small bookstores, libraries, and what is currently the most affordable way to get print books to readers outside of the US.

Bonedust Press @bonedustpress.bsky.social · 9d

We've realized that through using Ingram, we were not given the option to opt out from being listed on Amazon. After reaching out to the support, we were informed that Ingram doesn't allow for opting out of one distribution branch
This is deeply disappointing.

We have limited options going forward:

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Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 14d

advice from our last pathfinder group: "no one should exist in chains; Your past does not dictate your future."

advice from our current pathfinder group: "you dont have to kill your mom, unless she's bad."

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Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 15d

tonight on City of Mist my mild mannered Anglican priest who may or may not be the superhero Millenium Man punched a guy so hard he made a crater in the street of his quaint little english village and it was still there when we woke up the next day but at least the dead dog was alive again

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 15d

why does my cat always need to go back and forth between my legs for 10 minuts before deciding whether to jump up on my lap or not like shit or get off the pot girl.

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Dizzyspells @dizzyspellss.bsky.social · 15d

abandoned parts

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Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 15d

also i HAD considered installing that mod to just make less 2-hit things haha! But i had gotten so far that i was like at this point i might as well just, as she told us in hollow knight, git gud.

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 15d

Mount Fay brought me back into the game hard. It was just what i needed: some challenging platforming without any distractions that let me make some regular, satisfying progress.

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 15d

i finished up the last of Act II and hit an end screen, and i've been softening a lot on my pain points in Silksong. The last few fights were very satisfying and i found some areas where i had a lot of just good plain fun and approachable challenge. but HORNET HAS NOT SAID "SHAW" ONCE????

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 17d

i'm all for getting good but Silksong often crosses over into downright aggravating with its endless ambush fights, long boss-runbacks, and ubiquitous double-damage attacks. IDK, maybe i'm just in my 30s and past my prime when it comes to those twitch skills.

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 17d

Sliksong devs design a single area without an obnoxious 10-round boring arena fight challenge (level: IMPOSSIBLE).

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Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 15d

My high school physics teacher once got mercury poisoning and the doctor told him to drink a lot of beer. He always said that was the best doctor ever.

Well i had a doctor tell me to play with my tits more so I might just have him beat.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 16d

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

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Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 16d

i remember my first rapture scare.