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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc

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Author KA Silva: UF, romantasy, horror comedy. Fiction editor. Enby transmasc, he/they, occasional frog. Strange love celebrated, weirdness vindicated. Avatar by Sally Jackson, WENDIGOGO. https://www.graythornpub.com

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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · Feb 9

All my books have some form of social justice: payback for racists who harass Cassie for Farming While Black in STRAW MAN. Indigenous legends take on a greedy oil company in WENDIGOGO. Transmasc Scarecrow & lots of queer pride in STRAW SONG and STRAW SOUL. Signed books & ebooks at graythornpub.com!

Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · Jul 15

Since intros are going around: indie, enby transmasc author here (as KA Silva) writing romantic UF, romantasy, & horror comedy! WIP: sequel to WENDIGOGO. Queer & marginalized characters, weird romance, body horror! #booksky @gpub.bsky.social www.graythornpub.com or www.amazon.com/author/kasilva

Image: cover of STRAW MAN by K. A. Silva, illustration by Talhi Briones. Cassie, a Black woman in a flowing cardigan and skirt, looks over her shoulder at Jack, a white man in a suit and tie. Glowing magic vines swirl from Cassie's fingers to curl around Jack. Straw sticks out of his sleeves as he adjusts a cufflink. They stand back to back in a pumpkin patch under a blue sky.

Cover for WENDIGOGO by K.A. Silva, art by Sally Jackson: Morty, a white man in blue sweater and jeans, looks suspiciously over his shoulder at the monster looming behind him. It has an elk skull with glowing red eyes and dripping fangs, exposed ribs under dirty fur, and long arms ending in wicked claws. They stand in front of a swirling blizzard of snow at night.

image: cover of STRAW SONG by K.A. Silva, illustration by Sandra Chang-Adair. Modern witch Theo, a young white woman with short orange hair wearing a tight bodice, ruffled skirt, and Wiccan jewelry, wields a glowing magic needle and thread. The Scarecrow of Oz stands beside her looking worried, wearing a formal green coat and peaked hat, hefting a shovel as a weapon. They face unseen enemies at dusk in a cornfield.

image: cover for STRAW SOUL by K.A. Silva, illustration by Sandra Chang-Adair. The Scarecrow of Oz, in a formal blue coat open to reveal his stitched burlap chest, tugs a handful of straw from his own body, looking determined. Witch Theo, a young white woman with shrt orange hair, wearing a hoodie printed with a pentagram, stands beside him. She clutches a basket of treats protectively and brandishes a broken bottle as a weapon. Spears ring them in, wielded by unseen opponents. They stand ready to defend themselves in a heated cavern far underground, surrounded by stalactites and stalagmites.

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 44m

da Silva: what if elon musk got [censored]
King: siiiigh
King: oh if only
Poe: steve you can't mean that
King: no of course not i
King: i just
King: how does he die?
da Silva: a deer vomits glitter on him and he melts

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 2h

people don’t understand that data center resource consumption driven by AI is just like… giving a person climbing a mountain a set of encyclopedias to carry with them

adapting to climate change was already a struggle, and now we have carry all this extra shit that provides no added value

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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 2h

Chuck's apple reviews are wonderful, and a welcome respite from the daily horrors. If you're in a region where apple orchards thrive, check out your local offerings! And be sure not to eat the evil ones.

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 2h

Do you hear the distant rumbling? The thrum and tumble? That's the herd of apples, on the move again. Careful. Don't spook 'em or they'll stampede.

What I mean is, today's apple review is live. Up now: HOLSTEIN. P.S. there's also some waffle-piffle about art and audience in there too if you care.

Apple Review #11: Holstein (With bonus Ruminations On Art Vs Audience)

The push and pull of art is, I think, the part where you do it for yourself versus where you do it for other people. And yes, this is sort of about me making my weird apple videos. And no, I don&#8…

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2h

Rep. Jamie Raskin has sent letters to four of the nation's largest banks demanding information related to "more than $1.5 billion in suspicious financial transactions flagged by the banks tied to sex trafficking crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and their co-conspirators."

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 2h

Democrats should demand the firing of Stephen Miller as a condition for reopening the government.

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 2h

“Genspect is a group whose primary policy goal is to end access to medical transition, though they have also advocated against the acceptance & inclusion of trans ppl in society, particularly in school settings. In 2024 the Southern Poverty Law Center officially designated it as a hate group”

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 5h

A fringe group wants the field of psychiatry to regress back to the days when stereotypes and prejudices resulted in mental illness diagnoses for marginalized populations.

In a new reported piece, @evanurquhart.bsky.social examines Genspect's call for the re-psychopathologization of trans identity.

Hate Group Calls for Re-Labeling Transness as Mental Illness — Assigned

A fringe group with no expertise pushes the field of psychiatry to regress to a pre-scientific, prejudice-soaked view of trans people. It coincides with the far-right political agenda.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Elisabeth Alba @elisabethalba.bsky.social · 4h

"The Sister"
Art by Elisabeth Alba
Created with ink and watercolor - 10 years ago!

#spooky #halloween #creepy #horrorart #spookyseason #gothaesthetic #tbt #throwbackthursday

Signed prints at albaillustration.etsy.com

Monochromatic painting of a woman dressed in 19th century clothing, staring into the distance with bloodshot white eyes. She holds a porcelain doll, and her shadow has horns and wings.

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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 2h

Reminder: being queer or trans is NOT a mental illness, and the reason we suffer higher rates of depression and anxiety is because of all the fucking bigots who try to make our lives hell for no goddamn reason. Anyone claiming otherwise is simply an asshole undeserving of respect or debate.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3h

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 2h

Since we're celebrating lesbians this week, seems fitting that yesterday I saw a car with a bumper sticker of the UHaul logo--in lesbian pride colors. You go girl, get that second date!

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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · Apr 28

Oz is real, dark & dangerous, and queer af. Romantic UF, fae legends & L. Frank Baum combine in the Needle & Straw series: STRAW SONG and STRAW SOUL! A modern witch, a subtly transmasc Scarecrow, evil fae, humor & a touch of horror! www.amazon.com/dp/B0C36M95N...
signed books: www.graythornpub.com

image: cover of STRAW SONG by KA Silva, cover painting by Sanda Chang-Adair. Punk witch Theo, a young white woman with short orange hair, wearing a tight bodice, ruffled skirt, spiked collar and pentagram earrings, wields a glowing magic needle and thread. Beside her, The Scarecrow of Oz looks worried; he wears a formal green coat and peaked hat, and hefts a shovel as a weapon. They face unseen enemies in a cornfield at dusk.

image: cover of STRAW SOUL by KA Silva, cover painting by Sandra Chang-Adair. The Scarecrow of Oz stands defiant in a formal blue coat and peaked hat. The coat is open to reveal his stitched burlap chest, and he tugs a sheaf of straw from his own midsection. Punk witch Theo stands beside him, brandishing a broken bottle as a weapon. She is a young white woman with short orange hair, wearing a gray hoodie with a pentagram printed on the front, and she protectively clutches a basket of treats against her side. Spears ring them in, far underground in a reddish cavern, with stalactites and stalagmites in the background.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 7h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

the only appropriate response will be to triple down on supporting the targeted groups rather than to do what so many people usually do which is to run away from them.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 6h

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.reuters.com

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 5h

📝 400+ pages
🥀 urban fantasy
🌃 set in washington state
🔥 slow burn
🤍 romance and angst
🗡️ demons and vampires
📕 first in a duology

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Cover for The Wish and the Demon, book one in the Half Swallowed by Shadows duology, by Rebecca Crunden. Cover shows three men's silhouettes standing in the middle of a road in winter. There's dark red trees and snow on the ground. One figure is approaching the other two, surrounded by shadows.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 5h

Virginia has a critical statewide election next month and there’s still time to register/update. There’s even same-day registration (but that takes more work) www.elections.virginia.gov/citizen-port...

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 6h

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 5h

This week's Thursday snippet comes from Wooing the Witch Queen, which is on sale in the UK this month for only 99p! Snap up my sweet, nerdy hero and the terrifying witch queen he falls for: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen

#romancelandia

An image of the front cover of Wooing the Witch Queen shows a sinister witch queen in a spectacular beaded dress embracing her handsome and adoring new librarian (in a black wizard's robe) inside a library of magic filled with crows and masks and flying books. Above and beside it is this snippet from the book:
Felix had never been more grateful for his concealing mask and cloak than when he'd emerged onto the tower roof to find Queen Saskia with her head thrown back, lips parted, a cloud of crows swirling around her and energy crackling so intensely through the air that it lifted the hair at the back of his neck.
It should have been a terrifying sight: the wicked witch of Kitvaria no doubt summoning a terrible storm of magic to rain down upon her enemies.
But it had stopped his breath for quite a different reason.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20h

Turns out that when Americans said "If it weren't for us you'd be speaking German now..." their objection was to learning a second language, not fascism.

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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 4h

Shit, not the basement again. Please keep us posted. {{{clawhugs}}}

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 12d

Reminder: I'll be at the Cream and Amber Mini-Market on Saturday, October 11th, selling my indie books and representing Queen of Swords Press with their full line of titles. Come out for books, coffee, beer, and early holiday shopping! creamandamber.com/event/2025-1...

Fall Mini Market

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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 4h

Girl, you find the BEST people on here. Anyway thx for showing us another bigot to block. Fuck the haters, hope your day rocks.

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NPR @npr.org · 5h

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 4h

Was it chatty or mean?

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 5h

Hate Group Calls for Re-Labeling Transness as Mental Illness — Assigned

A fringe group with no expertise pushes the field of psychiatry to regress to a pre-scientific, prejudice-soaked view of trans people. It coincides with the far-right political agenda.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5h

Masked agents snatching people at work, church, their child’s daycare. A return of family separations. States are lining up to run their own detention centers.

Anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

We report from inside the American gulag.

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

www.motherjones.com

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