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Friends of the Force @friendsoftheforce.bsky.social · 1d

we are SO back!!✨✨✨

congrats to @authoroux.bsky.social & @ashleyposton.bsky.social on their newly announced Star Wars books!!

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magdaloween visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 1d

i propose we genericize "twitter" to be a noun meaning a social media microblogging site modeled off the original twitter, and keep calling posts "tweets" regardless of the platform

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Madeleine Roux @authoroux.bsky.social · 1d

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

Some books are just meant to be, ya know? Had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong. ✨

Cover reveal for STAR WARS LEGACY with Leia, Rey and Kylo Ren

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Set between Episodes VIlI and IX, Rey and Leia embark on a quest to repair Rey's lightsaber and rekindle the legacy of the Jedi.
After barely escaping the First Order on Crait, Rey and the Resistance are struggling to rebuild. Her friends need the last Jedi more than ever, but Rey feels alone and overwhelmed: Jedi tradition is built on masters and apprentices, and Rey's teacher is gone. Leia Organa tries her best to train Rey in the ways of the Force as Luke did for her so many years ago, but Leia's knowledge is limited, Rey's lightsaber is broken, and the specter of Kylo Ren and regrets from the past haunt them both. How can Leia pass the torch, when she herself is unsure of the way?
But then, the ancient Jedi texts offer a glimmer of hope: a long-forgotten Jedi temple on Tython that might hold the key to repairing Rey's saber. Rey leaps at the chance to journey there - and to her surprise, so does Leia.
Rey and Leia's nascent mentorship is put to the test when they discover the temple on Tython is filled with obscure clues to decipher and arcane trials to complete.As they work to unravel the temple's mysteries, they encounter a group of refugees living in its shadow, hiding from a First Order officer hot on the trail of two freedom fighters in their midst: With the threat of the First Order looming and the secrets of the temple yet to be unlocked, the newly forged master and apprentice must confront their pasts, reach each other in the present, and decide what it means to carry the legacy of the Jedi into the future.

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Lorien Lucero 🍹🌴🏳️‍⚧️ @lorienluce.ro · 1d

This sounds amazing!

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Lorien Lucero 🍹🌴🏳️‍⚧️ @lorienluce.ro · 1d

Did you ever finish this?

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naomi @mimimaruuu.bsky.social · 1d

Huntrix based on Klimt’s Water Serpents

#KpopDemomHunters

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Lorien Lucero 🍹🌴🏳️‍⚧️ @lorienluce.ro · 3d

11.4 thousand words! The setup is all done now, and the story is in full swing. This is so exciting!!

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Lorien Lucero 🍹🌴🏳️‍⚧️ @lorienluce.ro · 4d

I think part of the reason is because of what the story is about. Part of me has been waiting to say these things all my life, and is only now getting the chance.

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Lorien Lucero 🍹🌴🏳️‍⚧️ @lorienluce.ro · 4d

Started writing a new story nine days ago, and I'm already almost 9,000 words in. I can't remember the last time writing came this easily for me. It's like the story is pouring out from me like a waterfall.

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Upcycleability @lucycodex.bsky.social · 7d

Someone tried to argue with me that if Harris won, we'd still have a fascist government hellbent on scapegoating and genociding the trans population.

Uh, no. That is EMPIRICALLY false. The Dems don't support trans people, but they're not actively trying to erase us from existence

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Djamila Knopf @Polaris #196 @djamilaknopf.bsky.social · 10d

I love using magic realism in my paintings, things being just sightly 𝑜𝑓𝑓. medium: Procreate, Photoshop

a digital painting of a girl sitting in a house filled with water, a tree growing above her

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Lorien Lucero 🍹🌴🏳️‍⚧️ @lorienluce.ro · 10d

something Happened tonight. something i’ve been waiting for for a long time. and now suddenly i’m filled with so much hope. things are going to be okay. whatever happens, i think i’m going to be okay.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11d

Last December, Senate Dems had no anti trans provisions in their NDAA and the house did. Many thought the Senate Dems would stop those provisions.

They didn’t. Last minute, 37 Dems voted for it.

We must take no chances with the appropriations fight.

My story from last December.

37 Democratic Senators Voted To Pass Anti-Trans NDAA. Here Are Their Names.

The vote came after most of the same Democrats refused to allow an amendment on the floor to remove the anti-trans provision in the military spending bill.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Lorien Lucero 🍹🌴🏳️‍⚧️ @lorienluce.ro · 12d

Is there any reason to hope? It’s hard for me to have much confidence that Democrats will fight for us.

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Beyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social · 13d

This is a moment where all cis people need to be calling their elected officials and demanding they protect trans healthcare, even if it means shutting down the government

It doesn't matter if you live somewhere red or blue - everyone needs to hear this

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 13d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13d

just guess

cait (and adonis)
@cait.bsky.social
i'm sorry to say this but if you send me a tiktok of a person telling a story into the camera for 3 minutes i'm not fucking watching it. just in general ever. people need to start typing things up again because i can read so much faster than you can talk and i'm not wasting my precious time on this
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Lorien Lucero 🍹🌴🏳️‍⚧️ @lorienluce.ro · 12d

What a beautiful site! It gave me a glimmer of joy in an otherwise stressful day.

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Lorien Lucero 🍹🌴🏳️‍⚧️ @lorienluce.ro · 12d

Okami is so good!! I heard they're coming out with a sequel fairly soon!

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 14d

I guess I feel okay about how often wild right-wing conspiracies have to be explained to me. Maybe it is I who am the normie.

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Lorien Lucero 🍹🌴🏳️‍⚧️ @lorienluce.ro · 14d

Why can't there ever be any good news.

Ciara RayneCloud @ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 14d

Hey so... did you know that the Mormon Church filed an amicus curiae brief on the 19th of September? Me either...

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

In short, "Giving trans people rights hurts us because it ruins our religious freedom to be bigots!"

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 14d

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

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Lorien Lucero 🍹🌴🏳️‍⚧️ @lorienluce.ro · 14d

“My heart is like a claw machine. Its only function is to reach. It can’t hold onto anything.”

Brutal lyric from Sloppy Jane and Phoebe Bridgers.

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 15d

It feels like we’re in the middle of a pretend war. There’s nothing here for them to fix. Some boys with suits on want to feel big, maybe get some claps - so they’re sending the military into our home for a big one-sided LARP session. Like what

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Ki @ SHOP IS OPEN ✨ @gawki.bsky.social · 15d

An older drawing, but still very much applicable to right now. 💩

Drawing of an opossum biting a fat oily snake that says “f*ck fossil fuels” - snake is a symbol of Northern American indigenous mythology, particularly prophesied by the Lakota, about pipelines desecrating sacred sites and poisoning the earth.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26d

saw this post on Insta from my friend Laramie, a queer horror writer (excerpt from SACRAMENT by Clive Barker), then opened bluesky to see Talia’s post, and I am feeling both things so deeply. you are fucking magic. we are magic. we are a hydra. chop off a head, ten grow back. I get queerer every day

"We're not going anywhere," Will said with unshakable conviction, "because we don't come from anywhere. We're spontaneous events. We just appear in the middle of families. And we'll keep appearing. Even if the plague killed every homosexual on the planet, it wouldn't be extinction, because there's queer babies being born every minute. It's like magic." He grinned at the notion. "You know, that's exactly what it is. It's magic."

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