Tess "Read my complete draft of The Egg Prime Directive!" Tanen
@mothmother.com
Neurospicy disabled anarchist trans lady, making music, stories, poetry, and trouble. Recovering academic.
Patreon: patreon.com/MothMotherTess
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Consulting: TessTanen.com
Everything Else: linktr.ee/MothMother
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New Introduction post! I'm Tess! I'm a disabled, queer, trans, neurospicy, musician, producer, game maker & poet! I run Moth Mother studios: an 800 sq/ft. music production studio in Central Illinois.
Currently making audiodrama, audiobooks & trouble & always looking for gigs & collaborators.
Currently making audiodrama, audiobooks & trouble & always looking for gigs & collaborators.
Burn it to the ground!
Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Burn it to the ground!
@tallrowlet.bsky.social wrote an extended reflection on their experience reading The Egg Prime Directive and it's humbling to see how intensely my story has impacted them! 😭❤️🔥🫂
day 9 (sort of late): nadas-newsletter-b29128.beehiiv.com/p/reflecting...
my thoughts stemming from @mothmother.com 's TEPD, which i highly recommend for a fun read (it's everything that it says it is)
my thoughts stemming from @mothmother.com 's TEPD, which i highly recommend for a fun read (it's everything that it says it is)
Reflecting on "The Egg Prime Directive" (the story)
It's a wonderful story that made me feel very intensely, with which is all the more reason to go give it a read.
nadas-newsletter-b29128.beehiiv.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
@tallrowlet.bsky.social wrote an extended reflection on their experience reading The Egg Prime Directive and it's humbling to see how intensely my story has impacted them! 😭❤️🔥🫂
Hey new followers! I need to update my intro thread, but for now you should check out my cozy trans romance novel that's still up for free on Scribblehub through the end of the month! It's filled with queer joy, and adorable/magical girls!
www.scribblehub.com/series/17665...
www.scribblehub.com/series/17665...
The Egg Prime Directive
The Egg Prime Directive
Alternate 'Light Novel' style titles:
'Transformed into a girl by a conference trickster, I must learn the ways of her pervert tribe!'
or
''I was (lovingly) forcefemmed at a co...
www.scribblehub.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Hey new followers! I need to update my intro thread, but for now you should check out my cozy trans romance novel that's still up for free on Scribblehub through the end of the month! It's filled with queer joy, and adorable/magical girls!
www.scribblehub.com/series/17665...
www.scribblehub.com/series/17665...
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I'm at North Carolina Comicon this weekend! If you're in the area come by and say hi💕. I'm repping Lightning Dog, an all-ages action series born from my love of 80s and 90s sci-fi and animation, mutants and dope furry media 😼✌️
Find us at NC Comicon! @catblackard.bsky.social and Tony are here sharing secrets for what's coming soon on our canine crusade.
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I'm at North Carolina Comicon this weekend! If you're in the area come by and say hi💕. I'm repping Lightning Dog, an all-ages action series born from my love of 80s and 90s sci-fi and animation, mutants and dope furry media 😼✌️
This is the way. Not saying "wait till I'm in office for me to help you" but instead seeing a need and stepping up.
Ultimately it's going to take all of us collectively doing things like this in all aspects of our lives to begin patching the holes in our society left by our derelict government.
Ultimately it's going to take all of us collectively doing things like this in all aspects of our lives to begin patching the holes in our society left by our derelict government.
Until the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District.
And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:
And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This is the way. Not saying "wait till I'm in office for me to help you" but instead seeing a need and stepping up.
Ultimately it's going to take all of us collectively doing things like this in all aspects of our lives to begin patching the holes in our society left by our derelict government.
Ultimately it's going to take all of us collectively doing things like this in all aspects of our lives to begin patching the holes in our society left by our derelict government.
This is a #mood!
Getting my ADHD diagnosis was every bit as life altering as cracking my gender egg. Both discoveries gave me the ability to decode things about myself that I'd never understood before. Both forced me to revisit a lifetime of shame and confusion with kindness and acceptance.
Getting my ADHD diagnosis was every bit as life altering as cracking my gender egg. Both discoveries gave me the ability to decode things about myself that I'd never understood before. Both forced me to revisit a lifetime of shame and confusion with kindness and acceptance.
Remembering that time I was celebrating my formal diagnosis of ADHD and someone came tried to shame me for "glorifying a disability" and I was all MOTHERFUCKER I AM CELEBRATING THAT I FINALLY HAVE A NAME FOR WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY BRAIN CAN YOU AND YOUR MORALIZING BULLSHIT KINDLY FUCK OFF INTO THE SUN
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This is a #mood!
Getting my ADHD diagnosis was every bit as life altering as cracking my gender egg. Both discoveries gave me the ability to decode things about myself that I'd never understood before. Both forced me to revisit a lifetime of shame and confusion with kindness and acceptance.
Getting my ADHD diagnosis was every bit as life altering as cracking my gender egg. Both discoveries gave me the ability to decode things about myself that I'd never understood before. Both forced me to revisit a lifetime of shame and confusion with kindness and acceptance.
There are so many great trans creators on this list who are worth a follow!
Been a while since i shared my trans & non binary starter pack
Help out by reposting to give some creators and businesses a boost 💙
Trans people are doing it tough so this helps lots
go.bsky.app/4DUhFUd
Help out by reposting to give some creators and businesses a boost 💙
Trans people are doing it tough so this helps lots
go.bsky.app/4DUhFUd
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
There are so many great trans creators on this list who are worth a follow!
Slowly realizing that getting surgery on my thumb means that now I don't get to have a thumb for a few weeks. And boy was I taking that shit for granted before!
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Slowly realizing that getting surgery on my thumb means that now I don't get to have a thumb for a few weeks. And boy was I taking that shit for granted before!
I lived bitches!
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I lived bitches!
At the hospital for an ulnar nerve release and tendonitis surgery... something I've needed for many years!
Got to have the "no I was born without a uterus conversation" with a disbelieving nurse, which is always gratifying when dressed like this on a day when not allowed to wear makeup!😅
Got to have the "no I was born without a uterus conversation" with a disbelieving nurse, which is always gratifying when dressed like this on a day when not allowed to wear makeup!😅
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
At the hospital for an ulnar nerve release and tendonitis surgery... something I've needed for many years!
Got to have the "no I was born without a uterus conversation" with a disbelieving nurse, which is always gratifying when dressed like this on a day when not allowed to wear makeup!😅
Got to have the "no I was born without a uterus conversation" with a disbelieving nurse, which is always gratifying when dressed like this on a day when not allowed to wear makeup!😅
The only reason I'm writing now is because I'm a voracious (if slow) reader! Reading the books of other trans and queer authors on BlueSky has kept me functional throughout The Horrors™️ and writing my own has been an exercise of wanting to be able to do that for other people.
I continue to not really understand people who want to write books but who don't read books.
November 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The only reason I'm writing now is because I'm a voracious (if slow) reader! Reading the books of other trans and queer authors on BlueSky has kept me functional throughout The Horrors™️ and writing my own has been an exercise of wanting to be able to do that for other people.
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There are a lot of great trans writers out there with book recs, so how about a slightly different angle.
Are you an apparently cis guy who's maybe questioning that assumption, or maybe you've just found a bunch of cool folk on this site and want to understand the memes. Either way, go read this
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Are you an apparently cis guy who's maybe questioning that assumption, or maybe you've just found a bunch of cool folk on this site and want to understand the memes. Either way, go read this
🧵
I'm Tess & I just finished the first draft of my neurospicy transgender romance meets magical girl fantasy novel TODAY, just in time for #Bookvember! I'll be honest: it's hard for me to share my "origin story". Much of the truth sounds like fiction. This is partially due to dissociative amnesia...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
There are a lot of great trans writers out there with book recs, so how about a slightly different angle.
Are you an apparently cis guy who's maybe questioning that assumption, or maybe you've just found a bunch of cool folk on this site and want to understand the memes. Either way, go read this
🧵
Are you an apparently cis guy who's maybe questioning that assumption, or maybe you've just found a bunch of cool folk on this site and want to understand the memes. Either way, go read this
🧵
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Estrogen is powerful
November 3, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Estrogen is powerful
Estrogen is powerful
November 3, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Estrogen is powerful
"Your story would have cracked my egg" has me in tears this morning!
Honestly, what more could I want as a writer!?
Honestly, what more could I want as a writer!?
This has been a wonderful, delightful read, hitting me at perhaps just the right time. I wish I could send it back in time to myself five or ten years ago. Maybe I wouldn't have the perspective to properly appreciate it, but I think chapter 19 would have completely exploded my egg even then.
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"Your story would have cracked my egg" has me in tears this morning!
Honestly, what more could I want as a writer!?
Honestly, what more could I want as a writer!?
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Oh my GOSH, y'all. I just finished reading this, and it's a genuine delight. It's super-hella-cute eggfic, it's an adorably sweet romance, AND it's a love letter to magical girl anime, which means it's practically a guided missile with my name on it.
The whole thing is available on ScribbleHub now!
The whole thing is available on ScribbleHub now!
I'm Tess & I just finished the first draft of my neurospicy transgender romance meets magical girl fantasy novel TODAY, just in time for #Bookvember! I'll be honest: it's hard for me to share my "origin story". Much of the truth sounds like fiction. This is partially due to dissociative amnesia...
🧵
🧵
November 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Oh my GOSH, y'all. I just finished reading this, and it's a genuine delight. It's super-hella-cute eggfic, it's an adorably sweet romance, AND it's a love letter to magical girl anime, which means it's practically a guided missile with my name on it.
The whole thing is available on ScribbleHub now!
The whole thing is available on ScribbleHub now!
If ever there was a time to take advantage of the fact that itch.io lets you pay more than the minimum price, this is it folks!
I'd bought many of these already, but now I have the whole Wolfie Library!
Support trans writers every day, but especially right now!
itch.io/s/159177/the...
I'd bought many of these already, but now I have the whole Wolfie Library!
Support trans writers every day, but especially right now!
itch.io/s/159177/the...
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If ever there was a time to take advantage of the fact that itch.io lets you pay more than the minimum price, this is it folks!
I'd bought many of these already, but now I have the whole Wolfie Library!
Support trans writers every day, but especially right now!
itch.io/s/159177/the...
I'd bought many of these already, but now I have the whole Wolfie Library!
Support trans writers every day, but especially right now!
itch.io/s/159177/the...
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This is very good and I think you should go read it.
I'm Tess & I just finished the first draft of my neurospicy transgender romance meets magical girl fantasy novel TODAY, just in time for #Bookvember! I'll be honest: it's hard for me to share my "origin story". Much of the truth sounds like fiction. This is partially due to dissociative amnesia...
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🧵
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is very good and I think you should go read it.
Holy shit, waking up this morning, this is still true! It's always going to be true! Despite being a smol potato I DID THE THING!
😭❤️🔥🙏❤️🔥😭
😭❤️🔥🙏❤️🔥😭
I wrote a novel! A novel with queer girls, polyamory, trans people of all shapes and sizes, disability, neurodivergence, deep explorations of trauma, intense queer yearning, useless sapphics, BDSM, some *cough* extremely spicy T4T sex & a whole Fictional Trans-Affirming Magical Anime B-story!
November 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Holy shit, waking up this morning, this is still true! It's always going to be true! Despite being a smol potato I DID THE THING!
😭❤️🔥🙏❤️🔥😭
😭❤️🔥🙏❤️🔥😭
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So... after what happened at the border today, Clover and I are essentially homeless.
I've got no choice but to change my GoFundMe while we look for housing. Anything you can spare will help.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum...
I've got no choice but to change my GoFundMe while we look for housing. Anything you can spare will help.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum...
November 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
So... after what happened at the border today, Clover and I are essentially homeless.
I've got no choice but to change my GoFundMe while we look for housing. Anything you can spare will help.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum...
I've got no choice but to change my GoFundMe while we look for housing. Anything you can spare will help.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum...
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"magicked together by a desire to write the story of myself into the weaving of the communities and people I love"
These are amazing words and I love them.
These are amazing words and I love them.
And so, of *course* I am a writer. I'm a thing of Words and Will, magicked together by a desire to write the story of myself into the weaving of the communities and people I love. To feel more like a human woman and less like an alien. To have a hand in authoring the story of my life.
November 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"magicked together by a desire to write the story of myself into the weaving of the communities and people I love"
These are amazing words and I love them.
These are amazing words and I love them.
I'm Tess & I just finished the first draft of my neurospicy transgender romance meets magical girl fantasy novel TODAY, just in time for #Bookvember! I'll be honest: it's hard for me to share my "origin story". Much of the truth sounds like fiction. This is partially due to dissociative amnesia...
🧵
🧵
November 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I'm Tess & I just finished the first draft of my neurospicy transgender romance meets magical girl fantasy novel TODAY, just in time for #Bookvember! I'll be honest: it's hard for me to share my "origin story". Much of the truth sounds like fiction. This is partially due to dissociative amnesia...
🧵
🧵
40. Epilogue: Recurring Violations of the Egg Prime Directive
It's done! The (first draft) of the book! Clocking in at over 83k words, it's so much bigger & more important to me than I ever imagined it would be when I started writing it in August!
I have LOTS of feelings, yall! Mostly gratitude!
🧵
It's done! The (first draft) of the book! Clocking in at over 83k words, it's so much bigger & more important to me than I ever imagined it would be when I started writing it in August!
I have LOTS of feelings, yall! Mostly gratitude!
🧵
November 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
40. Epilogue: Recurring Violations of the Egg Prime Directive
It's done! The (first draft) of the book! Clocking in at over 83k words, it's so much bigger & more important to me than I ever imagined it would be when I started writing it in August!
I have LOTS of feelings, yall! Mostly gratitude!
🧵
It's done! The (first draft) of the book! Clocking in at over 83k words, it's so much bigger & more important to me than I ever imagined it would be when I started writing it in August!
I have LOTS of feelings, yall! Mostly gratitude!
🧵
39. Post-Credits Sequence
Here is the first of two promised epilogues that I've got planned for The Egg Prime Directive!
This one ties up a few loose ends that I introduced into the MLS storyline early on, and sets the stage for an imaginary second season (that I may someday write, if I'm lucky!)
Here is the first of two promised epilogues that I've got planned for The Egg Prime Directive!
This one ties up a few loose ends that I introduced into the MLS storyline early on, and sets the stage for an imaginary second season (that I may someday write, if I'm lucky!)
November 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
39. Post-Credits Sequence
Here is the first of two promised epilogues that I've got planned for The Egg Prime Directive!
This one ties up a few loose ends that I introduced into the MLS storyline early on, and sets the stage for an imaginary second season (that I may someday write, if I'm lucky!)
Here is the first of two promised epilogues that I've got planned for The Egg Prime Directive!
This one ties up a few loose ends that I introduced into the MLS storyline early on, and sets the stage for an imaginary second season (that I may someday write, if I'm lucky!)