TC Parker/Dr Nat Edwards (she/her)
@tcparker.bsky.social
(Neuro)queer Luddite
1/2 of Nefarious Bat Press. Writer: TRADWIFE, SALTBLOOD, HUMMINGBIRD
PhD in media & politics. Work in social/cultural semiotics, CDA, material culture, storytelling. Rage as deep as the abyss
Fiction at: https://tinyurl.com/mr2rd9bj
1/2 of Nefarious Bat Press. Writer: TRADWIFE, SALTBLOOD, HUMMINGBIRD
PhD in media & politics. Work in social/cultural semiotics, CDA, material culture, storytelling. Rage as deep as the abyss
Fiction at: https://tinyurl.com/mr2rd9bj
Pinned
SURPRISE! My first collection is out in the world!
(Albeit currently only via the NBP website - this is the softest of soft launches)
Is Magnus Archives-esque short fiction your thing? If so - THE NINE O'CLOCK HORSES might be the weekend read for you...
tinyurl.com/4z45pbb9
(Tell your friends!)
(Albeit currently only via the NBP website - this is the softest of soft launches)
Is Magnus Archives-esque short fiction your thing? If so - THE NINE O'CLOCK HORSES might be the weekend read for you...
tinyurl.com/4z45pbb9
(Tell your friends!)
Pulp Fiction with monsters... AND a free demon whodunnit?
Why WOULDN'T you, is the question?
Why WOULDN'T you, is the question?
Day 4 of our Buy Direct sale - and it's a 2-for-1 special!
Today, and all week: buy HUMMINGBIRD from our ebook store... and get the sequel, TO COVENTRY, completely free!
Support small presses. You know you want to 🦇📚
Today, and all week: buy HUMMINGBIRD from our ebook store... and get the sequel, TO COVENTRY, completely free!
Support small presses. You know you want to 🦇📚
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Pulp Fiction with monsters... AND a free demon whodunnit?
Why WOULDN'T you, is the question?
Why WOULDN'T you, is the question?
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"All lesbians are TERFs" is propaganda designed to divide the strongest allies in the spectrum of queer identities - don't fall for it.
A day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine 🌞 (IYKYK)
A day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine 🌞 (IYKYK)
Reminder that lesbians have a more positive view of trans people than trans people do
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"All lesbians are TERFs" is propaganda designed to divide the strongest allies in the spectrum of queer identities - don't fall for it.
A day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine 🌞 (IYKYK)
A day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine 🌞 (IYKYK)
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You are not allowed to think of yourself as an anti-capitalist hero if you steal books. No. You can get books for free in any number of ways that still allows us to eke out (insufficient) livings. If you're not going to do that, just admit that you don't give a shit. At least let's have some truth.
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
You are not allowed to think of yourself as an anti-capitalist hero if you steal books. No. You can get books for free in any number of ways that still allows us to eke out (insufficient) livings. If you're not going to do that, just admit that you don't give a shit. At least let's have some truth.
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My contribution to the discourse around "should writers be paid or should you steal their work" is: Yes, we should be paid.
ALSO! I'm very proud of my book. If you buy it, I do not mind what format you buy it in, where you get it or if you get it from a library 💚 bookshop.org/p/books/burn...
ALSO! I'm very proud of my book. If you buy it, I do not mind what format you buy it in, where you get it or if you get it from a library 💚 bookshop.org/p/books/burn...
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
My contribution to the discourse around "should writers be paid or should you steal their work" is: Yes, we should be paid.
ALSO! I'm very proud of my book. If you buy it, I do not mind what format you buy it in, where you get it or if you get it from a library 💚 bookshop.org/p/books/burn...
ALSO! I'm very proud of my book. If you buy it, I do not mind what format you buy it in, where you get it or if you get it from a library 💚 bookshop.org/p/books/burn...
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We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
![A quote-tweet with the profile blocked out because I won’t be accused of sending flying monkeys at this digital turd.
counterpoint: pirate everything all the time. pirate a sandwich. download a car. abscond from from small business owner mindset with your brain
[High Priestess, Low Patie... • @cherie... • 14h
Re: previous post - People who steal art of any kind are assholes, full stop. If *you* deserve to be paid for your labor, so do I - and so does everybody else; this means writers, visual artists, musicians, and every other category of People Who Make Things.]
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every time vulgar leftism pipes in from the sidelines of petit bourgeoisdom i am forced to become 8.75% more marxist](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x2ssvkga34xug334b66hvrje/bafkreigp2f33rtfu62kqjygnsxhg3jxxs6udwuyisipmyqrh5ew4c6kbyi@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
You're pro-piracy. You don't understand how publishing - or late-stage capitalism as an extractive ecosystem - actually works
Or you know, but don't care, because you're a cunt
Okay
Do you understand that if you keep stealing shit from people, they will eventually stop making it available to you?
Or you know, but don't care, because you're a cunt
Okay
Do you understand that if you keep stealing shit from people, they will eventually stop making it available to you?
November 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
You're pro-piracy. You don't understand how publishing - or late-stage capitalism as an extractive ecosystem - actually works
Or you know, but don't care, because you're a cunt
Okay
Do you understand that if you keep stealing shit from people, they will eventually stop making it available to you?
Or you know, but don't care, because you're a cunt
Okay
Do you understand that if you keep stealing shit from people, they will eventually stop making it available to you?
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Every single time the book piracy/copyright discourse turns up, the people on the pro-piracy side aggressively demonstrate that not only do they not have the slightest idea how the publishing industry actually works, they actually revel in their ignorance, believing it makes them righteous.
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Every single time the book piracy/copyright discourse turns up, the people on the pro-piracy side aggressively demonstrate that not only do they not have the slightest idea how the publishing industry actually works, they actually revel in their ignorance, believing it makes them righteous.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
You can find all my books & all Nefarious Bat's titles on Libreture. They're also on our website & our digital store
You can order our paperbacks direct from us, & from your local (indie) bookstore
Boycott AMZ by all means. But please, actually BUY our books if you want us to keep writing them
You can order our paperbacks direct from us, & from your local (indie) bookstore
Boycott AMZ by all means. But please, actually BUY our books if you want us to keep writing them
This is why I built Libreture - to provide an alternative indie ebook ecosystem.
Start with finding DRM-free bookshops to buy from. 💜
Start with finding DRM-free bookshops to buy from. 💜
The Ultimate List of DRM-free Bookshops
A regularly updated list of online shops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs. Helping hundreds of readers a month discover over 400 DRM-free bookshops.
Libreture.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
You can find all my books & all Nefarious Bat's titles on Libreture. They're also on our website & our digital store
You can order our paperbacks direct from us, & from your local (indie) bookstore
Boycott AMZ by all means. But please, actually BUY our books if you want us to keep writing them
You can order our paperbacks direct from us, & from your local (indie) bookstore
Boycott AMZ by all means. But please, actually BUY our books if you want us to keep writing them
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There's some work involved in supporting indie authors and 'buying wide'.
Follow your favourite authors.
Subscribe to their newsletters.
Check if they sell books and ebooks direct from their own online shops.
Build up your shopping bookmarks.
If you support indie authors, then support them!
Follow your favourite authors.
Subscribe to their newsletters.
Check if they sell books and ebooks direct from their own online shops.
Build up your shopping bookmarks.
If you support indie authors, then support them!
Please remember when boycotting the Zon, most indie book stores do not carry a lot of actual indie authors, and you're mostly supporting the already popular bestsellers that are safe for bookstores to carry. Self-published and indie authors need your support more than ever around this time.
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
There's some work involved in supporting indie authors and 'buying wide'.
Follow your favourite authors.
Subscribe to their newsletters.
Check if they sell books and ebooks direct from their own online shops.
Build up your shopping bookmarks.
If you support indie authors, then support them!
Follow your favourite authors.
Subscribe to their newsletters.
Check if they sell books and ebooks direct from their own online shops.
Build up your shopping bookmarks.
If you support indie authors, then support them!
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Here are some more:
@sadiehartmann.bsky.social
@pfracassi.bsky.social
@tcparker.bsky.social
@wesleysouthard.bsky.social
@blacktopkid.bsky.social
@manylittlewords.bsky.social
@brianamorganbooks.bsky.social
@sgj.bsky.social
@jonathanjanz.bsky.social
@kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social
@sadiehartmann.bsky.social
@pfracassi.bsky.social
@tcparker.bsky.social
@wesleysouthard.bsky.social
@blacktopkid.bsky.social
@manylittlewords.bsky.social
@brianamorganbooks.bsky.social
@sgj.bsky.social
@jonathanjanz.bsky.social
@kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social
a man with a beard is holding a flashlight in his hand .
ALT: a man with a beard is holding a flashlight in his hand .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Hetty and I had a real connection, you know? She just *got* me, in a way no other appliance ever has
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Hetty and I had a real connection, you know? She just *got* me, in a way no other appliance ever has
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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Book mail rules. Although, I'm afraid this is my last subscription box for the year. Good thing @tenebrouspress.bsky.social will be opening their 2026 subscription soon. Stay weird n be kind out there (well, except to fascists and terfs n shit. Fuck em) 💀💜🤘
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Absolutely this
Likewise, the Amazon-prompted explosion of VERY multi-instalment novel series can be read as a response to the material conditions in which a lot of writers/small presses are trying to scratch a living (via KU page reads as well as sales, achieved via 4-books/year churn)
(cont.)
Likewise, the Amazon-prompted explosion of VERY multi-instalment novel series can be read as a response to the material conditions in which a lot of writers/small presses are trying to scratch a living (via KU page reads as well as sales, achieved via 4-books/year churn)
(cont.)
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Absolutely this
Likewise, the Amazon-prompted explosion of VERY multi-instalment novel series can be read as a response to the material conditions in which a lot of writers/small presses are trying to scratch a living (via KU page reads as well as sales, achieved via 4-books/year churn)
(cont.)
Likewise, the Amazon-prompted explosion of VERY multi-instalment novel series can be read as a response to the material conditions in which a lot of writers/small presses are trying to scratch a living (via KU page reads as well as sales, achieved via 4-books/year churn)
(cont.)
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Just sharing this again...I'm like 30 subscribers away from my goal for 2025 (free & paid). With losing my part-time job, I'd love to be able to focus on what I love while I figure out the rest. Any shares/subs would very much be appreciated. Thanks. 🖤
Anyway, in the wake of the job loss news, I just wanted to share my site because I’d love to get up to 365 subscribers for the year (free & paid) & if you dig what I do, maybe you’ll want to upgrade your subscription someday: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io
Shares appreciated- thx!
Shares appreciated- thx!
From the Desk of The Horror Chick
Heather Wixson explores horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.
from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io
November 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Just sharing this again...I'm like 30 subscribers away from my goal for 2025 (free & paid). With losing my part-time job, I'd love to be able to focus on what I love while I figure out the rest. Any shares/subs would very much be appreciated. Thanks. 🖤
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HERE! WE! FUCKING! GO! I have been making this show for TWO YEARS, it's finally going out this Christmas, Baby's First Production Credit is gonna be on R4 over the Radio Times Double Issue Window, baybeh! www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
HERE! WE! FUCKING! GO! I have been making this show for TWO YEARS, it's finally going out this Christmas, Baby's First Production Credit is gonna be on R4 over the Radio Times Double Issue Window, baybeh! www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Personal observation of the day:
I've known a handful of cis lesbians who've gone full TERF these last few years. All of them, previously, were prone to privately ridiculing cis dykes they considered too butch & gay men they considered too femme.
Gender policing is them punching down to feel better
I've known a handful of cis lesbians who've gone full TERF these last few years. All of them, previously, were prone to privately ridiculing cis dykes they considered too butch & gay men they considered too femme.
Gender policing is them punching down to feel better
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Personal observation of the day:
I've known a handful of cis lesbians who've gone full TERF these last few years. All of them, previously, were prone to privately ridiculing cis dykes they considered too butch & gay men they considered too femme.
Gender policing is them punching down to feel better
I've known a handful of cis lesbians who've gone full TERF these last few years. All of them, previously, were prone to privately ridiculing cis dykes they considered too butch & gay men they considered too femme.
Gender policing is them punching down to feel better
Spread the good news! The Batcave ebook sale continues - with a Phengaris/Saltblood double whammy!
Day 3 of our Buy Direct sale!
Today and all this week: grab @anna-orridge.bsky.social's cosmic eco-horror PHENGARIS from our ebook store... and get 50% off Black Mirror-with-cryptids novel SALTBLOOD!
Support small presses - we need you!
Today and all this week: grab @anna-orridge.bsky.social's cosmic eco-horror PHENGARIS from our ebook store... and get 50% off Black Mirror-with-cryptids novel SALTBLOOD!
Support small presses - we need you!
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Spread the good news! The Batcave ebook sale continues - with a Phengaris/Saltblood double whammy!
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This anti-trans frathouse fuckmelon is on HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY?
Our motherfucking media is useless. How do you NOT mention this when he's arguing against trans health care?
And how do you print this fact here without immediately calling attention to his opposition to hormones for trans ppl?
Our motherfucking media is useless. How do you NOT mention this when he's arguing against trans health care?
And how do you print this fact here without immediately calling attention to his opposition to hormones for trans ppl?
November 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
This anti-trans frathouse fuckmelon is on HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY?
Our motherfucking media is useless. How do you NOT mention this when he's arguing against trans health care?
And how do you print this fact here without immediately calling attention to his opposition to hormones for trans ppl?
Our motherfucking media is useless. How do you NOT mention this when he's arguing against trans health care?
And how do you print this fact here without immediately calling attention to his opposition to hormones for trans ppl?
Pick up PHENGARIS this week... and get a little SALTBLOOD for your trouble!
Day 3 of our Buy Direct sale!
Today and all this week: grab @anna-orridge.bsky.social's cosmic eco-horror PHENGARIS from our ebook store... and get 50% off Black Mirror-with-cryptids novel SALTBLOOD!
Support small presses - we need you!
Today and all this week: grab @anna-orridge.bsky.social's cosmic eco-horror PHENGARIS from our ebook store... and get 50% off Black Mirror-with-cryptids novel SALTBLOOD!
Support small presses - we need you!
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Pick up PHENGARIS this week... and get a little SALTBLOOD for your trouble!
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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If 2023 was the year AI slop was embraced by spammers and social media influencers, and 2024 was the year the slop era began in earnest, 2025 was when slop became embedded in our cultural institutions and social spheres.
On the slop layer that we all must navigate now:
On the slop layer that we all must navigate now:
Lost in the slop layer
How AI has encrusted our culture and social sphere in a sedimentary layer of slop.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
If 2023 was the year AI slop was embraced by spammers and social media influencers, and 2024 was the year the slop era began in earnest, 2025 was when slop became embedded in our cultural institutions and social spheres.
On the slop layer that we all must navigate now:
On the slop layer that we all must navigate now:
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You should be required to read @edzitron.com's entire body of work before being allowed to post on LinkedIn about AI
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
You should be required to read @edzitron.com's entire body of work before being allowed to post on LinkedIn about AI
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I really enjoyed this book! It had my rivetted and all up in @shaunamceleney.bsky.social 's notifications when it first came out
Day 2 of our Buy Direct sale - a new bargain every day!
Today, and the rest of this week: pick up @shaunamceleney.bsky.social's sapphic haunted house novel AWAKE IN THE NIGHT from us on ebook... and get 50% off the equally sapphic Weird Western SALVATION SPRING!
payhip.com/b/tWUlI
Today, and the rest of this week: pick up @shaunamceleney.bsky.social's sapphic haunted house novel AWAKE IN THE NIGHT from us on ebook... and get 50% off the equally sapphic Weird Western SALVATION SPRING!
payhip.com/b/tWUlI
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I really enjoyed this book! It had my rivetted and all up in @shaunamceleney.bsky.social 's notifications when it first came out