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Ava Lily
@avalily17.bsky.social
· May 5
I have a Ko-fi page for my writings now; any support would be greatly appreciated!
ko-fi.com/avalily17
ko-fi.com/avalily17
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There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is.
The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
November 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is.
The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
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Ah yes, the "I'm not queer, I'm just a really passionate ally" phase. We've all been there.
November 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Ah yes, the "I'm not queer, I'm just a really passionate ally" phase. We've all been there.
Gender identity was my 40th birthday present/midlife crisis.
A year and change later, and I look cute, and damn hot with a little effort. I have never been happier with who I am.
A year and change later, and I look cute, and damn hot with a little effort. I have never been happier with who I am.
I’m so grateful for late transitioners who share their stories.
You give hope to those of us who thought our moment had passed.
You show everyone that it’s never too late to live truthfully.
You give hope to those of us who thought our moment had passed.
You show everyone that it’s never too late to live truthfully.
October 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Gender identity was my 40th birthday present/midlife crisis.
A year and change later, and I look cute, and damn hot with a little effort. I have never been happier with who I am.
A year and change later, and I look cute, and damn hot with a little effort. I have never been happier with who I am.
Got my hardbound copy of For Whom the Belle Tolls by @sea-ya-later.bsky.social today! This may be the most gorgeous book I have ever seen. It's also the book that has moved and inspired me more than any other.
October 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Got my hardbound copy of For Whom the Belle Tolls by @sea-ya-later.bsky.social today! This may be the most gorgeous book I have ever seen. It's also the book that has moved and inspired me more than any other.
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Ahem.
Well-written books that include trans joy are a good thing. Books with trauma and healing are a good thing. Books that celebrate trans liberation are a good thing.
Hope is a beautiful thing.
Well-written books that include trans joy are a good thing. Books with trauma and healing are a good thing. Books that celebrate trans liberation are a good thing.
Hope is a beautiful thing.
September 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Ahem.
Well-written books that include trans joy are a good thing. Books with trauma and healing are a good thing. Books that celebrate trans liberation are a good thing.
Hope is a beautiful thing.
Well-written books that include trans joy are a good thing. Books with trauma and healing are a good thing. Books that celebrate trans liberation are a good thing.
Hope is a beautiful thing.
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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Ran into this monstrosity while trying to look up some art nouveau inspiration for a new poster. Thanks for absolutely nothing, image search. AI slop is the worst.
September 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Ran into this monstrosity while trying to look up some art nouveau inspiration for a new poster. Thanks for absolutely nothing, image search. AI slop is the worst.
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Well, time for some pretty big news. Wolffie is moving to Canada and going back to school. But I really need your help to make it happen.
You can read more about my upcoming move here: www.patreon.com/posts/137119...
And you can contribute to my GoFundMe here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum...
You can read more about my upcoming move here: www.patreon.com/posts/137119...
And you can contribute to my GoFundMe here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum...
August 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Well, time for some pretty big news. Wolffie is moving to Canada and going back to school. But I really need your help to make it happen.
You can read more about my upcoming move here: www.patreon.com/posts/137119...
And you can contribute to my GoFundMe here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum...
You can read more about my upcoming move here: www.patreon.com/posts/137119...
And you can contribute to my GoFundMe here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum...
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When the wind blows
Hold your friends
Hold them tightly
Check on others in this storm
Don't let the gale
Knock any of us down
Lean
Lean against the wall for safety
Against a shoulder more steady
Lean until you can support others
Until the winds at last die down
Hold your friends
Hold them tightly
Check on others in this storm
Don't let the gale
Knock any of us down
Lean
Lean against the wall for safety
Against a shoulder more steady
Lean until you can support others
Until the winds at last die down
August 20, 2025 at 4:39 AM
When the wind blows
Hold your friends
Hold them tightly
Check on others in this storm
Don't let the gale
Knock any of us down
Lean
Lean against the wall for safety
Against a shoulder more steady
Lean until you can support others
Until the winds at last die down
Hold your friends
Hold them tightly
Check on others in this storm
Don't let the gale
Knock any of us down
Lean
Lean against the wall for safety
Against a shoulder more steady
Lean until you can support others
Until the winds at last die down
Slightly diminish a band: Tin Zeppelin
Slightly diminish a band: Neil Zirconium
Slightly diminish a band: Denting Pumpkins
August 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Slightly diminish a band: Tin Zeppelin
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Available small batch for pre-orders. I am working to make a large batch and would love to add these to my Faire shop for wholesale as well. Hand sculpted and casted, hand painted. I will be doing magnets too. #mushrooms #cottagecore link in bio.
August 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Available small batch for pre-orders. I am working to make a large batch and would love to add these to my Faire shop for wholesale as well. Hand sculpted and casted, hand painted. I will be doing magnets too. #mushrooms #cottagecore link in bio.
The whole thread is great, but this really cuts to the heart of so many issues.
what that means is that there are a lot of laws that are unjust as written, but all laws are enforced in ways that target out-groups, while in-groups are usually left alone.
July 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The whole thread is great, but this really cuts to the heart of so many issues.
My latest Magica Riot fic is now publicly available! Scandalously unauthorized, neither seen nor reviewed by Kara ( @magicariot.com )!
May evoke strong feels; it does for me, and I wrote it, so have tissues handy.
ko-fi.com/Post/A-Job-U...
May evoke strong feels; it does for me, and I wrote it, so have tissues handy.
ko-fi.com/Post/A-Job-U...
July 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
My latest Magica Riot fic is now publicly available! Scandalously unauthorized, neither seen nor reviewed by Kara ( @magicariot.com )!
May evoke strong feels; it does for me, and I wrote it, so have tissues handy.
ko-fi.com/Post/A-Job-U...
May evoke strong feels; it does for me, and I wrote it, so have tissues handy.
ko-fi.com/Post/A-Job-U...
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I am declaring war on 82% of bluesky with this
October 29, 2024 at 1:15 AM
I am declaring war on 82% of bluesky with this
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Live this afternoon, the first chapter of my new Werewolf/trans femme paranormal romance is now available on my Patreon and Ko-fi for subscribers. The chapter will be posted free on Scribblehub next weekend, if you feel like waiting.
www.patreon.com/posts/no-tur...
ko-fi.com/post/No-Turn...
www.patreon.com/posts/no-tur...
ko-fi.com/post/No-Turn...
No Turning Back (A lesbian paranormal romance) - Chapter 1 | Elena Abbott
Get more from Elena Abbott on Patreon
www.patreon.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Live this afternoon, the first chapter of my new Werewolf/trans femme paranormal romance is now available on my Patreon and Ko-fi for subscribers. The chapter will be posted free on Scribblehub next weekend, if you feel like waiting.
www.patreon.com/posts/no-tur...
ko-fi.com/post/No-Turn...
www.patreon.com/posts/no-tur...
ko-fi.com/post/No-Turn...
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...bc yeah, THIS.
...bc yeah, THIS.
![Tumblr post by user kalira , dated Oct 20, 2024:
I say this very gently and with much love, and I say it not only as a writer myself but as someone who has been privy to many 'but how can they not know that work is amazing! 1 love it! I gushed about it to every friend I have and recced in x, y, z servers and [...]'
The writer or artist doesn't know this.
They have no way of knowing that you found their work beautiful and lifechanging or even just a bright spot on a bad day or that you think about it every day or that you told all your friends about it, and those things are great but we have no way of knowing them! You may not be doing it intentionally, but you're excluding the writer or artist from the community feeling of fandom that you are carrying on (that is so great! fandom is a community! continue to talk and play!) even with their work.
Please, please just drop a line even that is "oh gosh I absolutely love this work, I screamed to every one of my
friends about it when I first read/saw it!" even if you don't
have the spoons to share more of the specifics that made you flail at your friends or what you said in private. (Though if you do, we will love you forever for it.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:avvpb4ypfttlslmobsjqt7qq/bafkreibc6zd4nfz77j3teab5leeumgh3dttk5j7vv33e3agrspts7n23pe@jpeg)
June 19, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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...bc yeah, THIS.
...bc yeah, THIS.
So much this. Looking back, the person I am—the person I'm becoming—was always in there. I didn't have the language or concepts to access it for so long. Glimpses of it came through at times, but no one understood.
Transitioning didn't change me; it let me become myself.
Transitioning didn't change me; it let me become myself.
Moment of clarity: transitioning didn't make me a different person. All of me was there, but I couldn't find or access or even know what was missing. It's like a lot of me was on an exclusive partition, but they had me running Windows instead of Linux because it's what they knew how to use.
June 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
So much this. Looking back, the person I am—the person I'm becoming—was always in there. I didn't have the language or concepts to access it for so long. Glimpses of it came through at times, but no one understood.
Transitioning didn't change me; it let me become myself.
Transitioning didn't change me; it let me become myself.
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✨🌈 Autism acceptance dragon
June 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
✨🌈 Autism acceptance dragon
Just released a new short story on my ko-fi: a scandalously unsolicited, unauthorized Magica Riot fic. Not canon, of course, but I did my best to do Kara's work justice.
ko-fi.com/post/A-Job-U...
ko-fi.com/post/A-Job-U...
A Job Unfinished
Ava.Lily published a supporter-only post on Ko-fi!
ko-fi.com
June 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Just released a new short story on my ko-fi: a scandalously unsolicited, unauthorized Magica Riot fic. Not canon, of course, but I did my best to do Kara's work justice.
ko-fi.com/post/A-Job-U...
ko-fi.com/post/A-Job-U...
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for my birthday today all I ask is that you buy and read my trans magical girl stories and tell your friends and help me reach total global magical girl literature domination 🥹👉👈 magicariot.com/buy
Buy Books - Magica Riot - The Official Site
A novel about Portland's hard-rocking queer magical girls, Magica Riot.
magicariot.com
June 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
for my birthday today all I ask is that you buy and read my trans magical girl stories and tell your friends and help me reach total global magical girl literature domination 🥹👉👈 magicariot.com/buy
@magicariot.com I listened to most of Magica Riot again yesterday; it continues to hold up well. It got me wondering, how far out into the in-universe future do you have plans for Maidensong Magica?
Because "Commander Ward" has a good ring to it.
Because "Commander Ward" has a good ring to it.
June 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
@magicariot.com I listened to most of Magica Riot again yesterday; it continues to hold up well. It got me wondering, how far out into the in-universe future do you have plans for Maidensong Magica?
Because "Commander Ward" has a good ring to it.
Because "Commander Ward" has a good ring to it.
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A polite bigot is a bigot nonetheless. A true warrior knows that courteous words do not dilute the poison, but only serve to conceal it until it has spread. Civility in the service of hate deserves no polite response.
June 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
A polite bigot is a bigot nonetheless. A true warrior knows that courteous words do not dilute the poison, but only serve to conceal it until it has spread. Civility in the service of hate deserves no polite response.
2300 words, not quite done, but I really should sleep.
June 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
2300 words, not quite done, but I really should sleep.
500+ words into a Magica Riot fanfic, I don't think I'm just contemplating writing it anymore.
June 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
500+ words into a Magica Riot fanfic, I don't think I'm just contemplating writing it anymore.
Contemplating writing another Magica Riot fanfic.
June 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Contemplating writing another Magica Riot fanfic.