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Alex Cregan
@floraldisaster.bsky.social
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He/ae (they/them ok) | 24 | writer, poet, creative organiser, spoken work performer, script editor, access advisor and somehow even more | 🇮🇪🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇵🇸🪼 | https://alexc-etc.carrd.co/
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magicmooshka.bsky.social
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Pokemon Legends ZA is so good when you dont have haters in ur ear telling u its bad
December 26, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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mandaamsbt.bsky.social
I finally watched the summer hikaru died and i'm miserable thank you so much
December 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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kennylauderdale.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
My selfish gifts to myself arrived yesterday. Today has been low spoons but okay.
A cassette tape for "The fairytales of St. Sasha" and a small pouch of stickers representing The Narcissist Cookbook on a grey bed. A pale hand is making a heart shape at them.
December 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
A Beginner's Guide to Building Your Own Chrysalis
by Alex Cregan with artwork by Sofftpunk
is the perfect pocket companion as we move through this week
even better, it's free

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@sofftpunk.bsky.social
www.kithbooks.com/zines
A Beginner's Guide to Building Your Own Chrysalis by Alex Cregan with artwork by Sofftpunk the cover imagery frames the title and shows the lifecycle of a caterpillar. the drawing is rendered in black, white, green, purple, & pink The following text is framed by artwork bu sofftpunk. an arm is seen reaching into a jar in which a butterfly is held. the drawing is active with light and trailing movement and rendered in black, white, green, purple, blue, and pink. 2. Shelve the word the first time you hear it. Shelve the feeling — the way your heart feels like sparking static, like caffeine buzz and hummingbird wings. Shelve how you want to sing in harmony with those others like you, with this other you, with everything and everyone that has made you Not Completely Alone Anymore, Not Entirely Alien. Still, shelve it anyway. Shelve that tender, blooming, bursting feeling, the unity in mind and body you spend your entire life missing. Shelve it, shelve it with a deafening thud, with white knuckle trepidation, shelve it with glossy eyes and trembling hands. Shelve it ‘til you’re terrified, shelve it ‘til you’re numb. Alex Cregan, A Beginner's Guide to Building Your Own Chrysalis
December 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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en-gendered.bsky.social
"a little more tied to this flesh-mass-thing, a little less static and, dare I say, ecstatic?... It reminds me of being fourteen, doodling wishes into my skin."
- Alex Cregan, Tattoos = Gender ?

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engenderedlitmag.com/autumn2025
Tattoos = Gender ? Alex Cregan In the end, its all needles and process. An ink cartridge or an elixir are interchangeable, someone’s mother is still screaming “irreversible-!” anyway. I still leave changed, a little more tied to this flesh-mass-thing, a little less static and, dare I say, ecstatic? Regardless, those who love us will gush over our new chitin, asking about the growing exoskeleton. It reminds me of being fourteen, doodling wishes into my skin. I dreamed that when they’d seep into my bloodstream they’d become reality, as if it was that easy. In the end, we are all eternally morphing, chameleons shedding skins we’ve long outgrown and still we are shifting. In the end, its all needles and process. The pain is secondary. The cover of engendered autumn 2025 on a background of dark grey. On the cover is a heavily textured painting by Jude FireSong consisting of layers of colour, first daubed or smeared, and then speckled. Dominant are red, orange, yellow, light blue, and medium blue though purple, green, and pink also make an appearance. Beside and below the cover is the following text: 20 writers, poets, & artists “as I move through the world, people project images of bodies and faces they assign onto me that evoke in themselves desire, lust, joy, disgust, emotions I have no say over. Perceptions against my will. And those images stain my skin and reek. I'm forced every day to carry those stains” Thokozani Mbwana engenderedlitmag.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Also I read all of Magical Girl Incident/Mahou Shoujo Jihen in one night

[Author's note: I dont ship these 2 but they r trans to me]
Sakura Hiromi and Nagisa Hakuba from Magical Girl Incident in their respective transformed magical girl and magical gentleman forms. Nagisa is carrying Sakura bridal style. The image is black and white, but overlaid with the trans flag. The term "T4T" is in block white letters over the top of the image.
December 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
"we mustn't let the realities of today restrain the nonsense within us"
!!! THIS
sarahmackattack.bsky.social Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Dec 2
It's important to write hand-written letters to your friends when you need to send them something. Ideally while doing a bit. Maybe you're a union soldier, separated from your ladylove. Maybe a hot air balloon operator.

We mustn't let the realities of today restrain the nonsense within us.
December 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Funding applications (all 3 of them) r sent off now I can RESTTTTTT
December 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Made it to the final of the All Ulster Poetry Slam. That's something that I did! Its a bit scary but im proud of myself
November 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Trying to find housing atm is unironically like "oh you want to rent a flat? 2k. One bedroom. There's visible mold in the corner"
November 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Recently:

Got a new tattoo on my ribcage
Performed at The Playhouse in Derry for Still Not Your Pity Party
Held a workshop in Void Art Centre for #Bounce2025 @universityofatypical.org
A blackwork tattoo of a chrysalis on a branch on pale skin Alex, a trans man with black headphones, short dark hair and a black jacket is performing spoken word. His eyes are closed. There is a mic and music stand in front of him. The picture is taken from a side angle. Black writing on blue paper. Some of the writing is obscured by a black pen on the paper but the part that isnt obscured reads "Care - collective, community, creating, catering" brainstorm style. The word care is framed in purple.
November 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Another lovely addition of the paperclip im in alongside some of my closest friends @ulsteruni.bsky.social
A book sits on a grey fold out table on the back of a chair. The book is green, with a pattern of gold paperclips running over its cover. In the one piece of blank space, in white, it reads "The Paperclip Volume V"
October 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Pics from john hewitt international summer school - so grateful for the community i built over the week and the kindness I was afforded!
August 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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starrymirai.moe
Heartwarming: payment processors help thousands in the LGBTQ+ community get over their phone anxiety
August 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Someone remind me to apply for siap I keep procrastinating
July 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Have been struggling to work all month only to get hit with an insane surge of productivity and clarity at 2am. Being ND is an experience.
May 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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alepresser.com
Y'all, it's REALLY close and the deadline is TODAY!

If you're an EU citizen, please sign and share this petition to ban conversion practices targeting LGBTQ+ citizens in the European Union!!

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
A screenshot from the petition website showing the numbers: "Signatures collected online 942,348 of 1,000,000. End of the collection period: 17-May-2025"
May 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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en-gendered.bsky.social
i think of this poem from @floraldisaster.bsky.social often.

may we all see mundane
engenderedlitmag.com/alexcregan2
Holy is the pain, holy is the body. Holy is the flesh that fears its memory. Holy is the dust, the rust, the fungal rot, biochemistry. Holy is monotony, being around long enough to be bored of mundanity. Holy is Community. Holy are the people and places to hold Alex Cregan, An Incomplete List on TDOR
May 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Things I still need to write:

- Something autism related for autism month (the good, the bad, the alienating)

- Slay the princess/IWATEx time loop analysis

Things I'm going to write:

- Crow poem
April 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
April 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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queermedieval.bsky.social
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
this affirmation in zine form arrives in your inbox ready to print, fold, and tuck into a pocket, leave in public for finding, or be tucked under cover into a nervous newly reaching hand.

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@sofftpunk.bsky.social
kithbooks.com/zines
A Beginner's Guide to Building Your Own Chrysalis Alex Cregan Illustrated by Sofftpunk 1. Most people who tell you they were always certain are lying to you. Some aren't, but some have strayed so far that they've mistaken the myth for the magic that is this shapeshift. slough you can You can off this skin, snakelike, and slip into another... And another, finding starlit suits to fit your form perfectly, or a better form, a better you. You don't need to be confined to this, a vessel that doesn't serve you in the slightest Most don't feel stuck, trapped by the way their shoulders sit, or the way their voice hums, high and off key. Most don't hate their bone frame, chest, disparaging their capacity for blood, for genomes, for chromosomes and parasites... But you have always felt that way, haven't you? You have felt like you were crawling around in your own body for years, your edifice slowly breaking, makeshift hermit shell shattering. So, now you need to build your own. kithbooks.com/zines #transrightsreadathon
March 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM