Krista Brynn
@kristabrynn.bsky.social
physics & astronomy nerd | sf&f geek | ttrpg geek | mythology enthusiast | trans | AuDHD | BLM | she/her | https://sites.google.com/view/kristabrynn/home
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Krista Brynn
@kristabrynn.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Re-intro post: I do most of my social, nerdy, geeky, posting through here, along with more personal takes on trans stuff and while I repost a lot of political content here, I've shifted most of my longer form trans advocacy writing to an alt, the name of which is left as an exercise to the reader.
I like to read a lot & these days porting into a fictional world for a bit is an even more welcome relief than some other times. I like seeing what I've read, keeping my physical books on shelves, but I found, when I finally started reading online more - during a hospital stay 7 years ago...
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I like to read a lot & these days porting into a fictional world for a bit is an even more welcome relief than some other times. I like seeing what I've read, keeping my physical books on shelves, but I found, when I finally started reading online more - during a hospital stay 7 years ago...
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It's time!
For more smut!
the second Shadow Born story introduces a new character who i love, and more absolutely filthy sexytimes! also swordfighting and stuff
www.scribblehub.com/read/1983495...
For more smut!
the second Shadow Born story introduces a new character who i love, and more absolutely filthy sexytimes! also swordfighting and stuff
www.scribblehub.com/read/1983495...
November 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
It's time!
For more smut!
the second Shadow Born story introduces a new character who i love, and more absolutely filthy sexytimes! also swordfighting and stuff
www.scribblehub.com/read/1983495...
For more smut!
the second Shadow Born story introduces a new character who i love, and more absolutely filthy sexytimes! also swordfighting and stuff
www.scribblehub.com/read/1983495...
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THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
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Okay, but honestly you SHOULD buy Abra's books on her birthday, which is today, and also every day, because she's an awesome person who writes awesome books
Show this gal some love, book nerds!
🌈📚💙📚
Show this gal some love, book nerds!
🌈📚💙📚
Looking for a supernatural queer read?
🏳️🌈 F/F friends to lovers
💀 Evil cult serving a fallen god
🦅 Weird birds
👼 Queers with wings and claws
🌲 Cursed forest
🌎 Lesbians vs god for the fate of reality
Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell
Ebook jessicaconwell.itch.io/ghost-flower
Paperback link in replies
🏳️🌈 F/F friends to lovers
💀 Evil cult serving a fallen god
🦅 Weird birds
👼 Queers with wings and claws
🌲 Cursed forest
🌎 Lesbians vs god for the fate of reality
Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell
Ebook jessicaconwell.itch.io/ghost-flower
Paperback link in replies
November 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Okay, but honestly you SHOULD buy Abra's books on her birthday, which is today, and also every day, because she's an awesome person who writes awesome books
Show this gal some love, book nerds!
🌈📚💙📚
Show this gal some love, book nerds!
🌈📚💙📚
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Such a good story… it says a lot about corporate media’s antipathy toward young feminists, unions and queer voices…
“By ending Teen Vogue as we knew it, Condé Nast didn’t just kill its own relevance with a large swath of loyal Gen Z readers—it dealt a blow to the larger ecosystem of feminist media.”
“By ending Teen Vogue as we knew it, Condé Nast didn’t just kill its own relevance with a large swath of loyal Gen Z readers—it dealt a blow to the larger ecosystem of feminist media.”
Teen Vogue did some terrific work. Great story here on Teen Vogue and how the Vogue/Conde Nast bosses seem like the "liberal" types who have been eager to use Trump's rise as a pretext to silence progressives/leftists they disagree with. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...
What the closure of Teen Vogue means for journalism.
Condé Nast folded a beloved magazine that treated youth and feminism as political topics, not trends.
www.cjr.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Such a good story… it says a lot about corporate media’s antipathy toward young feminists, unions and queer voices…
“By ending Teen Vogue as we knew it, Condé Nast didn’t just kill its own relevance with a large swath of loyal Gen Z readers—it dealt a blow to the larger ecosystem of feminist media.”
“By ending Teen Vogue as we knew it, Condé Nast didn’t just kill its own relevance with a large swath of loyal Gen Z readers—it dealt a blow to the larger ecosystem of feminist media.”
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The 1/2 last toast from the legend herself:
Valhalla really really reeked of beer, but Jennell seems happy
The other angels are tired of me saying “fight for the other users” while throwing my halo around
- Becky
Valhalla really really reeked of beer, but Jennell seems happy
The other angels are tired of me saying “fight for the other users” while throwing my halo around
- Becky
lindken.com
lindken.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The 1/2 last toast from the legend herself:
Valhalla really really reeked of beer, but Jennell seems happy
The other angels are tired of me saying “fight for the other users” while throwing my halo around
- Becky
Valhalla really really reeked of beer, but Jennell seems happy
The other angels are tired of me saying “fight for the other users” while throwing my halo around
- Becky
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Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays.
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
How Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 1: Pre-Jaquays Dungeons
(This is a slightly cleaned up version of my two Bluesky threads on Jennell Jaquays, preserved in a hopefully easier to read format. Thank Amanda P for reminding me that having these things stored …
pathikablog.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays.
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
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If I can sell seven more copies of Magica Riot: Full Bloom today I’ll leave the weekend with a heck of a milestone 🥹
November 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If I can sell seven more copies of Magica Riot: Full Bloom today I’ll leave the weekend with a heck of a milestone 🥹
At various times I've had ambitions of watching in original broadcast order and this...
This is...
It's one of those things that is great that it exists but omg, I don't think I'd want to try to put full focus attention on for the whole thing - though I did some skip-forward watching just now.
This is...
It's one of those things that is great that it exists but omg, I don't think I'd want to try to put full focus attention on for the whole thing - though I did some skip-forward watching just now.
there's also this if you want to lose your entire mind: www.stitchesinti.me/watch
Watch Doctor Who in Chronological Order! — Stitches in Time
www.stitchesinti.me
November 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
At various times I've had ambitions of watching in original broadcast order and this...
This is...
It's one of those things that is great that it exists but omg, I don't think I'd want to try to put full focus attention on for the whole thing - though I did some skip-forward watching just now.
This is...
It's one of those things that is great that it exists but omg, I don't think I'd want to try to put full focus attention on for the whole thing - though I did some skip-forward watching just now.
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Hey guess what I did? I published the next chapter of The Tower!
You could go read it right now!
www.scribblehub.com/read/1958646...
or you could go to the quoted post and start from the beginning. Either way! it's really good, I promise!
You could go read it right now!
www.scribblehub.com/read/1958646...
or you could go to the quoted post and start from the beginning. Either way! it's really good, I promise!
November 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Hey guess what I did? I published the next chapter of The Tower!
You could go read it right now!
www.scribblehub.com/read/1958646...
or you could go to the quoted post and start from the beginning. Either way! it's really good, I promise!
You could go read it right now!
www.scribblehub.com/read/1958646...
or you could go to the quoted post and start from the beginning. Either way! it's really good, I promise!
So, I _just_ started reading @charliejane.bsky.social 's "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" to @tikva82.bsky.social last night & we made it up to the start of chapter 5 & we're a couple of queer ladies who've lived around greater Camberville for a bit and: "Oh _that_ place!", "Oh _that_ person!"
November 16, 2025 at 12:51 AM
So, I _just_ started reading @charliejane.bsky.social 's "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" to @tikva82.bsky.social last night & we made it up to the start of chapter 5 & we're a couple of queer ladies who've lived around greater Camberville for a bit and: "Oh _that_ place!", "Oh _that_ person!"
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Gf, waking up and immediately logging on to DM me the most cursed shit possible: He looks like Wendy Carlos’ boymode
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Gf, waking up and immediately logging on to DM me the most cursed shit possible: He looks like Wendy Carlos’ boymode
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Kurt does not believe in gravitational potential energy.
[No-Prize?: His gravitational potential energy change goes into the energy required to open the portals at either end of his travels when there's a height change]
[No-Prize?: His gravitational potential energy change goes into the energy required to open the portals at either end of his travels when there's a height change]
October 21, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Kurt does not believe in gravitational potential energy.
[No-Prize?: His gravitational potential energy change goes into the energy required to open the portals at either end of his travels when there's a height change]
[No-Prize?: His gravitational potential energy change goes into the energy required to open the portals at either end of his travels when there's a height change]
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Many people dismissed the announcement Catholic hospitals will ban gender-affirming care nationwide under the assumption that there will be other options. In reality, Catholic hospitals make up as much 46% of options in some states. This map is 2020, prior to Trump’s assault on safety net hospitals.
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Many people dismissed the announcement Catholic hospitals will ban gender-affirming care nationwide under the assumption that there will be other options. In reality, Catholic hospitals make up as much 46% of options in some states. This map is 2020, prior to Trump’s assault on safety net hospitals.
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We are entering a phase when it will be very important to not hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I never thought that fighting to release the Epstein files, defending women who were victims of rape, and fighting to expose the web of rich powerful elites would have caused this, but here we are."
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We are entering a phase when it will be very important to not hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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This is why I will never abandon ACT UP, because ACT UP will never abandon us. #ACTUP #TransRights #FightBack
ONLY ON ASSIGNED MEDIA:
Fenway Health's annual gala Friday drew protests and cries of "Shame!" after the LGBTQ community health center ended care for trans people under 19.
@evanurquhart.bsky.social was there.
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www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Fenway Health's annual gala Friday drew protests and cries of "Shame!" after the LGBTQ community health center ended care for trans people under 19.
@evanurquhart.bsky.social was there.
(repost with updated thumbnail)
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Protect Trans Futures and ACT UP Disrupt Charity Gala at Fenway Health — Assigned
The LGBTQ+ community health center recently announced they would no longer offer gender-affirming care to trans young people under the age of 19.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is why I will never abandon ACT UP, because ACT UP will never abandon us. #ACTUP #TransRights #FightBack
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Fenway Health caving to Trump administration bigotry is shameful, not strategy.
November 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Fenway Health caving to Trump administration bigotry is shameful, not strategy.
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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Riley is a boy who steps through a portal into an endless crumbling city on a dying world at the end of time, and is recruited into a magical school that operates out of the massive Tower in the middle of the city.
www.scribblehub.com/series/19586...
www.scribblehub.com/series/19586...
The Tower and the Final City
Just beyond our reality: an ancient, dying world dominated by an endless crumbling City that stretches in every direction from the monolithic Tower at its heart. In that Tower, an Academy that teaches...
www.scribblehub.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Riley is a boy who steps through a portal into an endless crumbling city on a dying world at the end of time, and is recruited into a magical school that operates out of the massive Tower in the middle of the city.
www.scribblehub.com/series/19586...
www.scribblehub.com/series/19586...
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I knew nothing about "Light from Uncommon Stars" when I started reading it and holy shit.
November 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I knew nothing about "Light from Uncommon Stars" when I started reading it and holy shit.
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ICYMI yesterday when the Epstein news broke, I wrote about something else for my newsletter:
For my newsletter, I talked about the proposed teenage phone restrictions in the name of a murdered teenage trans girl.
(Noted this twice in the piece but again, I have no issue with Esther Ghey)
www.burnsnotice.com/brianna-ghey...
(Noted this twice in the piece but again, I have no issue with Esther Ghey)
www.burnsnotice.com/brianna-ghey...
Brianna Ghey's Phone Didn't Stab Her 28 Times
The trans girl murder victim's mom has turned her death into an unrelated political crusade against teenage phone use.
Note: I want to be clear upfront that I have no issue with Esther Ghey, mother o...
www.burnsnotice.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
ICYMI yesterday when the Epstein news broke, I wrote about something else for my newsletter:
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Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
When a trans woman first accused Jeffrey Epstein of rape, the media mocked her - LGBTQ Nation
The New York Post called her a "man" and a "gender-bend shocker."
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
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Kind of an emergency but I lost my job and really need help. I made good money but I support my wife and two kids so we are very much in trouble.
I am fighting for our rights and community, and I really need help.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-fund-...
I am fighting for our rights and community, and I really need help.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-fund-...
Donate to Help Fund Lyra's Pro Bono Cases, organized by Lyra LB
Hi! I'm Lyra, @pinkrangerlb on twitter. I'm a trans woman lawyer in Atlanta! While I am not a … Lyra LB needs your support for Help Fund Lyra's Pro Bono Cases
www.gofundme.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Kind of an emergency but I lost my job and really need help. I made good money but I support my wife and two kids so we are very much in trouble.
I am fighting for our rights and community, and I really need help.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-fund-...
I am fighting for our rights and community, and I really need help.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-fund-...
Six years ago today, a week after I had come out as trans at work, I used the start of Trans Awareness Week to come out as trans to friends on social media - about 50+ of them I had been out to before.
As crappy as the political climate is, it remains one of my best decisions & I wouldn't change it
As crappy as the political climate is, it remains one of my best decisions & I wouldn't change it
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Six years ago today, a week after I had come out as trans at work, I used the start of Trans Awareness Week to come out as trans to friends on social media - about 50+ of them I had been out to before.
As crappy as the political climate is, it remains one of my best decisions & I wouldn't change it
As crappy as the political climate is, it remains one of my best decisions & I wouldn't change it
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A wife and wife couple, a community of cyborgs in need, and a heritage of defiance, standing against empires, and planting stars: you can find my trans sapphic cyberpunk novel Confluence: A Person-Shaped Story at buff.ly/O9j674R or from the publisher at buff.ly/t85r7OW
September 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A wife and wife couple, a community of cyborgs in need, and a heritage of defiance, standing against empires, and planting stars: you can find my trans sapphic cyberpunk novel Confluence: A Person-Shaped Story at buff.ly/O9j674R or from the publisher at buff.ly/t85r7OW