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A Strange Presence
@mikemgowrite.bsky.social
Gaming | Books | Writing | Horror | He/him | Gay ✨
—Our trans family and friends deserve peace, love, and justice—
The Substance was everything I thought it would be and more.

The beautiful and gross imagery. The minimalistic elements. The goofiness and the gore.

What a great fucking time. 💕
10/10
February 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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am I a fucking joke to you?
January 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Trans literature (especially indie) is transgressing artificial limits many won’t even acknowledge exist and will inspire, thrill, or maybe reflect something back at you. You really owe it to yourself to read these wonderful authors.
It's a bad time for trans people now, and it's a bad time for trans literature

Buy trans books, leave reviews
Support trans authors
If you can't afford a book right now, then follow them on social media

My first starter pack filled up, so here is starter pack 2 author boogaloo
February 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A beautiful sunrise makes Monday a little better, but only a little.

Have a good day out there.
February 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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dracula doesn’t have soil in his coffin for vampire reasons, he just has a worm gf who eats in bed
January 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I really want to see this project succeed. Sent some money your way @marczammit.bsky.social on IndieGoGo. Bring that creepy thing to life!
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JITTERS FEATURE FILM HORROR, THRILLER
When fear is the only rule | Check out 'JITTERS FEATURE FILM HORROR, THRILLER' on Indiegogo.
igg.me
January 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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are you a horror queer? can i please publish your beautiful work?
as 2SLGBTQIA+ creatives in horror, our voices are being actively stifled by our government and society. this is our opportunity to document the times accordingly with our art.

salon sinister debuts this summer. send your unpublished short stories, poetry, art, or op-eds.

salonsinister.com
SALON SINISTER
Salon sinister is dedicated to documenting the 2Slgbtqia+ experience through horror.
salonsinister.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Target is an easy one for me to let go. Lowe’s is the only hardware store around me so that’s going to be tricky, but I’ll figure it out.

Bye boot lickers.
Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI

Amazon
Boeing
Brown-Forman
Caterpillar
Ford
Harley-Davidson
John Deere
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
McDonald’s
Meta
Nissan
Stanley Black & Decker
Target
Tractor Supply
Toyota
Walmart

Support who supports you ✨✊
January 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
One handy list for all these queer books. Sweet!
Now seems like a great time to reshare my LGBTQIA+ masterlist. 3,200+ books with a queer MC, that you can filter and search by multiple preferences, such as genre, target age group, representation, pairing, and additional tags like "dragons" #booksky

beffynicolereads.wordpress.com/queer-fictio...
LGBTQIA+ Fiction Masterlist
A masterlist of queer fiction books which can be sorted and filter by preferences such as genre, age group, representation, and romantic pairing.
beffynicolereads.wordpress.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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January 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Queer writers who need to express their wrath, let’s go
Ok, Bsky - a MISSION for you.

We want as many subs to Wrath Month as possible, from as diverse an array of voices as possible. POC voices, disabled voices, neurodiverse voices, trans voices, ace and aro voices - everyone.

Scream it from the rooftops, folks!
January 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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It’s Edgar Allen Poe’s birthday so here are a few from the limited edition of Tales of Mystery and Imagination I illustrated last year 🖤
January 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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January 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Microsoft and Google users trying figure out how to turn off their ‘AI assistants’.
January 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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January 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Being a writer is almost entirely about perseverance. Life is going to continuously try to keep you from writing or from getting published or from getting things made, and you just have to get in life's way and say “No.”
January 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Okay. This is the dumb joke I over-committed to. Feel free to give it more credit than it deserves.
November 26, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Drop something black and white
January 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The Crones in Witcher 3 are made of nightmares. Loving these wild character designs. My favorite in the game so far!
January 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Right, you fucks, if you live in the UK sign this. If you don’t live in the UK share it as some of your followers might and they should sign this.
January 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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I donated — join me if you can, or just help spread the word?
Pasadena Humane has seen an influx of over 300 animals due to the fires. People lined up down the block to drop off beloved pets they could not take with them when they fled their homes. Some animals arrived with burns and injuries and are being treated. Donations and fosters are needed NOW.
Eaton Canyon Fire Update - Pasadena Humane
Update as of 6:30 pm on January 8: We have taken in over 300 animals due to evacuations and have staff and volunteers working nonstop to help with their care. […]
pasadenahumane.org
January 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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This gorgeous pup was found in the Palisades, If he looks familiar or is yours, please get in touch. Please share and let's reunite.
January 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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we had a great 8 years of it being acceptable to be publicly queer but the right tapped into their hysteria and are trying to push us back decades. this is why the left warned of relying on rainbow capitalism because their support was about profit above all else. the solution is for us to not hide
New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill"

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Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes
Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.
www.404media.co
January 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I’ve repeated this to myself many times since reading it. Extremely valuable advice.
You can never be wholesome enough to satisfy a bigot, so don't cut off pieces of yourself to fit the shape of their artificial box. They'll just shrink it after you do and demand you keep cutting.
I think we need "the good the bad and the ugly" of queer stories because that's the real representation when all kinds of shit have space to exist.
Because that's how it is with cishet stories.
Perfectly "wholesome" and polished "queer rep" is in fact an artificial vitrine, not real culture.
January 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM