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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻

@tillybridges.bsky.social

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Writer without a pithy bio. Wife. Mom. She/her. 🩷🏳️‍⚧️ Star Trek, Monster High, writing credits: http://birdguest.com Trans Tuesdays: http://tillystranstuesdays.com Contact [email protected]. REP: Noah Jones | FWRD MGMT. https://ko-fi.com/tillybridges

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · Oct 11

we've got pinned posts! so let's talk about my book!

Here’s your one-stop shop for all the info and discussion of BEGIN TRANSMISSION: THE TRANS ALLEGORIES OF THE MATRIX, tracking one person’s transition journey - from Thomas Anderson, to Neo... to Trinity. Available everywhere now! (a thread!)

The cover to Begin Transmission: the trans allegories of The Matrix by Tilly Bridges. The cover has an outline of a white rabbit and in green text on the bottom it says, “call trans opt: received REC:Log>” followed by a green cursor, over a green gradient background. Additional text reads: Available now in digital, paperback, hardcover, and audiobook everywhere books are sold (logos for Barnes & Noble and Amazon) Hardcover ISBN: 9798887711263. Paperback ISBN: 9798887711256.

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 1d

CALIFORNIANS!

you can help make our state better and safer for trans people RIGHT NOW by telling Newsom he needs to sign these bills!

We need you!

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 23h

⬆️new episode!⬆️ #TransTuesday

COMING OUT can be such a complicated thing. Let's talk about what's involved and why we do it at all... and how nobody else gets to tell you how to do it!

@suli.bsky.social returns to discuss!

Tilly's Trans Tuesdays

Personal Journals Podcast · Updated Weekly · Pendant Productions

podcasts.apple.com

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 1h

here’s @susanlbridges.bsky.social and me at our re-wedding last year, so we could have one with the real me after i transitioned

we had a bouquet battle 😌🥰

me and my wife in fancy dresses dueling with floral bouquets

🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 2h

🫂🫂🫂

🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 2h

on friday i’m meeting with a friend I love who’s an amazing writer because we’re maybe cookin’ up something fabulous

🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 2h

heart glasses is my favorite app

🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 2h

pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly:

what if fingers had biceps

this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly

🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 1d

pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly:

rainbows should be when rainbow bows rain down on you because then hey free pride bows for everyone

this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly

🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 2d

pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly:

mandible is short for man i d’b’lieve this pincer jaw

this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 2h

goodness, thank you

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 23h

Welcome to #TransTuesday!

National Coming Out Day is Oct 11, so let’s get into what can be a difficult and complicated issue for so many of us: COMING OUT AS TRANS.

And for the first time since Trans Tuesdays started, I reprint my own coming out thread!

www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/10/07/c...

COMING OUT AS TRANS - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays

Welcome to Trans Tuesday! National Coming Out Day is approaching, so let’s get into what can be a difficult and complicated issue for so many of us: COMING OUT AS TRANS. When people hear the words “co...

www.tillystranstuesdays.com

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 11h

a very old and dirty piece of masking tape with a smiley face drawn on it on a tile floor

🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 12h

serendipity perhaps!

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 13h

you are so very welcome 🫂

🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 13h

I think I’m maddest that the whole thing was done again with Kylo. have we learned nothing?

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 13h

I mean i love Star Wars. But I don’t love that it did THAT

Twice!

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 13h

yeah like i am all about second chances and Star Trek is so good at turning the “other” and the enemy into a friend

BUT ALSO

genocidal fascists who killed millions cannot be redeemed (lookin’ at YOU, Star Wars)

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 13h

aaaaaamazing

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 15h

final order cutoff for @idwpublishing.com STAR TREK VOYAGER: HOMECOMING issue 3 is Oct 13!

issue 1 seems to be sold out everywhere so tell your comic shop to order you one to ensure you get it!

also wow what’s going on here on the cover? well who can say 🧐🤔

only one way to find out 🖖

Star Trek voyager homecoming issue 3 cover a, showing Seven in an Eva suit with a phaser rifle, in front of a looming Borg cube

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 16h

bookshop.org has free shipping today and tomorrow AND supports local bookstores!

so pick up BEGIN TRANSMISSION: THE TRANS ALLEGORIES OF THE MATRIX if ya want, they have paperbacks and hardcovers in stock!

and never deplatformed me and classified it as porn because it’s about trans stuff! a bonus!

Begin Transmission (hardback): The trans allegories of The Matrix

The trans allegories of The Matrix

bookshop.org

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 16h

Sing it sister!

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 16h

ugh my heart’s breaking all over again

🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 16h

he also has a band?? that gets airtime on commercial radio???

you’re on to something

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 17h

if she had gone out like a hero, or protecting those who couldn’t protect themselves, standing up for what’s right… i still would have been devastated but the degree would have been exponentially less

it felt like the show saying: you saw yourself in her, trans kid? here’s what we think of you

💔

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t know, I’ve also heard if he doesn’t sign them they DO still become law. I cannot seem to find the actual answer 🙃

🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 17h

this whole look is ✨

🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 17h

Bryant!! 😭🩷🫂