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Vico Whitmore

@vwwhitmore.bsky.social

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Trans man, memoirist, and mental health unfluencer who will absolutely make you worse. My writing aims to make people uncomfortable in their own heads, the way the good lord intended. https://lnk.bio/vicowhitmore

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Vico Whitmore @vwwhitmore.bsky.social · May 11

I've made a brand new list on Medium of all my favorite essays available on that platform. These essays are entirely free to read, and represent a good chunk of the pieces that I'd love for more people to see. Enjoy!
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List: My Favorites | Curated by Vico Whitmore | Medium

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🏳️‍⚧️ Seb (He/Fey) 🔞 @sebastianseancrow.bsky.social · 3h

Due to some personal stuff, my move out of Texas has been pushed back a bit but I still need to be saving and raising money. I have about $860 in my savings account for it and I have more money to deposit, but anything to makes things go by quicker 🙏
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#HelpSky #TransCrowdFund #HelpLGBT

🏳️‍⚧️ Seb (He/Fey) 🔞 @sebastianseancrow.bsky.social · Mar 10

I will be saving up as much as I can but current monthly bills total to just under $1500 so it would mean the world to me to have just a little bit of help, even just a share. Need to GTFO of TX.
#GoFundMe #LGBT #HelpLGBT #Trans #HelpTrans #MutualAid

gofund.me/4e07cc81

Donate to Help a Trans Person Leave Texas, Get to a Safe Place ASAP, organized by Sebastian Sean Crow

Hi, my name is Sebastian Sean and I am a trans man in my late… Sebastian Sean Crow needs your support for Help a Trans Person Leave Texas, Get to a Safe Place ASAP

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Sokera! || SHOP OPEN! ⭐️ @pyixus.bsky.social · 18d

Let's Get Haunted!
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#Art | #Pokemon

Drawing of ghost type pokemon in front of pumpkins & a full moon. The drawing features Duskskull, Ghastly, Haunter, Litwick, Pumpkaboo, Crobat, and Chandelure.

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Vico Whitmore @vwwhitmore.bsky.social · 4h

If you or someone you love has an erection lasting more than four hours that began while eating, smelling, or thinking about asparagus, Astra Zeneca may be able to help

Vico Whitmore @vwwhitmore.bsky.social · 7h

My worst/best/most upsetting piece yet, "Goals for Q4 2025", is coming one week from today, and I stand by it, especially this bit. #amwriting

Try the vegetables you hated as a kid. Maybe asparagus doesn't taste so bad in your adult mouth. Oh shit, it does. It's terrible. It's like eating grass with an erection I'm so sorry.

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 8h

I asked Zev what he thought of @valwrites.ca gunning for Inix's campaign, and he did this

He told me he'd have used his plasma rifle for good measure, but it "was not worth the energy expenditure"

Inix is so lucky to have such great friends 🥰

Sub: TheLuckyMachine.com

#TLM #TWM #Scifi #Art

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Vico Whitmore @vwwhitmore.bsky.social · 8h

They're personality hires, the both of them

Vico Whitmore @vwwhitmore.bsky.social · 8h

I try really hard not to talk about work here cause I don't want to wind up in HR but look at how useless my goddamn coworkers are.

A black and white tuxedo cat with green eyes and white whiskers lays on his side with an arm draped over a magnificently fluffy buff ginger kitty. Both are laying on a green frog squishmallow

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Vico Whitmore @vwwhitmore.bsky.social · 10h

If you see this, post a pet

A black cat with a cropped ear and green eyes sits on a dove grey blanket, surrounded by otherwise purple pillows, stuffies, and bedding

Vico Whitmore @vwwhitmore.bsky.social · 11h

Besides, it’s exhausting to have an endocrine system that already thought I was being hunted for sport every time I got more than one notification at a time having to suddenly cope with actually being the government’s new favorite game animal while a genocide rages on and the possibility of ever being able to live alone again slowly drifts out of reach alongside the price of eggs. I don’t know how even my co-workers who are relatively safe are keeping from popping their eyeballs like grapes in a microwave during one of our morning Zoom calls. The only thing presently tethering me to the earth are origami puffy stars, Stardew Valley, my enjoyment of housing and food, and living in the comparative liberal paradise of California. I have no clue how anyone else is managing it.

Vico Whitmore @vwwhitmore.bsky.social · 11h

Being trans with a "business as usual" desk job is weird as fuck right now. I can't be the only one who feels like they're losing their mind while still hitting their quotas and saying synergy and shit. #lgbtqia #amwriting
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A Tuesday Kind of Apocalypse

It’s Tuesday. It’s the apocalypse. I feel like I’m going insane.

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Sam 📷 [Resources for Artists] @sambestock.bsky.social · 18h

Spider web jasper is a perfect spooky stone for the season. 🕷️ All about grounding and connection, no matter how many knots or tangles there may be in your thread, the web holds strong. Deep breaths & remember you're not alone. 🖤

🕸️ ko-fi.com/s/c4df940a76

#stockphotos #artresources #shop #gemstones

A stock photo of many tumbled stones of spider web jasper. A grey gemstone with black web-like tendrils that wrap and crisscross in various patterns.

A stock photo of a white person's hand holding many tumbled stones of spider web jasper.

A stock photo of a close up of a tumbled stone of spider web jasper.

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 1d

Can you believe this is how I get treated?

I coach on campaign building, I show nothing but KINDNESS, hell I even give my HANDMADE PAPERBACK COVER MOCKUP for her hero image, and THIS is how @valwrites.ca repays me? Not with gratitude, but with SNIPING MY SPOT AS 2ND MOST FOLLOWED PROJECT?

Screenshot from Bluesky from user Valiant, valwrites.ca: Alright team huddle up.
@aimeecozza.com is 19 followers ahead of me. 5X times the following! 2nd book vs 1st. A veteran vs the plucky upstart.

WE MUST DEFEAT HER FOR FUN & GLORY.

If you love lesbians who fight for love & sex & joy then FOLLOW ME TO VICTORY

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 1d

Oh HELL FUCKIN NO

Help me stay in my 2nd spot. I DESERVE THIS AS COLLECTION WHIP

Follow now to help me stay ahead ⤵️

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Vico Whitmore @vwwhitmore.bsky.social · 1d

I'm gonna sign you up for the Taco Bell ultra marathon then spirit you away to that town in Colorado with your plane ticket home contingent on finishing.

Vico Whitmore @vwwhitmore.bsky.social · 1d

I like how what I've actually done here is just created a thread of nightmare takes on spaghetti

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Vico Whitmore @vwwhitmore.bsky.social · 1d

Chocolate covered roaches might also be good but I'm not hard up enough for protein for that shit. I'll eat the cottage cheese it's fine.

Vico Whitmore @vwwhitmore.bsky.social · 1d

I need you all to know that my work bestie had friends over for dinner on Friday for spaghetti, and one of them made a bowl of noodles, mayo, and a shitload of Parmesan.

Someone else has to know this with me I can't survive this hell and nausea on my own.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, Kinktober, the time of year when we receive a new kink if we’ve been bad all year.

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Vico Whitmore @vwwhitmore.bsky.social · 1d

It's so ridiculously pretty I love it.

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S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · 2d

My novella of trans self-discovery is now up for pre-order! You can get Guitar Concerto in C Flat Minor, Op. 12: Lucina (short name Opus) for preorder now. Release date December 12,2025. Ebook $3. Paperback $8.

Thread time.
Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/994d56a7cb

Guitar Concerto in C Flat Minor, Op. 12: Lucina by S. Morgan Burbank

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 2d

263 more books to go to hit 1,000 distributed. It's a BIG stretch but there's a month to go so who knows what could happen? 🤖

If you like sci-fi, specifically gay robots, you should check out muh book

#Scifi #Booksky #IndieAuthor

The Warm Machine: A sci-fi novella about robot love

A brand new novella! When a laborbot first sees an angular, sleek prototype military robot slink onto his worksite, it's love at first sight.

www.thewarmmachine.com

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Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 1d

A snippet from The Forgotten Princess.

#WIPSnips #safe #BookSky

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Ignoring her, Orn put everything into a pile. Cold gripped him, the sweat and water and chill making itself known quickly. He shivered, shuddered, and looked back at her. “Make a fire.”

“And what am I going to do? Wait up here for your corpse to bubble back up to the surface? Neither of us are going down there.” The sharpness of her glare gave him pause, and she looked almost ready to stomp her foot. Except, she’d never and he knew that now.

She’d stab him to keep him safe.

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Trans Librarian @translibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A collection of essays in which Riki Wilchins "urges us to imagine a future beyond “male” and “female,” where gender is self-determined, expansive, and free." #transbooks

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Burn the Binary!, Vol. 2 - The Trans Literature Database

In this searing and accessible collection of essays, pioneering activist and writer Riki Wilchins dismantles the rigid gender norms that have shaped our lives.

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 1d

Ouch

#Repostober #BandW #Ink #Art

Black ink drawing of a crow's head with an arrow piercing through its bill. The crow is fading into feathers that are falling away.

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Vico Whitmore @vwwhitmore.bsky.social · 1d

I've been trying to get outside for more walks to remind myself that the sky is only metaphorically falling and there's so much shit blooming in my neighborhood.

Flowers with tight, circular, clusters of blossoms in pink and orange by a brown wood fence.

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