Author: Promises Stronger Than Darkness coming April 11! Also: All the Birds in the Sky, City in the Middle of the Night, Never Say You Can't Survive. Writing New Mutants: Lethal Legion for Marvel. (First issue: March 8!) Header: Ro Stein/Ted Brandt.
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Last Notes npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ A sitcom about robots running a department store called Are You Being Servo-ed npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Pssst.... I have a newsletter! npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ The phrase "I am entertaining doubts" is so weird. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Here's my latest book review column at the @npub1lyq…c6u4 These three books feature characters who struggle to save their communities and themselves in the face of injustice — and they all punch way above their weight class. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Whoever said you can't have both guns and butter was a fool. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ I love hearing authors read their own work. Author readings are the lifeblood of book culture -- i miss bookstore readings and spoken word events. So in my latest newsletter I offer some tips to help authors do a better job with reading out loud 📚🎤🤩 npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ MY CAT: Catching this toy is too hard, I'm bored, make it easy to catch. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Hey did you know I have a newsletter? I DO! It comes out once a week, it's free, and it's my most provocative thoughts on pop culture, SFF, queer stuff, or my own life experience. Topics have included #DoctorWho, writing, internalized transphobia, and the truth about "cancel culture". I would consider it a personal kindness if you would subscribe! npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ I have not one, not two, but ELEVEN hot takes about #DoctorWho. 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I learned so much from this conversation! npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Mirror universe sex tourism must be a huge problem in the Star Trek universe. Literally everyone wants to spend their weekends hooking up with the evil versions of themselves. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ I was utterly heartbroken when Folio Books closed. It was a wonderful store that foregrounded SFF and romance, and punched way above its weight class. Irreplaceable. Or so I thought! npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ We love to believe in meritocracy, because it feels comforting to think the world is fair and talent/dedication are rewarded. But three recent science fiction stories do a wonderful job of exploring the wishful thinking behind this idea. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Meet the nuance, same as the oldance npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ A good title for an erotic thriller would be Criminal Negligée npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ They're trying to sneak the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) into must-pass legislation because they know it's a terrible bill that will censor the internet and silence LGBTQIA+ people. I know we're all tired, but *please* call your reps again and ask them to put a stop to this terrible bill! npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ As a journalist, if I wrote a piece about a marginalized community that I don't belong to, in which I suggested that I know what's best for that community, and some members of that community reached out with corrections... I wouldn't automatically rule out the possibility that I'd made some mistakes npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ There's a lot of Discussion lately about prologues and whether they should be allowed. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ You know what would make me interested in another Tron movie? If they got a kick-ass trans composer to do the soundtrack again npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ I'm seeing trans-medicalism and trans respectability politics rearing their heads again lately. (I get it. People are scared.) npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ I was thinking about the end of that one #StarTrek episode where Spock mind-melds with Kirk and makes him forget his dead android girlfriend. And... what if that happens at the end of every adventure, and we only see it one time? npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ I just saw that Trina Robbins passed away last week. She did so much for comics, and was such a wonderful presence in the field. I was so grateful to get to get to know her — she always had such thrilling stories to tell and was so generous. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Just a heads up: voting for the Hugo Awards is now open! npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ It's been a long day's journey into night npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ It should be illegal to send anyone an email npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Star Trek: Discovery is hands down my favorite #StarTrek of the 21st century. It's not even close. In my latest newsletter, I explain why I love this show so much, and why it embodies everything that's great about Trek. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ You sometimes hear people talk about a "thigh gap." npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ The Silver Surfer is one of the most boring characters in Marvel Comics. My theory is that people love him because: npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ The wonderful X-Men podcast Graymalkin Lane just interviewed me about Escapade, the trans mutant hero I co-created for Marvel a while back. This was such a deep, thoughtful conversation. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ I'm on my way to Rockridge for the Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl..... npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ There are people that everyone is nice to because folks like them and don't want to hurt their feelings npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ The Moon franchise has varied wildly in quality and I'm not sure how airtight the continuity is at this point npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ I'm at the dentist and I got stuck wondering what a distributed dental of service attack would look like npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ There should be a federal law requiring companies to send you a notice via email every time they deduct money from your account. Like, if you subscribed to a service ages ago and forgot about it, you should get a monthly heads up. ("Hey, we just took another $15 from you. Just FYI.") npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Feels like a huge missed opportunity that none of the many articles about how the coronavirus kept mutating and spawning variants ever used the headline "Covid's Metamorphoses". npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ My favorite bit in Jung Sheldon is when he turns to the camera and explains that we kill the gods when we discover that they are mere puppets of our own broken cognition and to achieve true self-knowledge requires sinking to the level of instincts and archetypes. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ If you're in San Francisco (or really anywhere in one of the Super Tuesday states) *please* vote. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ This beautiful new sticker design was a wonderful surprise and a great reward for doing my civic duty. If you live in San Francisco, please vote in the next few days. The billionaires are counting on you not paying attention. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Just saw that Locus Magazine named PROMISES STRONGER THAN DARKNESS their "top pick" among young adult novels from 2023. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Email I just received: npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ People who claim private companies are more efficient than the government have never tried to talk to their insurance company npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Hi! A member of my local community, who is a really cool person, has fallen on some hard times. She's been sick for ages, and has finally gotten into stable housing. But now she needs help with food, medical bills, cat food, and other necessities. Please help if you can! npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Nex Benedict could have become famous for their art. Or their activism. They could have been known for starting a business that made people's lives better somehow. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Andreea Kindryd was a production assistant on the original Star Trek in the 1960s, and was heavily involved in the civil rights movement. She became one of the first Black women producers and befriended Octavia Butler. She's just published a memoir, From Slavery to the Stars. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Listening to 80s music and it's amazing how many songs are basically about men's inability to express any feelings whatsoever, and the notion that this *might* cause relationship issues. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ ICYMI the Kids Online Safety Act, which pretends to save the children but just censors the internet, is BACK. They claim it's been fixed, but it hasn't been. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ @npub1asa…n9sr @npub1yz3…ddf5 @npub1tmu…nrgq the landfill in my old hometown opened a lovely swap center where you could bring your unwanted stuff and someone else could take it home. It was amazingly cool and staffed by volunteers, mostly retirees. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Hey, you might remember a trans geek friend of mine who was forced to leave her housing in a hurry. She's now settled in a new place, but still needs money for pet food, meds, and a few other basic necessities while she applies for disability. Please help! npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ This interview with Senator Blumenthal about KOSA is interesting: https://slate.com/technology/2023/09/senator-blumenthal-kosa-kids-online-internet-safety-ai-regulation-congress.html npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Finally watching How to Train Your Dragon, and... npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ "Tech billionaires accept that sacrifices will have to be made — but they’ll be shouldered by the poorest and most marginalized people on our planet, not the wealthy and powerful." npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Everybody loves Star Trek, BSG and the Mandalorian. But here are TEN amazing space-based TV shows that never get the love they deserve! (My latest newsletter.) npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Folks, I'm hearing that the Kids Online Safety Act is back on the agenda. The Senate is holding a hearing with tech CEOs tomorrow, in an effort to get this bill on the Senate floor. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ When I was a kid there were posters everywhere that said "LEAD, FOLLOW, OR GET OUT OF THE WAY," and I remember being intensely grateful that they had provided a decent third option npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ 🎶When you were young and your heart was an open book npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ ICYMI: I have a newsletter! It is free and comes out once a week! I am really hoping to eventually reach 1/100th as many subscribers as your average reactionary centrist bro. I write about pop culture, politics, geek stuff, and my own life. It's fun, I swear! npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Oh wow oh wow.... I had no idea this could even happen. NEW MUTANTS: LETHAL LEGION, my Marvel miniseries full of gay feelings and heists and trauma and trans heroism, got shortlisted for a GLAAD media award alongside some of my fav creators. ICYMI the trade paperback collection came out yesterday... npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ The fun thing about revising a novel is the way you keep lurching between "this book is so great and it's just what I meant to write" and "oh god this is all utter garbage what have I done" — and then back again! npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Hey, if you live anywhere near the Western Addition in San Francisco and you like pizza, *please* order from Little Star on Divisadero as often as possible. They're still in business in that location, but they're struggling and need a ton of support to stay open. 🍕💘 npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ I do not understand why Trader Joes doesn't capitalize on Shark Week by renaming itself Trader Jaws. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Sometimes I'll be chatting with my mom and she'll just come out with things like, "Well, property is theft, so people who shoplift from Walgreens are really just stealing from the thieves." npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ If we refer to the best songs as bangers, the other songs should be called "mash." npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ The trade paperback of NEW MUTANTS: LETHAL LEGION comes out January 16! I packed so many feels and laughs and bonkers action setpieces into this story about a therapeutic heist. It's the funniest, silliest story about trauma and how sometimes "the only way to heal... is to heal." npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ My latest newsletter is about the attempts to evict Bluestockings, and the new laws that require maximum cruelty towards unhoused people. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ For the night is dark and full of otters npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Frozen broccoli is just nasty npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ I can't help noticing that it's true about box office coverage... npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ The right’s war on ‘housing first’ lands in Middle America npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Which classic TV theme tune is best sung entirely with the lyrics "meow meow meow" npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ I am very sleep deprived and in related news I just wrote a song called "I'm Gonna Lick Every Spoon In Your House". It goes: npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Slept badly last night bc I accidentally left the radiator going in my bedroom and I got dried out, and basically I think heaters should occasionally sing "The heat is onnnnn" in a Glenn Frey voice to let you know you left them on. (Thank you for coming to my TED talk.) npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ My latest newsletter is about how to put a stop to all the review-bombing on Goodreads. Those fake one-star reviews hurt marginalized authors disproportionately and they shouldn't hold so much power. Plus I explain why I like Goodreads and why I find it so useful. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ "The story of car bloat—the continually expanding size of the typical American automobile—is one of carmaker profit, shifting consumer preferences, and loophole-riddled auto regulations. It is also a story of hidden costs: to the planet, to taxpayers, and to the American families whose lives have been shattered by a crash that could have been avoided, or at least mitigated, with a smaller vehicle." npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ If you're a Substack publisher who is bumping up against Substack's ambition to boost far-right (and anti-trans) voices, lemme just say that Buttondown is lovely and easy to use, and they give amazing customer service. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ The Star Trek show I want is about a starfleet ship that's studying stellar phenomena or whatnot, and then they get a message that Starfleet is going to war with the Breen or the Gorn, or maybe some Breen-Gorn alliance. (Gorn-Breen?) npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ I saw something on the internet that upset me and made me have a quiet freakout and go down a whole rabbit hole, and now it's five minutes later and I can't remember what that thing was because I've seen ten other upsetting things since then, and this just feels like 2023 in a nutshell npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ My favorite Narnia moment is when the witch offers the children Rapper's Delight npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ If you order via Folio Books, you can get any of my books signed, personalized and adorned with a drawing of a cat doing *whatever job you specify*. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ "Capitalism wants to assign a value to each of us, based on our ability to generate profit for the owner class. They want to turn each of us into assets, pieces of capital, and decide whether we're worth investing in. But we don't have to live that way, none of us do. We can live for ourselves and the people we love." npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ RIP David Drake. He was an incredible writer, a Vietnam war veteran who wrote military fiction that, in his words, "indicated very graphically that war was a messy and utterly futile business." npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ So freaking excited to be part of FOURTEEN DAYS, an anthology edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston, featuring so many of my fav authors and benefiting the Authors Guild. The book comes out on Feb. 6 and check the #WhoAmI tag for clues about some of the #bookish contributors... npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Actually, my least favorite genre of entertainment journalism is fetishistic stories about how an actor either gained or lost a lot of weight for a role. It's just kinda creepy npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Update: Here is the new letter about #KOSA with the list of the 200 orgs that signed on: npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Uh oh... The lobbying push for KOSA (a bill which purports to protect kids but will instead censor LGBTQ info from the Internet) is ramping up. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Hey just a reminder that I have a newsletter! It comes out once a week, and is usually fairly entertaining and occasionally ranty. (Topics include writing, pop culture, SFF books, trans issues, and personal essays.) And it's free! npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ was trying to type "top surgery" and wrote something that autocorrect turned into "top sorcery" and new fantasy genre just dropped npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ I think it was a really bold choice for the new WONKA movie to lean into the "wonk" side of Willy Wonka's personality. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ There's a rapper on Arrakis called The Spice, and people are constantly trying to get him to say the thing. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Dolly Parton asked about trans rights: "I just want everybody to be treated good... npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ As someone who strongly supported Elizabeth Warren's run for president, I'm utterly devastated that she's signed on to co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ If they had to do a John Wick prequel I wish it had been about his dog, tracing back several generations of good dogs who maybe also were friends with assassins. Maybe John Wick's dog had an ancestor who belonged to Mata Hari. The dogs could tell their stories! It would be great. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Sometimes I can't believe the newspaper comics we had when I was a kid: npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ FYI after three-plus years of dodging it, I finally have covid. Seems to be a mild case, and I'm on paxlovid. I'm going to basically hole up for the next five days and not try to do much, so if you email me, you might not get a reply right away. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ "Carleton was a huge supporter of the LGBTQ+ community... People within the community described Carleton as 'kind' and almost like a 'second mom' to them" npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Feeling kind of annoyed that right-wing country music anthems keep getting rammed down my throat by press coverage lately. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ I really think people in San Francisco gotta start writing a slew of articles about how NYC is caught in a doom loop npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ James Bond should just come out as bisexual already. This is getting ridiculous. npub1vttan7zzy4w49uv3seendlcp9uvshqrf92ev7p0va5xhmdg9sg5q0epgc9 The Trandalorian 🏳️⚧️ Somebody was talking about a first person shooter game, and I was like...
