Spooktober 2026, Day Nine

SPOOKTOBER DAY 9 – POSSESSION
OPTIONAL CHALLENGES:  STALKER, INSOMNIA, PACT WITH EVIL
TAROT INFLUENCE:  ACE OF WANDS, UPRIGHT

TITLE:  THE FLAME OF GOD

Premise:  Jim put it all together, somehow.  Seeing the writing on the wall in junior high, he plotted and schemed to get around all the laws and societal pushback coming down on trans youth.  He conspired with some cool diablos online to secretly get puberty blockers, unfortunately a little too late to prevent some amount of breast, and started hustling his own money to pay for transition proper when he got old enough and out from under his parents’ control.  He had enough money for top surgery stashed and everything, college just around the corner…

The Villain:  But he had a stalker.  Older boy Francis (STALKER) was obsessed with his own narrow vision of Jim as a special little girl.  In stalking, he discovered the top surgery arrangements, and in an effort to save tha boobs, he ratted Jim out to his parents.  Enter the horror…

Horror Element:  Jim’s mother Christa is remote, quiet, very deeply involved in scholarship.  One wouldn’t expect her to be a theofascist, but all that research was geared toward learning the power of miracles.  She had become convinced in youth that the reason miracles no longer happen is because people forgot the true methods of them – holy magic – and strove to learn those arts for herself (PACT WITH EVIL, frankly).

Her time has come (ACE OF WANDS).  With help from Francis and the hubby Mike, she traps Jim in a magic circle and summons the flame of god to possess him (POSSESSION).  Now whenever he tries to be true to himself, he is subject to burning agony.  Visions of heaven and hell obscure his sight.  He has to wear bras and dresses to ease the pain, can’t sleep at night (INSOMNIA).

You fascists bound to lose.  No way I can write this story without the jesus people getting proper fucked.  It’ll happen.
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This year I’m using AI tools from goog and openai plus photopea to make my covers.  The tech feels close but still has some maddening irritations to it.  Didn’t have time to make the art for the basis of this one, or fuss over this at all.  I used gemini to get the composition and openai to make it more convincing.  Still had to tweak the final a lot in photopea, but less than painting something original from scratch, boy howdy.  Making the source art, no matter how crude, helps make these more distinctive / less generic; hope to do more drawings for them soon.

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Spooktober 2026, Day Four

I would’ve queued this for tomorrow but it looks like FtB is riding on me & PZ today.  Have another one!

SPOOKTOBER DAY 4 – RITUAL
OPTIONAL CHALLENGES:  RETAIL, COMMERCIALS, HATE
TAROT INFLUENCE:  PRINCE OF FIRE, INVERTED (NON-R-W DECK)

TITLE:  I’M GONNA POP SOME TAGS LORD OF THE FLAMES

Premise:  Thrift shop (RETAIL) in a university area of a major city, the staff all disadvantaged and colorful queer types.  The neighborhood occasionally throws the usual urban menace at them – drugs, violence, chaos – but also, more disturbingly, fascism (HATE) crops up as well.  A transphobic street preacher (PRINCE OF FIRE, INVERTED) is crowding the street corner where they’re expected to hand out adverts (COMMERCIALS), and clean-cut cishet white boys from frats cast a shadow of potential hate crimes over them whenever paths cross.

The Villain:  The preacher is not the villain.  Or is he?  They keep taking donations and sales with sketchy runes in the pockets, that the store’s resident occult expert (a tiny autistic trans dude) translates as “The Lord of the Flames is coming.”

Horror Element:  Fire-related incidents keep happening.  Fratties throwing firecrackers, dumpsters and buildings catching fire, pyrotechnics at a club going awry, fire-eating street performers messing up their act, burned rats and pigeons showing up in the alley or on their doorstep.  This escalates to a multi-building conflagration in the neighborhood.

But the occultist was performing a ritual of his own, putting embroidered magic symbols into his homies’ battle jackets and hoodies.  The magic of the runes is turned back on its owner, who dies spectacularly in the street.  I think it should turn out to be a surprise, like, some minor character – not one of the fratties, nor the preacher.
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This year I’m using AI tools from goog and openai plus photopea to make my covers.  The tech feels close but still has some maddening irritations to it.  Had to recreate my font and my techniques were subpar, didn’t look well integrated.  Whatever, I’m callin’ it.
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U Might Not Be Aware Of: Dollcore

i’m working on the discolology of björk but i’ve barely started and it’s gonna be a lot.  gonna have spooktobers to post en octubre.  until then, what can i say to bump myself up the sidebar?  lessee…

One of the reasons trans gals got whammied so hard by the “autogynephilia” theory (advanced by some cissexist I don’t care to look up) is because the feelings around thinking of one’s self as a woman can be very sexual in a society where women are objectified – and women are not blind to the messaging that is conveyed through advertisement.  The theory pops like a balloon when you ask the question, do many cis women get turned on by the idea of themselves as a woman in sexual contexts?  In cute outfits etc?  Yes?  I guess that’s not so much a pathology for a woman now, cis or trans, is it?

Thinking of one’s self as a woman in sexual contexts does lend itself to developing fetishes, which hopefully don’t eclipse all other possibilities of arousal+release in the person who has them.  Trans gals, at least in the latter half of the twentieth century thru the present (that I know of), have been quick to latch onto “forcefem” / forced feminization scenarios.  Like the romantasy author who subjects her author-insert main character to being raped by bad boys and werewolves, this is a way to divorce yourself from the “blame” for your desires.  Makes sense.  It’s kind of a cultural touchstone, occasionally verging on in-joke?  As fetishes go, it’s kinda cute.  I’m not big into it, but I do have a novel on the backburner that takes it into litfic territory.

More recently, it’s become popular to take objectification to another level and adopt “it/its” pronouns.  I’m sure you can think of at least one creepy context of that being done in fiction (hopefully) by someone expressing disdain for a victim, but in the realm of fantasy, whatever goes.  This should be seen as distinct from “objectum” kids, about whom I know zilch.  For these people – mostly trans gals, some others – being treated as an object has (sometimes sublimated) sexual appeal.  They’re also usually into some flavor of bdsm fetishes.

So.  Maid fetish, objectification fetish, art descended from the mutant mannequins of Hans Bellmer, and… gals who fantasize about being cute dollies.  Sometimes in maid outfits, sometimes packing plasma cannons from mashup with “gunpla” and “bjd” hobbies.  I feel like this post really could use about five times the length to properly communicate its concepts, but it’s supposed to be dashed-off in-between content, so bear with me.

Again, I’m not really into it, but it has a cute aesthetic.  You go, girls.

Now you know about #dollcore.  Be a doll, would you?

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Re: South Park, in Brief

I don’t want to read any references to South Park in my comments.  They repeatedly produced absolutely horrid transphobic cartoons that helped normalize the hatred and disgust of transgender people in this country.

Nothing they can say or do now will make an ounce of difference compared to the damage they’ve done.  Fuck them a lot.  I don’t even want to see people mentioning them to insult them.  As bad and as damaging as the terf queen has been and continues to be, South Park‘s insult feels much more personally insulting to me.

Even before that I’d stopped paying attention to them for their cartoon that made the case that it didn’t matter if you didn’t vote in Kerry v Bush, right before the election.  Idgaf how liberal they are on this or that position; both of these things directly contributed to the rise of global fascism.

Have they occasionally been funny?  Unfortunately yes, but like with Dave Chappelle, I’m trying to forget anything they ever did to amuse me, because it makes the poison feel more like betrayal than just “random celeb boosts nazis.”  In the “don’t vote” show they had a rap featuring the line “bounce your titties when you vote bitch” which is quite funny.

I’d love to bounce my titties when I vote in good cheer.  But this is not possible.  Don’t fuckin breathe a word about South Park around me, thx.

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Happy Juneteenth, Nobody is Free Until Everyone is Free

I’ve got a bit of a grudge going for Dave Chappelle.  I don’t think about things or people I hate all the time, so it doesn’t come up much for me, but when it does, I’m like, fuck that guy a lot.

There was an episode of his show where some goofy pimps time traveled to the days of slavery, and one of them shot an overseer.  The meta-laff was that this was supposedly a skit that had been cut from an earlier show by execs who didn’t think killing slavers was funny.  I had a good time watching that a million years ago.

For those who don’t remember his story after that point in his career, he had a nervous breakdown and broke contract to abandon the show and chill out in Africa for some years.  Comedy Central ran what was left of his show as reruns for a very long time – probably still does.  Then, at long last, Dave emerged from the earth like Punxsutawney Phil, to chip into the discourse of our times.  What did he purchase with the remainder of his cultural cachet?

He defended shitler’s “grab them by the pussy” remark like a month ahead of his first election.  Then he fucked off again for a while, during which time he did some few standup shows.  At one of these, he was photographed partying with Apartheid Junior and some other Bay Area heels.

After that he really got my attention by going full transphobe.  One of the subjects of his “humor” was a trans woman who subsequently committed suicide.  I imagine she had other reasons as well, but still.

But let’s back that up a moment.  Chappelle has partied with the guy who is currently egging on white supremacist riots in northern Ireland, who unambiguously heiled hitler at the grabber’s second inauguration.  Do you suppose the has-been comedian has any misgivings about the company he’s kept?

I’m sure he doesn’t, because like the terfs who thought they could defend cis-women’s rights by killing trans women, like the working class white ameriKKKans who thought they could protect the working class by killing mexicans, he makes this one important mistake.  He believes you can discriminate against one oppressed class of people without empowering the oppressors of your own people.

It can’t be done.  You cannot separate out the struggles of the oppressed and say one group deserves it, one group is a reasonable sacrifice.  This is basic fucking shit, as basic as it gets.  Freedom can only be protected by solidarity between the oppressed, whatever their differences.

You don’t have to like or even care about other people on your side, as long as you can stifle your shitty mouth when you’re tempted to let your prejudice run – when you’re tempted to give aid and succor to the Fourth Reich.  Do people like Dave Chappelle care about his fellow black people?

I don’t buy it for a fucking second.  Like the recurring theme in Russian folk tales of a decent pauper who becomes a shitty prince, people get X amount of dollars and decide they hate taxes more than they love human rights.

Biggie Smalls once said, “Fuck the world, don’t ask me for shit. And everything you’ve got, you work hard for it.”  I say many hands make light work, and nobody in the fucking world should have to truly work hard, as many hands as we have.  If everybody who hits the sixth zero in their bank account turns nazi, it’s time to make sure nobody gets that dollar.

Freedom for all oppressed people.  Traitors eat shit.  Long live the fighters.

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Toxical Disk Horse

I chose a life in the Great Social Discourse of Doom when I helped push Atheism Plus to establish a blog network of its own, back when that was a thing.  It’s a lot of work though, and I’m not usually up for it.  But I potentially poked that bee’s nest on my last post, so I need to clarify my position.

If someone hates it enough, they’re welcome to go talk shit about me somewhere else.  If they agree, they can agree quietly because I don’t feel like discussing it.  My hope is that, especially if you’re a trans woman, you will be neutral to it.  You will not necessarily agree at all, but you’ll be willing to let a well-intentioned comrade abide.

This is my opinion on all SJW discourse at the end of the day.  The project is to make the world a better place, not to establish an orthodoxy to which all good people must conform.  You need to be OK with disagreement, or we’ll keep having the stock leftist struggle of never achieving a coalition, always being buried beneath the power of conformity found in the fascists.

Agree with me or don’t, but I hope if you find something strongly disagreeable in what follows, you’ll still be able to tolerate coming around here most of the time, because most of the time I’m not discoursing like this, right?  And I like to see your pretty faces.  For now, let the acrimony begin…

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So, I’m kind of an outlier on FreeThought Blogs in that the only social media I use (unless you count this blog as social media) is tumblr, aka trunglr, aka the blue hellsite.  As I understand it, the dominant early user culture was teenage girls who used to post onceler slashfic on deviantart and who, around the time I sarted using it, had just grown up to post thirsty gifs of aol-time-warner-disneed-marble’s the revengers.  dot com.  And Sexy Demon Hunter Bros and Captain Whom’st and Stanklock, I forget.

These girls, some amount of which went onto become boys or somewhere inbetween style creatures, were at that age where social justice discourse becomes a thing – trying to converge on an acceptable way to be, to separate yours from theirs, with yours being the good and theirs being the unacceptable.  This was against an internet backdrop of gamergate/MRAjr culture battling liberal nerd culture types who framed all their feminist articles in terms of baby wizard shit.  Innocent times, but the bloom was coming off the rose.

The way I see it, the main political successes of tumblr were, in chronological order: making asexual youths sad, organizing the terf movement, and getting young leftists not to vote, condemning us to fascist hell forever.  All the political projects you’d want to succeed did not.  Still, compare that to facebook et al helping coordinate ethnic cleansing, and it’s not quite so bad.  All social media sucks major ass, but it’s replaced other forms of reading in our collective consciousness, it’s got us hooked.  I quit it sometimes, only to find myself needing to fill my brain with something in a quiet moment where music and other good things aren’t quite tenable, and it’s just right there, you know?

The current thing making me want to quit tumblr forever is trans infighting.  Terfs love that shit, but the fighters are locked in, and can’t escape.  Particularly the trans women.  Personally I think it all started with oppression olympics, and is an object lesson in why you should not fuck with that shit.

Let’s play that game for a second.  Who has it the worst in the world right now?  Trans women, especially black, indigenous, and people of color.  Gold medal, congrats.  OK, there’s no medal.  Actually, your prize is an abiding paranoia that is richly rewarded and reinforced by the myriad people who are, in fact, out to get you.  RIP to the far too many women who have been murdered recently.

But focusing on your fear is no way to live.  It isolates.  It harms.  It helps you dust yourself off the planet so your enemies don’t have to lift a finger.  I had to stop following Stephanie Sterling on youtube because the constant drumbeat of “nobody loves us and everybody wants us dead” was not just depressing, it wasn’t true.  I don’t need that shit in my life.

Back to the oppression olympics.  Trans women win, but they should not be playing the game.  The primary motivation for constantly reminding everyone how bad you have it is to keep us conscientious of the situation.  Cool, but see my doomerism policy in the sidebar, and focus on the reasoning for it.  For some people, this raises consciousness.  For other people, it makes them commit suicide.  You gotta figure out how to moderate your voice in the discourse.

Tumblr’s CEO and moderation staff are actively hostile to trans women and have been nuking their blogs on sight, all while gaslighting them and throwing a rainbow wash on the platform.  Bad times.  Parallel to this, some acrimonious discourse was breaking out between trans women and basically everyone else – but especially trans men.  I don’t know who shot first and I don’t care, but let me give you the short version, like the ESPN commentator at the oppression olympics.  You hate to see it, as the meme goes…

TME/TMA.  Too much enformation / too much anformation.  I mean TransMisogyny Exempt and TransMisogyny Affected.  These could be useful information in the context of discourse, like, where somebody falls on that binary contextualizes anything they say on the subject.  Sure.  On the other hand, from a certain childish point of view, it is putting a shiny sticker on trans women.  The prize in the oppression olympics?

Remember what I said the other day about AFAB people being hammered with conformity more than AMAB people?  You see this play out in LGBTQIAetc discourse as them seeking validation.  The asexual movement was like 95% AFAB (as far as I could tell) and felt the need to assert the legitimacy of belonging to an LGBTQIAetc identity.  This was roundly mocked on tumblr, leading to the asexual sadness I mentioned above.

Who else is AFAB and largely invisible’d by queer discourse?  And might find a desperate need for validation compelling them to the kind of discourse that some self-righteous and dominant personalities might regard as cringey or offensive?  Trans men, it’s your turn.

The idea of Transandrophobia was introduced.  If transmisogyny is a thing, could there be a special type of difficulty trans men are subject to, deserving of a name?  A lot of the hate they catch is just misogyny directed at them by people who won’t see their manhood, so a new term would be gratuitous right?

The main argument against it goes like “this is oppression olympics being played by someone who got jealous of our shiny TMA sticker.  Transandrophobia doesn’t exist for the same reason androphobia and misandry aren’t real.”  To that, I say if you think trans men don’t have it even worse than butch women, who have it pretty bad, you’re huffing your own ass vapors.  It could be reasonable to want to put a name to that, whatever the merits of the actual discourse that has taken place, or the term that has been proposed.

But to everyone involved in all of this, I say who benefits from trans men and trans women disliking each other?  Kiss and make up, motherfuckers.  Still, it’s entrenched.  If someone has become a partisan in that fight, it’s all over.  No small amount of tumblrinas have avoided the conflict -not become partisans- which is the only reason parts of tumblr are still habitable.  But this crap is all over the place.  Stanky.

As I mentioned on a previous post, I think AFAB children are more strongly abused and neglected into a sense that they need to conform to be accepted than AMAB children.  The ruinous ace and transandrophobia discourse are good examples of it.

This isn’t an all people in all situations thing.  Any boy raised by Ruby Franke had it worse than a girl raised by Jodie Foster, right?  But acknowledging the pattern matters.  If it doesn’t, then no kind of feminism matters.  Are girls systemically treated worse or not?  And few cisheterofascist parents would ever know their trans girl is a trans girl, knows their trans boy is a trans boy.  How they treat them comes from the brand forced upon them at birth.

Some trans women get bothered by this, which to me seems like feeling insecure in their womanhood.  Yes, you were never a boy, any supposed privileges of being a boy were oppression to you.  I’m not going to defend the idea that “male socialization” is a thing.  But there is a type of oppression AFAB people got that you did not.

Was it worse?  I don’t give a fuck if it was or not.  I told you what I think about oppression olympics.  But it was there, right?  Most people who were regarded as girls had been so roundly neglected or chastised for every little thing that by the age of three this shit is set in stone: X amount of their mental processing power, for the rest of their natural life, will be hijacked by concern for whether people like them, whether they are acceptable, whether they are valid or allowed to be.

You might have that too, tho I’d argue the flavor hits different.  Could it be worse?  Could be.  But none of it’s good.  And the kind that they got did flow from their assigned gender, which you did not share.

It’s hunting season for trans women on tumblr, and some amount of them are blaming trans men.  There’s a whole other dimension of this shit I’ve alluded to in other recent posts that I’m not going to get into here.  But the paranoia this engenders has led to the ever-useful firefox extension Shinigami Eyes becoming fairly less useful, as various trans men have been labeled as transphobes by those oppressed ladies.

Oppression olympics start with the understandable feeling that your oppression is both terrible and particular, and people around you should understand it – need to understand it.  But when any kind of comparison begins, the shit begins.  Don’t be fooled again.

Although I’d say the democrats are long overdue for a riot at their convention, so maybe stay fractious long enough to make that happen.  Somebody hit Fetterman with a folding chair.  I’ll say nice things about you.

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That’s it.  No more discourse for now.

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Overpoliced Minorities and Oph…

Our movement was founded in part on islamophobia, so it’s unsurprising a number of our blogs beat that drum occasionally – at least, before the fash sealed their control of the country.  Nobody formally announced we were cooling it on muslims, but it seemed to happen spontaneously among the blogs that were left standing.  It still happens, but with appropriate caveats.

With regard to islam, one FtBlog in particular stood out to me.  Sadly, one of our few ladies.  She left the network to join the terf community, consigning herself to the most miserable company this side of the interweb.  Before that, she would post about the evils of islam just about every single day.

And those evils were evil!  They deserve to be reported.  But in our country, where islamophobia was one of the levers used to help the nazis win, this reportage was equivalent to campaigning for the GOP.  It can simultaneously be true information about shit that deserves to be known, and a bad fucking thing to talk about with that frequency.

It’s the same principle as Breitbart’s “black crime watch.”  Take things that are really happening, shine a relentless enough spotlight on them, serve nazi ends.  We should be aware of why we’re talking about the things we’re choosing to talk about, and what ends we serve by doing so.

Now it’s time to discuss an uncomfortable subject.  Bear with me.  You ever seen a gay pride float that was a massive sexually explicit sculpture?  Topless dykes on bikes?  This sort of thing?  Have you ever sought out furry spaces online to indulge your inner bugs bunny, and found an overwhelming amount of sexual content there?  LGBTetc subcultures have a long history of “horny on main” behavior – flaunting the sexuality the kyriarchy wants to suppress.  This is fine, within certain contexts.

The online culture of transgender women has been long and closely associated with anime, which can sometimes include “lolicon” – sexualized depictions of girls (meaning children) in Japanese-style art.  I’m not going to defend that shit here, but I’m going to equivocate on it a bit.  There are many subcultures of erotica on the internet that involve shit that should just not be done, and as bad as lolicon is, it’s not worse than reading and writing about sexual cannibalism.  You can find a lot of cis women who are into that, if you go looking, and they’re not catching the same shit trans women are catching these days.

Is all that excusable as long as it stays in the realm of fiction?  Not a debate I’m interested in having because it’s far outside of my chosen topic.  There are other places for you to discuss it if you’re interested.  It’s relevant here in that it is a thing some people get up to that hits most of us in the same feelings as epstein revelations.  In some places it really is a crime, and it is something some trans women have publicly expressed enjoyment in.

As we speak, it’s one of the crimes that are getting mentioned in vigilante harassment campaigns against trans women.  But let’s look at cultural context for a minute.  Transgender women are part of that LGBTetc culture of forward sexuality.  For years when they talked about sexual things they’re into, it’s been cheers and bonhomie from the online company they’ve kept.  (Huge overlap with furry culture, it bears mentioning.)  It’s been normalized for them to just be as horny as they wanna be, all day all night, on their respective social media accounts.

This whole time, their political foes have been taking notes.  Terfs, nazis, and just anybody they got into an argument with.  Observe Bidoof’s Law (not censored per my ableism policy in favor of accuracy):  “will there ever be anything more timelessly funnier on this site than seeing some joyless idiot asserting their stupid controversial worldviews internet toughguy style and then checking their blog and they’re just, completely openly and shamelessly addicted to hentai”

The tumblr user who originated that post was talking about conservatives and their public horniness, but I’ve seen the same from people over less acrimonious discourse.  Someone gets their political point disputed by a trans woman, visits her blog, and finds a wall of creepy fetish content.  They remember that shit.

The chickens have come home to roost.  Arguably the first shot fired was when tumblr’s CEO Mxtt Mxllenweg (who has way too much power over the platform of wordpress, on which you’re reading this) got sniped at by a trans woman on twitter and responded by using his admin privileges to list every fetish sideblog she’d ever created.

Now finding excuses to hound trans women to suicide has become the hot sport of the moment on the internet, and thanks to that horny culture they’ve engaged in for years, there is no shortage of rope with which to hang them.

This, I would argue, is overpolicing, in the same way our own Terfelia Benson once overpoliced the muslim community, and Breitshart overpoliced the black community.  Might there be transgender women who have expressed dubious sexual thoughts, even frequently and publicly?  Yes, but so have a huge number of other people who are not getting persecuted for it right now.

Again, look at the emotional motive, look at the consequences.  This supports the agenda of painting all trans women as pedophiles.  This disappears trans women from the public sphere.  This supports the nazism that now has the world under its nuclear-first-strike-capable thumb.

You are likely to see callout posts / articles / videos about trans women in the near future, if you haven’t already.  I am not asking you to set aside your principles, any more than I’d ask you to give boko haram a pass for their shit.  I’m just asking you not to add to the dogpile.

Don’t be part of the problem of fascism.  These dogpiles are going to happen whether you contribute or not, but by choosing to opt out, you’re making them a little bit smaller, a little less impactful.  Just dip on it.  If you don’t feel up to defending these ladies, don’t bother.  Do activism that works for you.

Just don’t add to the chorus – at this point including no small amount of progressives, political leftists, and even trans people – bringing ruinous attention down on trans women, in a way that makes us all look like pedophiles.  In a way that gives the death camp crew more pitchforks for the pile.

Thank you for your consideration.

And to any sex weirdos in my readership who have done horny things online, just pay attention to what’s happening here, and consider again what you want your digital hoofprint to look like.  I have, in my day, seen no small amount of genuinely amateur pornography.  People who were old, young, fat, disabled, unacceptable to the ghost puritan dominating our national pysche, but who felt for a shining “felt cute, might delete later” moment that they were a sexy creature who deserved to be sexually appreciated by strangers, and laid it all out for people like me.

Mwah.  Love you.  But very little is ever truly deleted.  Just think twice before posting horny on main.

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Do Not Reblog Callouts of Transwomen

I’ll have a lot more to say about this when I have time to knock together an essay, but right now there’s a lot of rumors and callouts and harassment of trans women going on.  Some of it looks quite justified, doesn’t it?  Breitbart’s “black crime watch” looked pretty reasonable from a certain point of view as well.  Just think twice, maybe don’t reblog that shit if you see it.  Thanks.

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I Remember the Loving Vampyress

I don’t wanna bother anyone who doesn’t wanna be bothered, and the person I’m about to mention, when last seen, was on some “don’t bother me” business, but in this moment I cannot resist (besides they’re ungooglable so i’m probably in the clear).  Many years ago now, I was in a contentious comment section, when a young lady possibly having a manic episode got into frantic posting, which I matched.  But should I have?  Probably best to help calm people down when they get too hype.

Especially when it’s a person who makes themself too visible, gets embarrassed, and deletes their existence.  I think she changed her name like three times in the course of that conversation alone.  Somehow I ended up seeing a blog of her writing elsewhere, and it was erotic in nature – again to be disappeared, perhaps from a fit of embarrassment.  I don’t know how much of what I remember is vibes and how much was revelations, but I believe she was very poor – possibly in public housing.  I could say a bit more, but obviously she didn’t want to be known.

The Vampyress is immortal but exists at the outer limit of entropy, capturing the imaginations particularly of those who are haunted by mortality and living in the half-light of gothery.  The Vampyress drinks of the well of life until there is nothing left; in the case of her erotic fiction self-insert that wasn’t just blood.

I hope she’s alive and well in this World of Darkness, and the same for all my long-absent commenters – especially the few who I have reasonable cause to suspect are no longer alive.  Let that reasoning be wrong.  If you see this and know who you are, drop an anonymous comment, or too many comments by various names until you run away blushing and deleted once again.  I won’t forget you.

(EDIT TO ADD … don’t read too much into the lyrics of this song, just a feelin is all …)

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Do Not Post Bette Midler Plz

Bette Midler has long been associated with gay culture, being a purveyor of showtunes and bland liberalism.  In the runup to the fascist takeover of the USA, she wrote a very TERFy op ed in some newspaper or another (this is not factually accurate, see correction in comments).  As transphobia was one of the levers the nazis used to gain power, she directly contributed to that.

And yet a month or so after the old Woody Guthrie song “You Fascists Bound to Lose” started trending on yewchoob, to what should my wondering eyes appear?  Bette Midler doing a cover of that song!  Look gays, she hates fascists almost as much as she hates transgender people!

I hope no other bloggers or commenters on FtB will post anything about her anywhere.  Trans Day of Visibility.  Make that shit go unseen.  I only mention its existence the way you say Dracula! before you raise the crucifix.

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