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aaronsofaer.bsky.social
Web serialist & author, first book Quill & Still (cozy queer slice of life portal fantasy), SF Area software engineer, reader, gamer, she/her dad, lefty atheist half-Arab Jew. Gender is complicated, Blåhaj is soft. https://aaron.sofaer.net/
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Debugging React can eat my entire ass (by preference instead of eating my entire day for minuscule gain lolsob)

Shot done! Remember, if you're on the fence because you're not sure if transition/HRT is right for you: it's completely okay to just do it for the bit and make the worst people around one step closer to an aneurysm.

#LGBTQWriteAThon June 12: A book with rep important to me! Yootie (@sunspot.gay) writes Sunspot, and its themes of transhumanism and wanting to transcend our flaws and also being a gigantic enormous goddamn fucking nerd are extremely dear to me. #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity

I…maybe needed to see this right now

Absolutely. Show up! In every city and every town, in your suits and dresses or whatever if you wanna. Bring your kids. Leave the balaclavas at home but maybe wear an N95! Or don't, idk, I ain't your mom.

Flumphed on the couch. Should get up. Need to take my brain pills so I can brain for work! #SelfieTithe

there’s a reason bluesky is a retirement home for millennial posters - we grew up before algorithms and were not used to having content shoved in our faces unasked for we chose to click on those terrible threads ourselves

"I love each new day, what it might bring, the possibilities, the joy of the unknown. One thing is certain, though, and that’s the yelling I will do out of my beak hole in the stillness of dawn, every single day."

It makes me unreasonably sad when I realize an indie outlet I was enjoying no longer holds any joy for me. That even when they write about things I should be into, their style and slant leaves me cold or bored or rolling my eyes. Not gonna say who it is because fuck that, I'm just whining.

Grrrrrrr I'm trying so hard to avoid shitting on people's planned events and who's going to be speaking there and yadda yadda. Just like, it's fine, it's fine!! I don't have to approve of other people's choices of how to run their events. *twitch twitch twitch* at least it's not PSL.

"And I'm sorry. I hope you don't mind chatting about the book with me. I am enjoying this" This said to ME, about MY book, and please know that I am always down for this. It's a miracle I don't physically chase people down and force them to talk to me, but they're saved by my aversion to humans.

yeah like if I had a billion dollars we would have an Alien Legacy remake and a dozen high school choir music albums complete with single-voice tracks and instructional videos by Pentatonix, Chanticleer, Home Free, and the King's Singers. I would not be doing Metaverse or AI bullshit!

my opinion on Sabrina Carpenter discourse is that I want a Mad Max-esque cinematic universe based off her newest music video, this woman is clearly a genius

I wonder how many friends I would lose if I wrote an HDG fic with a Human top and an Affini bottom, one which inverts the disaster dynamic. That's not actually a reason to do it but it would be really funny, maybe.

#LGBTQWriteAThon June 11: Some rep I'd like more of! Trans sapphics who AREN'T A DISASTER holy shit people. Give me a girl with her shit together who is fluent in pleading-eyes bottom speak and ALSO can stand up for herself and has career & friends! #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity

#LGBTQWriteAThon 10: When asked why his first book had a Jewish protagonist, Erin Flint (of blessed memory) wrote that he'd always felt as though in SF/F the Nazis had won and even Jews had to write gentiles. So he wrote a Jewish MC. that, plus... #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity

#LGBTQWriteAThon 8: line share - shine! "When the scirocco fades and the sand begins to clear from the sky, the light shines through the dispersing storm as though by spells—but it is entirely natural law which orders their existence." #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity

#LGBTQWriteAThon 6: inspiration! so Sophie is an Arab/Mizrakhi Jewish trans woman in her late thirties who's a total fucking nerd and also kind of autistic, a massive bottom, a non-disaster by force of will, & very ADHD and JAMES IS MY SELF INSERT OK #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity

#LGBTQWriteAThon 5: weird comps! okay so has anyone played the game Recettear? there's a definitely a strong vibe of that in Quill & Still though not exactly. also I've heard it compared to Spiritfarer. #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity

#LGBTQWriteAThon 4: comps! uh. Legends & Lattes (Baldree) is the inevitable comparison. A Succession of Bad Days (Graydon Saunders) is the one nobody will catch. This Used To Be About Dungeons (Alexander Wales)? The Newt & Demon? I dunno. #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity

Do any movement oriented data scientists follow me? I have a few questions that i want to get a range of opinions about. DMs open.

Homebody #SelfieTithe from a girl who is drinking some decaf tea and reading documentation for React and antd.

I was having an emotion, and I hate that.

#LGBTQWriteAThon 3: inspiration! It's definitely, palpably two parts Things I Won't Work With (Derek Lowe) to one part ACOUP (Devereaux), with some Becky Chambers, Alexander Wales, Modesitt, Elizabeths Bear & Moon, and a lot of Graydon Saunders. #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity

#LGBTQWriteAThon 2: goals -- rest of this week, back to at least 500 words per day after a total flop of a week. This month, finish the net new words for B2 Dev1. #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity

Alright let's fucking do this, I'm ten days late but eleven would be even later. #LGBTQWriteAThon 1: I'm Aaron, area normie Jewish trans girl Dad who writes. 1st line for Book Two of Quill & Still: > The quiet life isn't boring in its own right. #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity