esther-alter.bsky.social
Trans Jewish byte array.
מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן
https://subalterngames.com
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We could've made the middle band black and then it would've been cyberpunk neon
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Also, I don't know if I'll ever be able to replicate this, but I projected 32K words and I wanted to finish draft 1 by mid-February so I'd have time to do a full pass before the weather got nice, and here we are, it's exactly mid-February and the word count is 33K 😎
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Hi I like your artwork and I read most months at t4t. Come say hi!
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Maybe I'm trying to process like a month of federally-mandated trans hate and I'm anticipating that there are people who likewise would want to read what I've written, but who can really say
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new author bio "Sailors blush at Esther Alter's every word"
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store.steampowered.com/app/95700/Th...
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Not to be That Trans Girl but have you considered having a Mastodon presence?
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I used to know her way back when we were both in the local indie game dev scene, and I guess now I've learned what she's been up to. Fuck, this sucks.
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"This is a collection filled with collapse, entrapment, and desperation—it’s unhinged, hallucinatory, hormonal."
I pinky-promise my poem, specifically, matches all of those descriptors
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Do you have a good view of the snow?
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Rumor has it that Dorley Hall is pretty good
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I see no problem with naming immeasurably evil murder machines after immeasurably evil war criminals. The fact that there's going to be two new murder machines seems more salient.
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Just finished the first complete draft!
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I'm going to hold myself back from just liveposting as I write but but I'm having a lot of fun with this one
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I'm over here rewriting 6000 words into maybe half that... The secret is to forget to describe what anything looks like
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I felt compelled to look this up... with Jastrow... and it appears in Daniel 3:2 but not in the Talmud (except when citing Daniel 3:2) which is kinda surprising? I wonder if there's another word for it that the Gemara prefers
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Also it's really technologically good! I've got some games on Steam and some games on itch and it would be difficult to exaggerate how much easier it is on itch to upload, publish, update, edit the game's page, etc.
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💜💜💜
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2024 was a really fucking bad year for the world and 2025 is probably going to be worse. The future of trans literature feels very uncertain to me, but, one way or another, I'm not going to stop screaming.
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Additionally:
I got two additional short story acceptances. Those two, and my short story in the upcoming Amplitudes anthology, will come out next year.
I wrote 3 poems and 3 short stories that still need homes (there's 2 other short stories from last year that I'm trying to get published)
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softbuffer-rgb
crates.io/crates/softb...
Hey, did you know that I'm also a programmer? I made this tiny crate in preparation for a bigger project that I'll probably never make. I'm having fun learning about pointers and this crate has a fun pointer trick.
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Rachel is at a Protest on @thedeadlands.com
thedeadlands.com/issue-35/rac...
I read Manhunt, cried all evening, and started writing this in the morning. I asked myself "What would Jewish trans horror sound like?" and the answer I came up with was "The real world, right now."
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Sojourner on @lunastation.bsky.social
www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/057/
Mars rovers trying to do their best.
I wrote this in 2016! I'm very proud of it and I'm very relieved that strangers on the Internet can finally read it.