taliabhatt.itch.io
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Co-host of @crackedivorypod.bsky.social with @dolphindiaries.bsky.social, where we talk about feminist discourses! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/CrackedIvoryPod
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ooh what's this one
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Thanks :D
I think this is the first piece of original fiction I wrote and made commercially available. Definitely my least-read one too, lol
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My only complaint is that it ends abruptly and I was struggling to process the emotional resonance of the ending while absorbing a final revelation. I loved it, but it left me wanting even more!
Here's the book: taliabhatt.itch.io/attack-dog
And if you want to check out Bhatt's other works...
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"Trans/Rad/Fem" is in the "Queer Lights in the Darkness" bundle: itch.io/b/3065/queer...
I've bought the bundle and I'm looking forward to reading it and a bunch of other works by authors both familiar and new to me.
Enjoy!
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Oh TikTok is kind of a pit huh
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First up is Flower of the Underworld by @ciricegray.bsky.social , a really sweet/sexy/interesting/thoughtful side story that takes place in the Gunmetal Olympus/Hades Calculus universe.
If I had to pick ONE thing about it, it’s how gorgeous the prose is.
Also Mada is precious and must be protected
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Next up is this one: book one of Those Who Break Chains by @benjanun.bsky.social and @devi.bsky.social aka Maria Ying
The series is great and I’ve been really loving the characters, and Maria Ying books never fail to deliver, again, some top notch prose.
Sexy queer/trans urban fantasy romance-ish!
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There’s actually a number of books in this bundle by authors who I have read and LOVED the work of, and this one’s another: Stars and Soil by @daxaeterna.ink, which I believe is their latest big book.
They’re very good about writing intricate and political queer and polyam fiction!
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Another notable book is the first book in @badambulist.bsky.social’s new series. You might know her as the absolutely brilliant author of the Sisters of Dorley series. This one seems (?) to be a gentler trans story but she’s amazing at bringing incredible characters to life w/ a trans perspective!
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Last but not least comes @taliabhatt.itch.io with TRANS/RAD/FEM.
It’s one of the top queer/lgbtq books on all of itch.io and I love how thought-provocative this is bound to be.
I can’t wait to read about the history of the Second Wave, and how she might reclaim it from the TERFs. 🤩
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That’s just five books out of 66!!
There’s lots of other stuff by authors who are coming up with some amazing and deeply queer stories, including @jemma.bsky.social (you should check out the hilarious A Rotten Girl), @vyriadurav.bsky.social, @b-saxon.femfactory.tech, and @trishusband.itch.io!
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Every sale also helps a bunch of queer, trans, as well as Black/POC authors pay their bills. This stuff makes a huge difference, as does giving your attention to their voices through the stories they’ve crafted.
It’s rough out there atm, but this bundle’s success has been such a great Pride gift!!
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Like this is just a shorthand for "trannies donning the garb of womanhood to be invasive and predatory" as typified in the trans panic surrounding Bathrooms/Prisons/Sports, set against the idea of the tranny as a rapist-by-deception of straight men, and how the culture constructs these figures.
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I would suggest thinking about how "what JKR says affects me" and "AGP/HSTS does not affect me" are contradictory statements, since what JKR says is built on the AGP/HSTS cultural tropes, which have been reified in academia, media, and social conceptions of trans women for decades, at least.
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That's a bit amusing to me because my darling Alice has been contributing ideas to and touching up my essays since before anyone was even reading them, haha
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because companies want this to be an "everybody uses this for all contexts" tool
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I think there are in fact hardcoded failsafes for the AI to not show or reference sexual content, though
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It's all about an uncompromising narrative control of the patriarchal sexual landscape, pathologizing and prohibiting any behavior that doesn't further society's organization around heterosexuality.
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As May points out, the bitterest irony here is that despite this translesbophobic panic claiming the defense of "women, children, lesbians", it's a degendering tactic that has historically been deployed against lesbians themselves!
They were the subjects of the old locker room and bathroom panics!
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How is it always so consistently "I polled people from the KillAllTroons forum and you won't believe what they have to say about transition!"
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HMMMMMM
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This is part of the Queer Lights in the Dark bundle which you can buy here BTW. 66 books for $30!
itch.io/b/3065/queer...
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The slop-ed industrial complex precedes the advent of genAI by a lot.
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and id be remiss if i didnt say that a white woman gleefully debating whether a black woman deserves dignified end of life care or to be used as a human incubator is josef mengeles most erotic wet dream
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also if you're the kind of person that could get off to genAI crowdsourced smutslop your genitals should be confiscated
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artisinal handcrafted indienouns, even
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100% manufactured yep
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my gender is chic
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I have some empathy for her, because I very much recognize where her whole "I'm the blunt angry brown tranny saying the things you academia-brained orthodoxists never would!"
Except then she fails to see how she and Kadji Amin and others are also ... still kinda academia-brained, just a bit less.
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To clarify, this is what baffled me. Sure, the sole focus on validity and “trans joy” to the exclusion of material needs is unproductive, but that doesn’t make the concept of trans joy itself *disgusting* lol. It’s just a different layer of the hierarchy of needs pyramid or whatever.