Opal's Inkwell

30’s. Witch. LGBTQ+ advocate. Trans wlw. Professional writer. I post feminism, social justice, witchcraft, paganism, and writing advice primarily. She/Her pronouns. 18+ Only.

[miscling]

ngl, this thing wishes that 'older trans woman' was not synonymous with 'dominant' in the eyes of younger trans women.

[miscling]

y'all are gonna love that 40+ trans woman when she's not dominant, right? you're gonna love her when she's submissive, right? you're gonna love her when she's little, right? you're gonna love her when she's just a kitty, right?

you're not just gonna love her for how she slots into your fantasies, right? you're gonna love all of her and not just the parts that get you horny, right? you're gonna love her even when she won't force you to take care of yourself, right?

you're gonna love the 40+ trans woman for who she is, right?

[pangur-and-grim]

Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

[pangur-and-grim]

if you'd like to show support, here are some upcoming queer books:

When Life Gives You Corpses is a brilliant YA about a cursed praying mantis who falls for a young witch. Yield Under Great Persuasion is a raunchy, but surprisingly sweet story of two men repairing their relationship. Fabulous Bodies is a horror story about a queer rockstar rising from the dead.

This is Where the Future Bleeds is a fantasy set in a vividly imagined land, where two women (who happen to kiss) are the key to healing the broken sky. You're No Better is a story about a teen struggling in the shadow of his murderous parent. Oil on Canvas is about a woman who finds disturbing paintings in the home of her dead mother.

and then here's a list of 26 queer books by Black authors set to publish this year, and a 10 upcoming books by trans authors. if you want to fight back against queer censorship, use your wallet! or (if that's not an option) you can contact your local library and ask them to stock a copy.

[adventures-in-a-world-of-fiction]

Blood on the Icehouse Wall is a fantasy with a time travelling lesbian witch and her asexual werewolf girlfriend trying to undo their mistakes.

Salts of Mercury is the best book I've read this year and features a non-binary necromancer explaining why they did all that treason.

An Unexpected Attachment is an erotic novella about an android who's just got a penis attachment and wants to try it out for the first time.

Three Men in Orbit is inspired by Three Men in a Boat and tells the story of three men taking an excursion to a space station and then the moon. One of the characters is a trans woman and the author is openly trans.

[naidje]

Highly recommend the newly revised special edition reprint of The Queen of Ieflaria by @effiecalvin. It has been completely re-editied and has been greatly expanded.

And be on the lookout for the special edition reprint of the second book in the series Daughter of the Sun, coming out soon!

[quasi-normalcy]

Remember when trans people used to complain about transgender identities going too mainstream? Haha, wow. Long for those days.

[transhuman-priestess]

I’ve been saying forever that it actually did used to be easier being trans.

People treated you as an oddity, sure, but like, you weren’t the object of wall to wall public slavering for violence.

[transhuman-priestess]

People will dislike people or things they find unfamiliar, but it takes a concerted PR effort to make them comfortable with being loud about it.

It sucked that people hated me for being trans on 2012, but it was also kind of moot because they didn’t have a multi-billion dollar politico-media complex telling them it was good and proper to do hate crimes in public, and I feel like that subtlety is kinda lost on a lot of folks.

[quasi-normalcy]

"It's too mainstream" was always just a stupid complaint in general; like we're a subaltern minority group, not a damn indy music subculture

[modern-politics111]

[disregardandfelicity]

sounds very similar to a radio story i heard in 2014 ago about credit card debt. the debt got sold to a collection company and a couple received a court summons. they knew they had taken on debt, but they were confused about who this new company was and where specifically the number they were supposed to owe came from.

they show up in court and just ask the lawyer for the collection company: can you prove where this number comes from? Do you have a contract showing that you purchased our debt? probably luckily for them, a reporter researching a book on the topic showed up and asked the same questions.

10 minutes later they get in front of the judge and the collection company drops the whole case and theyre free to go. story is below, it has a transcript in the link too

Prologue - This American Life

Ira talks to reporter Jake Halpern about a scene he saw take place in a Georgia courtroom where a couple uttered some magic words that seeme

[evolutionsbedingt]

https://twitter.com/BrianManookian/status/1674963884703088642

Link to the twitter thread for accessibility!

[depsidase]

[hollowboobtheory]

i support universal free healthcare for one simple reason: if you are diagnosed with a terminal illness you should quit your job. quitting your job is the correct response to terminal illness. but you can’t do that if your healthcare is tied to your job

[hollowboobtheory]

listen if somebody knows that they will be dead in a years time, and you are forcing them to continue to come into work, that’s fucked up. terminally ill people should be able to quit their jobs and live their last few months to the fullest. i don’t get how that’s a controversial opinion

[fandom-trash-goblin]

we've got a life to love living.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts

[yogi-bogey-box]

this is a common phenomenon. the better you get, the more you recognize flaws. the good thing is you can strive to get better. but the bad thing is that you see nothing but flaws. you are actually getting better, but your editing/critical brain is getting tuned up and can see more things to improve. someone post the graph, I can't find it

[yogi-bogey-box]

nvm I found it myself:

"art" can mean any creative endeavor and it definitely applies to writing.

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[bebsi-cola]

disabled people are often in permacrisis

[bebsi-cola]

there's never enough money each month. there's always an unexpected illness. new symptoms pop up or old symptoms flare up. meds have to be managed always and refilled constantly and any refill has the opportunity to go wrong. any regular care has the opportunity to go wrong. any mistake can send your health spiralling. it's always "i just need to get through this bad patch" but as soon as one ends another begins. another crisis begins in the middle of the last crisis. managing one thing leaves another thing to be neglected until that becomes a major issue and has to be managed asap and the cycle starts anew over and over and over

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

via prev

[tpwrtrmnky]

Trans day of every tabloid shuts the fuck up about us forever. Trans day of let us have our healthcare and leave us the fuck alone. Trans day of tearing down the panopticon. Trans day of let us control the narrative instead of deferring to some cis sexologist's hallucination.

[castledock]

hey guys you know a work can have challenging & disturbing & weird themes without it actually being a kink that the writers have, right? I know we all like to use that “the author’s barely disguised fetish” meme but i truly need y’all to understand that some things are just recurring themes & motifs in a body of work without it being sexual for the writers or anyone involved in the creation of art. It’s important to me that y’all know this.

[rhythm-of-lesbianism]

banning trans women from the olympics is bad because they’re banning trans women from the olympics. full stop. really nothing else needs to be added to this sentence. it’s discriminatory and wrong to ban trans women from the olympics, and it would be regardless of how this might effect some cis women. why is every post about this focused on the cis women, instead of how alarmingly transmisogynistic this is?

[ministarfruit]

I love this text post so I drew it

[forcefemdemonprincess]

I don't think I'll ever be normal about this one. Holy fuck

[smolbailey]

to be fair it's incredible, so valid

[ladydevoir]

@demilypyro

[tboy-trash]

please, write to staff and complain about the continual ban of trans women, especially if you're not a trans woman yourself. i'm under no illusion the equivalent of a strongly worded letter will stop them but they should at least know we're all seeing this and taking note

[tboy-trash]

they think nobody cares outside of the relatively small group of trans women, and the even smaller group of outspoken transfeminist trans women, the ones primarily targeted, in part because enabling rampant transmisogyny for so long on this site has made it so it's not completely untrue. we should try and make it different. if you care in the slightest about the women being terminated -many of whom rely on this site for income- please say something about it

[tboy-trash]

keep doing it even if some of the girls are back btw. 1-not all of them are and 2-this is a repeated pattern. they can do this anytime and they will keep doing it for as long as the rest of us allow it.

[zoehcomedy]

“Sinners” won for Best Cinematography at the Oscars!

The cinematographer, Autumn Durald Arkapaw, makes history as the first woman of color to receive the award.

[sleepyjump]

its so fucking unfair that i never got to be a little girl

[sleepyjump]

or a teenage girl. who got to go to sleepovers and learn how to do makeup

[sleepyjump]

what do you even do when you keep mourning all the childhood you missed. do you just shrug and go back to work or what