Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️⚧️
@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 liberal atheist half-Arab Jew. Gender is complicated, Blåhaj is soft.
https://aaron.sofaer.net/
https://aaron.sofaer.net/
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Quill & Still was my Amazon debut. It has cracked eggs, made trans girls cry in yearning, and made 80y/o men enjoy litRPG. It's cozy queer slice-of-life portal fantasy about a middle aged Jewish (OTD) burned-out chemist and a kinder world.
www.amazon.com/Quill-Still-...
Quill & Still was my Amazon debut. It has cracked eggs, made trans girls cry in yearning, and made 80y/o men enjoy litRPG. It's cozy queer slice-of-life portal fantasy about a middle aged Jewish (OTD) burned-out chemist and a kinder world.
www.amazon.com/Quill-Still-...
I get to take my wife dancing this Friday at the local social waltz night's Valentine Ball and it's gonna be *great*.
(We'll see if I've gotten better enough at dancing that I can dance lead with her. I think I can manage it. Cross-step is slow and rotary is mirrored!)
(Skirt gonna go SPINNY.)
(We'll see if I've gotten better enough at dancing that I can dance lead with her. I think I can manage it. Cross-step is slow and rotary is mirrored!)
(Skirt gonna go SPINNY.)
February 11, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I get to take my wife dancing this Friday at the local social waltz night's Valentine Ball and it's gonna be *great*.
(We'll see if I've gotten better enough at dancing that I can dance lead with her. I think I can manage it. Cross-step is slow and rotary is mirrored!)
(Skirt gonna go SPINNY.)
(We'll see if I've gotten better enough at dancing that I can dance lead with her. I think I can manage it. Cross-step is slow and rotary is mirrored!)
(Skirt gonna go SPINNY.)
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I am incredibly excited to announce my first novel:
Nameless, a cyberpunk action-adventure set in the dead cold of a January Minneapolis winter, and featuring a pair of queer women leads, thrilling action, and a cat with a prosthetic leg.
Nobody survives the winter alone.
Out February 11!
Nameless, a cyberpunk action-adventure set in the dead cold of a January Minneapolis winter, and featuring a pair of queer women leads, thrilling action, and a cat with a prosthetic leg.
Nobody survives the winter alone.
Out February 11!
January 28, 2026 at 6:28 PM
I am incredibly excited to announce my first novel:
Nameless, a cyberpunk action-adventure set in the dead cold of a January Minneapolis winter, and featuring a pair of queer women leads, thrilling action, and a cat with a prosthetic leg.
Nobody survives the winter alone.
Out February 11!
Nameless, a cyberpunk action-adventure set in the dead cold of a January Minneapolis winter, and featuring a pair of queer women leads, thrilling action, and a cat with a prosthetic leg.
Nobody survives the winter alone.
Out February 11!
don't mind me, I'm just struck today by the fact that a huge number of supposedly capable and experienced journalist are incapable of critical thinking when there's a dumpster-quality news article that agrees with their priors.
I feel so fucking alienated sometimes by my caring about what's true.
I feel so fucking alienated sometimes by my caring about what's true.
February 11, 2026 at 12:03 AM
don't mind me, I'm just struck today by the fact that a huge number of supposedly capable and experienced journalist are incapable of critical thinking when there's a dumpster-quality news article that agrees with their priors.
I feel so fucking alienated sometimes by my caring about what's true.
I feel so fucking alienated sometimes by my caring about what's true.
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Tortoise escapes from burning shed after heat lamp ignites blaze
YouTube video by ABC News
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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There are many answers but the generally appropriate one is this
Permutohedron - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 10, 2026 at 3:23 PM
There are many answers but the generally appropriate one is this
"but when I, George Santos—"
People go "be gay do crime" but then George Santos is the gayest crimiest man and it's crickets.
I see you hypocrites out there
I see you hypocrites out there
I’m, positively, verklempt. @alonpinkas.bsky.social they’re comin for our Baruch College star. 😭🪭 The horror!
Justice Dept will seek 87-months prison in fraud case of former Congressman George Santos, arguing he’s a “pathological liar and fraudster”
Justice Dept will seek 87-months prison in fraud case of former Congressman George Santos, arguing he’s a “pathological liar and fraudster”
February 9, 2026 at 5:39 PM
"but when I, George Santos—"
istfg if someone had shown me a picture a decade ago of how much better my hair looks dyed purple and after a couple years of estrogen reversing male-pattern baldness, it would not have cracked my egg but I would have gone on hormones anyway.
February 9, 2026 at 5:25 PM
istfg if someone had shown me a picture a decade ago of how much better my hair looks dyed purple and after a couple years of estrogen reversing male-pattern baldness, it would not have cracked my egg but I would have gone on hormones anyway.
The friends' kids have almost but not quite denuded my fridge of fruit, so I am clearly winning at hosting.
February 9, 2026 at 1:04 AM
The friends' kids have almost but not quite denuded my fridge of fruit, so I am clearly winning at hosting.
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Shammai for my real friends, real AI for my sham friends
It's a mystery why they wouldn't run my Super Bowl commercial for ShammAI, the only LLM that tells you that your question is stupid and you should be able to figure this out yourself
February 9, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Shammai for my real friends, real AI for my sham friends
#Febchantment Day 8, where does magic "come from"?
1/ Yelemi magic in general comes from the soul, and is cultivated by purposeful/mindful choice and the exercise of agency, as far as anyone can tell. Nobody, including the oldest of gods, knows anything that came before that. But the System? Well.
1/ Yelemi magic in general comes from the soul, and is cultivated by purposeful/mindful choice and the exercise of agency, as far as anyone can tell. Nobody, including the oldest of gods, knows anything that came before that. But the System? Well.
#Febchantment Day 8
This week we're digging more into the nuts & bolts of your magic system! So let's start with the source.
Where exactly does magic "come from" in your world? Where/when does it originate? Does anyone know for sure, or are there only theories?
#writingcommunity #writesky
This week we're digging more into the nuts & bolts of your magic system! So let's start with the source.
Where exactly does magic "come from" in your world? Where/when does it originate? Does anyone know for sure, or are there only theories?
#writingcommunity #writesky
February 8, 2026 at 9:42 PM
#Febchantment Day 8, where does magic "come from"?
1/ Yelemi magic in general comes from the soul, and is cultivated by purposeful/mindful choice and the exercise of agency, as far as anyone can tell. Nobody, including the oldest of gods, knows anything that came before that. But the System? Well.
1/ Yelemi magic in general comes from the soul, and is cultivated by purposeful/mindful choice and the exercise of agency, as far as anyone can tell. Nobody, including the oldest of gods, knows anything that came before that. But the System? Well.
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SEND YOUR LOVED ONES THE ENTIRELY WRONG MESSAGE BY GETTING THEM A BOOK FULL OF EROTICIZED ABUSE AND TORTURE OR MAYBE ITS THE RIGHT MESSAGE I DONT KNOW WHATS IN YOUR HEART
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February 8, 2026 at 9:36 PM
SEND YOUR LOVED ONES THE ENTIRELY WRONG MESSAGE BY GETTING THEM A BOOK FULL OF EROTICIZED ABUSE AND TORTURE OR MAYBE ITS THE RIGHT MESSAGE I DONT KNOW WHATS IN YOUR HEART
welcome to the Resistance, Gear.
Gears of War is woke now! Gears of War! because the person doing an ethnic purge of the subhuman mutants in a society which has to engineer birthrates because otherwise everyone will be forcibly impregnated by monsters is a woman!
February 8, 2026 at 9:10 PM
welcome to the Resistance, Gear.
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Forgive me
February 7, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Forgive me
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Only THREE DAYS until Nameless, my new queer cyberpunk novel, is out, available in DRM-free epub, paperback, and hardcover, and we're building up to its release by meeting the cast and getting some awesome musical vibes along the way!
Today, Caitlyn Dahlsteadt!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GKGYZ2S8
Today, Caitlyn Dahlsteadt!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GKGYZ2S8
February 8, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Only THREE DAYS until Nameless, my new queer cyberpunk novel, is out, available in DRM-free epub, paperback, and hardcover, and we're building up to its release by meeting the cast and getting some awesome musical vibes along the way!
Today, Caitlyn Dahlsteadt!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GKGYZ2S8
Today, Caitlyn Dahlsteadt!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GKGYZ2S8
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Creatives: It's been a rough day and nothing can fix it.
Someone: I like that thing you created.
Creatives: [happily sobbing, weeping, wailing even]
Someone: I like that thing you created.
Creatives: [happily sobbing, weeping, wailing even]
June 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Creatives: It's been a rough day and nothing can fix it.
Someone: I like that thing you created.
Creatives: [happily sobbing, weeping, wailing even]
Someone: I like that thing you created.
Creatives: [happily sobbing, weeping, wailing even]
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Monday lead off with a phenomenal essay from @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com on how one goes from powerlessness to power. Among the points covered
-Not even the Bolsheviks obtained power through violent insurrection
-The goal is to take control of, and use, the state
-Not even the Bolsheviks obtained power through violent insurrection
-The goal is to take control of, and use, the state
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Monday lead off with a phenomenal essay from @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com on how one goes from powerlessness to power. Among the points covered
-Not even the Bolsheviks obtained power through violent insurrection
-The goal is to take control of, and use, the state
-Not even the Bolsheviks obtained power through violent insurrection
-The goal is to take control of, and use, the state
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GOOD NEWS! A UNIVERSAL sarbecovirus vaccine candidate has officially started clinical trials! GBP511 is the FIRST vaccine to reach human testing that is intended to protect against MULTIPLE strains of SARS-CoV-2 as well as other related coronaviruses with the potential to spark dangerous outbreaks.
February 8, 2026 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! A UNIVERSAL sarbecovirus vaccine candidate has officially started clinical trials! GBP511 is the FIRST vaccine to reach human testing that is intended to protect against MULTIPLE strains of SARS-CoV-2 as well as other related coronaviruses with the potential to spark dangerous outbreaks.
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HEY I KNOW SOME POSTRATS FOLLOW ME
lit recs for the strategy of epistemic territory-claims as dominance strategy? "I'm going to say this thing knowing that me saying it and having it accepted as true will establish me as the source of truth for the local episteme" stuff?
lit recs for the strategy of epistemic territory-claims as dominance strategy? "I'm going to say this thing knowing that me saying it and having it accepted as true will establish me as the source of truth for the local episteme" stuff?
Thanks for breaking this down for me. Any chance there’s any formal literature about it, or am I stuck with my original plan of reading about adversities and propaganda?
February 7, 2026 at 8:03 PM
HEY I KNOW SOME POSTRATS FOLLOW ME
lit recs for the strategy of epistemic territory-claims as dominance strategy? "I'm going to say this thing knowing that me saying it and having it accepted as true will establish me as the source of truth for the local episteme" stuff?
lit recs for the strategy of epistemic territory-claims as dominance strategy? "I'm going to say this thing knowing that me saying it and having it accepted as true will establish me as the source of truth for the local episteme" stuff?
Alright dancers who do spinny social dancing (for me it's waltz, rotary and cross-step), gimme your shoe recs! I've got a pair of capezio jazz slip-ons and they are brutal on my feet, that front support is too small and in the wrong place by a lot.
Ideally I'd like a no/minimal-heel cute low boot?
Ideally I'd like a no/minimal-heel cute low boot?
February 7, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Alright dancers who do spinny social dancing (for me it's waltz, rotary and cross-step), gimme your shoe recs! I've got a pair of capezio jazz slip-ons and they are brutal on my feet, that front support is too small and in the wrong place by a lot.
Ideally I'd like a no/minimal-heel cute low boot?
Ideally I'd like a no/minimal-heel cute low boot?
Alright, Yorkshire, let's see how your decaf is and whether you're any less disappointing in that regard than PG Tips.
February 6, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Alright, Yorkshire, let's see how your decaf is and whether you're any less disappointing in that regard than PG Tips.
BlackMilk has an Avatar the Last Airbender collection? Motherfu-- oh never mind, my wallet just breathed a giant sigh of relief, the patterns I would want are in maxi (which is way too long on me even in heels).
February 5, 2026 at 11:15 PM
BlackMilk has an Avatar the Last Airbender collection? Motherfu-- oh never mind, my wallet just breathed a giant sigh of relief, the patterns I would want are in maxi (which is way too long on me even in heels).
Funny how hard doing Literally Anything More Than The Bare Minimum is right now. It's almost like between The Everything and the parenting and the job I'm basically tapped out.
But I did a thing (booked face electro) so that's one more little thing done, I guess.
Now if only I can write tonight.
But I did a thing (booked face electro) so that's one more little thing done, I guess.
Now if only I can write tonight.
February 5, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Funny how hard doing Literally Anything More Than The Bare Minimum is right now. It's almost like between The Everything and the parenting and the job I'm basically tapped out.
But I did a thing (booked face electro) so that's one more little thing done, I guess.
Now if only I can write tonight.
But I did a thing (booked face electro) so that's one more little thing done, I guess.
Now if only I can write tonight.
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Do you like fantasy? Wuxia? Want a protagonist starting at about the lowest low possible? Want maybe the best description of Daoism I have ever read?
You should read Sky Pride. Right now.
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1079...
You should read Sky Pride. Right now.
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1079...
February 5, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Do you like fantasy? Wuxia? Want a protagonist starting at about the lowest low possible? Want maybe the best description of Daoism I have ever read?
You should read Sky Pride. Right now.
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1079...
You should read Sky Pride. Right now.
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1079...
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My new trans-centric queer magical girl sequel novel, "Magica Riot: Full Bloom," is out in ebook, print, and audiobook formats in many places. It's big, gay, emotional, and fun! You should read it (+ the first book too)! Claire & the team deal with new threats & new friends! magicariot.com/fullbloom
January 29, 2026 at 10:51 PM
My new trans-centric queer magical girl sequel novel, "Magica Riot: Full Bloom," is out in ebook, print, and audiobook formats in many places. It's big, gay, emotional, and fun! You should read it (+ the first book too)! Claire & the team deal with new threats & new friends! magicariot.com/fullbloom