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Arden Hughes
@ardenhughesvo.bsky.social
I’m a trans fem voice actress (she/her)
www.ardenhughesvo.com

You can hear me as the narrator of Eve Harm’s incredible trans body horror novella Transmuted

Looking for a VA to collaborate on your queer story/production? I would love to work with you!
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Check your local library to see if they offer Transmuted by Eve Harms on audiobook!
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November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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time to be obsessed with "no talk me angy" Godzilla
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I find this pretty striking - we're not even offered the standard "here's why Mamdani's victory is actually trouble for the left" kind of gymnastics, the strategy really seems to be to hope no one notices
it is wild that Labour is doing exactly what the reactionary centrists recommend and is absolutely destroying its base of support as a result, and yet reactionary centrists in the US are just utterly silent about the complete failure of their program.
November 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Honestly tired of hearing minute to minute updates on evil deeds that will never, ever face justice.
November 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Many queer people were also denied restitution after the war because they were not considered victims of fascism - as only those targeted based on racial, political or religious grounds were considered.
November 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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When the US liberated Nazi concentration camps, many queer people stayed in prison because they were seen as having broken the law. Indeed, Paragraph 175, which criminalized gay intercourse in Weimar Germany & had been expanded to include intent by the Nazis, was not abolished by the US after WWII.
November 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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this is true but it goes even deeper than this, it’s not that they ‘don’t care’ about their kid, it’s they don’t care about their autonomany and only view their children as property and want to control them. its why we see the modern lavender panic, fears of “kids being transed”, from the far right
One of the things that's very difficult to really take to heart about MAGA conservatives is that you can't get them on hypocrisy about their children because they really don't give a fuck about their kids
Everyone who posts this should note that Megyn Kelly has a 14-year-old daughter. Do not let her off the hook on this.
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I am so thankful people can eat.

"In some states where SNAP recipients had received nothing during November, officials said they are working to load money on to people’s electronic benefit cards by Friday, if not sooner."
States scramble to send full SNAP food benefits to millions of people after government shutdown ends
State officials are working to restore full SNAP benefits to millions of people after the long U.S. government shutdown has finally ended.
apnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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The first thing anti-trans groups like Bayswater Group and Transgender Trend say to parents of trans teens is take their phones, get them off the internet
So, given that a lot of trans people are offended that Brianna's transfemicide is being turned into a crusade against phone use, when Brianna had a supportive online community and was murdered offline by her classmates:

Do you think "Touch grass" is an appropriate response to that context?
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Parents who will never empathize with their queer children will call it a fad, a trend, a corrupting influence of Those Damn Phones on their naturally, innately cishet child, because they refuse to acknowledge that queerness is natural. That we could be something other than what they want us to be.
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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The average person may be ignorant or uncaring but anyone paying the barest attention KNOWS that queer people in particular rely on each other and on informal networks to tell each other our stories, support each other, advise each other. It's WHY many parents are so fucking militant about phones.
November 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Beneath all the cries of “ban their phones” lies a more sinister truth:

They fear what happens when Queer kids find each other,
when their connections mean the strength to survive, and their community gives them power to thrive

- A mum of two kids with phones
I hate this "phones" conversation regarding queer people and queer kids because the bottom line is, cishet society KNOWS. Right-wingers KNOW that the internet is how queer people connect to each other---hell, that marginalized people period use it to organize and educate.

That's why they hate it.
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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The Hades Calculus Audiobook - Chapter 10: First Blood

Wall Caryatid has been breached, and Persephone and the other Eidolon pilots rush to stop the attack, but something about the colossi is different, and they seem to be intent on targeting Persephone.

www.patreon.com/posts/143448...
The Hades Calculus - Chapter 10: First Blood | Golden Apple Audio
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November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Pancake says hello 😢
November 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Hey folks, going to do another #ShowCasey this evening! TRANS EDITION!

Are you a trans indie gamedev? Do you have a game you'd like to get some more eyeballs on? Reply here with a quick description of your game and link to your store page. As usual, no GenAI!
a man looking through a telescope with a gold emblem on his shoulder
Alt: a man looking through a telescope with a gold emblem on his shoulder
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Sarah, I am all for building working class coalitions, but you constantly get it backwards. It’s not trans people who hate working class MAGA folks, but the reverse! Why must we accommodate their bigotry while abandoning other marginalized working class ppl who will actually return our solidarity?
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I bought this specifically to read Hailey Piper’s story and it didn’t disappoint. This is a really fun collection. One of the story’s is even from a dogs perspective.
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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"This use of GenAI is fine because VAs signed contracts to relinquish their rights".

Well yeah, have you seen what happens to those who don't want to sign off on this? Can you really call that consent when the alternative is losing (or never getting) a job?
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM