Ares J Benoit
@aresjb.bsky.social
Poet and writer of weird stories
Queer / nb / chronically ill / neurodivergent.
Body of a cyborg with the heart of a forest demon.
🏳️🌈 🇨🇦 |🟨⬜️🟪⬛️| 💉
Queer / nb / chronically ill / neurodivergent.
Body of a cyborg with the heart of a forest demon.
🏳️🌈 🇨🇦 |🟨⬜️🟪⬛️| 💉
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D444.4
Transformation:
bread
to serpents.
Transformation:
bread
to serpents.
December 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
D444.4
Transformation:
bread
to serpents.
Transformation:
bread
to serpents.
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A little Speculative Poetry PSA:
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December 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A little Speculative Poetry PSA:
If you have something speculative poetry related to share, tag us! We'd love to support/boost you ✨
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This story was so tender. Thank you for writing it and sharing!
So excited to share this story with the world! And @augursociety.bsky.social is a dream publication - I’m so honored to be among the amazing authors in this issue!
We've got TWO samples available right now!
✒️ “Four Elements of the Affair” by Britt Gillman, a betrayal told through the natural world
✒️ “Mother Tongue” by @poojajoshi.bsky.social, about two tongues across generations
READ NOW 👉 augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
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✒️ “Four Elements of the Affair” by Britt Gillman, a betrayal told through the natural world
✒️ “Mother Tongue” by @poojajoshi.bsky.social, about two tongues across generations
READ NOW 👉 augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:23 AM
This story was so tender. Thank you for writing it and sharing!
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JK Rowling is destroying children's lives. Stop buying her shit, watching her shows, playing her games. You're funding her hate campaign. Move on.
Article in the Times today.
JKR has set her pre action attack team on a school supporting trans youth.
A father is threatening to sue for allowing trans children to use the loo they‘ve always used.
“I don’t wish trans people any ill”, he says, after casting them as voyeurs and sexual predators.
JKR has set her pre action attack team on a school supporting trans youth.
A father is threatening to sue for allowing trans children to use the loo they‘ve always used.
“I don’t wish trans people any ill”, he says, after casting them as voyeurs and sexual predators.
December 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
JK Rowling is destroying children's lives. Stop buying her shit, watching her shows, playing her games. You're funding her hate campaign. Move on.
"You do not need to perform resilience to feel worthy of reflection.
You do not need to wrap the year in a story that feels cleaner than it was."
You do not need to wrap the year in a story that feels cleaner than it was."
"When I looked back on certain years, I realized most of my #ChronicIllness #YearEnd reviews weren’t reflections at all. They were performances..lists of #accomplishments that didn’t tell the #truth about what it cost to #achieve them.": buff.ly/vO03Xf2
by @thethrivingspoonie.com
#disability
by @thethrivingspoonie.com
#disability
A Gentler Way to End the Year When You Live With Chronic Illness
End the year with a chronic illness year end review. Discover how to embrace gentleness and self-care amid challenges.
buff.ly
December 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"You do not need to perform resilience to feel worthy of reflection.
You do not need to wrap the year in a story that feels cleaner than it was."
You do not need to wrap the year in a story that feels cleaner than it was."
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Submission Grinder users,
Hey just wanted to say that we truly appreciate it when: if we happen to list a publication that has a history of i.e. bigotry, when people ask us if we were aware of the thing and they have receipts.
We are not all-knowing, and this information is VERY HELPFUL. Thank you!
Hey just wanted to say that we truly appreciate it when: if we happen to list a publication that has a history of i.e. bigotry, when people ask us if we were aware of the thing and they have receipts.
We are not all-knowing, and this information is VERY HELPFUL. Thank you!
December 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Submission Grinder users,
Hey just wanted to say that we truly appreciate it when: if we happen to list a publication that has a history of i.e. bigotry, when people ask us if we were aware of the thing and they have receipts.
We are not all-knowing, and this information is VERY HELPFUL. Thank you!
Hey just wanted to say that we truly appreciate it when: if we happen to list a publication that has a history of i.e. bigotry, when people ask us if we were aware of the thing and they have receipts.
We are not all-knowing, and this information is VERY HELPFUL. Thank you!
Well said about hope!
Yes. When it comes right down to it, hope doesn’t have to be joy or seeing light at the end of the tunnel or even seeing a solution. Rage at the wrongness, determination to just keep fighting for justice. That’s hope. Simply *doing* is a hopeful act. Giving up is not.
Can we stop anti-trans bills in the Senate?
Absolutely.
We stopped a sports ban, we stripped bad provisions out of the OBBB and a number of other bills. There's no reason we can't stop these care bans too.
But we will need to call, and engage and make sure folks know this is a priority.
Forward.
Absolutely.
We stopped a sports ban, we stripped bad provisions out of the OBBB and a number of other bills. There's no reason we can't stop these care bans too.
But we will need to call, and engage and make sure folks know this is a priority.
Forward.
December 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Well said about hope!
In case we needed more apocalyptic inspiration!
The disappearance of fresh water is one of the trends left unexamined too often by SFF.
A recent study concludes that the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live.
(Published July 2025)
(Published July 2025)
December 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
In case we needed more apocalyptic inspiration!
One of them is named Margaret and she crochets doilies with a tiny hook
F493.2.2
Two pestilence spirits speak together.
Two pestilence spirits speak together.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
One of them is named Margaret and she crochets doilies with a tiny hook
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Good morning to #NOLAsky and especially Rev. Jane Mauldin of the Universal Unitarian Church, who has been spending her secular time following ICE around New Orleans and monitoring their activity ☀️
71-Year-Old Pastor Follows ICE in New Orleans and Reports Activity in Real Time: 'I Can't Sit at Home'
When she is not ministering, a 71-year-old pastor and grandmother spends her time in her car following and monitoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in New Orleans to inform the co...
people.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Good morning to #NOLAsky and especially Rev. Jane Mauldin of the Universal Unitarian Church, who has been spending her secular time following ICE around New Orleans and monitoring their activity ☀️
You're worthy no matter your output!
I haven't written much (if at all) other than some novel draft notes and a couple paragraphs written on heist novel. I was guilting myself about it, but then I realized that's making it harder to write.
sooo if you also need to hear this: living your life and not writing for a bit isn't a failure!
sooo if you also need to hear this: living your life and not writing for a bit isn't a failure!
December 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
You're worthy no matter your output!
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I did a thing!!!!!
A Summer Reading list of 10 of my best reads of the year of books written by Autistic queer authors with Autistic queer main characters ❤️♾️🏳️🌈
#QueerReads
#QueerSky
#BookSky
#ActuallyAutistic
www.altogetherautism.org.nz/autistic-and...
A Summer Reading list of 10 of my best reads of the year of books written by Autistic queer authors with Autistic queer main characters ❤️♾️🏳️🌈
#QueerReads
#QueerSky
#BookSky
#ActuallyAutistic
www.altogetherautism.org.nz/autistic-and...
Autistic and queer: A summer reading list - Altogether Autism
Just in time for the summer holidays, River Kingston shares another list of 10 books that feature excellent Autistic queer representation.
www.altogetherautism.org.nz
December 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I did a thing!!!!!
A Summer Reading list of 10 of my best reads of the year of books written by Autistic queer authors with Autistic queer main characters ❤️♾️🏳️🌈
#QueerReads
#QueerSky
#BookSky
#ActuallyAutistic
www.altogetherautism.org.nz/autistic-and...
A Summer Reading list of 10 of my best reads of the year of books written by Autistic queer authors with Autistic queer main characters ❤️♾️🏳️🌈
#QueerReads
#QueerSky
#BookSky
#ActuallyAutistic
www.altogetherautism.org.nz/autistic-and...
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Hey. Hey, want to read some stories from Palestinian writers? Buy my book. It’s good. It has a lot of words in it (but not too many words!).
This has been an attempt at self marketing. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
This has been an attempt at self marketing. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculati…
Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian d…
www.goodreads.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Hey. Hey, want to read some stories from Palestinian writers? Buy my book. It’s good. It has a lot of words in it (but not too many words!).
This has been an attempt at self marketing. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
This has been an attempt at self marketing. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
100% agreed
I'm getting a bit tired of people saying Canada's Liberals are exactly the same as the Conservatives when the Liberals, unlike the Conservatives, are not interested in hunting trans people for sport
You may think that's a small difference but it matters a lot to me, and I fucking see you
You may think that's a small difference but it matters a lot to me, and I fucking see you
December 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
100% agreed
My kid, who for all six of his years has been extremely Santa-averse, has this year seen Santa no less than six times. I've been a little worried the magic will be dispelled. But he told me that each city has one Santa.
December 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My kid, who for all six of his years has been extremely Santa-averse, has this year seen Santa no less than six times. I've been a little worried the magic will be dispelled. But he told me that each city has one Santa.
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E501.5.3
Wood-spirits pursued
in wild hunt.
Wood-spirits pursued
in wild hunt.
December 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
E501.5.3
Wood-spirits pursued
in wild hunt.
Wood-spirits pursued
in wild hunt.
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Your regular reminder that years are constructs and whether or not you had a “good” or “bad” year is just a figment of perception.
Love fiercely. Create valiantly. Take no fucks regularly. Year or era be damned.
Love fiercely. Create valiantly. Take no fucks regularly. Year or era be damned.
December 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Your regular reminder that years are constructs and whether or not you had a “good” or “bad” year is just a figment of perception.
Love fiercely. Create valiantly. Take no fucks regularly. Year or era be damned.
Love fiercely. Create valiantly. Take no fucks regularly. Year or era be damned.
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Me: Damn, I'm so tired of having to constantly fight for access. I wonder if there is a word for that.
Disability scholars: Don't worry, I got you
Disability scholars: Don't worry, I got you
December 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Me: Damn, I'm so tired of having to constantly fight for access. I wonder if there is a word for that.
Disability scholars: Don't worry, I got you
Disability scholars: Don't worry, I got you
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Do you think nondisabled writers are ever asked "Why is this character ablebodied?" the same way disabled writers are asked why their characters have disabilities?
December 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Do you think nondisabled writers are ever asked "Why is this character ablebodied?" the same way disabled writers are asked why their characters have disabilities?
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currently the name Barry is not short for anything
but with enough effort and strategic naming, we can *make* it short for Barold
but with enough effort and strategic naming, we can *make* it short for Barold
December 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
currently the name Barry is not short for anything
but with enough effort and strategic naming, we can *make* it short for Barold
but with enough effort and strategic naming, we can *make* it short for Barold
Menacing and magical.
F217.2
Fairies assemble
at milestone.
Fairies assemble
at milestone.
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Menacing and magical.
😂
H411.11
Magic spring
as chastity test.
Magic spring
as chastity test.
December 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
😂
Oh gosh this is 🤌🏻
a poem I wrote recently about parenting, gratefulness, and community. Full text is also in the alt text ❤️
December 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Oh gosh this is 🤌🏻
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F251.7
Fairies
as demons.
Fairies
as demons.
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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