Aster Olsen
@asterolsen.bsky.social
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Do you like terrible women? What about toxic friendships? What if they're trans though? Okay, but what if there are birds?
My latest short story, A Crow for Brunch, is out in @unlikely-stories.bsky.social today.
Read here: www.unlikelystories.org/content/a-cr...
My latest short story, A Crow for Brunch, is out in @unlikely-stories.bsky.social today.
Read here: www.unlikelystories.org/content/a-cr...
Boxing Day is all about voting for the transfeminine review awards. Please celebrate this important tradition.
Voting for the 2025 TFR Awards ends TOMORROW! If you want to vote in this year's awards, you *must* vote before 11:59pm EST on Dec. 26th.
This is a hard deadline. Your vote will not be counted if it is datestamped for the 27th, and the form will promptly close.
This is a hard deadline. Your vote will not be counted if it is datestamped for the 27th, and the form will promptly close.
Vote for the 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards!
Voting is open now for the 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards! Vote by Dec. 26th.
thetransfemininereview.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Boxing Day is all about voting for the transfeminine review awards. Please celebrate this important tradition.
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Just saw two of my stories are nominated for this, cool! One is about a "man" making sissy hypno porn, and the other is about a trans woman finding embodiment and desire. The two genders.
Feeling like you haven't read enough to vote in the 2025 TFR Awards? Here's a way you can still participate!
The 60-hour Shortform Challenge asks YOU to read our 2025 short story and poem nominees, then vote on your three faves in each category! No other reading required 🩷
The 60-hour Shortform Challenge asks YOU to read our 2025 short story and poem nominees, then vote on your three faves in each category! No other reading required 🩷
The 60-hour Transfemme Shortform Challenge
The rules are simple - read as many short stories and poems as you’d like before December 26th at 11:59pm EST, then submit a ballot for your favorites in the Outstanding Short Story and Outstanding In...
docs.google.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Just saw two of my stories are nominated for this, cool! One is about a "man" making sissy hypno porn, and the other is about a trans woman finding embodiment and desire. The two genders.
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Thank you for the love for three of our TABOO contributors, @anemonebythesea.bsky.social @saoirsecl.bsky.social @asterolsen.bsky.social ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 email us info@lilacperil.com if you want PDFs of the stories
December 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Thank you for the love for three of our TABOO contributors, @anemonebythesea.bsky.social @saoirsecl.bsky.social @asterolsen.bsky.social ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 email us info@lilacperil.com if you want PDFs of the stories
This story should have been nominated for the @thetransfemininereview.com short story awards imo. Go read it!
my story “Pure Pursuit” is out in issue 3 of the Abraxas Review 🤗 it’s a story about airplanes and fighter pilots and it’s not a metaphor for anything at all
🛩️💥❤️🔥
www.abraxasreview.org/new-page-54
🛩️💥❤️🔥
www.abraxasreview.org/new-page-54
Fiction: Maxine West — abraxas review
www.abraxasreview.org
December 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This story should have been nominated for the @thetransfemininereview.com short story awards imo. Go read it!
Just saw two of my stories are nominated for this, cool! One is about a "man" making sissy hypno porn, and the other is about a trans woman finding embodiment and desire. The two genders.
Feeling like you haven't read enough to vote in the 2025 TFR Awards? Here's a way you can still participate!
The 60-hour Shortform Challenge asks YOU to read our 2025 short story and poem nominees, then vote on your three faves in each category! No other reading required 🩷
The 60-hour Shortform Challenge asks YOU to read our 2025 short story and poem nominees, then vote on your three faves in each category! No other reading required 🩷
The 60-hour Transfemme Shortform Challenge
The rules are simple - read as many short stories and poems as you’d like before December 26th at 11:59pm EST, then submit a ballot for your favorites in the Outstanding Short Story and Outstanding In...
docs.google.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Just saw two of my stories are nominated for this, cool! One is about a "man" making sissy hypno porn, and the other is about a trans woman finding embodiment and desire. The two genders.
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Hey @asterolsen.bsky.social
I got the latest issue of “TRANSplants” in the mail and my daughter absolutely loves it! Thank you!
I got the latest issue of “TRANSplants” in the mail and my daughter absolutely loves it! Thank you!
December 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Hey @asterolsen.bsky.social
I got the latest issue of “TRANSplants” in the mail and my daughter absolutely loves it! Thank you!
I got the latest issue of “TRANSplants” in the mail and my daughter absolutely loves it! Thank you!
NFL bsky can you confirm if this happened?
Had a dream where I had sex with drew brees, but the first 90% was us at a woodser talking about ultimate frisbee and who in the NFL was good at it. Also he told me he was 36 instead of 46 but I let it slide.
December 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
NFL bsky can you confirm if this happened?
They're saying transplants parties are THE premier trans literature event in the pnw
today's photo post is all highlights from @asterolsen.bsky.social's TRANSPlants Issue 4 release party, which was incredibly fun and featured live music by @vivmccall.bsky.social's Pansy, playing music off her new EP. also I finally got a chance to read again and it was really fun!!
December 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
They're saying transplants parties are THE premier trans literature event in the pnw
Had a dream where I had sex with drew brees, but the first 90% was us at a woodser talking about ultimate frisbee and who in the NFL was good at it. Also he told me he was 36 instead of 46 but I let it slide.
December 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Had a dream where I had sex with drew brees, but the first 90% was us at a woodser talking about ultimate frisbee and who in the NFL was good at it. Also he told me he was 36 instead of 46 but I let it slide.
first they did transgender for everybody,
and i did not speak out,
for i was already transgender
and i did not speak out,
for i was already transgender
December 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
first they did transgender for everybody,
and i did not speak out,
for i was already transgender
and i did not speak out,
for i was already transgender
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The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
the american empire doesn't know how to make this anymore. the technology has been lost.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cre...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cre...
December 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
the american empire doesn't know how to make this anymore. the technology has been lost.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cre...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cre...
I'm so happy Victoria captured us like this. I only wish she was also in the photo!
my friends are so cool. transplants release party last night was awesome, thanks @asterolsen.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I'm so happy Victoria captured us like this. I only wish she was also in the photo!
December 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
December 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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i can just drop $10-15 at a time & keep getting things like this in the mail, love it
December 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
i can just drop $10-15 at a time & keep getting things like this in the mail, love it
[waving gun around] One more rejection for this 7k word short story and I'm turning it into a novella! Don't try me, I'll fucking do it! Hands where I can see them!
December 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
[waving gun around] One more rejection for this 7k word short story and I'm turning it into a novella! Don't try me, I'll fucking do it! Hands where I can see them!
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though i'm loath to ask this question, we are in "people spend money on books" season: have you pre-ordered your copy of Again, Harder yet?
some new blurbs!
some new blurbs!
December 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
though i'm loath to ask this question, we are in "people spend money on books" season: have you pre-ordered your copy of Again, Harder yet?
some new blurbs!
some new blurbs!
I'm only interested in influencing you, the pretty girl reading this post. Hi sweetie.
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I'm only interested in influencing you, the pretty girl reading this post. Hi sweetie.
I will vote for whichever candidate fixes my printer
December 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I will vote for whichever candidate fixes my printer
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Quote from Is The Future Female? by Lynne Segal (1987). Photo from Deadlier Than the Male magazine from the LA&M collections.
![A white woman or woman of color with light skin, brown hair, holding a chain attached to man’s collar. He is lying on a platform above her and she is wearing a shiny long sleeved body suit and studded collar. Text: [If our critique of pornography is to be more than the projection and denial of our own anxiety and confusion about sex, feminists will need (as many now have) to take a broader and much deeper look at all forms of representation of women. We must, in fact, abandon any radical or revolutionary feminist position which asserts what we need to reject and rejects what we need to assert. We need to reject the idea of there being some inner sexual essence, healthy in women and unhealthy in men. We need to assert that women, too, are full of contradictions and conflict over sexuality. We need to understand the ways in which the prevalence of men's sexual violence is neither simply the product of inner sex drives, nor inner power drives - realisable through the possession of the penis - but rather a product of men's social power in general.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyfco36opjofallgh4axztsd/bafkreiaqufifgjkqfsduukzmc4ejkoia6pj5kyrain2m4zzcl6nzqgwfny@jpeg)
December 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Quote from Is The Future Female? by Lynne Segal (1987). Photo from Deadlier Than the Male magazine from the LA&M collections.
This is today!
I'll be reading poems related to Florida, including some very personal ones
December 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This is today!
I'm a sucker for the lights on Lake Union at night
December 13, 2025 at 6:29 AM
I'm a sucker for the lights on Lake Union at night
