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Jemma "Not Underground" Topaz
@jemma.bsky.social
She/Her | Trans | Lesbian | 🔞 Author

All links: jemmatopaz.carrd.co

PFP: @anemoneart.bsky.social
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No preorder or cover yet, but my next book, "Lo Nuns!" is a set of stories set in a late medieval pseudo-Europe. As normal (for me) there are loads of lesbian and transfem nuns, and they do more than just pray.
By the grace of the Saints (also mostly trans) please prepare to get hype!
#transbooks
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Going through some revision of Flower Painter 2 and girls, not in a thousand years you could guess the places it goes to.
January 7, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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New! A reading guide for Gunmetal Olympus, including works by many winners and shortlisted authors of @thetransfemininereview.com award. hadescalculus.com/2026/01/06/r...
Reading Guide
This is a reading guide to help you choose from both the “main” Gunmetal Olympus books by Maria Ying and the “expanded universe” by other writers. Main books These are the t…
hadescalculus.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Not gonna starve but still struggling to figure out what my body will digest and what it won’t at this point, and options limited till SNAP comes in in five days.
I don’t like begging citing ill health (or at all) but I’m still recovering from the pneumonia and having trouble walking with my messed-up foot… if anyone can please spare a gift to help me keep a roof over my head, I could really use $95 for the 6th to the 8th to cover both room and deposit.
I have a room until the 2nd, trying to arrange another four nights after that (still the cheapest option), that’s about $200 I don’t have plus another $50 for deposit (I won’t get the previous back the same day).

I know everyone is poor but please can anyone help me? 💕💸💸💕 #transcrowdfund #mutualaid
January 5, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Pensioner with a sign - 🚨 All police forces on alert, ready the riot gear, clear the prisons! 🚨

Actual AI CSAM ‐ 💤 Sure, we'll get to it sometime. We're definitely going to think about forming a committee to consider drafting an email, and then a further committee on possibly sending it.
Ofcom *might* "undertake a swift *assessment* to determine *whether* there are *potential* compliance issues that *warrant investigation*."

Hard to believe, but we waste almost a quarter of a billion pounds of public money annually on this absolute shower of a regulator.
January 5, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Okay, in Our Monsters / The Essence of the Eye I have a mobile phone that get magically bugified. (It actual gets more useful.)
Anyhow, I imagine him looking a lot like this...
all of my posts are made from this device
January 5, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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A Rotten Girl is still just $3.50! Read the novel that won @thetransfemininereview.com's Outstanding Contemporary Fiction of 2025!
January 5, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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I think this is how you know Jemma has broken out as a writer.
@jemma.bsky.social I wish your book had been kinder to fujoshi. That is to say, I wish fujoshi had been kinder to you.
January 5, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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You'll notice that there's only one piece of art from each artist, even though they've typically done a lot more than one thing of GO fanart. This is because I wanted to entice people to click through to the artist's socials or artbooks (and hopefully buy those).
We now have a fanart gallery page on the Gunmetal Olympus website! Featuring @anemoneart.bsky.social @araclaire.bsky.social @lotusws.bsky.social with more to come as I get permission from artists to include their work.

hadescalculus.com/2026/01/02/f...
January 4, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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@jemma.bsky.social I wish your book had been kinder to fujoshi. That is to say, I wish fujoshi had been kinder to you.
January 4, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Is there a term for a heterosexual twink? I need one.
(For writing, not dating.)
January 4, 2026 at 6:45 PM
I mean, that's fine, but when's the Gay World Darts Championship?
January 4, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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It's time for sleep. This is my last chance to raise the rest of what I need before Monday.

Please make it so I wake up to enough so I can cover my rent.

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January 4, 2026 at 6:39 AM
The British government leaps into action, pulling strings and making backroom calls, in order to get Starmer the vital, public, and maybe even true information fully 5 minutes before me (because I'll probably forget).

Britain under Starmer: no one's laughing at us now!
Because they've forgotten us.
Keir Starmer says he wants to establish facts by *watching Donald Trumps press conference.*

People said giving him a second state visit was a genius move of strategy - really seems to have paid off.

Special relationship - alive and kicking.
January 3, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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Everyone check out so much cool art of all your favorite fucked up mecha lesbians right here! @anemoneart.bsky.social ' s Hades has a rent free space in my head and heart ❤️❤️ just look at the abs and the "you haven't seen half my power" pose
We now have a fanart gallery page on the Gunmetal Olympus website! Featuring @anemoneart.bsky.social @araclaire.bsky.social @lotusws.bsky.social with more to come as I get permission from artists to include their work.

hadescalculus.com/2026/01/02/f...
January 2, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you.

I'm a pair of sweatpants.
I'm sleeping wrong.
I'm sleeping differently wrong.

(Really, reality could do with mixing it up with the odd assassin, hungry tiger, etc.)
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you.

i’m decades of conversion therapy from my fundamentalist shrink parents
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you.

I'm Infected Vocal Chords
January 2, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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That @anemoneart.bsky.social Hades redesign is absolutely amazing (bonus point, cannot be accused of Handler Haircut)
January 2, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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We now have a fanart gallery page on the Gunmetal Olympus website! Featuring @anemoneart.bsky.social @araclaire.bsky.social @lotusws.bsky.social with more to come as I get permission from artists to include their work.

hadescalculus.com/2026/01/02/f...
January 2, 2026 at 5:59 PM
It's different from a lesbian perspective, because if you said younger women can never date older women, you would be in danger.

But it kind of balances out: one side has a salt-and-pepper wolf cut, and her own place, and the other can stay up past 11 without getting sleepy, and understands TikTok.
My controversial hot take:

If people are consenting adults, I can’t find myself that upset about age gaps in romantic relationships. I don’t get why anyone cares.

It’s assumption of the worst on everyone’s part and it’s not my business.

Am I wrong?

If they are CONSENTING ADULTS only.
January 2, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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One more reset bro one more reset
January 2, 2026 at 11:30 AM
I'm not sure that it's good that we have developed "pundits" who either do not understand simple things, or are forced to pretend they don't understand simple things.

We have a whole class of commentors wondering around doing the Garfield looking at the "No Garfields" sign thing and going "???".
But can anyone tell me what this bit means? “For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.”
January 2, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Snow on the ground this morning! Really thin and quite patchy, but it always cheers me up.
January 2, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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Still VERY pleased that @jemma.bsky.social won against tradepub authors--not because I think her competition wasn't good, but because she publishes with far less support (and money) than her counterparts. A Rotten Girl hit hard, and hit at the right moment.
Over 275 authors, editors, critics and diehard readers came together over the last month to vote on their favorite transfeminine books of the year.

It's my honor to present the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards!

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted 🩷
The 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards
Over 275 authors, critics, editors, and readers came together to vote on their favorite transfeminine literature of 2025.
thetransfemininereview.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Happy birthday to all (northern hemisphere) horsegirls, who I presume follow the same rule.
happy birthday all horses (northern hemisphere)
January 1, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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Folks, we didn't win this election unfortunately, but I'm proud of the campaign we ran. To my family, my campaign manager, and all the volunteers who knocked on doors: thank you.

I'll carry my Distinctions for Short Story and Underground Writer proudly into 2026 as I hit the fundraising circuit.
January 1, 2026 at 3:20 AM