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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️
@magicariot.com
Author of trans magical girl novels “Magica Riot” and "Magica Riot: Full Bloom,” and the creator of the Maidensong Magica universe.
43 year old trans lesbian from PDX.
Lover of magical girls, sci-fi, anime, and games.
SFWA member.
She/her.
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"Magica Riot: Full Bloom" is my new big emotional queer Portland magical girl novel. With two villains in town, the girls must find a new approach to their magic and music, with help from unexpected friends!

Read the next adventure in my queer magical girl universe! magicariot.com/fullbloom
It was very much meant as a goofy alt-universe take on Peanut Butter Crunch, which was my favorite cereal growing up 😅
I have an important question for @magicariot.com

What cereal was the inspiration for Peanut Butter Crunchlins?
December 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It is my duty to inform you once again that, yes, today is Friday, in California
Today is Friday in California
December 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The day has come again, allowing me some groggy post-holiday delay this morning 😅 welcome to Get Pillow'd Friday!

get pillow'd
Happy Get Pillow’d Friday, everybody

get pillow'd
December 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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I devoured both the original and this sequel with a zeal not seen since my college days!
"Magica Riot: Full Bloom" is my new big emotional queer Portland magical girl novel. With two villains in town, the girls must find a new approach to their magic and music, with help from unexpected friends!

Read the next adventure in my queer magical girl universe! magicariot.com/fullbloom
December 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Today I was told of another freshly-out trans gal who got courage and inspiration to come out thanks to Magica Riot and y'all it never stops being the flammin' best feeling in the universe

I am so, so glad I get to be in this place where the books are able to help people 🥹
December 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
and a very merry "Chinese takeout from the place around the corner because at this point in the holiday you are not going to cook anymore" to you all
December 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Of particular importance to this website
Here Comes Jeffrey Combs
YouTube video by John C. Worsley
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December 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A Christmas Carol
YouTube video by Tom Lehrer - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A proud holiday tradition in this house
December 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This is absolutely playing on a TV down in the Vault today
December 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
For Christmas, please enjoy me re-posting some very very gay and wonderful Magica Riot art by @windygria.art, featuring Claire & Hazel, and Nova & Hikari.

My books - magicariot.com - are very gay.
December 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Merry Merry🎄
メリークリスマスですっ☆
December 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Hi there new folks! If you're just joining me, I'm a trans author from PDX who writes novels about a queer leftist Portland magical girl rock band, which is a sentence I am SO delighted I get to type.

Please enjoy the ongoing adventures of Magica Riot in ebook, print, or audio: magicariot.com/buy
December 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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never forget the true meaning of Christmas is trying to convince Santa's pikemen to stop present delivery so that the evil centipedes put into gifts by the yokai won't cause belief in Santa to plummet
December 22, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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“What’s it like to be like you? What’s it like to be beautiful and true?”

💜💙💚💛❤️

#MagicaRiot #MaidensongMagica #MagicalGirlArt
August 22, 2025 at 5:31 AM
circling back around to this because I really can't get over how cute and good my girls are and how much I love seeing folks do art of them 🥹
For the first time in what feels like forever, I made some art! It's fanart of @magicariot.com's delightful queer magical girl series Magica Riot, in the style of that one cute eyecatch from Sailor Moon R
December 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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For the first time in what feels like forever, I made some art! It's fanart of @magicariot.com's delightful queer magical girl series Magica Riot, in the style of that one cute eyecatch from Sailor Moon R
December 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Faye-ce attorney
December 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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...the best "Xmas episode" despite not really *being* one officially is, to me, "Jack Frost," because "Jack Frost" is actually kind of a lovely and fascinating and cool movie, like all the Russo-Finnish movies they watched tended to be. It's my fav of them all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKO...
MST3K 813: Jack Frost
YouTube video by MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
of the actual MST3k Xmas episodes, I think "Santa Claus," the one where he fights the devil, is the most memorable. "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" is less so despite the title. "The Christmas That Almost Wasn't" is kind of a nothing movie, and "The Christmas Dragon" is decent fun, but... (cont)
December 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
can it really be Christmas until you've watched MST3k's "Pod People" episode www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_zr...
"Idiot Control Now"
YouTube video by Branjero
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I just found out the real-life hotel the Grand Sovereign was based on - the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Portland - has a Christmas dinner that costs $250 per person and you know what, I don't think I was hard enough on the people behind it
That last reskeet is exactly the kind of thing I was calling out in the first book

I'm not just making a magical girl series, I'm making a *leftist* magical girl series
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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It’s Christmas morning and the children refuse to open presents until everyone agrees to say nice things to Mark Cuban. It is known as “the Children’s Kindness Revolution”
December 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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People bitch all the time about iron workers and coal workers and steel mill guys but no one ever talks about all the jobs lost for roguish fops and merry pips
December 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
makes me feel nice knowing all us in this lil circle are spending Christmas Eve talking to our fellow broke queers, sharing art, having a generally lovely time of it, & Mark Cuban is busy arguing with randos about why he thinks universal healthcare is bad while complaining about "virtue signaling"
December 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM