Maracriox (He / Him / His)
@maracroix.bsky.social
Avid writer, freelance dreamer, I ignore DMs.
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Finally managed to whip up a title image for my Tekkaman Blade rewrite:
www.fanfiction.net/s/6458399/1/...
archiveofourown.org/works/45497536
#TekkamanBlade #fanfic #AU
www.fanfiction.net/s/6458399/1/...
archiveofourown.org/works/45497536
#TekkamanBlade #fanfic #AU
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More important to me than my identity, I am also the Vice President of the NewsGuild of New York, and targeting me with a blatantly retaliatory termination like this feels like an egregious shot against our union and against media workers as a whole.
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
More important to me than my identity, I am also the Vice President of the NewsGuild of New York, and targeting me with a blatantly retaliatory termination like this feels like an egregious shot against our union and against media workers as a whole.
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I love my job, I love my coworkers, and I love my union. I'm devastated the company made this move. There are so few trans women in media at all — particularly ones who aren't confined to "Queer Media" — and I was incredibly proud of what my position at Bon Appétit meant within the industry.
November 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I love my job, I love my coworkers, and I love my union. I'm devastated the company made this move. There are so few trans women in media at all — particularly ones who aren't confined to "Queer Media" — and I was incredibly proud of what my position at Bon Appétit meant within the industry.
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I was acting as a union member and concerned employee when I questioned Stan Duncan, well within my legal rights.
I don't love pointing to my identity, but the company saying that I was behaving "aggressively" when I was calmly asking questions feels like a clear transphobic dog whistle.
I don't love pointing to my identity, but the company saying that I was behaving "aggressively" when I was calmly asking questions feels like a clear transphobic dog whistle.
November 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I was acting as a union member and concerned employee when I questioned Stan Duncan, well within my legal rights.
I don't love pointing to my identity, but the company saying that I was behaving "aggressively" when I was calmly asking questions feels like a clear transphobic dog whistle.
I don't love pointing to my identity, but the company saying that I was behaving "aggressively" when I was calmly asking questions feels like a clear transphobic dog whistle.
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I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee.
I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee.
I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
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The Rutherford County Library System in Tennessee is temporarily closing two branches in order to remove books from them.
Why? Because the Secretary of State told them to do it, citing laws and Executive Orders that undermine the Constititon.
bookriot.com/rutherford-c...
Why? Because the Secretary of State told them to do it, citing laws and Executive Orders that undermine the Constititon.
bookriot.com/rutherford-c...
Rutherford County Library System (TN) Temporarily Shuts Down to Ban Books
Rutherford County Library System announced on social media a surprise shutdown of two libraries. Why? "Reviewing inventory."
bookriot.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The Rutherford County Library System in Tennessee is temporarily closing two branches in order to remove books from them.
Why? Because the Secretary of State told them to do it, citing laws and Executive Orders that undermine the Constititon.
bookriot.com/rutherford-c...
Why? Because the Secretary of State told them to do it, citing laws and Executive Orders that undermine the Constititon.
bookriot.com/rutherford-c...
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LGBTQReads Bookish Holiday Drive
The holidays are right around the corner, and we here in the LGBTQReads community know things are particularly tight this season. And so, if you're struggling to afford gifts for a loved one who happens to be a queer lit fan, or you yourself just need a moment of…
The holidays are right around the corner, and we here in the LGBTQReads community know things are particularly tight this season. And so, if you're struggling to afford gifts for a loved one who happens to be a queer lit fan, or you yourself just need a moment of…
LGBTQReads Bookish Holiday Drive
The holidays are right around the corner, and we here in the LGBTQReads community know things are particularly tight this season. And so, if you're struggling to afford gifts for a loved one who happens to be a queer lit fan, or you yourself just need a moment of bookish respite, you can fill out this form to be matched with a bookish donation from one of many contributing authors and agents!
lgbtqreads.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
LGBTQReads Bookish Holiday Drive
The holidays are right around the corner, and we here in the LGBTQReads community know things are particularly tight this season. And so, if you're struggling to afford gifts for a loved one who happens to be a queer lit fan, or you yourself just need a moment of…
The holidays are right around the corner, and we here in the LGBTQReads community know things are particularly tight this season. And so, if you're struggling to afford gifts for a loved one who happens to be a queer lit fan, or you yourself just need a moment of…
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What a poignant effect of habitat degradation and climate change—creatures like butterflies are slowly going monochrome.
But as forests regenerate, color returns. A needed ray of hope. #SaveAllSpecies
But as forests regenerate, color returns. A needed ray of hope. #SaveAllSpecies
As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours
The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
What a poignant effect of habitat degradation and climate change—creatures like butterflies are slowly going monochrome.
But as forests regenerate, color returns. A needed ray of hope. #SaveAllSpecies
But as forests regenerate, color returns. A needed ray of hope. #SaveAllSpecies
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Really love how Generative AI tools are enabling tiny developers like ~checks notes~ ...Ubisoft... to really punch above their weight with risky indie hits like... the 8th game in the Anno franchise.
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Really love how Generative AI tools are enabling tiny developers like ~checks notes~ ...Ubisoft... to really punch above their weight with risky indie hits like... the 8th game in the Anno franchise.
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Was digging through old screenshots and remembered the manbaby FPS Police that would catalogue any games locked at 30fps, and beyond the "get over yourself" nature of it the list was full of, like, turn-based strategy games, visual novels, dating sims, point and click adventures, hidden object games
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Was digging through old screenshots and remembered the manbaby FPS Police that would catalogue any games locked at 30fps, and beyond the "get over yourself" nature of it the list was full of, like, turn-based strategy games, visual novels, dating sims, point and click adventures, hidden object games
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I found a book I wanted, on Amazon.
I walked to my local book store. Showed the clerk/ owner the book. He ordered it for me (and one for his store).
My friend (the author of the book) wins.
The bookstore gets a sale and wins.
I win.
(Amazon was useful so kinda win)
I walked to my local book store. Showed the clerk/ owner the book. He ordered it for me (and one for his store).
My friend (the author of the book) wins.
The bookstore gets a sale and wins.
I win.
(Amazon was useful so kinda win)
November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I found a book I wanted, on Amazon.
I walked to my local book store. Showed the clerk/ owner the book. He ordered it for me (and one for his store).
My friend (the author of the book) wins.
The bookstore gets a sale and wins.
I win.
(Amazon was useful so kinda win)
I walked to my local book store. Showed the clerk/ owner the book. He ordered it for me (and one for his store).
My friend (the author of the book) wins.
The bookstore gets a sale and wins.
I win.
(Amazon was useful so kinda win)
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Meanwhile... stop in at your local bookshop. Whether they sell new books and are helping you to discover newly published work, or whether they keep the old, the strange, and the out of print, your booksellers want you to see and smell and touch the books we have chosen to share with you.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Meanwhile... stop in at your local bookshop. Whether they sell new books and are helping you to discover newly published work, or whether they keep the old, the strange, and the out of print, your booksellers want you to see and smell and touch the books we have chosen to share with you.
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We, the collectors and booksellers, salute librarians. We value access to the books we love. And some of us - many of us - prepare for the time when our collections are recognized as valuable to the public.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
We, the collectors and booksellers, salute librarians. We value access to the books we love. And some of us - many of us - prepare for the time when our collections are recognized as valuable to the public.
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Yes, money changes hands in a bookshop; that's a mere fact of economics.
Time must be spent, and resources, in the pursuit of books, and in a capitalist country, that necessitates money.
Especially when political leadership discourages funding for public institutions 🤷
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Time must be spent, and resources, in the pursuit of books, and in a capitalist country, that necessitates money.
Especially when political leadership discourages funding for public institutions 🤷
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November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Yes, money changes hands in a bookshop; that's a mere fact of economics.
Time must be spent, and resources, in the pursuit of books, and in a capitalist country, that necessitates money.
Especially when political leadership discourages funding for public institutions 🤷
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Time must be spent, and resources, in the pursuit of books, and in a capitalist country, that necessitates money.
Especially when political leadership discourages funding for public institutions 🤷
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Librarians are guardians of so much of cultural value; no bookseller would tell you otherwise.
But booksellers and private collectors are also keepers of the soul and wit of humanity.
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But booksellers and private collectors are also keepers of the soul and wit of humanity.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Librarians are guardians of so much of cultural value; no bookseller would tell you otherwise.
But booksellers and private collectors are also keepers of the soul and wit of humanity.
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But booksellers and private collectors are also keepers of the soul and wit of humanity.
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The reason we have some of those books is because someone, whether a collector in the public trust (a librarian) or a bookseller or private collector, kept them until the time when popular culture recognized their historical value, their literary merit, their astonishing and unique character.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The reason we have some of those books is because someone, whether a collector in the public trust (a librarian) or a bookseller or private collector, kept them until the time when popular culture recognized their historical value, their literary merit, their astonishing and unique character.
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Think of all the times when the popular culture of the moment placed less interest in, say, novels written by formerly enslaved people, or the Beat poets, or Jewish literature, or news flyers sold in London streets.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Think of all the times when the popular culture of the moment placed less interest in, say, novels written by formerly enslaved people, or the Beat poets, or Jewish literature, or news flyers sold in London streets.
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Even if libraries had infinite funding, even if librarians had more time and more energy and perfect insight into what future readers and scholars will need, some books of great value would still be lost.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Even if libraries had infinite funding, even if librarians had more time and more energy and perfect insight into what future readers and scholars will need, some books of great value would still be lost.
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Booksellers place books, sometimes with public or academic libraries, sometimes with private collectors who then bequeath their books to libraries.
Only later, sometimes because of the work of the bookseller/collector, do enough people see the value of those books for a library to acquire them.
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Only later, sometimes because of the work of the bookseller/collector, do enough people see the value of those books for a library to acquire them.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Booksellers place books, sometimes with public or academic libraries, sometimes with private collectors who then bequeath their books to libraries.
Only later, sometimes because of the work of the bookseller/collector, do enough people see the value of those books for a library to acquire them.
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Only later, sometimes because of the work of the bookseller/collector, do enough people see the value of those books for a library to acquire them.
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Booksellers have, century after century, identified important texts: books printed by William Caslon, books written in Yiddish, secret thrillers by Louisa May Alcott, the Dove Bible....
Sometimes booksellers and collectors are the only ones who want certain books at a certain time in history.
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Sometimes booksellers and collectors are the only ones who want certain books at a certain time in history.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Booksellers have, century after century, identified important texts: books printed by William Caslon, books written in Yiddish, secret thrillers by Louisa May Alcott, the Dove Bible....
Sometimes booksellers and collectors are the only ones who want certain books at a certain time in history.
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Sometimes booksellers and collectors are the only ones who want certain books at a certain time in history.
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Booksellers, like librarians, curate cultural wealth.
Librarians have so much to do, and so little budget with which to collect, that not all books of cultural importance end up in a library's special collections.
That's where we come in.
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Librarians have so much to do, and so little budget with which to collect, that not all books of cultural importance end up in a library's special collections.
That's where we come in.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Booksellers, like librarians, curate cultural wealth.
Librarians have so much to do, and so little budget with which to collect, that not all books of cultural importance end up in a library's special collections.
That's where we come in.
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Librarians have so much to do, and so little budget with which to collect, that not all books of cultural importance end up in a library's special collections.
That's where we come in.
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But for sure, antitrans politicians have both amplified and in many cases created the every detransiton narrative they use to argue for the elimination of trans care when it in fact is an argument for expansion of it.
November 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
But for sure, antitrans politicians have both amplified and in many cases created the every detransiton narrative they use to argue for the elimination of trans care when it in fact is an argument for expansion of it.
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I mean I agree, but also data in the 2022 US Trans Survey says 9% detransition, but when you remove people who do it for safety…
detransition rate is 0.36%
it’s almost a nonexistent issue
detransition rate is 0.36%
it’s almost a nonexistent issue
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I mean I agree, but also data in the 2022 US Trans Survey says 9% detransition, but when you remove people who do it for safety…
detransition rate is 0.36%
it’s almost a nonexistent issue
detransition rate is 0.36%
it’s almost a nonexistent issue
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To be fair, studies show detransition numbers increase with increased trans identification (those who do so for safety reasons given our antitrans political context not withstanding). This isnt a bad thing but underscores we need to provide gender exploratory care, not prescribed treatment paths.
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
To be fair, studies show detransition numbers increase with increased trans identification (those who do so for safety reasons given our antitrans political context not withstanding). This isnt a bad thing but underscores we need to provide gender exploratory care, not prescribed treatment paths.
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These thoughts are getting attention so I should probably establish my credentials here: I have none except my own experience with transitioning and my long exploration of different ways people think about and approach this topic, which finally led me to the conclusion that the basic outline in the
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
These thoughts are getting attention so I should probably establish my credentials here: I have none except my own experience with transitioning and my long exploration of different ways people think about and approach this topic, which finally led me to the conclusion that the basic outline in the
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But coming to the realization that what one understood as a change in self-perception of gender identity - a thing that can absolutely happen - was sometime else instead is also not "detransition", but rather the realization that no transition took place at all. There was nothing to be undone.
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
But coming to the realization that what one understood as a change in self-perception of gender identity - a thing that can absolutely happen - was sometime else instead is also not "detransition", but rather the realization that no transition took place at all. There was nothing to be undone.