Margaret Killjoy
@margaret.bsky.social
host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Pinned
I must not discourse.
Discourse is the mind-killer.
Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face the discourse.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
Discourse is the mind-killer.
Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face the discourse.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
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As daily goals, "stop fascism," "defeat evil," and "save the world" probably aren't going to get you anywhere, and might leave you feeling overwhelmed and helpless, but "work towards building something good" is always achievable, concrete, and useful.
January 5, 2026 at 3:52 PM
As daily goals, "stop fascism," "defeat evil," and "save the world" probably aren't going to get you anywhere, and might leave you feeling overwhelmed and helpless, but "work towards building something good" is always achievable, concrete, and useful.
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Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.
January 5, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.
Sabate had pretty much the most adventurous life I've ever read about, and in a just and fair world, he would be an archetypical hero of movies instead of james bond or whoever.
#OtD 5 Jan 1960 Francesc Sabaté Llopart aka "El Quico" was assassinated. He fought Franco in the Spanish Civil War, then with the French resistance during World War II, then joined anti-Franco underground resistance in Spain until killed by police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1051...
January 5, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Sabate had pretty much the most adventurous life I've ever read about, and in a just and fair world, he would be an archetypical hero of movies instead of james bond or whoever.
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Excited about my next read by the amazing
@margaret.bsky.social
@margaret.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Excited about my next read by the amazing
@margaret.bsky.social
@margaret.bsky.social
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Just finished The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion by @margaret.bsky.social, great stuff. Read it pretty much straight through.
January 3, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Just finished The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion by @margaret.bsky.social, great stuff. Read it pretty much straight through.
what if next year is the year we all agree to stop taking everyday words and redefining them in order to find something new to be against
December 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
what if next year is the year we all agree to stop taking everyday words and redefining them in order to find something new to be against
last day to sign up as a patron for the zine of the month club and get a new story in the Danielle Cain series. (though to be clear it'll probably be available as a stand alone zine at some point)
Sign up for our Zine of the Month Club on Patreon by Dec. 31st, 2025 to get out giant-sized January mailer, which includes:
-"And the Clean Bones Gone" by Margaret Killjoy, a Danielle Cain short story that is a companion zine to "The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice."
-"And the Clean Bones Gone" by Margaret Killjoy, a Danielle Cain short story that is a companion zine to "The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice."
December 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
last day to sign up as a patron for the zine of the month club and get a new story in the Danielle Cain series. (though to be clear it'll probably be available as a stand alone zine at some point)
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Hey, my Satanic craft store arson story "Macramé Flames," originally published in The Book of Queer Saints edited by @maeisafraid.bsky.social, recently got the audio treatment for Cool Zone Media Book Club. Listen to @margaret.bsky.social read it here:
www.iheart.com/podcast/867-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/867-...
CZM Book Club: Macramé Flames, by Eric Raglin - Cool Zone Media Book Club | iHeart
<p>Margaret tells you the tale of some nightmare queers off to bring about hell on earth.</p><p>See <a href='https://omnystudio.com/listener'>omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
www.iheart.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Hey, my Satanic craft store arson story "Macramé Flames," originally published in The Book of Queer Saints edited by @maeisafraid.bsky.social, recently got the audio treatment for Cool Zone Media Book Club. Listen to @margaret.bsky.social read it here:
www.iheart.com/podcast/867-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/867-...
this week's post is something i've been working on for a long time, and is a little guide to living the good life. Or it's early aughts punk nostalgia. Or it's my response to tradwife culture.
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-punk-r...
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-punk-r...
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
this week's post is something i've been working on for a long time, and is a little guide to living the good life. Or it's early aughts punk nostalgia. Or it's my response to tradwife culture.
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-punk-r...
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-punk-r...
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Just started reading The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy and what I can say so far is that if you loved the Tamora Pierce Tortall books and wish there was a genderswapped version by a trans woman about needing to be a girl to get trained as a witch, this could very much be the book for you
December 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Just started reading The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy and what I can say so far is that if you loved the Tamora Pierce Tortall books and wish there was a genderswapped version by a trans woman about needing to be a girl to get trained as a witch, this could very much be the book for you
Happy solstice.
Remember always that the light returns as the cold sets in.
Hope returns even as everything gets worse.
Remember always that the light returns as the cold sets in.
Hope returns even as everything gets worse.
December 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Happy solstice.
Remember always that the light returns as the cold sets in.
Hope returns even as everything gets worse.
Remember always that the light returns as the cold sets in.
Hope returns even as everything gets worse.
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You can see the exact moment when he goes wait I wasn't supposed to be in real fights
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
December 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
You can see the exact moment when he goes wait I wasn't supposed to be in real fights
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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I've learned much from @margaret.bsky.social
Co-Worker: Why are people upset about this book I heard about? Animal Farm?
Me: Okay so let's start with the Spanish Civil War and George Orwell
Co-Worker: Why are people upset about this book I heard about? Animal Farm?
Me: Okay so let's start with the Spanish Civil War and George Orwell
December 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I've learned much from @margaret.bsky.social
Co-Worker: Why are people upset about this book I heard about? Animal Farm?
Me: Okay so let's start with the Spanish Civil War and George Orwell
Co-Worker: Why are people upset about this book I heard about? Animal Farm?
Me: Okay so let's start with the Spanish Civil War and George Orwell
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Book 61 of 2025: THE IMMORTAL CHOIR HOLDS EVERY VOICE by @margaret.bsky.social. I will take as many Danielle Cain stories as Killjoy is graciously willing to write. Let’s go tell ghost stories in the woods. 📚👀
December 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Book 61 of 2025: THE IMMORTAL CHOIR HOLDS EVERY VOICE by @margaret.bsky.social. I will take as many Danielle Cain stories as Killjoy is graciously willing to write. Let’s go tell ghost stories in the woods. 📚👀
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Time for this one again.
You can read or listen to the zine here: www.tangledwilderness.org/features/a-l...
Option 1: You send me an address where you can get mail, and I mail you a copy.
Option 2: you print a copy yourself from this link.
Option 1: You send me an address where you can get mail, and I mail you a copy.
Option 2: you print a copy yourself from this link.
A Letter to the Trans Teens Thinking About Giving Up — Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
by Andy Izenson Zine #44 — August 2025 This essay was originally published by Scarleteen.com
www.tangledwilderness.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Time for this one again.
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It has the added benefit of being a lot more useful than despair, too.
Taking action, no matter how small or humble, vaccinates you against despair.
December 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
It has the added benefit of being a lot more useful than despair, too.
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Book 60 of 2025: THE BARROW WILL SEND WHAT IT MAY by @margaret.bsky.social. The second in the Danielle Cain series of novellas is putting the romance in necromancer—and then appropriately problematizing that romance. Let’s go fight demons in a bookmobile. 📚👀
December 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Book 60 of 2025: THE BARROW WILL SEND WHAT IT MAY by @margaret.bsky.social. The second in the Danielle Cain series of novellas is putting the romance in necromancer—and then appropriately problematizing that romance. Let’s go fight demons in a bookmobile. 📚👀
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It's International Scream and Scream Until Your Throat is Raw Day, happy screaming to all who celebrate!
December 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
It's International Scream and Scream Until Your Throat is Raw Day, happy screaming to all who celebrate!
Y'all this one was fun. I love when the subject is actually more radical than I expected, not less.
New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ⚔️
Margaret talks to Katy Stoll about the leaderless society that almost overthrew Rome.
@margaret.bsky.social @katystoll.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Margaret talks to Katy Stoll about the leaderless society that almost overthrew Rome.
@margaret.bsky.social @katystoll.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
December 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Y'all this one was fun. I love when the subject is actually more radical than I expected, not less.
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Sign up for our Zine of the Month Club on Patreon by Dec. 31st, 2025 to get out giant-sized January mailer, which includes:
-"And the Clean Bones Gone" by Margaret Killjoy, a Danielle Cain short story that is a companion zine to "The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice."
-"And the Clean Bones Gone" by Margaret Killjoy, a Danielle Cain short story that is a companion zine to "The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice."
December 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Sign up for our Zine of the Month Club on Patreon by Dec. 31st, 2025 to get out giant-sized January mailer, which includes:
-"And the Clean Bones Gone" by Margaret Killjoy, a Danielle Cain short story that is a companion zine to "The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice."
-"And the Clean Bones Gone" by Margaret Killjoy, a Danielle Cain short story that is a companion zine to "The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice."
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My thoughts are with all those affected by the horrific antisemitic terror attack on a Hanukkah event in Australia in which at least 11 people were killed.
Seen below is Ahmed al Ahmed, a 43-year-old Muslim father of two who risked his life to disarm one of the gunmen and was also shot and injured.
Seen below is Ahmed al Ahmed, a 43-year-old Muslim father of two who risked his life to disarm one of the gunmen and was also shot and injured.
December 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
My thoughts are with all those affected by the horrific antisemitic terror attack on a Hanukkah event in Australia in which at least 11 people were killed.
Seen below is Ahmed al Ahmed, a 43-year-old Muslim father of two who risked his life to disarm one of the gunmen and was also shot and injured.
Seen below is Ahmed al Ahmed, a 43-year-old Muslim father of two who risked his life to disarm one of the gunmen and was also shot and injured.
next week's episodes are gonna include some mindblowing revelations about the ancient greek connotations for the word "anarchia" and I will be so excited about this really nerdy thing that I will somehow convince both my guest and my listeners to be excited too.
December 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
next week's episodes are gonna include some mindblowing revelations about the ancient greek connotations for the word "anarchia" and I will be so excited about this really nerdy thing that I will somehow convince both my guest and my listeners to be excited too.
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New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
Margaret continues her dicussion with Dana El Kurd about Diogenes, the founder of the Cynics, who was kind of an edgelord and lived in a jar
@margaret.bsky.social @danaelkurd.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Margaret continues her dicussion with Dana El Kurd about Diogenes, the founder of the Cynics, who was kind of an edgelord and lived in a jar
@margaret.bsky.social @danaelkurd.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
December 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
Margaret continues her dicussion with Dana El Kurd about Diogenes, the founder of the Cynics, who was kind of an edgelord and lived in a jar
@margaret.bsky.social @danaelkurd.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Margaret continues her dicussion with Dana El Kurd about Diogenes, the founder of the Cynics, who was kind of an edgelord and lived in a jar
@margaret.bsky.social @danaelkurd.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
if you do this to me after I die I will find a way to kill you
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
if you do this to me after I die I will find a way to kill you