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Hi, I'm Cassandra. I'm a trans woman who, among other things, likes writing romantic stories that contain trans people. I'm also like tabletop and video games. That all colors my writing, but most of my pieces focus on romance, escapism, and queer people, because I like those things.
Voice to text misheard me and said that we must imagine syphilis happy. I'm not so sure...
August 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Voice to text misheard me and said that we must imagine syphilis happy. I'm not so sure...
It's hard to pick just one, but 'She's Actual Size' has to be it.
Without saying Your Racist Friend, fav They Might Be Giants Song?
June 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It's hard to pick just one, but 'She's Actual Size' has to be it.
An idle Sunday morning thought:
* Creatives make content around their realization they're trans
* Those near their own realization see it and see themselves
* I wonder if anyone has studied who has the high score
* I wonder if the creators argue about who has the high score
I like to think they do
* Creatives make content around their realization they're trans
* Those near their own realization see it and see themselves
* I wonder if anyone has studied who has the high score
* I wonder if the creators argue about who has the high score
I like to think they do
June 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
An idle Sunday morning thought:
* Creatives make content around their realization they're trans
* Those near their own realization see it and see themselves
* I wonder if anyone has studied who has the high score
* I wonder if the creators argue about who has the high score
I like to think they do
* Creatives make content around their realization they're trans
* Those near their own realization see it and see themselves
* I wonder if anyone has studied who has the high score
* I wonder if the creators argue about who has the high score
I like to think they do
I didn't get any google image search hits for Rizzt Do'Urden and I'm disappointed in the whole internet now.
April 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I didn't get any google image search hits for Rizzt Do'Urden and I'm disappointed in the whole internet now.
Sometimes I wish I could play a game again for the first time.
I'm sitting here listening to some remixes from the FFXI soundtrack while I write, and even though I could go back and play it now, it wouldn't have the same feeling of scale and mystery.
I'm sitting here listening to some remixes from the FFXI soundtrack while I write, and even though I could go back and play it now, it wouldn't have the same feeling of scale and mystery.
April 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Sometimes I wish I could play a game again for the first time.
I'm sitting here listening to some remixes from the FFXI soundtrack while I write, and even though I could go back and play it now, it wouldn't have the same feeling of scale and mystery.
I'm sitting here listening to some remixes from the FFXI soundtrack while I write, and even though I could go back and play it now, it wouldn't have the same feeling of scale and mystery.
Did you know that you can write whatever you want, and no one can stop you? I just put the following to buffer, and the world did not rise up to end me (as would be just and proper):
'While the lack of a twelve sided die seemed a bit odd, I swore no special fealty to the dodecahedron.'
'While the lack of a twelve sided die seemed a bit odd, I swore no special fealty to the dodecahedron.'
April 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Did you know that you can write whatever you want, and no one can stop you? I just put the following to buffer, and the world did not rise up to end me (as would be just and proper):
'While the lack of a twelve sided die seemed a bit odd, I swore no special fealty to the dodecahedron.'
'While the lack of a twelve sided die seemed a bit odd, I swore no special fealty to the dodecahedron.'
A snippet from my work in progress. I'm still trying to find Tabitha's voice, or at least trying to suss out just how big of a bitch she is.
April 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A snippet from my work in progress. I'm still trying to find Tabitha's voice, or at least trying to suss out just how big of a bitch she is.
Reposted
now that british transphobes are essentially a protected category, the only consequences they can face are social and informal. it's your civic duty to be a complete piece of shit to them until they delete their accounts.
April 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
now that british transphobes are essentially a protected category, the only consequences they can face are social and informal. it's your civic duty to be a complete piece of shit to them until they delete their accounts.
I finally finished up the outline for my story. It has everything! Action! Drama! Romance! A harpy shitting on our heroine! Bar patrons arguing about whether or not that's more good luck than when a regular sized bird does it! A bar fight! Painting minifigs on a date!
April 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I finally finished up the outline for my story. It has everything! Action! Drama! Romance! A harpy shitting on our heroine! Bar patrons arguing about whether or not that's more good luck than when a regular sized bird does it! A bar fight! Painting minifigs on a date!
Reposted
"Are books getting too spicy?"
No. That's just overactive puritanism and censorship. Next question.
No. That's just overactive puritanism and censorship. Next question.
April 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"Are books getting too spicy?"
No. That's just overactive puritanism and censorship. Next question.
No. That's just overactive puritanism and censorship. Next question.
I find some Barenaked Ladies songs so relatable that I sometimes wonder which of them is one of us. "For You" is perhaps the worst offender, but "I'll Be That Girl" and "What a Good Boy" are strong contenders.
April 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I find some Barenaked Ladies songs so relatable that I sometimes wonder which of them is one of us. "For You" is perhaps the worst offender, but "I'll Be That Girl" and "What a Good Boy" are strong contenders.
A snippet from an in-progress essay about my tense relationship with my own body:
"Goodnight penis. Good work today. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning."
(with my sincerest love of / apollogies to The Princess Bride)
"Goodnight penis. Good work today. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning."
(with my sincerest love of / apollogies to The Princess Bride)
April 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
A snippet from an in-progress essay about my tense relationship with my own body:
"Goodnight penis. Good work today. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning."
(with my sincerest love of / apollogies to The Princess Bride)
"Goodnight penis. Good work today. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning."
(with my sincerest love of / apollogies to The Princess Bride)
To bring this thought experiment to a close, my bird nerd friend suggests that it would be about a gallon worth of stuff, and that it would be rare enough to convey the same 'lucky' status as a mundane bird pooping. Perhaps more because "as size goes up, frequency goes down"
Idle fantasy world building thoughts:
Do harpies have cloacae?
Follow up:
Is it considered good luck if they poop on you mid-flight?
Do harpies have cloacae?
Follow up:
Is it considered good luck if they poop on you mid-flight?
March 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
To bring this thought experiment to a close, my bird nerd friend suggests that it would be about a gallon worth of stuff, and that it would be rare enough to convey the same 'lucky' status as a mundane bird pooping. Perhaps more because "as size goes up, frequency goes down"
Idle fantasy world building thoughts:
Do harpies have cloacae?
Follow up:
Is it considered good luck if they poop on you mid-flight?
Do harpies have cloacae?
Follow up:
Is it considered good luck if they poop on you mid-flight?
March 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Idle fantasy world building thoughts:
Do harpies have cloacae?
Follow up:
Is it considered good luck if they poop on you mid-flight?
Do harpies have cloacae?
Follow up:
Is it considered good luck if they poop on you mid-flight?
Hey, it's International Transgender Day of Visibility. Let me offer up two things. First, an open letter I wrote in the aftermath of a lovely lunch with close friends titled "I Will Smother You With My Tits So Help Me God": cassandrabas.itch.io/a-sincere-pl...
Strong Letters to Follow
A series of recent frustrations and the suggestion of a friend has lead me to start a collection of open letters, essays, and other ramblings. Given the breakneck pace of jackassery in the world aroun...
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March 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Hey, it's International Transgender Day of Visibility. Let me offer up two things. First, an open letter I wrote in the aftermath of a lovely lunch with close friends titled "I Will Smother You With My Tits So Help Me God": cassandrabas.itch.io/a-sincere-pl...
Setting myself next to the piano in our art museum is the best way I could have spent today. So far:
* I watched a teenage boy teach his date how to play heart and soul
* Saw an old man play a medley of classical music as his wife sat there rolling her eyes
* Watched a kid play music from Mario 64
* I watched a teenage boy teach his date how to play heart and soul
* Saw an old man play a medley of classical music as his wife sat there rolling her eyes
* Watched a kid play music from Mario 64
March 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Setting myself next to the piano in our art museum is the best way I could have spent today. So far:
* I watched a teenage boy teach his date how to play heart and soul
* Saw an old man play a medley of classical music as his wife sat there rolling her eyes
* Watched a kid play music from Mario 64
* I watched a teenage boy teach his date how to play heart and soul
* Saw an old man play a medley of classical music as his wife sat there rolling her eyes
* Watched a kid play music from Mario 64
I want to build a whole combat encounter or adventure around this visual. To hell with monsters hiding in the tall grass. Monsters *are* the tall grass.
UK contemporary sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow #womensart
March 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I want to build a whole combat encounter or adventure around this visual. To hell with monsters hiding in the tall grass. Monsters *are* the tall grass.
Ok, I finally got into "The Sapling Cage" by Margaret Killjoy. Like, not deep in, not done, but far enough to be hooked. Now I'm frustrated that it's been sitting on the top of my to-read pile for like two weeks. I could already be impatiently waiting on the next book in the series!
March 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Ok, I finally got into "The Sapling Cage" by Margaret Killjoy. Like, not deep in, not done, but far enough to be hooked. Now I'm frustrated that it's been sitting on the top of my to-read pile for like two weeks. I could already be impatiently waiting on the next book in the series!
About to donate blood. When I do, I imagine it saving some bigot who spends the rest of their life knowing blood that passed through my factory original bits saved them.
Not that they'd know. Donations are anonymous, but if you get a transfusion, there's a chance there's a little bit of me in you.
Not that they'd know. Donations are anonymous, but if you get a transfusion, there's a chance there's a little bit of me in you.
March 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
About to donate blood. When I do, I imagine it saving some bigot who spends the rest of their life knowing blood that passed through my factory original bits saved them.
Not that they'd know. Donations are anonymous, but if you get a transfusion, there's a chance there's a little bit of me in you.
Not that they'd know. Donations are anonymous, but if you get a transfusion, there's a chance there's a little bit of me in you.
What if we took the classic meme of the impractically distant internet trans people romance, but instead made it isekai?
March 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
What if we took the classic meme of the impractically distant internet trans people romance, but instead made it isekai?
What's really been working is a set of open letters and essays that have sprung forth from my boundless frustration with the world and its bullshit. Eventually I'll post snippets. For now, enjoy a title:
"I swear to god if you say I haven't changed one more time I'll smother you with my tits."
"I swear to god if you say I haven't changed one more time I'll smother you with my tits."
March 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
What's really been working is a set of open letters and essays that have sprung forth from my boundless frustration with the world and its bullshit. Eventually I'll post snippets. For now, enjoy a title:
"I swear to god if you say I haven't changed one more time I'll smother you with my tits."
"I swear to god if you say I haven't changed one more time I'll smother you with my tits."
The CYOA idea I was fiddling aronud with was a trap. It's hard to focus on the narrative aspects when your day job is software development and there's this neat new language to pick up. On the plus side, it was a fun dalliance.
March 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The CYOA idea I was fiddling aronud with was a trap. It's hard to focus on the narrative aspects when your day job is software development and there's this neat new language to pick up. On the plus side, it was a fun dalliance.
I've been struggling to make progress on my projects. I've had like 3 false starts on Player/Character. Still *really* enamored of the idea (a table top player and the character they're playing converse through a LitRPG novel), but using my solo games as a source hasn't really worked...
March 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I've been struggling to make progress on my projects. I've had like 3 false starts on Player/Character. Still *really* enamored of the idea (a table top player and the character they're playing converse through a LitRPG novel), but using my solo games as a source hasn't really worked...
1. Someone's Homebrew Final Fantasy 6 Thing
2. D&D 2nd ed
3. Shadowrun
4. Gumshoe (Trail of Cthulhu)
5. 10 Candles
6. Vaesen
7. Girl by Moonlight
2. D&D 2nd ed
3. Shadowrun
4. Gumshoe (Trail of Cthulhu)
5. 10 Candles
6. Vaesen
7. Girl by Moonlight
1. First #ttrpg you ever played?
2. First you ever ran?
3. Played the most?
4. Run the most?
5. Favorite?
6. Most recently played?
7. Most recently run?
2. First you ever ran?
3. Played the most?
4. Run the most?
5. Favorite?
6. Most recently played?
7. Most recently run?
March 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
1. Someone's Homebrew Final Fantasy 6 Thing
2. D&D 2nd ed
3. Shadowrun
4. Gumshoe (Trail of Cthulhu)
5. 10 Candles
6. Vaesen
7. Girl by Moonlight
2. D&D 2nd ed
3. Shadowrun
4. Gumshoe (Trail of Cthulhu)
5. 10 Candles
6. Vaesen
7. Girl by Moonlight
If your heels are tall enough, it's like having a built in squatty potty.
March 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
If your heels are tall enough, it's like having a built in squatty potty.