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He/they | British-Trinidadian🇬🇧🇹🇹 | Based in UK
Queer, transmasc 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️| Chronically ill
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Ready to watch Wicked!

In the Leicester Square cinema where they had the premiere no less.

I’m so ready 💗💚
Wicked for Good title on a cinema screen
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Finished Crash Landing on You!
One of the best TV shows EVER made. I lost count of how many times I cried. Just perfect.
Crash Landing on You, with Korean actors Hyun Bin and Son Ye-Jin
November 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Much love to my trans siblings today.
Trans day of remembrance. Today we honour those who lost their lives to anti-transgender violence and discrimination
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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3 historical romance books with trans main characters for Transgender Awareness Week:

- A Gentleman’s Gentleman by @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social
- The Chromatic Fantasy by @dirtcupart.bsky.social (more like historical fantasy)
- A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
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November 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Sci-fi books with non-binary main characters for Transgender Awareness Week:

- Key Lime Sky by Al Hess
- Hammajang Luck by @makana-yama.bsky.social
- Terms of Service by @cielpierlot.bsky.social
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November 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Books with more than one trans main character for Transgender Awareness Week.

- Self Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore
- In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu
- The Sunbearer Trials by @aidenschmaiden.bsky.social
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November 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Genderfluid book recs for Transgender Awareness Week:

- Moth Dark by Kika Hatzopoulou
- Court of the Undying Seasons by A.M. Strickland
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
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November 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Had a brilliant day at YALC - the Young Adult Literature Convention.

I was tired so I only went for 3 hours in the afternoon, but that’s when the books get reduced, so I got all these for less than £30! 📚💙
Somadina by Akwaeke Emezi The Dagger and the Flame by Catherine Doyle The Rebel and the Rose by Catherine Doyle Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender Chaos King by Kacen Callender Ander & Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha Normaux by Janine Janssen
November 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Queer trans BIPOC book recs for Transgender Awareness Week:

- Dulhaniyaa by @taliabhatt.itch.io
- Confetti Realms by Nadia Shammas
- Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
- The Tensorate Series by Neon Yang
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November 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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3 Transmasc books for Transgender Awareness Week:

A Hex for Hunger by @kataraqui.bsky.social
Silver Blood by @tallimorgan.bsky.social
The Prospects by K.T. Hoffman
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November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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3 Transfemme book recs for Transgender Awareness Week:

Shadows Over Ravenkirk by @itsviviactually.bsky.social
The Sapling Cage by @margaret.bsky.social
Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders
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November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Ahh Hachette sent me Eternal Ruin, the follow up to Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma!

I LOVED book 1 - a Black woman enrolls in a university for humans and vampires to find out what happened to her missing sister, but has to cohabit with her number one suspect, a vampire

Can’t wait to read this 📚💙 📚🤎
Eternal Ruin by Tigest Girma. An image of a Black male vampire about to bite a Black woman, with the tagline: secrets uncovered, lovers pulled apart, a race against death itself
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Incredibly proud of my seaside lunch today. All the most important food groups.
A waffle with ice cream and a hot chocolate with marshmallows
November 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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I’m having a really good, incredibly British day.
Picture of a British seaside town and the sea
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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I’ve been published in a zine!

The piece is called “Existence Rebellion: A Joy-Full Manifesto for the Marginalised”
All about finding joy, and spitting it the face of those who try to bring us down.

The last line is cut off, but reads: “live brightly. Live happily. Just live.”
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Existence rebellion A joy-full manifesto for the marginalised. Hatred is everywhere, and it’s getting bolder. This hate isn’t novel, it’s just losing its shame. So life is hard on the margins. This we know, it’s not new. Not to me. Not to you. And because it’s not new, we have learned to survive. We carve out communities, families and friends. We dig in, batton down, we make our safe havens and fight for our lives. But we must remember what we’re striving for. Amidst all the fear and the preparations and the practical considerations. We must remember to live. We must remember to be a beacon of hope for ourselves, to shove aside the shadow of white hetero hatred. To dance and thrive while the people in ivory towers spew their legislative lies. We must remember to have a ball, right until the end. That is the secret. This is how we win. When society spurns us, we sing all the louder. When the haters rise up, we fling our joy in their faces. Claw our happiness from their gnarled crony fingers and paint the town rainbows. They hate to see us happy, so happy we must be. It’s hard, of course it is. This life is a balance, of dissonance, resistance, and defiant, desperate joy. This is how movements are sustained. Yes, there are the angry days. The what-the-fuck-is-happening days. The hide-under-the-duvet days. The take-to-the-streets, scream-and-chant days. But we need the good days too. If we want to do more than survive, we must make our lives good. To gorge ourselves happy on the things they forbid. Demand access to the table of plenty. They don’t want you to marry? Get fucking married. They don’t want you in their spaces? Turn up and party. They’re policing your gender? Put on the garment and take pictures of yourself looking hot/handsome/pretty. Hold onto that moment of perfection, when you are you in your glory. Even in secret. That moment is yours. Hold onto life and then live it, as hard as you can. Be Black. Be brown. Be He, be She, be They, be all of the above. Unmask, take up space, be ‘weird’, get in the way. Heal the hurt of the bad days with memories of the good. No one can take those away. We must remember, we are the descendents of strong, defiant ancestors. Disabled and neurodivergent. Queer and trans. Black and brown. We stand on the shoulders of proud, fearless elders, who stuck it out for a future that was better than the past. They fought for us, tooth and nail. And We’re. Still. Here. So even if it’s in secret, hidden in your room, typing on a keyboard, scribbling in a sketchbook, just… live. Live brightly. Live happily, if only for a moment. Do everything you can to make the good days beat the bad. It is possible, it can be done. By you, by me, by everyone. Our very existence is beautiful, an act of rebellion. Joyful and delicious. We are gifts, we are precious. We deserve to be fought for. Live brightly. Live happily. Just… live.
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Catching up on Physical Asia (just watched episode 2) and I had no idea Yun Sung Bin was in it!! I loved him in Physical 100. Everyone was in awe of him and he was just so humble.
Yun Sung Bin, a Korean man, in Physical 100
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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It’s Bonfire Night!

“Remember remember the 5th of November, gunpowder treason and plot”

I see this night as a celebration of anti-establishment rage. Fuck the system. Burn it all down.

I’m sadly not going to any bonfire events but I’ll be happily watching fireworks from my window.
V from V for Vendetta with a Guy Fawkes mask on
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Read this for my October book club!

I really enjoyed it. The fairytale reworking was fun, the supporting cast endearing, the villain truly scary.

However, the romance felt unnecessary, and some decisions made no sense. So, not as brilliant as Cinderella is Dead, but overall really good! 📚💙 📚🤎
Sleep Like Death by Kalynn Bayron. A Black woman in leather armour holding a green apple.
November 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Just discovered Thai Boy Love shows. And Girl Love shows. Where have these been all my life?

I’m currently watching My Stubborn, which has two gay couples, one lesbian couple & a queer cast. Admittedly it’s not the best budget/acting, but it’s sweet, comforting silliness.

Also, look at this guy 🔥
Thai actor Boat Yongyut Termtuo in My Stubborn.
November 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Just reached 12k followers!

Thanks for joining me as I natter about queer, BIPOC and disabled books!
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A screenshot of Disco’s BlueSky profile highlighting 12k followers. With a cartoon picture of Disco, a tan trans man with short black hair
November 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Look at my new dungarees!!
#studioghibli #spiritedaway
Disco wearing black dungarees with a No Face from Spirited Away design
November 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Current read, loving it!

A Black girl is trained to fight zombies to protect wealthy white people. But then she discovers families are going missing, and a conspiracy is afoot.

I’m loving the main character. She’s (very rightly) angry, brilliantly clever, and totally kick ass. 📚💙 📚🤎
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland. A Black teenage girl in period dress holding a sickle.
November 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Just watched Frankenhooker for the first time!

Kinda loved it. The aesthetics and campiness were great, but it also had commentary on sex work, toxic masculinity, the New York crack epidemic in the 80s, societal beauty standards & sexism.

Also the prop department looked like they had FUN #filmsky
Still from Frankenhooker with Patty Mullen as a female Frankenstein’s monster with purple hair
October 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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I have exclusively used Halloween crockery today and I feel very smug.
A blue mug with a skeleton Bowls with skeletons and a witch Bowls with bats and coffins and gothic houses A coffee cup with a witchy cauldron and books
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Finally saw The Lair of the White Worm!

Hilarious Halloween watch.

Slow start but the final third is utterly bonkers in the best way, e.g. using bagpipes to charm a snake vampire policeman.

Peter Capaldi and Hugh Grant seemed vaguely confused to be in something so bizarre and budget. #filmsky
Poster for The Lair of the White Worm. A snake woman baring fangs.
October 31, 2025 at 7:37 PM