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Esther 📚✍️🏳️‍⚧️
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21 | Intersex Transfem Enby | Horror Author | AroAce Lesbian | Happily engaged

She/They/It/Fae

Current Project: The Union Of Flesh
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Esther 📚✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @esther-tabor.bsky.social · Sep 21
Hello everyone! This account is dedicated to my current novel, which is a work in progress: The Union of Flesh. It is part of my overarching series called Omens. The current Beta version of the book is available on Wattpad, where I am publishing chapters at least once a week.
A book cover showing a cabin in the woods. The text at the forefront says "The Union Of Flesh." Underneath this text is smaller text reading "Omens Book One," and even lower still is "Dusk Noir / Esther."
esther-tabor.bsky.social
Finished another chapter and started just crying and crying because of how sad what I wrote was lol. I wonder if it's actually sad enough to make others cry who will read the final version one day.
October 23, 2025 at 3:49 AM
esther-tabor.bsky.social
Just wanted to give a gentle reminder that I stand behind other intersex people including those like me who have a weird gender and don't fall neatly into the boxes that perisex binary trans people demand of us.
October 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
esther-tabor.bsky.social
I think it's very important that when I get back around to my second draft that I'm able to more clearly illustrate the experience of the MC of being an intersex trans woman because I think I really don't focus on it as much as I wanted to.

I want to help make there be more intersex representation
October 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
esther-tabor.bsky.social
I finished listening to the audiobook of manhunt when I was at work and I think that was a bad idea cuz I got to the end and I started crying while cutting t-bone super value packs for the sale.

That fucking ending tore my heart open what the fuck!? I was so sad. 💔💔 But it was so good
October 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
esther-tabor.bsky.social
I'm much further into it now oh my God this discusses transmisogyny so well. I love this so much so far. May make a thread later today
esther-tabor.bsky.social Esther 📚✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @esther-tabor.bsky.social · Oct 8
Reading (listening to the audiobook) of Manhunt.

They cut off my balls when I was born so I guess I'm safe? But uhhh yeah so far loving it and only read the first chapter.
October 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
esther-tabor.bsky.social
I don't have dungeon but I have prison

From Chapter 8, Preparation.

#WipSnips
The designation for Phi’s or the expendables was so much worse. Individuals who are considered expendable get this rank, they’re most likely to die and almost always were in prison before being taken in by IASEC in a deeply unethical manner. Nobody knows they exist, they’re considered to be unwanted and unmissed by everyone in the world. If they died there would be nobody who cared it would be a mercy. That was the view IASEC took. I had met many Phis while working at the base during my downtime before being allowed out again. Almost all of them had died or been horrifically marred by the Psi’s they were let into the enclosure of and forced to do tests and experiments on. True and unabashed depravity was all that defined their existence. “Harper! You realize I’m choosing between you being reassigned one or Angel?” he snapped. I suddenly stopped my anger-filled rant, my face faltering as the meaning dawned on me. “You, you think I’ll be in danger if we hide it. You don’t care what will happen to you..” I spoke softly, my words trailing off as I stared blankly at the man before me.
October 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
esther-tabor.bsky.social
Reading (listening to the audiobook) of Manhunt.

They cut off my balls when I was born so I guess I'm safe? But uhhh yeah so far loving it and only read the first chapter.
October 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
esther-tabor.bsky.social
From Chapter 31: Collaboration

#WIPsnips
“You did the right thing. I’ve dealt with more irritating situations,” I sighed. Truly I didn’t know what compelled people to run around all willy nilly when some horrible threat was lurking in their town and had just attacked them recently. The first major events were always the bloodiest of any doomsday. The fact a school remained as a safe haven… well I supposed I should count my blessing. “Most people in this town seemed more prepared.”
October 8, 2025 at 4:51 AM
esther-tabor.bsky.social
I wish there were more books I could easily find where the main characters are intersex trans people. My book is doing just that.

I'm just sad I barely ever find anything with a body like mine. I want people with ambiguous genitalia.
October 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
esther-tabor.bsky.social
Oh no, I forgot to introduce one of the main character's father...

Well, that's for the second draft now, I suppose.
October 6, 2025 at 3:39 AM
esther-tabor.bsky.social
From the first draft of The Union of Flesh, Rings Of Union: Chapter 25

#WIPsnips #bodyhorror
“Reform,” the next word was spoken and an immediate reaction occurred. The pile of flesh seemed to be morphing. The individual bones, fat, skin, and muscle seemed to mix together. The features changed as it began to resemble what we had seen in the abandoned grocery store. A twisted unsightly thing that had no business existing in this word. I could see each of them separately now. Their eyes all were gripped by the same madness I had seen before. The aggregations twitched and shuddered, they seemed to be trying to push into one another and become whole.
October 6, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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danifinnwrites.bsky.social
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🚩Fascism tightened its grip.

✊There were some who resisted.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Dystopian stories of trans hope & resistance.

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Itch: danifinn.itch.io/the-incorpor...

Elsewhere: books2read.com/b/4jd7ql
The incorporated states volume 1: user not found, iris, and May You Wear Me Like a Shell, by Dani Finn. All 3 covers feature blue and pink prominently.
September 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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riengray.bsky.social
🧷Hello! I'm an agender intersex butch writer of F/F and F/X trans fiction, both romance and speculative.

I currently work on a sapphic Arthuriana series named Out of True, but I also have a finished noir series starring a nonbinary assassin. #BookSky

riengray.itch.io
www.amazon.com/stores/Rien-...
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October 11, 2024 at 4:19 PM
esther-tabor.bsky.social
A little late but... #LGBTQWriteAThon

Also a little more than a line
Yet it still had the strength to take down the series of balconies on the second floor to our left. The screams of the people who had been there were horrific. Hermenegildo rushed to their aid, catching a few in the air and doing his best to save them from being trampled. Able slid off of the roof and landed beside me as I continued to pelt the thing in a volley of bullets. “It’s dying. You lot won’t do much good with more shooting,” he said, picking up the megaphone and bringing it to his lips. “They’re retreating, get everyone away from that beast it’s aboutta fall over! We don’t know what else it may be capable of.” I in the meantime had changed my focus of the gunfire to the few lingering flesh creatures around the behemoth. I could tell Able was right, a good amount of them had fled, but we still needed to get rid of more of them. I noticed Angel and Dionysia had picked off a good amount of them, their intensive focus unbroken. They looked amazing like this. I found myself earning a whole knew appreciation for my lovers.
October 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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faerynnistired.itch.io
“don’t be bigoted towards AI.”

your AI data centers are poisoning Black communities as we speak, please get some fucking perspective. jesus christ
October 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
esther-tabor.bsky.social
I have never been this happy and proud of myself when it came to my writing before. Obviously, things will get cut down eventually, but just being capable of getting to this point makes me so happy.

101,594 words...
October 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
esther-tabor.bsky.social
From Chapter 28- Network
I felt tears burning in the corners of my eyes. The sound of several footsteps running past the darkened alley drew my attention. Out of the corner of my eyes I could see the group scurrying further down the street, heading the direction from which I came. After a few minuets of silence the hand around my mouth dropped. I took in a deep breath and in that moment I realized the person who had grabbed me hadn’t been breathing at all. “I’m sorry to to meet ya like this again. I was hoping our next encounter would be on better terms,” the familiar voice filled the void of sound. I realized suddenly that it was the man I had slept with when I first came to this town. I remembered the taste of the alcohol on my tongue and the desperation to forget everything. I remembered my body being littered in bite marks from a man I could barely recall, and the scolding that I got from Hermenegildo for my foolish actions. I was surprised to see him here of all places. This time he wore a mix of hunting gear and leathers. His face was as stoic as I had remembered, his pale eyes fixated on me. The same graying black hair, now a bit longer. His face wrinkled and hardened with age.
October 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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furry-hater.bsky.social
TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!
October 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
esther-tabor.bsky.social
#WIPSnips

From chapter 2!
“Yeah, I’ve got some extended family who lived up here not too long back. They don’t live here anymore, but it’s where I found work,” Hermenegildo lied. I at least thought it was a lie. In truth, I had not the faintest idea of his awareness of this town or the lack thereof, nor did I particularly care enough to find out. Any level of closeness to anyone in this hellhole was pointless. I would survive, but I had no faith anyone else would. Even trained men like him had a tendency to go missing or turn up face down in a river. Agents’ only form of turnover in IASEC was from death or retirement after all. “Ah, that checks out, where’d ‘ya find work?” the man inquired. “With governmental stuff, funnily enough. It’s a bit complicated,” he was actually telling the truth. IASEC had ties to the government and was considered a strange branch of international governmental interest to numerous countries, both allied to the United States and not. “Ah… then you know about the new mayor. Look, I don’t have a problem with people doing what they gotta do, but I don’t like them one bit. He’s a nasty man and doesn’t give a shit about our community.”
October 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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androgynyfiend.bsky.social
ok so since you disabled quote tweets on your announcement that i have reposted here, let me get this straight: ppl were upset that m/f relationships were centered in a sapphic bundle and you responded by going "actually these (largely trans fem & WOC) authors don't deserve financial support"?
October 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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benjanun.bsky.social
They have, uh, removed every single transfem author that was in the bundle. I was joking when I said they want to make 'sapphic spaces' all-TME all-white again. 'Single-sex spaces for discussing sex-based rights' here they come.
October 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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faerynnistired.itch.io
i would also like to point out that not only is this race faking accusation vile as shit, several trans women of colour have been treated like shit by the runners of this podcast.

chat, is this “uplifting authors of colour?”
benjanun.bsky.social Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · Oct 1
The Ku Klux Karens are now accusing me of faking my race lmao. Wonder why they felt they had to do this hmm.
October 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
esther-tabor.bsky.social
Why is it so hard for people to just label books as generally queer or bi or pan? Why do they try to claim it's just gay or just sapphic or just straight.

My first book is queer. Are there sapphic elements and is a lesbian couple the endgame couple? Yes. But there's other relationships in the book
October 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
esther-tabor.bsky.social
From chapter 24- All Hallows Eve

Searching for this word made me find out I use "bear" and "unbearable" WAYYY too much. When I finally finish the first draft I'll have my work cut out for me with the second
“Oh yes, you most certainly have. It’s been quite some time and it seems you’ve well umm you uhhh changed your… Ummm lifestyle,” he said begrudgingly. I scoffed, astonished at the audacity of this man. Angel bristled next to me. It took me a bit longer to realize who I was talking to. Riley Williams. One of the men who I had spoken to at the previous Union meeting that I had attended. His enthusiasm and disposition had seemingly changed dramatically from how he was before. A part of me wanted to just walk away but I decided to bear with it. As Angel took the token and decided where to place it, I found myself studying Riley’s appearance. I had to know if he was the same as Esther. I wasn’t entirely certain if he had disappeared previously, we didn’t necessarily know all the people who had gone missing. Hermenegildo and I had become sloppy for a bit while dealing with the progression of his condition. I noticed he made the same disjointed and stiff movements that she had done. His eyes
September 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
esther-tabor.bsky.social
I wish people understood that being visibly disabled doesn't actually mean anyone understands anything about what you're going through. My legs are quite literally deformed. I have femoral anteversion, (genuinely valgum) knock knees, and flat feet.

Examples for those who don't know what that means
September 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM