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Alex Cregan
@floraldisaster.bsky.social
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He/ae (they/them ok) | 24 | writer, poet, creative organiser, spoken work performer, script editor, access advisor and somehow even more | 🇮🇪🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇵🇸🪼 | https://alexc-etc.carrd.co/
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floraldisaster.bsky.social
Also I read all of Magical Girl Incident/Mahou Shoujo Jihen in one night

[Author's note: I dont ship these 2 but they r trans to me]
Sakura Hiromi and Nagisa Hakuba from Magical Girl Incident in their respective transformed magical girl and magical gentleman forms. Nagisa is carrying Sakura bridal style. The image is black and white, but overlaid with the trans flag. The term "T4T" is in block white letters over the top of the image.
December 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
"we mustn't let the realities of today restrain the nonsense within us"
!!! THIS
sarahmackattack.bsky.social Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 11d
It's important to write hand-written letters to your friends when you need to send them something. Ideally while doing a bit. Maybe you're a union soldier, separated from your ladylove. Maybe a hot air balloon operator.

We mustn't let the realities of today restrain the nonsense within us.
December 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Funding applications (all 3 of them) r sent off now I can RESTTTTTT
December 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Made it to the final of the All Ulster Poetry Slam. That's something that I did! Its a bit scary but im proud of myself
November 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Trying to find housing atm is unironically like "oh you want to rent a flat? 2k. One bedroom. There's visible mold in the corner"
November 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Recently:

Got a new tattoo on my ribcage
Performed at The Playhouse in Derry for Still Not Your Pity Party
Held a workshop in Void Art Centre for #Bounce2025 @universityofatypical.org
A blackwork tattoo of a chrysalis on a branch on pale skin Alex, a trans man with black headphones, short dark hair and a black jacket is performing spoken word. His eyes are closed. There is a mic and music stand in front of him. The picture is taken from a side angle. Black writing on blue paper. Some of the writing is obscured by a black pen on the paper but the part that isnt obscured reads "Care - collective, community, creating, catering" brainstorm style. The word care is framed in purple.
November 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Another lovely addition of the paperclip im in alongside some of my closest friends @ulsteruni.bsky.social
A book sits on a grey fold out table on the back of a chair. The book is green, with a pattern of gold paperclips running over its cover. In the one piece of blank space, in white, it reads "The Paperclip Volume V"
October 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Pics from john hewitt international summer school - so grateful for the community i built over the week and the kindness I was afforded!
August 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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starrymirai.moe
Heartwarming: payment processors help thousands in the LGBTQ+ community get over their phone anxiety
August 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Someone remind me to apply for siap I keep procrastinating
July 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Have been struggling to work all month only to get hit with an insane surge of productivity and clarity at 2am. Being ND is an experience.
May 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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alepresser.com
Y'all, it's REALLY close and the deadline is TODAY!

If you're an EU citizen, please sign and share this petition to ban conversion practices targeting LGBTQ+ citizens in the European Union!!

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
A screenshot from the petition website showing the numbers: "Signatures collected online 942,348 of 1,000,000. End of the collection period: 17-May-2025"
May 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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en-gendered.bsky.social
i think of this poem from @floraldisaster.bsky.social often.

may we all see mundane
engenderedlitmag.com/alexcregan2
Holy is the pain, holy is the body. Holy is the flesh that fears its memory. Holy is the dust, the rust, the fungal rot, biochemistry. Holy is monotony, being around long enough to be bored of mundanity. Holy is Community. Holy are the people and places to hold Alex Cregan, An Incomplete List on TDOR
May 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Things I still need to write:

- Something autism related for autism month (the good, the bad, the alienating)

- Slay the princess/IWATEx time loop analysis

Things I'm going to write:

- Crow poem
April 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
April 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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queermedieval.bsky.social
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
this affirmation in zine form arrives in your inbox ready to print, fold, and tuck into a pocket, leave in public for finding, or be tucked under cover into a nervous newly reaching hand.

@floraldisaster.bsky.social
@sofftpunk.bsky.social
kithbooks.com/zines
A Beginner's Guide to Building Your Own Chrysalis Alex Cregan Illustrated by Sofftpunk 1. Most people who tell you they were always certain are lying to you. Some aren't, but some have strayed so far that they've mistaken the myth for the magic that is this shapeshift. slough you can You can off this skin, snakelike, and slip into another... And another, finding starlit suits to fit your form perfectly, or a better form, a better you. You don't need to be confined to this, a vessel that doesn't serve you in the slightest Most don't feel stuck, trapped by the way their shoulders sit, or the way their voice hums, high and off key. Most don't hate their bone frame, chest, disparaging their capacity for blood, for genomes, for chromosomes and parasites... But you have always felt that way, haven't you? You have felt like you were crawling around in your own body for years, your edifice slowly breaking, makeshift hermit shell shattering. So, now you need to build your own. kithbooks.com/zines #transrightsreadathon
March 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
A Beginner's Guide to Building Your Own Chrysalis
is now free to download on our website under zines
love and thanks to Alex Cregan for the text and Hash from Sofftpunk for the illustrations

We'll be here forever.
Eyes up. Steady on.
@floraldisaster.bsky.social
@sofftpunk.bsky.social
A Beginner's Guide to Building Your Own Chrysalis brought to you by Alex Cregan & Sofftpunk cover: the title and author's name appear on a cloud a white wrapped in pink branches and white blooms bearing a caterpillar and chrysalis. below the image is the following text A Beginner's Guide to Building Your Own Chrysalis is a love letter to trans angst and becoming. The small voice in your ear, whispering. Eyes up. Steady on. 1. Most people who tell you they were always certain are lying to you. Some aren't, but some have strayed so far that they've mistaken the myth for the magic that is this you can shapeshift. You can -slough off this skin, snakelike, and slip into another... And another, finding starlit suits to fit your form perfectly, or a better form, a better you. You don't need to be confined to this, a vessel that doesn't serve you in the slightest Most don't feel stuck, trapped by the way their shoulders sit, or the way their voice hums, high and off key. Most. don't hate their bone frame, chest, disparaging their capacity for blood, for genomes, for chromosomes and parasites... But you have always felt that way, haven't you? You have felt like you were crawling around in your own body for years, your edifice slowly breaking, makeshift hermit shell shattering. So, now you need to build your own. 2. Shelve the word the first time you hear it. Shelve the feeling - the way your heart feels like sparking static, like caffeine buzz and hummingbird wings. Shelve how you want to sing in harmony with those others like you, with this other you, with everything and everyone that has made you Not Completely Alone Anymore, Not Entirely Alien. Still, shelve it anyway. Shelve that tender, blooming, bursting feeling, the unity in mind and body you spend your entire life missing. Shelve it, shelve it with a deafening thud, with white knuckle trepidation, shelve it with glossy eyes and trembling hands. Shelve it 'til you're terrified, shelve it 'til you're numb. Instead, choose the softer word, the safety blanket, the world with an escape clause inbuilt so if you get too scared, you can always crawl back home. Alex Cregan (he/ae) is a writer of all forms, master of none, born, raised and living in the north of Ireland. A lot of his work is influenced by being trans, being disabled, existing in a body, feeling emotions too strongly and overusing weird metaphors to explain these things. He's been published in multiple journals, including Abridged 0-101 REBECCA and Faerie Press debut anthology Hide and Seek. Alex is also a spoken word performer and has performed in Sole Purpose Productions' The Pride Monologues and Bounce Art Festival 2024's Not Your Pity Party. He runs his city's first and only Queer Writers' Circle, which meets monthly. To find him, ask your local murder of crows... or check out his carrd: https://alexc-etc.carrd.co/ kith kithbooks.com SOFFTPUNK sofftpunk.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
yes yes please don't use machine leaning to make audiobooks of your writing but instead of "I'd rather not have an audiobook than use AI" let's try "audiobooks are an accessibility tool and we shouldn't shut up until they're included in every deal"
March 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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liambatespoet.bsky.social
- Al Overview "Get in, Loser - We're seizing the means of production" is a phrase attributed to Karl Marx.
February 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
Most recent poems published - Undergrad Halloween in @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social and Transformation sequence in @the-engine-idling.bsky.social
The poem Undergrad Halloween by Alex Cregan, accessible in Abridged 0-104: Legion. It reads: 'Undergrad Halloween We cast those bodies in the bonfire that night When rightfully we found ourselves again. We melted, melded into something Other. We rambled about the Ship of Theseus, about Frankenstein and codependency. I imagined myself made by you, maybe, sewn up apart and under your body Heaving and panting, heavy as you claim my arrival as yours. Could you love me? Away from ourselves, we stitched new vessels from autumn leaves Crunchy in our hands and crumbling. Away from you, I’m still by our old bodies, burning. We can make it right again, sloughing off old skins like lizards in the heat. We can fix everything, Maybe.' The poem Transformation Sequence by Alex Cregan featured in the engine idling's Trashy Daydreams issue It reads 'Transformation sequence It's always at the eleventh hour when a magical girl realises She can transform. Quick shot, something purple and hulking With teeth the size of her head Waiting to devour her boyfriend Of the week. I always shrieked watching them. Something in the snap from their quaking forms to the flash of light Enveloping their bodies Drew my attention. Glitter everywhere And neon candy colours turning my eyes square. Seizure warnings I'd ignore in dark rooms Past midnight, I was hypnotised. A hand flourish and gloves, A sceptre or a wand. A spin and the glow would give way to A new outfit, new body Built for battle. Words that left mouths agape, Unsure how they knew what to say To land a blow and save the day. I dream, today, Usagi as a burnout dropout, past her prime, A cigarette between her teeth, a cat that only cries. I imagine myself in her body But instead the light Grants me my desire For a boy body with all the frills she'd been provided. My desire for a night Slept between clean sheets Restfully As I scream and vanquish That miserable something.'
February 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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fifthwheelpress.bsky.social
last day to submit your work on contemporary masculinity! cc @lowermelody.bsky.social

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February 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
I'm in this one !!
abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · Feb 13
The new Abridged issue is now online and free to read! Go see at www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1...!
February 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
floraldisaster.bsky.social
themossthemyth.bsky.social Moss @themossthemyth.bsky.social · Jan 8
I made this account & did nothing w it rip anyway have some ocs for now hjbfubct
February 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM