Christmas can be exhausting for autistic people. Here are a few reasons why and what you can do to help the autistic people in your life (and yourself!)

Whatever you do in your art that makes fascists angry, please do more of it. A lot more.

Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.

As I have been saying for years now, suggesting it's better to risk your child dying of a preventable disease than them being ASD would be bloody offensive even if it wasn't a load of tripe.
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If a reader dislikes your politics, then no amount of subtlety will prevent them from accusing your story of not being subtle enough. Not even if the politics of the story are about your right to live. Don’t go quieter to appease the callow.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #439:
Everyone has a past; parents; a childhood; a birthplace. That goes for fictional characters, too. If you don't know a person's origins, you can't understand the person. Even if they're hiding the facts, you, the author, need to know what they're hiding, and why.

Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it.

#Trans #LGBTQ #UK

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Lene's music is lovely ✨

Nice people are struggling over the revelations on Gaiman, and something I keep hearing is, 'His work had a big influence on how I shaped my own identity.' So here's something to remember:

You did that. He didn't do it for you. 1/

🧵Might not be around a whole lot with the Gaiman information getting circulated so much, but here’s some stuff I do want to say:

Victims of abuse are never foolish or to blame for their abuse.

If you didn’t see it coming, that’s not your fault. Abusers are very good at hiding the harm they cause.

Post a female character you love.

⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.

If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.

👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...

Four books to get to know me.

People of Bluesky. Let’s get to know each other better. What is one of your favourite movies?

Quote share your answer in a gif!

#filmsky 🎥

Introduce yourself with:

One book 📚 — Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson
One movie 🎥 — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
One album 💿 — Skuggsjá by Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik
One TV show 📺 — Black Sails

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

This week in publishing:

"...but, ultimately, you have to ask yourself if we really need an autistic protagonist? I mean, aren't we all a little bit on the spectrum?"

And that, my friends, is why we need more own voice autistic protagonists 🤦‍♀️

Repost with your 5 favorite reads of this year (in no particular order)

The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones
1984 - George Orwell
A Woman of the Sword - Anna Smith Spark
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers - Renni Browne & Dave King
The Darkness That Comes Before - R. Scott Baker

Post a banger that's not in English.

Of course I'm making my first post a song I have been *obsessed* with for months.

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