Lawrence Haunting (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️

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It really is funny how much of the modern fascist movement, from the inner machinations of the government to the genAI boom, is rooted in the philosophy of "it should be illegal to not like me and want to be my friend"

One thing about the whole "you have to read books if you want to be an author" thing is that if you aim to do more than just genre inbreeding, you have to read stuff outside the genre you're writing, too. May even have to read [shudders] nonfiction.

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The queer office experience: leaving the team therapy/counselling meeting and then spending almost an hour with the other queer person in the team flailing about all the things you didn't feel you could say with the straights around.

The online part was important too, of course. We collectively decided to not interact with any right wing post or comment ever. Trolls and bots lost their power. This is a good lesson.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

I briefly thought I'd wasted half an hour being trapped under Vesper unable to do anything else. But then I realised that I had achieved at making a small cat very happy.

Found an old note on my phone (a story idea? Dream?) that just says "Pipes taking soup down from kitchen." The most wholesome Ghostwatch spin-off?

Imagine feeling like your country's newsmedia could at any time turn its back and begin this level of hate campaign against you, to the point that they harass you and everyone you love to the literal ends of the earth, mining you for content until your death and even after. How would you live life?

Last night, without any prior context, I went to a gig by a brutalist architecture-themed shoegaze band. It was a good time, but also unnervingly like having my brain immersed in undiluted Nigel Kneale somehow.

The mask is off. It has nothing to do with women's safety (never did). It's about pure vile hatred of trans + people. CW. Severe transphobic abuse.

I think it's a real statement in the quality of NHS ND care that my GP put me in for an ADHD referral during lockdown and I heard nothing until today, when I got a letter taking me off the referrals list as I moved out of the area. Over-diagnosis my arse.

Again, it’s important to understand that the transgender terror did not arise organically from the public. It was imposed from above, by the world’s most hateful and poisonous media class.

Okay. Is the BBC going to edit out poppies then? Because if pride pins are political and biased and 'making a statement', then so are poppies.

It's surely the reason for the viciousness of the current backlash on queer rights (and trans rights in particular). But I don't really see how the bigotry gets sustained past this generation because there are going to be a load of queer kids growing up *knowing* how easy and normal it can be.

I still maintain that a world in which I have the funds to create and run a community centre (and have housing and financial) are next to nil but it's still a nice dream to have. And would annoy all the right people.

Reminder that when establishment figures complain about "elites" supporting progressive causes, they're - knowingly or otherwise - using that term in the same way they might also use "rootless cosmopolitans" or "cultural Marxists".

Me: I found a film that might be interesting, it's French. My partner: I don't trust French films. (Ten minutes of transphobia later) Me: ...let's watch something else. My partner: France.

I still maintain that a world in which I have the funds to create and run a community centre (and have housing and financial) are next to nil but it's still a nice dream to have. And would annoy all the right people.

When my new manager asked me what my long-term ambitions were and I confessed that my ideal role would be running a community third space but "it isn't feasible", she just answered "why not?" Which was nice, and now I feel obliged to open a community centre called "The Trans Lobby"

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

Rejection for a recent trans fantasy story I submitted said that they still liked it and it created a "lively discussion". Is that good? I hope that's good.

I think my silly(?) trans fantasy story descending into a courtroom drama definitely says *something* about where I'm at with *gestures at everything* right now.

Business ideas that appeal solely to me: Offal House Waffle House All the delights of waffles of every stripe (American! Belgian! Potato!), but with devilled kidneys, black pudding, haggis, liver and onions, take your pick, so long as it's blood-and-guts based.

Here is the BMA saying "we were worried about the FWS case, warned you about the potential health risks associated with the proposed Code of Practice, and now you have gone ahead and implemented policies that will cause serious harm to trans patients and staff' www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

I visited Asamkirche this morning, it was lovely. Though the inner part was closed for visiting

Also realised that I imagined exactly this kind of establishment (albeit a faux-Napoleonic roadside inn) in "An Offal Meal at the Fainting Diviner", all the way back in issue 17 of Endless Otherwheres Pay-what-you-feel bundle here: *rattles tin in "my hormone prescription now costs more"*

Like, if they won't it isn't a *disaster* because I can still get bloods done privately, but then I've got to drop £145 on a Medichecks kit, find somewhere that will do the draw, and spend the whole time being looked at funny b/c every place I've used Medichecks is confused by what I'm asking for.

Further reminder to myself that I need to return to Jolyon, the protagonist of Fainting Diviner, who in a draft somewhere on my hard drive uttered one of my favourite lines of dialogue I've written: "Never trust a man who crisps his bacon!"