Writer, editor, reviewer. Lambda + Hugo winner, Locus finalist. Hungarian / Jewish / agender / neuroatypical. E/em/eir/emself or they. טומטום. Header @likhain
Jul 11, 2018 • 41 tweets • 11 min read
🖊️ WRITING THREAD 🖊️
Introducing trans and/or intersex characters - some common and less common pitfalls!
(A note that here I also include all sorts of nonbinary, genderqueer, gender-nonconforming and other kinds of non-cis / gender-atypical characters too, even if they are not explicitly labeled trans; but that wouldn't fit into the word limit. Sorry about that!)
May 8, 2018 • 32 tweets • 5 min read
🖋️ Worldbuilding thread! 🖋️
Some pitfalls related to shapeshifting, gender, and trans people.
As usual for my worldbuilding threads, this is not to subtweet any specific story, but rather to point out larger trends / common issues.
(I read a lot of trans-related fiction and currently edit a trans anthology series, Transcendent: The Year's Best Transgender SFF.)
Feb 26, 2018 • 34 tweets • 8 min read
🖋️ Worldbuilding thread! 🖋️
How (not) to include trans people as background characters - some common mistakes.
Just a note: this thread is not subtweeting the stories I am currently reading for #Transcendent3: Year's Best Transgender SFF
It was inspired by several books I recently read - what I'll say will be more relevant to long-form.
Jan 2, 2018 • 104 tweets • 52 min read
I want to do this too!! So many cool threads!
📚 1 like = 1 book in my TBR for 2018 📚
I will try to do it with Amazon links (US Amazon affiliate links as usual) so you can preempt me and read the books even faster :D
2100 words, contemporary portal fantasy deconstruction + sense of wonder + feels!
(Content warning for physical injury + threat of death.)
Choice quote :) :
"Up until then, you’d just assumed that most people couldn’t even see the doors, let alone go through them; you’d had plumbers in to fix the bathroom after the cheetah incident, and they hadn’t seen anything."
Choice quote :) :