Nic Anstett

The people who mocked you as a child for thinking your stuffed animals had personalities are trying to convince us that the computer they use for therapy and revenge porn has anxiety now.

Nic wears a black dress with floral sides and a leg slit

Nic wears the dress from the previous photo on stage

Thank you everyone who came out to the Big Trans and “Hon”-Binary reading last night! It was a joy to have another chance to wear this dress, share my wacky ass writing, and see all your gay faces.

I know some think AWP is stressful and there are aspects of this conference that can be gross and scummy, but I always find it so soul boosting and uplifting. There are some truly amazing people in the literary community and I love getting to spend four days straight with them and their art.

Author Mariah Rigg's headshot appears in the lower right corner. Above is a quotation from her interview: "Some writers are interested in character, some in place or plot, but I’m most interested in relationships."

"Some writers are interested in character, some in place or plot, but I’m most interested in relationships."

On the site, Associate Editor Kate Jayroe interviews @riggstah.bsky.social, author of Extinction Capital of the World. Link in thread.

Shout out to the Lyft driver that @riggstah.bsky.social and I had last night that exclusively played Imagine Dragons.

Otakon forever tainted this convention center for me. AWP should not be in the same place that I saw a screening of Otaku No Video

That's right. You got no leg to stand on, Newsom supporters. Shut your hole. We don't need anti trans anti homeless greaseball shit. North Carolina is purple, it's not some blue stronghold.

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

The game board for the classic Candy Land board game, which shows a rainbow-segmented wandering path with various candy-based characters around it.

Where I'll be at #AWP:

i feel strongly that anyone that thinks that there is a nefarious cabal of surgeons and doctors Transing people should be forced to try and schedule one (1) transsexual procedure

Picked my docs up from the local cobbler only to find her watching Fox News in the shop. Guess I need to find a new shoe doctor

these AWP announcements about readings all over my beloved city make me just schoolgirl-happy

Something else about Vanderbilt's capitulation: VUMC said it would only offer “nonsurgical gender-affirming care for adults 19 years and older.” But 18-year-olds are adults. Tennessee law bans this care for people *under* 18, so VUMC is once again overcomplying

We’re getting a snowy Monday and an 80 degrees and sunny Saturday all in one week. March in Maryland doesn’t fuck around.

What if there was a mindful way to steal people’s art, pollute Black neighborhoods, and raise everyone’s electric bill?

There, fixed it

Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

Scene from Andor, Imperial propagandists talking about manufacturing public support for a genocide: edited on the last word. The propagandist says, with a smirk, "Hasn't there always been something slightly arrogant about the trans?"

NYT opinion page for the last decade:

some cis folks have committed to delusion regarding the NYT's eager participation in the destruction of trans lives. cis ignorance doesn't change the facts, however — which lots of us *have* paid close attention to for a long time. if you're oblivious still, your privilege is showing.

shockingly people are capable of simultaneously,

1. Hating their government

2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

“Rutherford Statement on Operation Epic Furry” “Furry” highlighted by me http://rutherford.house.gov/media/press-releases/rutherford-statement-operation-epic-furry

Google result showing the presser for Rutherford’s statement on “Operation Epic Furry” was posted 11 hours ago

What a time to be alive

i’m at the anti-ICE protest
i’m at the anti-war with iran protest
i’m at the combination anti-ICE anti-war with iran protest

Kinda weird no one ever says "[news story] is just a distraction from the attacks on trans rights," huh?

Provided that things work out, what mediocre but widely read book will become a mainstay in high school and college classrooms?

I’m realizing that I have the same haircut as Lena Heady in “Imagine Me and You.”

Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change

Stephen King
@lmanusos.bsky.social
Kelly Link
Aimee Bender
@nicanstett.bsky.social
@emelkrishnan.bsky.social
@coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social
@edenroyce.bsky.social
Thomas Ligotti
@avitusbcarle.bsky.social
@foxesandroses.bsky.social
@ppirapokin.bsky.social
wait, I have more, I--

hi, hello, killing people in a foreign country with no legal basis isn't a distraction from anything. get your priorities right.