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Katherine Monasterio

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editor, author, and oxford comma advocate || easing back into professional-adjacent sosh meeds with occasional fandom yodelings || she/her || https://linktr.ee/katherinemonasterio

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The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information you’re absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.

28.02.2026 16:12 πŸ‘ 1070 πŸ” 416 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 9
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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

This thread is now dedicated to organizing aid for trans refugees

If you need help or have help to offer, please @ me

Instructions and updates to follow in below 🧡

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

26.02.2026 06:04 πŸ‘ 1418 πŸ” 1413 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 61

If you want to stand up against fascism, then you have to defend trans rights. It’s nonnegotiable. We all lose otherwise.

26.02.2026 05:32 πŸ‘ 2259 πŸ” 1017 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 12

To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.

26.02.2026 03:15 πŸ‘ 5049 πŸ” 1691 πŸ’¬ 67 πŸ“Œ 38
Trans Continental Pipeline Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado

Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline.

Please share.

tcpipeline.org

26.02.2026 01:53 πŸ‘ 1013 πŸ” 810 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 28
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Into The Badlands β€” The Chain Story To finish off the month of February, the Chain Story Project is pleased to offer Into The Badlands by Alina Lee. This story is powerfully written and just doesn’t let go. This is not a story to miss...

The Chain Story Project has just released a new story: Into the Badlands by @typewriterlizard.bsky.social .

The story is free, so please read, like and SHARE. Thank you!

www.chainstorycore.com/blog/into-the-badlands

26.02.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

24.02.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 4810 πŸ” 1708 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 71
Two BattleMechs, Grizzlys in Ghost Bear colors, fire at each other in the snow on the cover of Star-Crossed Warriors: The Dominion Civil War, Part One by Bryan Young

Two BattleMechs, Grizzlys in Ghost Bear colors, fire at each other in the snow on the cover of Star-Crossed Warriors: The Dominion Civil War, Part One by Bryan Young

BattleTech fans (or just fans of good fiction!) my latest is out! Star-Crossed Warriors is part-one of a four part series about the Dominion Civil War.

I'm so excited to see this series finally kick off and am positive fans of Clan Ghost Bear will dig it! store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/bat...

20.02.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3

what a little sweetheart πŸ₯Ή fingers crossed he tolerates the chemo super well!!

19.02.2026 22:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
it's the silly four-photo meme of actress jamie lee curtis yelling at someone. in the first three images, she's pointing and snapping, clearly agitated. in the fourth and final image, she's angrily and furiously drinking something from a clear glassβ€”which i've sloppily colored green to look like matcha, because i'm hilarious, okay.

it's the silly four-photo meme of actress jamie lee curtis yelling at someone. in the first three images, she's pointing and snapping, clearly agitated. in the fourth and final image, she's angrily and furiously drinking something from a clear glassβ€”which i've sloppily colored green to look like matcha, because i'm hilarious, okay.

okay listne

19.02.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sending encouraging vibes to all my fellow creators. Maybe you feel like you're alone or can't celebrate those small wins.

Every piece you make is a declaration of your value, your joy, your contribution to a world full of people who desperately needs you.

Make. Celebrate. Keep going.

17.02.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

me working on my drafts

13.02.2026 03:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.

The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.

12.02.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 1263 πŸ” 771 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 145

The thing that gets me about this attitude is that it's so... Self-centered...? Selfish?

Other authors are not competitors. This is not Survivor.

Other authors are colleagues. Friends. Collaborators. Human beings worth being in community with.

11.02.2026 05:09 πŸ‘ 101 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

10.02.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 31325 πŸ” 13779 πŸ’¬ 972 πŸ“Œ 1688
A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying β€œART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds β€œTHEIR HUMANITY.”

A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying β€œART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds β€œTHEIR HUMANITY.”

Make Art (1/4)

10.02.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 12329 πŸ” 4494 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 39

not entirely sure how i ended up in yodeling distance of the bsg wiki but im not complaining

10.02.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I LEARNED SO MUCH FROM THIS THREAD IT WAS WONDERFUL

09.02.2026 08:28 πŸ‘ 244 πŸ” 80 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Black and white sketch drawing of a woman knight in armor, her sword on her right shoulder, cuts and blood on her face
This was done as a study of a pic, for the pose and armor

Black and white sketch drawing of a woman knight in armor, her sword on her right shoulder, cuts and blood on her face This was done as a study of a pic, for the pose and armor

bloody knight

09.02.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 4954 πŸ” 1290 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 12

Do you like cyberpunk?

Do you like it when trans folks tell their stories?

Drop a buck or ten & back the new cyberpunk canon!

07.02.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

05.02.2026 11:50 πŸ‘ 32274 πŸ” 13861 πŸ’¬ 589 πŸ“Œ 1596

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser.

What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

02.02.2026 10:58 πŸ‘ 9372 πŸ” 2883 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 40
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The First Binding Check out this great listen on Audible.com. β€œEpic fantasy at its finestβ€”an homage to storytelling and legend, richly told and endlessly engaging.”—Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter Do...

Hey everyone, if you have the spoons/space, I'd really appreciate a signal boost/share of this:

www.audible.com/pd/The-First...

The First Binding is on a month long 6.99 sale (America/US audible only) right now for all of Feb.

And it's my bday this month, so :) <3

01.02.2026 15:35 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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a man is wearing an orange vest and says yes exactly exactly Alt: gif of a moment from the snl sketch β€œStar wars: undercover boss: starkiller base” where Matt the radar technician (who’s actually kylo ren/adam driver in disguise) agrees with a peon and says β€œyes, exactly, EXACTLY”
31.01.2026 01:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i know there’s lots going on but i just need to take a sec to beg hospitality designers to add more hooks to everything. why am i unable to hang more than one (1) towel in any hotel bathroom. some of us have things to steam or robes or gawd forbid a second person who also uses a towel. give us hooks

31.01.2026 00:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Free Fiction for Month’s End β€” The Chain Story To round out the month, the Chain Story Project is pleased to bring you Of Crowns &amp; Consequences , a story of Direk, Lord of Vengeance, by Jason M. Waltz. It’s a dark and philosophical story you ...

The Chain Story Project has just released a new story: Of Crowns & Consequences by Jason M. Waltz. It's a story of Direk, Lord of Vengeance. If you've not read of him before, this is a great intro, and if you have, you know what you're in for.
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fiction-for-months-end

28.01.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.

Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

27.01.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 4218 πŸ” 1931 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 86

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

26.01.2026 00:14 πŸ‘ 10695 πŸ” 2496 πŸ’¬ 218 πŸ“Œ 79

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

25.01.2026 02:05 πŸ‘ 5164 πŸ” 1809 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThere’s no point to calling because my senators already agree with me”

β€œThere’s no point to calling because my senators won’t listen”

These are both false information and you should correct and/or block anyone circulating them. Your calls are tallied and create support and/or real pressure.

24.01.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 1424 πŸ” 657 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 13