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500 WORDS IS BETTER THAN NOTHING

200 WORDS IS BETTER THAN NOTHING

50 WORDS IS BETTER THAN NOTHING

10 WORDS IS BETTER THAN NOTHING

ANY WRITING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING

I think of the first draft as an armature.

If I was making a beautiful bronze statue, I would need to make a clay model first. And, depending on the shape, before I even got out my clay I would need to get some good thick wire and create a basic shape for the clay to adhere to, so it doesn't all fall down. Once I have this essential 3D wire frame, I can start building and subtracting and refining.

But if I try to refine on just clay, it won't have enough of a core to hold it up. I'll sculpt a beautiful hand only to have the whole arm fall off and go smush.

The armature isn't the sculpture. It is the frame you build the sculpture around.

The first draft isn't the novel, it's a sort-of-novel-shaped thing that will hold up everything you build and beautify later.

Davrin: Yeah.

The body can seek control, choice, and agency in ways the mind didn’t get to have before. That doesn’t rewrite the past. It doesn’t turn harm into consent.

I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the rescheduled Mass Lobby at Parliament, now on Wed Sept 9th, 1pm-5pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.

The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It became statutory guidance in the UK on August 5th, 2026.

Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.

A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Our demands have changed. Ask your MP to:

Write to Ministers and Prime Minister Andy Burnham to say they are profoundly concerned by the rolling back of trans rights, and that they believe that it is time for Parliament to legislate to protect equality for trans people.

Ask parliamentary questions focused on protecting trans people’s rights and defending trans people’s abilities to live safe and dignified lives.

Speak up both inside and outside Parliament in defence of trans people’s rights.

Meet regularly with trans constituents to understand their lived realities. 

Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.

I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.

We have already had some wins because we took action. The 2026 EHRC guidance has already rolled back its most harmful elements because of mass campaigning by individuals like us, and groups like The Good Law Project. This summer, 166 MPs signed the Early Day Motion 240 to reject the EHRC Code of Practice, because of our campaigning. That is 1 in 4 MPs.

It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:

thank you @epiphany-jones and @maagisterpavus @in-the-drowning-deep for tagging me <3 mwah!

I'm attempting my lock-in for the @dragonagesapphicweek and started working on a belasara thingie. that was originally supposed to be just a cute fluff piece, but I think it's actually also going to be an exploration of the Anderfels politics as I envision them in the aftermath of Veilguard and the difficulties they create for Ghilasara. whoops!

#wip: piles of piles

“Why are you still up?” Bellara asks, clearly still too drowsy to be mad or disappointed.

“Just finishing some things up. You should go back to sleep.”

“Paperwork?”

“Yes,” Rook responds carefully. Bellara may soon wake enough that she can start approaching the previously feared states.

“You could,” Bellara yawns, sweetly, “bring it here.”

Rook dares a look at the spot in her room many times more enticing than her desk. Bellara has sat up, blanket sliding away to reveal the top of her nightgown and neatly braided hair already turned into a lovely mess. The other side of the bed, the one Rook is supposed to occupy, is achingly empty. She wishes she was there, tangled in the death grip Bellara considers her preferred form of cuddling.

“Only,” Rook musters, “if you promise that the paperwork will constitute most of what we’ll be doing.”

“A half?” Bellara bargains.

“The bigger half.”

“There are no ‘bigger halves.’” Bellara, more awake, now frowns. “If it’s a half, it’s already split into two equal—”

“Well, I’ll stay here, then.” Rook pointedly turns away.

“The bigger half…” Bellara pauses, as if trying to find the best way to describe the expression after she has so staunchly denounced its definition. “Doesn’t sound too bad to me.”

also, there is this. I may not be a mother in a traditional sense, but I sure have a lot of unplanned children in the digital world.