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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Life is great and I'm a sweaty mess and I'm a girl who's spending the night getting spun around the dance floor.

Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do you like cozy fantasy, #booksky? HearthCon is coming up on October 3rd & 4th! There are a lot of awesome panelists talking much coziness, and indeed I'm going to be on the Cozy Fantasy Over The Rainbow panel (🌈📚) at 6PM PDT on Sunday. I love so many of these books, and it's gonna be a great time!

A promo graphic for HearthCon, the online cozy fantasy convention at www.LazyDragonBooks.com , which will run October 3rd-4th 2026.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It is several dances into Praxis Time and I'm already a mess of sweat. Life is good.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Happy Labor Day weekend y'all, I wish you many convivial block parties and firetrucks to keep the little kids amused.

The author, bringing a covered plate of cookies to the neighborhood association block party.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is a cool set of flags to be prominently at the convention center where the district PTA is having its training convention.

A set of flags, notably with a bunch of pride flags, at a convention center

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Social dance is great and more of you should do it. Wheeeee skirt goes spinny!!

A social dance set list, themed for tiki night

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

@hairypenguin.bsky.social I have run into some very funny bugs in Axom Conquest but the run I just abandoned at wave 48 was probably the funniest. "You have found all the upgrades" indeed! Also it glitched out and my Drill disappeared so I couldn't lose. But I couldn't Ion Cannon, so.

A screenshot from Axom Conquest in which there's placeholder text on some upgrades.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

> And I too shall fulfill my three duties... blood, fire, and bread. Sweeter than honey are these three, so powerful, and one is not allowed to add to their number, or to inquire about them: “Whereby do women earn merit?” ~R. Kalonymus, 1322 Happy #Pride & #TransMarch, and Shabbat Shalom!

A picture of the author at SF Trans March. She's wearing a rainbow pride flags minidress and a rainbow hat. She's holding a Tree of Life sign where each sefirah is colored as a pride flag. She is smiling.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

It has gotten me *so* much mileage. Check out the full review, it's a work of art!

A one star review of the web serial form of Quill and Still. It is by Temoffy, left on the site Royal Road. It is entitled "Good if you want it" and has as its logline "Communist gay utopia wish fulfillment, have at it if you want it but I'm out". It makes several culture war references to Temoffy's dislike of Sophie, the main character, on account of her queerness.

It has two upvotes and sixty nine downvotes.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I have been v. good and I have posted mostly things about how life is great, so I just wanna say that writing is fucking hard, Frozen Dreams is marginally on track for a June serialization, Q&S B2 is in the editor's hands, & you should buy my gay civics portal fantasy novel. mybook.to/QuillAndStill

A book promotional picture for the novel Quill & Still by Aaron Sofaer. The cover has main character Sophie Nadash gazing out over the grasslands at the village of Kibosh, with firebirds in the mid-distance. Arrows point from the cover to "Take a vacation with a portal fantasy", "OUT NOW!!!", "TOO many gods!", "Cozy queer slice-of-life fantasy", the alchemical squared circle graphic with the text "Alchemy!", and a 1-star review of the book that reads "Communist gay wish fulfillment. I'm out" with two upvotes and 69 downvotes.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

asdgfhjkl; okay this delights me. this is what I was looking for though.

52. You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you.
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Marcus Aurelius has already released you from the obligation to have a take

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Happy #TDOV #TransDayOfVisibility from this she/her normie PTA Dad. There's a lot I could say; most of I said perfectly fine in a speech a couple weeks ago at my town's TDOV proclamation. youtu.be/ceI-2c41gmM?... Here's to rainbow dresses & big pockets, my wife and friends, and most importantly:

The author, smiling at the camera in a black nebula dress and dark green jacket. The purple in her hair is very visible.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Here's a picture of just the sign! Quote text in the alt-text.

Remembering the movement of the White Rose June 1942 - Feb 1943

“The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.”

― Sophie Scholl

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Made some new friends already, got a cute picture, lots of support, people making inroads in the case of water bottles I brought, feels good to lib out.

Two women holding signs at a NoKings protest

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Yeah! Like @sunspot.gay's "Sunspot", or HY's katalepsis.net , or @magicariot.com's "Magica Riot". Or Quill & Still, a cozy queer slice-of-life portal fantasy about a middle aged Jewish (OTD) burned-out chemist & a kinder world. If "they do civics on purpose" appeals: www.amazon.com/Quill-Still-...

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Normal Rockwell meme, the site would be better if the refs banned everyone who used the term "bitch" in this way.

a snippet of text from a bsky post reading "call from the refs. Learn to block and mute on here it actually works. Bitch."

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

"There is no evidence for the efficacy of feminizing HRT" - a Very Serious Person, one of the Adults In The Room.

selfie of the author smiling at the mirror. she's wearing a Svaha nebula dress, belt, and barrette. she has a trans flag colors chainlink necklace, a rainbow chainlink bracelet, and a dark green lightweight full-zip Lululemon jacket. her hair is purple.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

San Francisco has some gorgeous places. 🤩 Also there are redwoods here and I know they are redwoods because they are ludicrously tall. God I love redwoods.

A picture of a waterfall in the SF Japanese Tea Gardens

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

*eyeroll* nah this is fine, everything is fine, blaming the blatant antisemitism of antizionist circles on The Jews is totally reasonable. clearly it's on us for forcing y'all to throw down with the slurs and defend those doing the same. antizionists are just uwu smol beans quoting David Duke. /s

text screenshot of a bsky post stripped of attribution, text says:

Antisemitism is on the rise and that's absolutely awful.

No movement is free of bigotry, but blaming this rise on the pro Palestine movement is absurd when you have pro Israel & Zionist groups insisting that genocide is Jewish & white nationalists jumping on that bandwagon to suppress speech.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I'm heading to contra dance tonight with my wife. We're both wearing spinny skirts that have already gotten us compliments from the Children's Discovery Museum docents. They are, yep, another couple of y'all's. 💖💜

Two Maya Kern skirts being worn down the sidewalk side by side. One is purple and one is red brown.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

this is ridiculous, obviously the correct definitions are these.

An image with the Heroes of Might & Magic III population labels, from Few to Legion.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

My hair is purple, your objections are invalid and I am brimful of joy.

Photo of the smiling author in the sunlight, her hair is very purple, she's wearing a rainbow hat and a rainbow backpack over a green jacket and green shirt.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

שֶׁעָשָׂה נִסִּים לַאֲבוֹתֵֽינוּ וְאִמּוֹתֵֽינוּ בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם בַּזְּמַן הַזֶּה

A menorah lit up for the last night of Hanukkah

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Shammai was right on the law, but Hillel was right on the aesthetics. The light of the miracle *grows*.

A menorah with five lights lit up for Hanukkah.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Another night, another light. Taking a moment to tell stories about driving back the darkness.

A menorah with the shamash and four candles lit

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Chag sameach from the suburbs where we thrive and where our lights and flag speak our truths. May the day come that doing so no longer qualifies as an act of defiance.

The outside of a suburban home. There is a PVC-and-LEDs hanukkiyah lit up for the second night of Hanukkah in the yard and rainbows of icicle lights in the eaves.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

like, there's so many people like this asshole. I have blocked *so many of them* but the flood never ends, I think maybe most of them are bots but that might just be cope because I don't like believing that these people are real.

an accusatory skeet by a terminally online alt-lefty

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

apparently transgirl praxis is knowing Robert's Rules of Order (from serving on a city commission) so now the PTA is drafting me to be parliamentarian? I guess my whole thing of "Sparkling Normie She/Her Dad" really is working.

the author in a smiling selfie, wearing her rainbow hat, a rainbow child-sized backpack, a dark green jacket, and a nebula dress

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

One week. Cast your goddamn vote y'all. Up with Prop 50 in CA! Put Democrats in office if that's relevant to you in various other places! It's the simplest and easiest thing you can do. Oppose the Republican Party—that's the single moral imperative of elections right now.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Median person at this protest is a retired grandmother cheerfully waving an American flag and of a mood to rip an ICE agent a new asshole.

The author with her wife and daughter at a protest

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The world turns, day turns to night and day again, and they in turn become weeks and months and years. And eventually the trans girl gives in to her yearning and goes purple haired in a cocktail dress to her cousin's wedding. And is cherished no less thereby. Life is such a joy, gloriously.

The author dressed up for a wedding with her wife, likewise.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Post a screenshot of your first 5 Steam purchases and let Bluesky judge you Open the Steam client, click your name in the top right -> account details -> View purchase history and scroll down . secret bonus sixth slot: Bastion, one of my favorite games of all time.

A picture of the start of the author's Steam purchase history. It reads, bottom to top: Defense Grid: The Awakening, Altitude, Total War: Shogun 2, Portal 2 (preorder), Orcs Must Die! Preorder

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Amazing how much better life feels when I get myself off my ass for a walk on my lunch break. #SelfieTithe

A selfie of the author in a rainbow hat and rainbow sunglasses, going for a walk on a sunny day

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

On my way to be a respectable normie parent and do the meet and greet for new families at Tiny's new school. Funny how time both flies and drags.

The author smiling at the camera in a rainbow hat selfie

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

God it's nice to have the in laws around. I'd better get up and help dry dishes though. I guess. #SelfieTithe

The author sprawled across the couch. She's wearing a T-shirt and an aurora skirt.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Sunny day, might as well tag along to the park with the in-laws as we all take kiddo to the park. #SelfieTithe

Selfie of the author in a BlackMilk galaxy dress, rainbow hat, and rainbow sunglasses on a very sunny day.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Skyline is surprisingly neat today, doing my #SelfieTithe part to maintain the vibes courtesy of an absolutely beautiful day and my wife having said I look pretty.

The author on her way to buy groceries. She's wearing a rainbow dragons dress, rainbow hat, and rainbow sunglasses. She has a backpack on and is grinning widely.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Cozy queer slice of life litRPG actually! It's not particularly inspired by Trek directly, more by Becky Chambers and Graydon Saunders among others.

A one star review of Quill & Still by Royal Road user Temoffy. It describes the story in negative terms. It has two upvotes and sixty nice down votes.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

#SelfieTithe from a girl who's a little unkempt but still is happy about a nice day in a string of nice days. God I love living here.

The author smiling at the camera in her back yard. It's very sunny out!

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

A girl on a train! Heading up to the city to meet up with an old friend whom I haven't seen in far too long.

The author sitting in a train, wearing a purple mask and her rainbow hat. The window shows motion lines.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Feels like I haven't been posting my #SelfieTithe bullshit from outside recently because I haven't been doing drop-off. But I have an errand I need to run and it's a beautiful day, so!

Selfie of the author in her rainbow hat and rainbow sunglasses. It's a gorgeous sunny day.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

It's funny how much of an effect even just stud earrings have on the face. #SelfieTithe

The author in a selfie, smiling at the camera

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