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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@auferre.bsky.social
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Huge nerd. Sings and codes, not necessarily in that order. Not big on own pronouns, happy to respect yours. Leave my trans brothers and sisters alone.

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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 1h
Spent a good chunk of this morning working through the judicial section of mine and looking up insurance commissioners and school board candidates, but done now and ready to go!
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 1h
Also what I wear is no one's business except my own (unless I'm onstage, in which case the director gets a say) and if I hear any complaints I'm going to start wearing a skin tight leopard-print bodysuit to the gym as payback.* *think your grandmother, only less svelte
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 3h
This is fashion news tailored specifically for me.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 5h
I wish to opt out of today's discourse(uncountable)(derogatory)
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Exactly. If you can't be bothered to respond to the League, I'm going to assume you can't be bothered to do the job you want to be elected for, either.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Oh, if I find out someone is doing this it’s an *instant* block.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
(I'm generally the second or third oldest person in opera chorus these days, which leads to some funny conversations.)
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Had a mid-20s soprano at rehearsal absolutely shocked I knew about AO3 and slash fic. I had to explain I've been on the internet since ten years before she was born.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I just... have these people missed the entire point of creative work?? If I don't do it myself I don't get to *enjoy* the work! I don't learn from it! I don't get to express the things I express with it! Why would anyone do that??
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This needs pondering.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Me too, mostly! (Except when someone tells me to do something “normal.” How do normal humans do things? Do they think about their breathing? Do they hold their arms a certain way? What do they do with their hands??)
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Both of those things sound like humaning to me!
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That's my only objection to pumpkin spice things - where's the pumpkin?? You promised me pumpkin!
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I mean, I am.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Rehearsal 'til 10PM last night, another starting at 10 this morning with an hour drive each way and a tropical storm coming in. Good thing I like doing this...
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Your health *is* important, but that includes happiness and wellbeing. Being sad about things you won't be able to do that make you happy isn't ridiculous. (Even if they're things other people might not understand.)
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
N “It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.”
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh, I’ve been looking for a good app for planning dog walks…
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Off for an echocardiogram and a staging rehearsal.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That was part of what I loved about it - the gods *should* be not only mysterious, but absolutely incomprehensible.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Assembled from the finest random assortment of puppy parts.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Well, if we assume the words are a perfect sphere...
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That was how I felt - this is very specific! It must be a reference to something I should be able to figure out! ???!? (This is not a complaint! I wish more books gave me that ???!? feeling!)
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That letter left my brain going "Wait, was there foreshadowing?? Do I need to reread the whole book??"* *I mean, I'll be doing that anyway
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hm! This would be super useful for a project I've had sitting in the back of my head for a while...
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hey @sfwa.bsky.social, any comment on MRM trying to shift the blame for their blatant rights grab to you? (Reposted with alt text from the original post by @analogsf.bsky.social because I don't trust MRM to leave it up.)
A Statement on Copyright Retention Instead of "Work-for-Hire" Cover Illustrations at MRM

We previously commissioned illustrators to create covers as work-for-hire when they were asked to adapt authors' original stories for elements such as cover art.

This will be changing.

The rights granted to MRM by authors are limited, and therefore we can't protect the intellectual property and rights of the original author of the story, if we at the same time grant the authors' rights to the illustrator so that the illustrator can then retain an adaptation copyright. We don't acquire rights from authors that allow us to grant illustrators broad unencumbered use of the worlds, characters, and other elements created by the author.

We're planning to pause cover contracts based on specific stories for the foreseeable future while we figure out the best way forward with those kinds of commissions.

We prefer a process that will both feel fair to illustrators and protect the story authors' copyright.

To that end, we can license existing art or license new original art for our covers (not based on a story) with contracts for illustrators where the artist clearly retains the copyright in the underlying image, since there are no underlying rights owned by authors of the stories that are a part of these kinds of original works.

Regarding retention of "moral rights" in illustrations: our licensing agreements for original art and original fiction use language prepared by an international IP attorney based on notes we received from SFWA's contracts committee. These kinds of agreements no longer include a waiver of moral rights.

We always appreciate when contributors to the magazines express their concerns.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Too busy making sure no one resurrects the corpse of Byron.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Either your publisher is profoundly ignorant of the basics and history of the industry or this is several lies in a trenchcoat.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(this was a work conversation yesterday)
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Whatever anyone says about your body, I'm envious of your your hair" is possibly the most offensive backhanded compliment I've ever had. I wasn't sure whether to respond with 'thanks', 'WTF did you just say??!', or a direct-eye-contact disappointed 'oh, honey.'
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Political satirist LFW in any universe where writers get paid a living wage and stories don't come true.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That was definitely it. Couldn't be anything else.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The fact that it was a blessing from a former city council member who knew *exactly* how to respond to the rule change to cause maximum chaos got a cackle from me.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Clearly I haven't been unhinged enough about this game.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm trying very hard to be polite to the colleague who has discovered that he can ask chatgpt things that would take him less time to look up on Wikipedia.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
(Even more grateful that while the internet technically existed when I was a teenager, I didn't have access to it and therefore there are no records of how insufferable I was at that age.)
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Still extremely grateful that while the internet existed when my children were born, it was also in its infancy at the time and I didn't have the patience to spare.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seriously one of the people who got me interested and inspired me for decades. One of the people who made Software Engineering a real, respected field.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh, dammit. One of my personal heroes.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Mighty hunter must be prepared!
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Okay brain, you can stop describing things using pointless quotation marks any time now.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As an example of why I like bsky, "author of books I love recommending other books I'm probably going to love" is hard to beat.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Unfortunately evergreen in This Fucking Year.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seriously, I've read *so* many people I'd otherwise never have picked up a book by or even heard of because they recommended/were recommended by/were friends with other authors here. There are other reasons I like bsky, but that's one of the big ones.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Important for endurance training, I'm sure.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
PayPal needs a "stop telling me about crypto, it just reminds me that I'm horrified I have to trust you with my bank details" setting.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Also, "oh hey, the author of this book I loved is friends with this other author I've never read, maybe I'd like their books too??" is a thought that occurs to me constantly.
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
...this makes me wish I could pre-order books people haven't written yet
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
...that looks like something I'd wear with my gothiest outfit and smile disturbingly while making constant direct eye contact with people
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El is in the Details @elsbells.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Still $463 to go for late Oct. rent, and I can’t close the gap. I’m a disabled freelancer working hard on the aspects of my health I can control; maintaining my housing is an essential factor, but one I currently need help with. Every dollar counts. 💜 Cashapp/Venmo: Elsthere
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