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Ava Lily

@avalily17.bsky.social
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Living a complicated life.

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cunt orlok @t4tcisphobe.hellstar.plus · 3h
the three best words a traumatized girl can hear from somebody close: i want you
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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Someone out there feels a little less alone in the world today because you live out and openly trans.
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niko ☿ niko @nikonikonek000.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
art is about showing the world your soul, and sometimes you show other people their own soul by accident when they look at it
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

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The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Coda is a very unofficial fancomic I made in 2017 about the ending of twilight princess. You can read the whole thing in this thread, and it's also in a public post on my patreon: www.patreon.com/careydraws/p... (1/x)
cover for Coda, a twilight princess fancomic by carey pietsch
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Emoria - Aftertaste OUT NOW @emoria.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Seniors get it, kids get it, kind people get it. You know who doesn't get that trans people are just people? Fucking weirdos.
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Basil 🌱 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Puppy and flower
Drawing of a puppy and a flower with the caption; "You deserve a life you aren't constantly recovering from"
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Ava Lily @avalily17.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This girl is 42. She started estrogen at 40. There is still time.
A cute trans girl with glasses and dragonfly-wing earrings, wearing a green top. She's standing outdoors and the background is filled with foliage.
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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 15/08/2026
I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it. I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.
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Krispy @feathernotes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
So, we need to talk about webtoons(the company) has done to webcomics Over the past 7 or so years, we've seen this absolute shift in expectation, migration, and stagnation in the webcomics sphere which applies to style, sustainability, and the platforms grip on readers and creators
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Lavender @ecophresh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Every single trans woman I've met has a host of personal trauma and tragedies that would render a lot of people into cruel and irrascible hermits. They all instead defiantly love others with their whole heart and weep at the fact that love is not returned by some people.
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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Please stop paying for anything Harry Potter. This is where your money is going. At this point, you're not an ally, you're an abuser and we're your victim.
JK Rowling says the lawsuits will keep coming - to prevent trans women from using the right restroom.
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furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
threads post with the poster's name sadly removed with the text: "You asked ai. Gross.I asked my neurodivergent friends online, and they are more accurate and use way less water. Mostly because they forget to drink it."
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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 04/08/2026
too many people who love magical girls don't know about Magica Riot yet and this must change 🥹
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⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE⚡⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Let me say that again: waiting 1-2 years to let trans teens start HRT really is not supported by the research literature any longer. The kids so infrequently stop HRT that the delay in treatment probably causes more harm than it prevents. It's time to phase out puberty blockers for trans teens.
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Emoria - Aftertaste OUT NOW @emoria.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
My good friend @meegle64.bsky.social got their hands on a book (Meme by the fabulous @mockwooloo.bsky.social)
1: kid in trans pride dress: Mom... I'm trans 

2: mom: is that because of that book you read?

3: kid: oh yeah, lemme check if l accidentally read the
fucking book that makes you trans

4: it’s aftertaste: oh fuck
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
@wondravanian.bsky.social
wondravanian · 03/23/25

“Disabled people can do things. But it costs us. And if you don’t have to sacrifice a large portion of your day to do something, don’t comment on my ability to do it.

My family member visited for 3 hours today. I was in pain and exhausted afterwards. I slept for 10 hours straight.”

My family member visited for 3 hours today. I was in pain and exhausted afterwards. I slept for 10 hours straight.”
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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 20/06/2026
I want to scream every time I see some company or exec or whatever saying stuff like "using AI will unleash our creativity" because it literally cannot. AI cannot make anything but a worse version of stuff that already exists. that's how it works. you can already go look at stuff that already exists
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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Always remember: Someone has seen you live your life as an out trans person and realized, for the very first time, that a future is actually possible.
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Ava Lily @avalily17.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Two of the books I've enjoyed recently - Girl For a Week by @autumnwolff.bsky.social and Egg Prime Directive by @mothmother.com - have included scenes where a freshly-hatched egg is treated as entirely feminine in the most intimate ways, despite not having started her transition yet.
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Ava Lily @avalily17.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We have been broken. The cracks run deep, but we bonded ourselves together, and are stronger for it. We are several, and we are a singular whole. And we shall not be broken again.
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⚧ Andi Jay is (gonna be) OK ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @no-spoons-no-forks.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A dear friend is grieving over her transition. That she had thought transitioning would fix things. Fix her. Make her less sad. Make her less afraid. Less lonely. Less angry. I thought about what would have helped me to hear, when I transitioned. And told her this. I hope it helps you too. 1/7
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Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com · 06/06/2026
This is an easy one for me: The Egg Prime Directive includes the full novelization of the 1st season of a fictional trans affirming magical girl anime called Maiden's Last Stand that I DESPERATELY want to see in the world as a standalone project, ideally animated by Science Saru or Ufotable!
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Tamsin the Sword ⚔️ Monster 🧌 @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 02/06/2026
It’s also worth noting the strong correlation between transphobic views and other bigotries: racism, sexism, antisemitism, and more. That makes sense. After all, once you’ve normalized hating the Other, it’s only a matter of time until you find another set of Others. And another. And another.
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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 08/05/2026
Hey any artists willing to share table space with a bum like me for Rose City Comic Con this year, DM me
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a cartoon character is crying with her hands on her face .
ALT: a cartoon character is crying with her hands on her face .
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Ava Lily @avalily17.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
He/him He/they They/them She/they She/her ... She/fae?
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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"I always wanted to write a book, but I never had the time. So I used AI instead." If you actually wanted to write a book, you would have written a book. What you wanted was to be published, for whatever reason. (Fame? Fortune? Respect? To feel like a special lil guy?) And that's not the same thing
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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.
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Sylvia, A Crime to Meat @estrogenandspite.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Dear Jurassic World: If you give me no likable characters, I’m going to root for the dinosaurs. This is not a problem, except you clearly want me to root for the humans. Here’s an idea: next movie, it’s all poachers. By the end of the movie, they have all been eaten or stomped. Dinos win.
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Ava Lily @avalily17.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
As someone who is very much trans herself, it is heartwarming to see a cis person treat the term as a compliment. I have long appreciated your inclusiveness.
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Ava Lily @avalily17.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
A package with a mysterious symbol appeared at my door. @dresdencodak.com
A package stamped with the Rising Sun logo, a symbol of Dark Science from the webcomic/graphic novel Dresden Codak. In the background is a trans pride flag.
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Ava Lily @avalily17.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The callouts are getting too accurate.
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Ava Lily @avalily17.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I constructed a new personality to hide my own identity from myself for decades. I did what it took to endure, to survive. And I will continue to survive.
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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 22/03/2026
FUCK HARRY POTTER READ MAGICA RIOT
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C. M. Alongi @cmalongi.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Words have power.
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Ava Lily @avalily17.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
There was a long process, involving the Gender Dysphoria Bible and following a lot of trans folks. My egg was barely holding together, but there was a moment that completely shattered it. Ironically enough, it was reading eggfic.
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C. M. Alongi @cmalongi.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I don't judge people's genders, but I DO judge their choice of name. These are both banger. 😜 #queer #transgender
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C. M. Alongi @cmalongi.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
What's the saying? If you live your life with privilege, equality feels like oppression. #sexism #feminism
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= MiracleMarble = VGEN OPEN @miraclemarble.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Reposting with alt text! 💜
An infographic image with a purple space-y theme. At the top of the image in a semi-cursive font, the title says "Things to remember with Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD)"
The rest of the text, each point having its own bubble, reads as follows:

"Everyone doesn't secretly hate you"
"Most people aren't scrutinizing everything you do"
"You don't have to be perfect to be loved"
"You're not a bad person for mistakes you've made"
"Your intrusive thoughts are lying to you"
"The people in your life want to be there"
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Ava Lily @avalily17.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Got a long day of work, and my brain starts it off by thinking about some of my worst trauma from a year ago. Yay.
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Sylvia, A Crime to Meat @estrogenandspite.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
For once in your life, allow for the possibility that you might succeed. For once in your life, consider that things might work out. For once in your life, don't run away. Do it scared. Do it audaciously. Do it proudly. Just fucking do it.
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Sylvia, A Crime to Meat @estrogenandspite.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Art is a conversation, and copyright laws try to force it into being a monologue.
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
*Cupping your face with both hands* The parts of you that the people you were "too much" for made you feel bad about are the most beautiful things about you!
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pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 19/02/2026
basically every time someone says they want to have a "level-headed" conversation about AI or "just discuss" without everybody "getting up in arms" or whatever what they actually mean is "please agree with me that it's good and don't yell at me for using it :("
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Ava Lily @avalily17.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Inspired by @estrogenandspite.bsky.social , I decided to take myself out to the mall for the afternoon to get lunch and a bit of shopping. Nothing too fancy, just a mini-date of sorts.
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SPiNDLE @spindlesong.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"Why won't he date me!" "honey.. you told him 'your eyes are beautiful.. i could spend hours studying how your pupils contract when in fear!' when he didn't even know your name" "But i could have! I wasn't lying" "That's.. not the point"
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