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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 14h

The future as imagined by men lacking the vital spark, who see no value in others' lives, who cannot envision the internalities of anyone unlike them, and who truly believe that everyone wants life to be an endless parade of flattery and yes-men just as they do.

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now @benjanun.bsky.social · 18h

I've seen some readers question why some specfic takes place in, let's say, a queer-normative world, but which still has this or that inequality. While I don't know why other writers do it, this is why we have inequality (and frankly horribly dystopian aspects) in Gunmetal Olympus.

But why have bad things at all in your narrative? In a world without misogyny or transphobia or homophobia, why have this? Surely a culture like this would be perfect and everyone would think and say and do all the right things? That would be nicer! It would be more comfortable!
It’s tempting to be glib and say, so the characters will have something to struggle against. And it’s interesting when characters have to inhabit someplace awful. How do they live with it; how do they react to it? There’s so much potential for ideological clashes and growth (or corruption). The pressure cooker of a dystopia can do so much for character writing that I don’t think can be done so easily in genuine utopias. There’s nothing wrong with those, of course, but by nature they encourage a fairly different type of writing and approach to characterization. In-story, I feel that if Elysium was this perfect utopia of wonderful, joyous social progress, it would fail to reckon with the gods’ generational trauma, the fact that even after a hundred years they can’t really create a world free of their parents’ flaws. That would all be a little too easy, and frictionless. There are real scars that they must come to terms with, one way or another, and confront the truth that they haven’t healed that much, not really.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 18h

Fiction is always in conversation with the world we do inhabit; "I wish the ills of the world gone" is only one way to have that conversation. "Attack Dogs" would be very different and IMO less interesting if it wasn't about the persistence of patriarchal ideology, even in a very "queered" world.

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 17h

anne carson's sophocles translation lives rent free in my head. her word choice is as precise as a surgical knife. one of the great, there's no doubt about it.

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 20h

Shy trans guy who goes through a second puberty that makes him stronger, more confident, and able to stick to walls? Waiter, I'll take two!

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 20h

If you're looking for a collection of works primarily written by trans women & lesbians, look no further than this absolute steal of a bundle. The Gunmetal Olympus universe is at the front lines in transfuturist writing, and it has something for everyone itch.io/b/3756/mecha...

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 20h

Me with [redacted] and [redacted] and also [redacted]. Happy that [redacted] will be returning for the third mainline book though.

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 21h

beginning a chapter: I'm her. I'm that bitch. I'm the best there ever was baby! ending a chapter: what have I wrought? from the wood of mine suffering I have hewn only more suffering. is this the cost of creation? am I doomed to labor this rock up this hill for all time? So be it. So be it.

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 21h

Describes one of my favorite ships that I alas cannot share with you all

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 21h

Wrong. The social contagion in Elden Ring is Feet.

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 23h

Mecha school where the bottom half of the class becomes attack dogs for the top ten percent

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

as if it's nuanced when it's really just teaching us to ignore and invisibilize the people who are most at need in marginalized communities while pedastelizing those who can conform. Notice how none of these groups get the material support they need.

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't think it's a coincidence that so much discourse around marginalized people tends to revolve around how some of them CAN conform. They focus on ace people who like to have sex, autistics who are "high functioning," lesbians who have sex with men, non dysphoric trans people. This is presented

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This reminds me of how deep I will sometimes get into an outline before realizing "Character B" is not a good name for a beautiful baby girl

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's incredible how her total capitulation on trans rights didn't stop this

Annie Andrews clarifying she opposes trans rights

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the concept of having straight gender roles in a gay relationship

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If it's against your "religious liberty" for gay people to love one another and have the same rights as everyone else the you and your religion belong in the trash can, not the government.

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Guys like this low key have to die your mind is rotted beyond saving if you think being a rapist makes you an authority on healing and restorative justice.

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You're telling me Toby Fox is transgender? You're telling me this for the first time?

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I just did my final pass of this story and I need a shot and a hug

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now @benjanun.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For Weapons of Olympus, @callistokhan.bsky.social is cooking up what I can only describe as 'what if these two but lesbian'.

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Logan @bulklogan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wendy Carlos in front of a synthesizer with 50 bazillion wires and knobs

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is my response every time a new game has that disgusting over the shoulder "cinematic" camera like I just want a fixed third person pov from the characters back not this freakshow that strains the engine every time I move

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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Aphrodite @desire.gunmetolymp.us · 04/10/2026

Adrastus x Spider-man crossover

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Nothing is more horrible to the average straight woman than realizing they have not married The Patriarch much less an actual woman. The very concept of loving another woman brings them to violence.

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now @benjanun.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's a story in here co-written by @ciricegray.itch.io about life at the Agoge, the pilot training school, that I think a lot of you will enjoy. It's an aspect we haven't explored so far--duels, rivalries, lots of violent pettiness.

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Cirice's Grave @ciricegray.itch.io · 02/10/2026

This bundle contains The Zeus Constant by @callistokhan.bsky.social In The Hades Calculus, when Herakles tells Hera the truth about Zeus's priests altered to look like Hades. She says, "I think she's just lonely. She misses her sister." The Zeus Constant is that extrapolated into a whole novel.

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whether or not you write to a formula says nothing about how difficult the work is. If you're finding it hard to do so, you don't understand your own instincts, preferences, or your relationship to your genre well enough to be using such a tool. Picking up shears won't make you a gardener.

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The thing is, on the rare occassion that people do say this about gay men, it's about as unhinged and ridiculously fabricated as you might imagine.

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

that they're also transmisogynistic in their reduction of "dick" to "men"

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People who do this are aware trans women exist, they're aware many lesbians use straps. They don't crave "dick" they crave straight sex and are doing acrobatic levels of bullshit choice discourse to try to make that sound freeing rather than what it is: self harm and bi/lesbophobia. It's no surprise

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Harper @harperminis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Its finished! Only a day late (shhh!), Independent Thought is fully uploaded and ready to be downloaded and enjoyed! I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it! hmaitla.itch.io/independent-...

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Independent Thought by hmaitla

In the city of Elysium, Galene the nymph has a very normal day

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And biphobia, obviously, since such a person is obviously bisexual and hurting both themselves and other people.

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Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Queers raised on tumblr and early queer theory genuinely think masculinity/men are the pathway to enlightenment when that couldn't be farther from the truth. No, it's not enlightened or interesting for someone to call herself a lesbian while seeking out sex with men. That's just lesbophobia.

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Cirice's Grave @ciricegray.itch.io · 01/10/2026

The Extended Gunmetal Olympus Bundle 2 has it all! For only $20 you get: Textual lesbians—trans women of color —problematic relationships—SUFFERING—best boy Adrastus! In a sci-fi mecha Greek myth retelling without the misogyny (and even more grim)! itch.io/b/3756/mecha-greek-myth-and-monsters-2

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