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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@inscrutablejoy.bsky.social
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She/her, grumpy sometimes, safe to talk to unless you're shitty

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Hel @gracewells1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Almost to the total, please donate if you can.
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Hel @gracewells1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've released the August 2025 exclusive short story for free members on Patreon. It will be reposted to ScribbleHub next month. www.patreon.com/posts/170927... Superheroes/tokusatsu
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August 2025 exclusive: Finding A Glow | Helena Grace
Happy Tuesday! This is the exclusive from August 2025 now available for free members. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cOzQl3LxJQkuIdN7I9
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My Dorley fanfic, Spilled, has grown a thirteenth chapter! Christine has a drink spilled on her clothes a few minutes into "that party" and has to leave early, and in her absence Stef meets a sweet goth girl named Jodie. archiveofourown.org/works/76953831
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Hel @gracewells1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New update on scribblehub. Chapter 18 is live. www.scribblehub.com/read/1645457...
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It’s A Living - Chapter Eighteen | Scribble Hub
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trailer Park Heiress chapter 7 is up on Patreon! This free month link still works too.
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I want my stories that are set in real-world locations to feel real to the people living there. I want my stories set during real events to feel real to the people who experienced those events. I want the lives I write to feel like a life someone lived. I want it to feel too real to be fiction.
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sometimes writing just feels like screaming into the void, or throwing away a meal you just cooked. Sometimes you pour your heart and mind and effort into your work and nobody sees it. But you keep doing it anyway, because writing isn't just something you do, it's part of who you're supposed to be.
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Writing isn't really something I decided to start doing, it's something I decided to stop *not* doing. I've always made up elaborate stories in my head just to pass the time, but now I get them out onto pages instead of letting them mostly slip away.
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chapter 5 of Trailer Park Heiress is live on Patreon, and you can still get a free month of access at the quoted link! This chapter introduces the story's first (realtime) villain:
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Trailer Park Heiress - Chapter 5 | InscrutableJoy
My brain isn't letting me stop writing, so expect the next two chapters after this one (already 90-95% complete) within the next 24 hours! T
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Got another chapter of Trailer Park Heiress up this morning, in which Cheryl figures out how to say "Kosciusko" The free month is still available if you want to check it out!
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here's a free month if you want to take a peek: www.patreon.com/InscrutableJ...
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Chapter 2 of Trailer Park Heiress just went live!
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Trailer Park Heiress - Chapter 2 - InscrutableJoy - Original Work [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If half of my followers read my ongoing serial novel for a buck a month it would be enough to cover our electric bill If 1/4 read it that would cover our water bill If 1/10 subscribed that would pay for internet
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you're into ousider electronic music with emotional lyrics you might check out this bandcamp album
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The Promise, by K. Felicity
12 track album
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Purple Rain
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*Trailer Park Heiress* Karla is a trans woman in her 20s, estranged from a family with a notable number of bachelor uncles who keep leaving her weird inheritances which are more trouble than they're worth. But when one black-sheep passes in a freak accident, she gets more than she bargained for.
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Trailer Park Heiress | Collection from Joy the Inscrutable | 3 posts | Patreon
Karla Kosciusko, a trans twentysomething musician estranged from most of her relatives, keeps inheriting weird stuff from her weird uncles. This time it's all…
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I haven't been around here too much lately, because I've spent a LOT of my downtime on a couple of writing projects. I recently wrapped up Part One and got started on Part Two of what's going to be a long Dorley fanfic. I'm also three chapters into an original novel with a trans woman protagonist!
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Language barrier in the "same" language
A photo of an English lorry on the left, a photo of American country music singer-songwriter Keith Whitley on the right. Under both is the caption "confused British noises" 

The context is that Whitley's most notable song is titled "Tell Lorrie I Love Her" which was written to his wife, singer Lorrie Morgan.
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Hel @gracewells1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My friend has been struggling with bad housing from a landlord who hasn't kept up maintenance for years. She needs help getting into a safer environment. Please donate or repost if you can. gofund.me/226bbc843
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Help Noémie move out of an unsafe housing, organized by Noémie savanxayadeth
Hello, I am Noémie, a 33 years old french trans woman… Noémie savanxayadeth a besoin de votre soutien pour Help Noémie move out of an unsafe housing
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Goddess frickin' bless, there are people in certain discords I would give a stern warning to if I were a mod, and would ground from their electronics if I were their mom
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There is no person more obnoxious to me than someone who habitually argues in bad faith. I find it especially repugnant when that person of no integrity changes facts which are inconvenient to their position, especially when their position is simplistic and absolutist.
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I *just* figured out why I have such a hard time reading most power dynamic smut Anytime there's not on-page careful discussion of specific consent and boundaries beforehand, my brain interprets "sub being a brat" as "victim fighting past a fawn reaction to push back as much as they're able"
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If a sovereign country facing economic and population decline wants to turn that around, they should offer an easy refugee process for LGBTQ+ people coupled with strong equal rights laws Especially since a lot of us have location-independent incomes (out of necessity) this would be a boost to both
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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 14/08/2026
FUCK THE NHS! /Third Strikes,/ another related sequel following on from my earlier story /First Day,/ concerning transphobic shit about to go down in comprehensive high schools across the UK. Reading this story will make the NHS very sad. archiveofourown.org/works/90035521
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Third Strikes - Catherine Cowie (cathycowie) - Original Work [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 14/08/2026
I’d meant to put this up a few days ago, but I was busy writing. Chapters 1 – 3 of the Untitled Novel Project [first draft] A headless body discovered while a brook is trawled for algae, brings a detective who’d fled his small country town back to investigate. www.patreon.com/catherinecow...
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Flashpoint | Catherine Cowie
Detective Reynolds has dragged in a suspect for the murdered body in the brook, still yet to be firmly identified… but is he the culprit or
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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 13/08/2026
Also on Patreon, due for public release a fortnight today (28 August) Fifth Column A permanent injury to a trans student crosses the line for some staff of the school, and the Resistance forms against the ‘gender-critical’-dominated administration. www.patreon.com/catherinecow...
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Fifth Column | Catherine Cowie
The change in ethos at CHS was already unconscionable, but physical harm to a transgender student crossed a line for some of the teachers. A
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Standard set of 5 colour coded vaginal dilators, with a hand grip strength exerciser where a sixth dilator would be
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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 13/08/2026
New on my Patreon! Fiction to make the NHS sad! The students at the fictional (mumble) London High School go DIY! www.patreon.com/catherinecow... With veiled references to a purveyor of useful info who is definitely not @katie.bzky.team To be released for public tier tomorrow.
“Okay. Does this mean I should delete all of the emails we’ve exchanged?”

“Yes. You should start practicing immaculate opsec for Phase 2, if you weren’t already. Keep copies of the PDFs, though.”

“It’s okay, I was able to source where those came from in the first place. I don’t need the protected copies you sent.”

“Excellent,” Emma said.

“Then let’s toast,” Dale said. They raised their glass and said, “Fuck the NHS!”

Jones and Emma repeated the toast, and clinked their glasses together.“Yes, I read the second PDF about DIY, by—” Jones began to reply.

“—by our Blessed Lady of Perpetual Vaginismus, yes,” Emma cut him off. “So you know that we’ll be looking to do weekly injections. Can you cope with three or four trans girls of varying levels of stealthiness dropping in on you on a weekly basis?”
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Experiencing "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" in realtime Just once, I'd like to be the mouse
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My eldest child just told me they're reading Homestuck and asked me if I knew what that was I've never been prouder
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susannah @susannahmitchell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
happy wpbl day to all who celebrate
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 31/07/2026
By popular demand, here is everything you need to know ahead of the Women's Professional Baseball League season that starts tomorrow:
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everything you need to know about the WPBL
here's your WPBL-101
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Part one of chapter 50 of THE SISTERS OF DORLEY is now out on Patreon! Part two to follow... when it’s done. www.patreon.com/alysongreave...
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The Sisters of Dorley — Chapter 50 — Part One (13.3k words) | Alyson Greaves
As noted here, July has been a rough one. Three whole and somewhat separate terrible things happened, all of which both interrupted my writi
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
god every so often I go on twitter to scroll and it’s like, oh, that’s where the world’s supply of crying laughing emoji went
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Being demisexual in a strip club is surreal Years ago I accidentally wound up in one, had a nice conversation about vinyl collecting with one of the dancers, and got to see a Motorhead tattoo somewhere I didn't expect Of course I tipped, I'm not an asshole and I'm sure the tattoo cost quite a lot
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Switch, A Terrifying Presence @switch-is.online · 22/07/2026
it's genuinely way more enjoyable to be kind to people and positive on here imo, and the dopamine hits just the same
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We’re doing a thing with Waterstones! www.waterstones.com/book/secrets...
Promotional graphic for Waterstones offering 25% off pre-orders. It includes a 3D mock-up of the book cover for Secrets of Dorley Hall by Alyson Greaves. 

Pre-order now with code: SUMMER26

Waterstones 25% OFF RRP Books Coming Soon, 21–24 July, online only
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
friends, please: don’t use transreads dot org they claim to support trans authors, but take our entire texts, post them for free, fundraise off it, and have the gall to claim it’s about preservation they are literally taking money from trans creators and make it harder for us to keep creating
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I’m having to take a few days off from writing to heal, so I put up the draft of the first scene of the sisters of dorley chapter 50 www.patreon.com/alysongreave...
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PREVIEW: The first scene of The Sisters of Dorley chapter 50 | Alyson Greaves
I’ve hit a rough patch with my chronic pain, so it‘s going to be a few days of very little writing—possibly none at all. So I thought I’d up
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I was not ready
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Watching Glen or Glenda (1953)
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Bela Lugosi says trans rights (seriously look it up)
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Look I just really want a whole shelf full of Queer Sweet Valley High okay
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
nobody spotted any typos so far, but I did call something a trunk that should have been a tailgate (now fixed) anyway, pretty good chapter, I thought
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN Max moves from New York to California to start again. And Taylor, newly crowned captain of the cheer squad, sees someone with potential. CHAPTER 35: IT’S A LEI, ACTUALLY Now live on Patreon for all $5 members!
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When You Fell from Heaven — 35 — It’s a Lei, Actually (29.1k words) | Alyson Greaves
I’ll be moving on to Dorley for a bit now, and hopefully squeezing in some other stuff, too!
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"don't kinkshame" doesn't mean I have to participate
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
dropped a lil preview of the new chapter because I’m hitting levels of tiredness heretofore unbeknownst to womankind, and thus won’t get the chapter done by tomorrow. aiming for a full release on the 1st or the 2nd. in the mean time, the (draft) first scene is up on patreon
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v quick update—and the first scene from When You Fell from Heaven chapter 35 | Alyson Greaves
I had hoped to get the next chapter of When You Fell from Heaven out before the end of the month, but I have one or two too many scenes left
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Happy 19th anniversary to the resignation of Tony Blair Wondering why Starmer didn't wait a bit to match resignation days with him tbh
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Joy Barlow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Most of our furniture and about half of our cookware is 1962 or older, and there's a set of cast iron pans from the early 1800s that's in near-daily use; some of the furniture was already antique when it was brought west by wagon train
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