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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 23/08/2026

J Jonah Jameson would be thrilled

softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 11/04/2026

As an editor, I am looking for your version of Bar Association. Give me scifi, give me unions, give me solidarity!!!! #amwriting #writersky #treksky #submission

Miles O’Brien winking while saying he was more than a hero. He was a union man.

Rom, a ferengi, reading Capital by Marx, on a padd on Deep Space 9. He is saying workers of the world unite

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 11/09/2025

Here are two very good ones

Tumblr post by straightpeoplereceipts

This is Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise speaking. We’ve entered the orbit of a planet not terribly unlike our own…save it in populated exclusively by petty old queens.

Second post

They seem to have accepted Commander Spock as one of their own.

Tumblr post with a tweet reading “I have been nothing but weird and off putting to you and this is how you treat me.” Above a tumblr post with a speech bubble to the above and showing an image of Darcy speaking to Elizabeth from 2005 Pride and Prejudice

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 31/07/2025

I think you should do it!!! Our oldest cat is 10 and requires HOURS of cuddling a day. He is so much more playful with his buddy (who is now four and we got three years ago) and they cuddle and play literally all day.

Blurry pic of an orange tabby laying on a black cat while the black cat grooms the orange cat. The photo blurred because they were purring so hard and were so happy.

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 13/07/2025

UPROOTED x THE FAMILIAR x OCEAN’S ECHO Sparks fly when carefree Astra and steadfast Grey touch—they don’t know why and don’t have time to find out between a budding romance, a malevolent secret society, and a minor revolution. Romantasy meets Eugene Debs for a #hotlaborsummer. #bluepit 📖 #A #R #F

Mood Board for Starlit Wanderer. The images are of a corkboard with strings and a hand pointing at a potential clue, flowers, a starlit mountain range, lovers kissing at sunset, a grumpy moon and cheerful sun, a protest with the a sign urging people to fight for a better future, grasped hands, and a magical circle of light surrounding an outstretched hand.

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 24/03/2025

There’s a load bearing number of Jeffrey Combs Tubes on every ship.

Three screenshots of DS9 episodes with Jeffrey Combs as a guest star beside pictures of Vince McMahon becoming increasingly ecstatic. The final shows Jeffrey combs appearing as two characters.

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 13/03/2025

Tumblr posts that speak to me today after spending too much time thinking about trek this week. #treksky #sevenofnine #janeway #spock #rolaren

Image of Seven of Nine from Star Trek Voyager with text superimposed that reads as:

vamprisms:
(through gritted teeth) i love being out of my comfort zone it is necessary for my personal development

Image of Captain Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek Voyager with text superimposed that reads

besties i might not be 100% stable
-crowsaresotired

Image of Ro Laren from Star Trek The Next Generation with text superimposed that reads as

Nat
@1ambic
I hate the idea of authority. What the fuck is someone being superior to me? ??? Bitch im gonna kill you

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This is Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise speaking. We've entered the orbit of a planet not terribly unlike our own... save that it is exclusively populated by petty old queens.
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They seem to have accepted Commander Spock as one of their own.
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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 22/02/2025

She looks SO MUCH like Katherine Hepburn here. Mulgrew was amazing in this role. She delivered even when the scripts….didn’t. #treksky

Kate Mulgrew as Captain Janeway on Voyager in two images. Her hair and facial expression could be in almost any Hepburn movie.

Dialogue: DISMISSED.
THAT'S A STARFLEET EXPRESSION FOR "GET OUT.”

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 14/02/2025

THE FAMILIAR x BRIDE Sparks fly when carefree Astra and steadfast Grey touch—they don’t know why and don’t have time to find out between a budding romance, a malevolent secret society, and a minor revolution. Ali Hazlewood meets Eugene Debs: smut, unions, and fascists getting punched #cupit #a #rf

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 12/02/2025

UPROOTED x THE FAMILIAR x THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS Sparks fly when carefree Astra and steadfast Grey touch—they don’t know why and don’t have time to find out between a budding romance, a malevolent secret society, and a minor revolution. #questpit #R #F #A #Q

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 08/02/2025

So excited to announce I’ll be featured in Twenty Bellows this spring!!!!!!

Image of sparks and ambers on black with the words We Are The West Embers coming 2025

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 27/01/2025

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 16/01/2025

I guess “your life matters” stops when AIPAC says it does? I’ll tell you one thing for free, Star Trek doesn’t want you. As survivors, Kira Nerys and Kirk would both have some pretty pointed things to say about supporting a genocide and implying its victims deserved it.

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 13/01/2025

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 25/11/2024

Here’s two more on the skyline to annoy them

Two enormous orange cats cuddling to annoy the screenshotted poster

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 08/11/2024

No other show has been brave enough to use this much Jeffrey Combs as a weird little guy at once. Absolutely visionary work.

Side by side images descending the screen show first Jeffrey Combs as a single character on an episode of Deep Space 9 and Vince McMahon’s interested face. Below is the same actor as another character in another episode and mcmahons face happier. Last is the actor as both characters and McMahon in ecstasy.

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 08/11/2024

Only a p’tak who will never see Sto’Vo’Kor would find dishonor in their love!

Action figures of Kirk and Spock making out in front of a rose and a camo hat that reads SciFi Sluts for Reforestation

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 08/11/2024

I’ve been trawling for memes like this one more than reading any new fics, but I’m always down for my boys.

Captain Kirk looks lovingly in Commander Spock’s eyes while grasping his shoulders. Spock gazes back just as lovingly. A tweet is superimposed on the image reading, “the honeymoon stage lasts forever if you date people who see Romance as not only a vehicle for courting, but as a medium in which to live forever.”

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 01/11/2024

Trying this outlining thing people rave about for my next novel. #author #writingcommunity #pantserwithaplan

Unlined paper with three timelines drawn across it with key plot points from a proposed novel jotted down. Three pens lay artistically over the most complex part of the narrative that also happens to be a blank section of paper.

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 11/10/2024

It looks like the fake starship from Community. You know, the death trap that can’t really drive?

RV turned into a fake spaceship running into a table

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 24/09/2024

Living in Colorado is a treat, especially this time of year.

Aspen tree with leaves turning gold against a bright blue sky on a mountain trail bordered by evergreens

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 20/09/2024

So close to being a palindrome number. If only I’d been 30 people later!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #773,347, maggie is querying sff ‪@maggiekantor.bsky.social‬, joined on Aug 29, 2023"

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 05/09/2024

Sisko letting Kira fight Kai Winn is totally different than Picard chastising Ro Laren for joining the maquis. DS9 is intentional in its critique but I don’t think it’s anti federation or anti aspirations for a better world.

Meme format comparing an image of Jena Luc Picard of TNG and Benjamin Sisko of DS9

Picard or Sisko?
Be informed. Compare them on the issues that matter.
Issue:
Should officers be terrorists?
I do not allow my oflicers to be terrorists.
My officers can be terrorists once in a while, as a treat.

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 23/05/2024

For the post bar Taco Bell run

A meme of Worf from Star Trek with the words Perhaps Today IS a Good Day to live más

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 12/02/2024

I think I can see them as like platonic buddies who sometimes have to be like….hey stop. But I just don’t like the idea of a love interest being so awful!

Poster with a flying saucer above a forest with the words I WANT TO BELIEVE written at the bottom

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 31/01/2024

Idk if this makes it better or not but I read a recap of the entire original show (thanks Pajiba) before I had a chance to watch it and it’s still one of my all time favorite fixations and shows. But I’m very sorry!!!!!! Please accept an apology meme.

Fake children’s book cover with sunny yellow background and a young adorable rabbit at a table drawing. They have sad eyes. The fake children’s book title is why won’t god blow up the sun? ….do my prayers mean nothing to him?

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 23/12/2023

I made a wonderful Lear ginger cake with caramel sauce to night. Dense and sweet! I’m really getting into my baking era 🍐🫚 🥮

Brown cake with sliced pears and caramel drizzle on top of a cutting board. A little messy but very delicious looking. Leftover half a pear and caramel jar beside it.

Brown cake with sliced pears on top of a cutting board. Leftover half a pear beside it.

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 19/12/2023

👋 Anytime I plan things out….I change my mind. This was the closest to an outline I’ve ever gotten!

Printer paper with eight boxes of scrawled print below a timeline with post it note flags and more scrawled writing. Not a traditional or detailed outline for writing a novel. But colorful!

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 18/12/2023

It’s fine to be critical! To be clear, I said Garlands movie looks good. I think it’ll be interesting and stressful like his others. *spoilers for ATR* The book centers hedonist, compassionate anarchists. They fight fascists in huge set piece battles so people can have good lives.

Marge Simpson holding a potato meme with white text over the potato saying “anarchy” and Marge’s line “o just think it’s neat” at the bottom of the screen

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 29/11/2023

I literally bought boygenius and listen to it in iTunes now and nothing but a hyper focus on Carly Rae Jepsen last summer could unseat them

Spotify wrapped with a picture of Carly Rae Jepsen on a green background with neon artwork. Shows top artists as Carly Rae Jepsen followed by boygenius and then the three members of boygenius.

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 25/11/2023

This is from an IBM presentation in 1979. I think about it and the Butlerian Jihad and the Luddite Rebellion all the time!

“A computer can never be help accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision” on a printed piece of paper

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 06/11/2023

Just orange cats chilling inside bags.

Our large orange cat walks by our small orange cat snuggling inside a backpack and pretends he doesn’t want to be in the bag where our small orange cat is.

The large orange cat has displaced the small one inside the bag.

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 15/10/2023

I love Kirk after watching TOS as an adult, which has been such a shock. (I watched some as a kid and loved Bones and Spock. I have no memory of emotions about Kirk)

Tweet that says “it is so satisfying to know that Spock and Leonard nimoy would probably be best friends and play lute together or something but Jim Kirk would absolutely beat the shit out of William shatner in an Applebee’s parking lot.

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 09/10/2023

Bluesky in the real world

Train tracks with several plywood sheets spray painted with HOLE on them.

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 07/10/2023

Caturday now that the weather has cooled down

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 29/09/2023

In my 30s I’m realizing that novelty hats and jokes about novelty hats are something I find extremely funny. It’s concerning but I accept it.

Green trucker hat with “The fish, women, and I are in a loving polyamorous relationship built on mutual trust and a regularly renewed fishing license” and a fish printed on the front

Camo hat with “Sci-fi Sluts for Reforestation” embroidered in gold thread worn in front of a large bush with eyes peeking out from the brim in a slightly ominous fashion.

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 18/09/2023

Nobody is talking about the level of abandonment these boys suffered.

Three orange cats at different levels of distress that they are on the other side of a window screen.

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 01/09/2023

When my partner and I watch Star Trek, it’s my job to tell him which character actor I recognize (especially if they’ve played multiple characters) and if the director is also a Star Trek actor. If possible, I should also mention any relevant behind the scenes trivia. #startrek

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softpaw @maggiekantor.com · 31/08/2023

You always have this option

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