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Emma, she/her/ze/zir. NB lesbian, monster lover, cover designer, co-author and co-host with @taliabhatt.itch.io. Sometimes known as Dolphin Diaries Read ATTACK DOGS: attackdogs.ju.mp Preorder CALL ME KIMBERLY: mzakharuk.com#cmk All 🔗 on mzakharuk.com

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 34m
You can just say you don't like it, sib. You don't have to call it "white" and "Western" and "colonial". Just say it's not your speed. It's fine. Nobody will be mad.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 1h
Don't fret, folks! We're leaving behind the woes and poor coping mechanisms of freshly out queers to bring you a story about the woes and poor coping mechanisms of queers who have been out a while. Much better.
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M Zakharuk @ Read ATTACK DOGS @mzakharuk.bsky.social · 1h
Drafting "Call Me Kimberly" is going well. If you were missing the worms of "Estro Junkies", well,
"10/10 well adjustments out of well"
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Good Reidance @goodreidance.bsky.social · 3h
"If only these poor, unfortunate souls had access to all the proper information, then they would come to the light of Chr... er, feminism" Perils of tackling societal conflict and structures of oppression through the lens of missionary culture. Kill the preacher in your head
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 4h
The essay is also available for free on the "Cracked Ivory" Patreon, with a PDF version attached.
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You Will Not Be The Exception | Cracked Ivory
[Note from Talia: Hey listeners! This is a free copy of my latest essay for folks who want to avoid Substack. I've attached a PDF too. Enjoy
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 5h
I love a good "mea culpa" as much as the next hairy bra-burning man-hating [insert euphemism for "dyke" here]. But we really need to stop treating the conservative woman as some kind of misbegotten curio and come to terms with the banality of conservatives who happen to be marginalized.
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You Will Not Be The Exception
On finding the collective fascination with conservative women incredibly, maddeningly boring.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 8h
"Call Me Kimberly", even more than "Estro Junkies", is about how much we need to heal from the things cis people do to us in the process of figuring ourselves out. While "Attack Dogs" is more about the lingering memory of sex in world that has clearly moved beyond its limitations---but refuses to.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 8h
RCBG and its novelizations wear a lot of hats, but at its core they're about the horror and trauma of interfacing with the existing gender care systems and the consequences of having to destroy parts of ourselves to get the care we need. The world of "Attack Dogs" still seems utopic in comparison!
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M Zakharuk @ Read ATTACK DOGS @mzakharuk.bsky.social · 9h
Really cool to be able to explore the horrors of restrictive transition care in both "Attack Dogs" and "Call Me Kimberly". AD is more out-there and features it as a side plot, highlighting the absurdity of gatekeeping, whereas CMK is more down-to-earth and focused on the mental toll on trans ppl
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 05/10/2026
If you like what you've read so far, you can read chapter 4 a month early on Patreon, as well as get access to exclusive bonus short stories. Alekha and Radora contend with new upgrades, new challenges, and new developments in their relationship.
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Chapter 4 of ATTACK DOGS, Through Her Eyes, is now available! | Talia Bhatt and M Zakharuk
Chapter 4 of ATTACK DOGS, Through Her Eyes, is now available! by Talia Bhatt and M Zakharuk on Patreon. Join Talia Bhatt and M Zakharuk's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 05/10/2026
Chapter 3 of "Attack Dogs" is out now---and Chapter 4 is out on Patreon, a month early! Join us for another installment of kinky lesbian cyborgs, gladiatorial deathmatches and a trans girl trying to navigate it all! SH: www.scribblehub.com/read/2513904... AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/910368...
Alekha is a champion—but for how long? Her stable needs a sponsor and her exo-frame a serious upgrade if she's to contend with the best. Marta has solutions—but they might not be the most scrupulous ones.

Meanwhile, Alekha's new relationship with Radora unearths feelings Alekha would rather leave buried.

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Chapter 4 out on Patreon
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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 21h
The Scales of Seduction was kindly recommended here so if you want my personal take on deep eroticism, you can find it in my book starring the last Basilisk of her kind having bloody, revelatory intimacy with Medusa: Ebook: riengray.itch.io/the-scales-o... Paperback: riengray.shop/b/AQW7s
A quote from Rien Gray's The Scales of Seduction, as follows:

"Tell me, basilisk," Medusa whispered, "if you are the king of serpents, does that make me your queen?"

Petra could have laughed, howled, or lost her mind at the notion. Would that the venom still burned in her veins and could have taken the blame, but this eagerness was hers alone. "You can be. But we have no lands to call our own, and the crowns were melted down long ago."

"What a shame." The serpents atop Medusa's head echoed her grief, tongues flickering out, draping over Petra's fingers like a fainting couch. "Then I must find such majesty elsewhere."

Medusa shifted, too fluid to follow or catch, and Petra only understood the gorgon's true dexterity an instant before full lips captured hers, tongue plunging deep. A stilted sound erupted from the basilisk’s throat, the moan of an animal stunned for sacrifice with a single, sharp blow. She almost choked on the force of her own need, desire drowning out every other thought, staining every long-abandoned space inside her soul.

Air was irrelevant. Petra returned the kiss as if frenzied, biting, tasting; Medusa's mouth swelled, mirroring the ache. A thousand-year hunger found an unmatched feast, thirst slaked to the point of intoxication, dizzying and damning. 
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 05/10/2026
The story so far
Meme template: Yeonmi Park on Joe Rogan

"In the PIR, the oppress you if you're vanilla"

"They call you 'Plain Ice Cream' and make you put on holographic modesty nipple covers"
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 05/10/2026
Also damn we've already written a good-sized novel's worth of "Attack Dogs" and we're only just getting started
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M Zakharuk @ Read ATTACK DOGS @mzakharuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
With Chapter 4, Attack Dogs is now officially 69k words long
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PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid
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Doubly Dead Girl @ravengough.co.uk · 05/10/2026
Attack Dogs Ch.4 Out of Context
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Ruby, pretty ape machine @anontranshoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
still stuck at $186, and sure I hope more ppl can chuck in a couple bucks here and there cuz this is due in 8 more days 😓
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Sword Liv-sbian @oblivias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Artists, quote with women
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vicky 🌻 @crowwkui.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
⚢ butch4butch over the clothes.. kinda
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Godzilla's Tradwife @madadric.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Chapter 8 of The Measure We Chose Cresse, the demon-descended maid feels envy over the power she sees the hero scorn, but finds herself drawn to the person under the power. archiveofourown.org/works/936283...
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The Measure We Chose - Chapter 8 - Gwent_Stefani - Original Work [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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Gilamasan @gilamasan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The bill has been opened to feedback. Rather than dooming about the proposal, you can tell them exactly how you feel about the act here. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... With how much of an uphill battle Chat Control is having, you should never assume it's worthless to fight these draconian bills.
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European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 03/10/2026
We can't do anything because right now, the only ones hurt are women, and we can't risk any harm befalling an actual human being.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 03/10/2026
You can't expect better. No one will ever hold a man to account. Holding men to account for abusing women is racist and imperialist and colonial and transphobic and even misogynistic, somehow. Isn't forgiveness in your nature, anyway? Aren't you a woman? Isn't this what you're for?
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 03/10/2026
Here, read this bell hooks book where she was clearly struggling to reconcile her own love for men with the fact that her abusers will never be held to account for their actions. Let's build a worldview out of cope because every institution and community and person will side with them over you.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 03/10/2026
Why can't we love the rapist men? Forgive the rapist men? Don't you know that punishing rapist men won't fix the rape they committed? Don't you know we can't ever have a solitary single consequence for a man who committed rape? Haven't the rapist men who were slapped on the wrist suffered enough?
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 03/10/2026
It's actively insanity inducing to be a survivor and a feminist right now because in the face of the sheer ubiquity of sexual assault and the lack of consequences for it, we're all being besieged by demands that we think of the rapist men, forgive the rapist men, cleanse the souls of the rapist men
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 03/10/2026
bell hooks mention, take a shot
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MallOwO 🖤💀🎃 @frm777.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mutual Aid
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🧛‍♀️🐺Marceline🔥🪭 @marceline2174.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Witches
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Jay 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaylien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I just finished it and I can safely say Estro junkies is one of the best pieces of queer media out there!! I laughed, I cried, I was frustrated, I felt for the characters. I even dreamed about this book. 5 fucking stars 🤩
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Aleriia_V @aleriiav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🔴 youtu.be/3T5fgmCcIhs Timelapse of drawing of ABSOLUTE ZATANNA
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/10/2026
The Summer I Attended Gladiator School
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/10/2026
Hard at work in the yuri mines with @mzakharuk.bsky.social making sure the sci-fi cyborg sex scenes and the contemporary rom-com sex scenes don't cross wires
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/10/2026
Don't be so rigid. Insisting on how gay you are just reifies the hetero-homo binary. Isn't it transphobic to say you don't date men, since trans women are basically men? Not dating men as a woman basically makes you a conservative queerphobe.
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M Zakharuk @ Read ATTACK DOGS @mzakharuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am queering boundaries. Diving into the transgressive margins of queer liminalities. I think women can date men and that's ok. When you, a woman, say you wouldn't want to sleep with a man, isn't that basically the same as my neighbour Steve going "no homo"? Makes u think
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Gundam E91 @jainaego.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
jainaego.itch.io/the-lotus-co... It's out! The cover will eventually be changed for something not from stock images, but yeah! I did a thing! Almost 50k words about an experimental Mark 2 getting traumatized and fucked up over and over. (It is in the bundle. Buy the bundle)
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The Lotus Collapse by JainaEgo
A Gunmetal Olympus fan work.
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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now @benjanun.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Do you like giant robots and violent lesbians? Greek mythology told through a sci-fi lens? An extensive shared world all written by lesbians? We've got a bundle for you. 27 novels, novellas, and artbooks for just $20! itch.io/b/3756/mecha...
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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey everyone, I'm really in a bind. I was just told earlier today that my job will be terminating me on October 13th, exactly one day before my upcoming requested paid medical leave to recover from bottom surgery. I intend to fight this in court, but I could really use some help in the meantime.
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Donate to Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery, organized by Katra Ariello
Hi, my name is Katra, and I’ve just been notified that I’ll be let go of… Katra Ariello needs your support for Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 30/09/2026
An update: Chapter 3 will actually be released on Monday instead of October 1st. There's a very good reason why, though!
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 30/09/2026
I'm kind of tired of pretending that "sense of brotherhood" is a real, meaningful term and isn't just a euphemism for men's spaces where they bond over misogynistic humiliation rituals and coach each other on how best to commit sexual assault.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026
This is extremely fucked up :-/ Please help out Katra if you can, she deserves better than this
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virtu @virtuware.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
yokai trio
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M Zakharuk @ Read ATTACK DOGS @mzakharuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Has anyone actually discovered anything they like through Patreon's "quips" It's pushing me to use them but my recommended feed is a mess so??
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026
You can also check out the first few chapters of "Call Me Kimberly" here:
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026
"Call Me Kimberly" is less than two months away! You can pre-order it and catch up on "Estro Junkies" at the same time :)
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026
I think listeners may find our conclusions somewhat unsatisfying---I certainly did. But ultimately, I don't actually want anyone disinterred and made to stand trial. I mostly just wish that people didn't find it so easy to dismiss transmisogyny, to sweep it under the rug and ignore it entirely.
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Cracked Ivory @crackedivorypod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our episode on Susan Faludi's "Backlash" is also out now! Finally, a good text that analyses societal misogyny and doesn't try to center men in feminism! ...Right?
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The Eternal Backlash. Susan Faludi's "Backlash"
Podcast Episode · Cracked Ivory · September 29 · 1h 27m
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Cracked Ivory @crackedivorypod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In this Patreon-exclusive episode, Talia and Emma discuss Gloria Steinem: her legacy, her place in the feminist movement, and her writings. They ask what it means to honestly reckon with feminism's history of transphobia and exclusion, as typified by Gloria Steinem's infamous essay "Transsexualism".
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Rocky Potter Feminist Show: Gloria Steinem's "Transsexualism" | Cracked Ivory
Rocky Potter Feminist Show: Gloria Steinem's "Transsexualism" by Cracked Ivory on Patreon. Join Cracked Ivory's community for exclusive content and updates.
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