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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 8h

did i ever have fenic say the word trans... i don't thiiink i did...? but i did draw her growing boobs and wearing skirts and changing her name and pronouns and stuff so only around two to five percent of the audience failed to get it

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 9h

i think we are right to bemoan the state of Media Literacy. but the environment is what it is, you know. if you are writing queer stories, and you want those stories to be legible to a non-queer audience, then at some point you kind of just have to have your characters say the fucking thing out loud

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 10h

it has no right being this hot in october [it is a fairly mild 78°F i just have a thing for clammy overcast fall weather]

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 14h

dreamed i was some kind of scary tentacle abomination that ate whole live chickens like popcorn but i was also a normal boy who just wanted to make friends and learn how do do my makeup cute

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 03/10/2026

I love my beautiful transgender Wife and our big transgender Friends&Family. and I vote

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 02/10/2026

the most frequent comment i get about CURSE/KISS/CUTE begins with “i finally got around to reading it” and ends with “and the writing is really good”. here’s my pitch: take control of your life, worm. delete “finally” from your vocabulary. grab fate by the horns and…… read my funny femboy romance!!

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 02/10/2026

for example, pretty much any time you hear the words "male socialization" in a conversation about trans women you can take it as read that you are talking to Satan the devil.

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 01/10/2026

finally getting in the habit of checking my website’s analytics and unsurprisingly discovering that when i link my thing it causes people to read my thing. i have numbers telling me i need to be more annoying. sorry in advance

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 23/09/2026

#CURSEKISSCUTE #2: Name of the Helper, Part II has finally begun! > So WHAT if Nathan Small just got his shit cursed to smithereens by the Femboy Fairy? He doesn’t have TIME for a Gender Situation right now—he’s late for his WEREWOLF ROCK BAND JOB INTERVIEW!! READ IT HERE: → www.dicot.moe/ckc-2 ←

The cover art for CURSE/KISS/CUTE #2: Name of the Helper, Part II by Valerie Halla. On the cover, a smizing wolf-eared woman looks down on the tiny skirt-wearing boy in the palms of her hands. The pouting, sparkling boy emits mars symbols in protest of his smallness and skirt-wearingness.

In the background, a quote from the woman:

“I guess I don’t know what’s going on inside your *head*, Small—but I’ll tell you what I see from out *here*.

*I see a boy who can’t stop apologizing for wearing a skirt.*

What’s up with that?”

Character profiles from CURSE/KISS/CUTE. The text reads:

Nathan Small: A human software engineer fresh out of college and newcomer to the City of Monsters. As a matter of survival, Nathan Small navigates social situations by making himself as uninteresting as possible. This strategy has recently been complicated by a fairy’s curse that turned all his boy clothes into girly-girl girl clothes for girls.

Listen: Don’t read into this too much. In fact, don’t read anything into Nathan Small at all. If this whole skirt situation is making his heart beat funny, maybe that simply means he has a garden-variety cardiac arrhythmia. Didn’t think of that, did you?

Anyway, he has to go interview for a spot in a rock band now, so please just be cool, alright?

Rinne Alexandria “Lexie” Kamitani: Guitarist and lead singer for Dodecadendron, a punky underground rock band. Make no mistake: Lexie Kamitani is Kind Of A Lot. Charismatic, laid-back, and easily amused, her cool exterior belies a remarkably intense individual with a profound passion for truth, love, and art. She exclusively fucks with people who Give A Shit.

Although born a werewolf, she spent her teenage years among humans, during which time she developed her extreme distaste for authority. Most monsters don’t fit neatly into the categories of “cis” or “trans”, but Lexie loudly self-describes as a trans woman.

An excerpt from CURSE/KISS/CUTE. The text reads:

“I lost a bet,” says Nathan to his assembled audience of crickets.

“I lost a *bet*,” he says again, but differently.

“I...*lost a bet*. Actually, the *truth* is, I...lost a bet. Well, see—basically—I lost a bet? *Lost* a bet. Lost a *bet*? Lost...a bet?”

He frowns.

“Oh, you lost a bet? So basically, what you’re saying is that you think wearing a skirt is sort of a, kind of a joke? You don’t get the job. In fact, I’m calling the police. *Idiot.*” He punts a stick twenty feet in the air.

He slides with his back against the wall. “All my clothes fell in a lake. Of fire? My clothes went to hell. So I had to borrow my...sister’s clothes?” He puts his palms together in prayer. “My sister, who has all my same measurements and doesn’t own a single pair of pants...and the bra straps? Um...the bra straps are...tactical?”

His ass touches down in the grass. He pleads to the moon above. “My name is Nathan Small. My name is...Natalie?” He shudders.

He thinks.

He tilts his head.

“Nathan? No, no, no. I said my name was *Nat*. Nat Small. It’s actually unisex.”

He nods, slowly.

The clouds of the moon loom overhead. He watches for a while as they silently storm.

“But the *truth* is,” he whispers, “even though I look like this...I’m actually a *boy*.”

A cricket jumps up his skirt. He shrieks.

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 29/09/2026

the problem with referring to anime by their english titles is that a lot of them lately are bungled half-translations that simultaneously sound bad in english *and* misrepresent or mistranslate the japanese title of the thing. like how did "A Place Further Than The Universe" make it through editing

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 28/09/2026

I feel like if your flight is delayed they should be legally required to specify why. like I know there's nothing I can do about it I just have a primal need to know whether it was Some Bullshit. (I presume it is almost never Some Bullshit)

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 28/09/2026

wow I learn so much walking around downtown San Francisco. for example about agentic. Get on agentic. Optimize your token burn. Every model. One API. Discover the best in agentic. Inference. Inference. Inference. Build faster with agentic.

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 26/09/2026

hey, have you read my thing? what if you read it? what if it was so delightful and you read it and were delighted? art is a type of spell where how it works is you read my thing and it makes you delighted. don't you want to fall under my spell?

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 26/09/2026

envision two girlfriends. one has big boobs. and the other has a big peepee. the first girlfriend also has a peepee it's just small. and they're married

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 25/09/2026

personally I do not think it is transphobic if a boy wears a skirt sooo cutely. I actually think it is much the opposite. And I will not be silenced

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 23/09/2026

i wrote a longer post about this on patreon, but here’s the plan going forward: instead of waiting until the whole issue is finished to post it publicly, from now on i’m just going to post each chapter of CURSE/KISS/CUTE as it’s finished! only the most recent chapter will be patreon-exclusive.

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 23/09/2026

you have to be so nice to me even though social media cropped the beautiful cover art i made to smithereens. you have to click to expand my awesome cover art and see all the colors and then read my thing okay

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 23/09/2026

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 23/09/2026

hey…… i'm releasing something soon. i'm entering into a new era: one in which i release the thing i'm making instead of not releasing it. it will make sense when you see it. i'm telling you now so that when you do see it you're prepared to freak out. it would warm my heart to bits if you freaked out

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 21/09/2026

i don't know of a reproducible process for finding trans hope but i think most often it's something you give yourself by giving it to others. the struggle we are facing is not just for political rights, it is a struggle for our collective ability to imagine a good future. you have to imagine with us

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 20/09/2026

another bustling night at Selené’s Chips & Coffee... (spot illustration for CURSE/KISS/CUTE)

a bustling diner scene viewed from outside. from behind the bar counter, a ten-foot-tall woman in round glasses engages in a hushed conversation with a tall wolf-eared girl who has her back turned. further down the counter, a pantsless cowgirl rests her tired breasts on the counter as a blushing human wearing inadvisably form-fitting spats looks on indiscreetly. in the foreground, some sort of cherry-shaped reptile enjoys a cocktail; meanwhile, a bug-eyed soap slime is having the time of its life cleaning the window which frames the scene.

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 19/09/2026

really had to crank up the unsharp filter to get that one through bluesky’s compression relatively unscathed

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 19/09/2026

"why bother? no one will ever see me as a woman..." wow look who's forgetting about Me and All My Friends and All My Friends' Friends and All Their Friends and Their Friends and Their Friends and Their Friends and Their Friends too. believe in a brighter tomorrow right fucking now

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 17/09/2026

progressive and feminist femboy content . femboy–trans girl alliance . boys gets freaked I'm the as by trans women

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 16/09/2026

could whoever's been playing the third movement of beethoven's moonlight sonata in my head for the past three days please give it a rest. you're gonna invent new types of arthritis

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 16/09/2026

yeah, she blows kisses wrong. i don't know how else to put it. she like reaches all the way in there to pull the kiss out like she's unclogging a drain or something. then she winds up like a baseball pitcher

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 15/09/2026

a raven will just be chilling and guys will be like “this is about my dead wife”

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 15/09/2026

in video games you can visit such places as Donut Secret House

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 14/09/2026

(brandishing my knuckles) you better be of legal drinking age because im about to serve a pint of Ouchohol

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 14/09/2026

just had to go on the most insane bug hunt because i didn't realize that in javascript `isNaN("spaghetti")` returns `true` because "spaghetti" is not a number

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 14/09/2026

down in my workshop inventing some sort of feminist pornography

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 14/09/2026

a lot of people don't seem to realize the logical leap they're making when they suggest that → "a politician making pro-trans statements cannot win in [texas, ohio etc]" and → "a politician must make anti-trans statements to win in [texas, ohio etc]" are equivalent propositions. they're not!

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 13/09/2026

i have never been shown evidence that democratic politicians revealing themselves to be spineless moral cowards by making token anti-trans gestures results in them gaining more votes from the anti-trans crowd than they lose from trans and progressive voters. and i never will

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 11/09/2026

a "pizza roll" is much like a "hot pocket", to one of my stature

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 10/09/2026

allow me to clear the record on this: "meccha" is short for "mechakucha", which is a japanese word that means "to an extent which is frankly bananas". hope this helps

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 09/09/2026

it's so fucked up that they make the announcer speak nintendo corporatese. he is not allowed to say "courses from super mario kart" he has to say "courses from the 'Super Mario Kart' game". and if the title already starts with a "the" they have to pretend it doesn't. "the 'Legend of Zelda' game"

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 08/09/2026

im the one person who doesn't think elfs are british and i'm the most punished human being on earth

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 07/09/2026

every time I graze the surface of the popular literary criticism/writing advice sphere and encounter the abbreviation "FMC" I feel my brain drying up like a sponge. why is an "F"MC a sufficiently novel discursive object to warrant a separate abbreviation. look what heterosexuality has done to you

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 04/09/2026

the list of things that make me self-conscious as a fat person is very short, but "being seen eating a salad in public" is, ironically, near the top of the list. i need you to know that i am not eating a salad because i am on a "diet". i am eating it because vegetables are delicious

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 03/09/2026

here's how it works: when the boy is the girl and the girl is the boy, that's the ethical heterosexuality. it's craved and adored by all the world's geniuses.

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 03/09/2026

coming This summer...... Het just got, a little Gayer....

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 03/09/2026

writing seems to attract a lot of people who don't actually want to be writers—like, they *want* to be making a comic or cartoon or game, but default to writing on the assumption that those other things are beyond them while writing is within their skillset. they assume this because they don't read

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 29/08/2026

i understand it is a trying time in every english L1 japanese learner's life when they have to come to grips with は vs が/を but if you want to feel better just try explaining the difference between "the" and "a" to someone who happily lived their whole life speaking a language without THAT weird shit

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