Had my first review of NON-PLAYER CHARACTER on kobo! And it's super lovely!
Reminder that reviews are incredibly helpful in getting indie books seen by potential readers, so thanks to everyone who takes the time to review things on the site of their choice.
Posting this amazing art ("pink in the night") by Eunnie, who has seemingly not yet joined the fediverse, so that you're not missing out
I have added full alt text, which was sadly missing from the posts elsewhere.
You can follow her at:
https://eunnieboo.tumblr.com/
https://www.instagram.com/eunnieboo/
#trans #transgender #TransFem #lesbian #sapphic #queer #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #LGBTQIA2S+ #DigitalArt #Eunnie #EunnieBoo #PinkInTheNight
The term "non-binary" means someone who doesn't fit comfortably into the "definitely male" or "definitely female" categories (frequently referred to as binary genders, since there are only two).
None of these terms indicate how you should address a person (though frequently they hint strongly). A trans woman can use they/them pronouns while sporting a beard, a non-binary person can use he/him pronouns in a frilly dress with obviously "female" body characteristics.
Hacky folks, please resist finding ways to scrape the fediverse, build archives, automate tools and connect to people via bot without their consent.
Just resist the urge. Because you're not going to think to check for robots.txt, but you ought to, that's how we communicate we don't want to be involved. You're probably not going to bother to read the various terms of service for the instances you touch, many of which explicitly ask you not to do any scraping or automated activity beyond normal use of the service. You're not going to know to respect people using the NoBot hashtag that was meant to prevent automated follows. You're certainly not going to parse user profiles and pinned posts to learn how people like to be approached, what will get you blocked, or even think to heavily throttle your activity because instances are falling over in response to load.
Whatever your thing is, make it 100% opt-in. Make it appropriate for a significantly more at-risk user than you are. Make sure it forgets things, purges info about servers it can't contact, can't operate in any sort of logged-in mode where consent is an issue.
We will straight up help advertise your cool thing if it respects users properly and takes the time to consider the safety and preferences of every person involved. There are a lot of fun, thoughtfully-designed toys! And there are a lot of people really tired of having to come and tell you off when you wanted to help, honestly. Help yourself and ask around before you flip on your cool new thing, let folks point out what you're missing.
posts about feelings sometimes
gender egoist
anti-essentialist
anarchist weirdo
neuroqueer
is an identity crisis
healthn't
many
please tell me things directly instead of passively if possible