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Book Launch and Workshop: Radical Quilting by Dyke March Amsterdam
Framer Framed, Thursday, June 4 at 06:00 PM GMT+2
Join us on 4 June 2026 for the launch of the book Radical Quilting, a collection of pieces on fiber arts, community work and activism, written by members of the Dyke March Amsterdam group together with other writers from the community. The evening includes a talk with some of the authors and a workshop in which participants collaboratively create a memory map of Amsterdam with needle and thread.In preparation for the Dyke March 2026, a group of volunteers – the ‘DIY Dykes’ – quilted a banner to carry during the march. For a couple of months, the group met once a week, working on their 30x30cm panel, using a decorative technique of their choice.
With so many people quilting, crocheting, knitting and sewing radically, why is it that fiber arts are still often tied to traditional gender roles? In the publication Radical Quilting, the authors show how to do fiber arts outside of heteronormativity and at different intersections. The quilting is radical: the 2024 Dyke March banner is a token of their dedication to the community and mutual aid in spite of gentrification, and above all, an example of their subversion of gendered expectations in fiber arts.
Sign up here. Feel free to bring your fiber work in progress along!
In the same space where the event takes place, Framer Framed is currently hosting the Threads of our Dutch Slavery Past project. Before the event, and every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, participants are welcome to join the creation of a tapestry bringing together stories, perspectives and histories. Sign up here to work on this project.
Info & CreditsThis event is in English. Admission is free, pay what you can. Do you also think art should be free and accessible? Please consider supporting us with a donation when registering or by becoming a Framer Framed Friend!
Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.
LocationFramer Framed
Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71
1093 KS, Amsterdamhttps://offbeat.amsterdam/event/book-launch-and-workshop-radical-quilting-by-dyke-march-amsterdam
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Between 2013 and 2015, the umbrella term preferred by a majority of people with a gender outside the binary appears to have changed from genderqueer to nonbinary.
Whether you believe that’s true depends on how much you trust the results of the pilot Gender Census from 2013.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-fight-for-first.html
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I wrote an introduction for Season 3 of "LGBT by the Numbers."
Season 3 covers the results of the Gender Census, a global annual online survey of nonbinary people.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/10/lgbt-by-numbers-season-3.html
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According to the 〈World Economic Forum 2025 Global Gender Gap Report〉, the #Philippines ranks 20th globally and 1st in Asia in gender parity.
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According to the 〈World Economic Forum 2025 Global Gender Gap Report〉, the #Philippines ranks 20th globally and 1st in Asia in gender parity.
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According to the 〈World Economic Forum 2025 Global Gender Gap Report〉, the #Philippines ranks 20th globally and 1st in Asia in gender parity.
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According to the 〈World Economic Forum 2025 Global Gender Gap Report〉, the #Philippines ranks 20th globally and 1st in Asia in gender parity.
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According to the 〈World Economic Forum 2025 Global Gender Gap Report〉, the #Philippines ranks 20th globally and 1st in Asia in gender parity.
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According to the 〈World Economic Forum 2025 Global Gender Gap Report〉, the #Philippines ranks 20th globally and 1st in Asia in gender parity. reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGG... #Gender #Women #Egalitarian
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An incident over M&S changing rooms proves anti-trans women need to get a life
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An incident over M&S changing rooms proves anti-trans women need to get a life
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An incident over M&S changing rooms proves anti-trans women need to get a life
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An incident over M&S changing rooms proves anti-trans women need to get a life
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An incident over M&S changing rooms proves anti-trans women need to get a life
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#PennedPossibilities 1026 — What is your MC’s biggest priority?
Not letting any of her friends, who think she's simply a talented by eccentric street photographer, learn that she's really a courier for the mob. One's a high power magazine editor, another is Bolt's longtime riding partner whom she just discovered is a praetorian working for the ruler of the planet (who knows her by name and rep, which is scary by itself, even before you consider Rainy Days rules nine other worlds, also), and a journalist whom she helped get his first front page headline with her photos. The last, who is a man presenting his super-attractive feminine side, is confusing the heck out of her, and she's afraid she might act on her instincts messing things up further, especially since he's just told her he's interested in learning what her day job is (she's been coy about it, obviously)—and his first guess shows he's been paying attention to her movements around town, like a good newspaper reporter.
Bad enough she has to worry about the constabulary learning she's a criminal.
She can't imagine any of these folk taking kindly to learning her true profession. The mob boss might not take kindly to her slipping up, either!
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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#PennedPossibilities 1026 — What is your MC’s biggest priority?
Not letting any of her friends, who think she's simply a talented by eccentric street photographer, learn that she's really a courier for the mob. One's a high power magazine editor, another is Bolt's longtime riding partner whom she just discovered is a praetorian working for the ruler of the planet (who knows her by name and rep, which is scary by itself, even before you consider Rainy Days rules nine other worlds, also), and a journalist whom she helped get his first front page headline with her photos. The last, who is a man presenting his super-attractive feminine side, is confusing the heck out of her, and she's afraid she might act on her instincts messing things up further, especially since he's just told her he's interested in learning what her day job is (she's been coy about it, obviously)—and his first guess shows he's been paying attention to her movements around town, like a good newspaper reporter.
Bad enough she has to worry about the constabulary learning she's a criminal.
She can't imagine any of these folk taking kindly to learning her true profession. The mob boss might not take kindly to her slipping up, either!
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
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#PennedPossibilities 1026 — What is your MC’s biggest priority?
Not letting any of her friends, who think she's simply a talented by eccentric street photographer, learn that she's really a courier for the mob. One's a high power magazine editor, another is Bolt's longtime riding partner whom she just discovered is a praetorian working for the ruler of the planet (who knows her by name and rep, which is scary by itself, even before you consider Rainy Days rules nine other worlds, also), and a journalist whom she helped get his first front page headline with her photos. The last, who is a man presenting his super-attractive feminine side, is confusing the heck out of her, and she's afraid she might act on her instincts messing things up further, especially since he's just told her he's interested in learning what her day job is (she's been coy about it, obviously)—and his first guess shows he's been paying attention to her movements around town, like a good newspaper reporter.
Bad enough she has to worry about the constabulary learning she's a criminal.
She can't imagine any of these folk taking kindly to learning her true profession. The mob boss might not take kindly to her slipping up, either!
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#PennedPossibilities 1026 — What is your MC’s biggest priority?
Not letting any of her friends, who think she's simply a talented by eccentric street photographer, learn that she's really a courier for the mob. One's a high power magazine editor, another is Bolt's longtime riding partner whom she just discovered is a praetorian working for the ruler of the planet (who knows her by name and rep, which is scary by itself, even before you consider Rainy Days rules nine other worlds, also), and a journalist whom she helped get his first front page headline with her photos. The last, who is a man presenting his super-attractive feminine side, is confusing the heck out of her, and she's afraid she might act on her instincts messing things up further, especially since he's just told her he's interested in learning what her day job is (she's been coy about it, obviously)—and his first guess shows he's been paying attention to her movements around town, like a good newspaper reporter.
Bad enough she has to worry about the constabulary learning she's a criminal.
She can't imagine any of these folk taking kindly to learning her true profession. The mob boss might not take kindly to her slipping up, either!
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
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#PennedPossibilities 1026 — What is your MC’s biggest priority?
Not letting any of her friends, who think she's simply a talented by eccentric street photographer, learn that she's really a courier for the mob. One's a high power magazine editor, another is Bolt's longtime riding partner whom she just discovered is a praetorian working for the ruler of the planet (who knows her by name and rep, which is scary by itself, even before you consider Rainy Days rules nine other worlds, also), and a journalist whom she helped get his first front page headline with her photos. The last, who is a man presenting his super-attractive feminine side, is confusing the heck out of her, and she's afraid she might act on her instincts messing things up further, especially since he's just told her he's interested in learning what her day job is (she's been coy about it, obviously)—and his first guess shows he's been paying attention to her movements around town, like a good newspaper reporter.
Bad enough she has to worry about the constabulary learning she's a criminal.
She can't imagine any of these folk taking kindly to learning her true profession. The mob boss might not take kindly to her slipping up, either!
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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#ScribesAndMakers № 26 ('26 May) Who's your favo(u)rite vampire?
My favorite vampire is named Myra (short for Myranda), and she's a POV in a so-far unpublished side story and a secondary character in the last two books of an epic fantasy trilogy. She isn't undead, and nothing about her is supernatural per se, but she can turn others into vampires. The profession forced upon her has plenty to do with blood. She's in love with Prista (short for Pristina), who is the daughter of a servant who is killed in Myra's mother's house and become's her mother's ward and servant. It's plays out as a gothic romance fantasy; it's my take on vampires and my first take of a woman-centric society. Calling Myra and Prista lesbians misses the point of their world entirely.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#BoostingIsSharing
#gender #fiction #writer #author
photographer chef cooking
#romance #fantasy
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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#WordWeavers 2026.05.26 — What is your antagonist’s earliest memory?
My chosen antagonist has been the protagonist in several stories, so this is pretty easy to figure out, and might even be canon. Rainy Days is maybe five, a decade before the story she will appear in. Her earliest memory would be of her kneeling on all fours in a yard, her knees and hands dirty and mashed into the soil, the smell of sawdust in the air, watching over her autistic twin brother Harvest Days as he plays with counting stones—currently arranged in piles of primes. She's doing so because their mother died in childbirth and taking care of children is girl's work. They're out there because their carpenter father, who is engaged in alternately planing and sanding some piece of furniture, is hoping to interest his son in his craft, to no avail because the man can't understand how his son is actually special. What made this day different is Rainy Days suddenly hears a voice, or thinks she does, and heart racing, she turns suddenly to the purple and orange horizon to squint, palm shading her eyes, at what we would call the sun. Did it speak to her? Why did it sound lonely?
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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#PennedPossibilities 1025 — Would you or have you ever killed off a member of the main cast? How would or how did you feel afterward?
Twice, that I can recall so far. Both times, the person was a secondary character that served as an emotional focus for the story. Both were 3rd person POV characters written in close, which let me emphasize their strange pure spirit. One was a warrior priestess; the blood made that part hard. The other was a daughter and a working mother who reconciled the desires of generations of space colonists: the pioneers with the native born. The temporary POV allowed me to wring every bit of juice out of the tragic crushing scene when her world collapses around her—literally, not figuratively. Both were necessary to the plot. While I can't remember the details of the warrior priestess, the other served to drive the protagonist (her mother) over the edge and drive the story to completion.
However, I was emotionally devastated that the story had to work out that way! I revived the character, reconstructed but disabled and having none of it, in the epilogue, implying a vengeance vs. reconciliation sequel which I am pretty sure would be too hard for me to write, but there you go. Of course, I also had to write the epilogue such that those emotionally frail readers who read the end of the story first would need the context of the story to figure out who the character in the epilogue is, ensuring no clues to the actual plot. I'm mean† that way…
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† Mwahahahaha. 😇😈[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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@nfk
Aber das war schon in meiner Studienzeit in den frühen 70er Jahren so, daß in Prüfungen bei meinen Komilitonen geprüft wurde, 'Was können sie?' und bei meinen Komilitoninnen und mir wurde geprüft 'Was können sie NICHT?'
Es ist in den letzten 50 Jahren nicht besser geworden, Emanzipation hin, Feminismus her.#ki #ai #bias #gender #gleichstellung #Diskriminierung #vorurteile #verstärker #beruf #job #künstlicheintelligenz #llm #genai #männer #frauen #Patriarchat
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@nfk
Aber das war schon in meiner Studienzeit in den frühen 70er Jahren so, daß in Prüfungen bei meinen Komilitonen geprüft wurde, 'Was können sie?' und bei meinen Komilitoninnen und mir wurde geprüft 'Was können sie NICHT?'
Es ist in den letzten 50 Jahren nicht besser geworden, Emanzipation hin, Feminismus her.#ki #ai #bias #gender #gleichstellung #Diskriminierung #vorurteile #verstärker #beruf #job #künstlicheintelligenz #llm #genai #männer #frauen #Patriarchat
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@nfk
Aber das war schon in meiner Studienzeit in den frühen 70er Jahren so, daß in Prüfungen bei meinen Komilitonen geprüft wurde, 'Was können sie?' und bei meinen Komilitoninnen und mir wurde geprüft 'Was können sie NICHT?'
Es ist in den letzten 50 Jahren nicht besser geworden, Emanzipation hin, Feminismus her.#ki #ai #bias #gender #gleichstellung #Diskriminierung #vorurteile #verstärker #beruf #job #künstlicheintelligenz #llm #genai #männer #frauen #Patriarchat
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@nfk
Aber das war schon in meiner Studienzeit in den frühen 70er Jahren so, daß in Prüfungen bei meinen Komilitonen geprüft wurde, 'Was können sie?' und bei meinen Komilitoninnen und mir wurde geprüft 'Was können sie NICHT?'
Es ist in den letzten 50 Jahren nicht besser geworden, Emanzipation hin, Feminismus her.#ki #ai #bias #gender #gleichstellung #Diskriminierung #vorurteile #verstärker #beruf #job #künstlicheintelligenz #llm #genai #männer #frauen #Patriarchat
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#Writephant 2026.0525 (Questions Upon a Summer Day)
Esteemed hosts:
@adriabailton, @Priyajsridhar,I was intending upon attending your Monday discussion but when I sat down to do so at 4:05 in my time zone, I became so incredibly sleepy I ended up taking a nap instead! So, I guess that's how I spend my first summer day! Still, salutations. Not answering Qs with As formally, today, but will quickly dash off a note.
Summer months are turning into times of travels, having recently returned from Death Valley (I visited the pupfish living there) and Mammoth, having gone to Solvang, Pismo, Hanford, and Fresno (there was ice cream at Superior Dairy, so no worries), and getting ready to visit Sequoia. Don't know about writing routines, but I did spend some productive hours outside at various places during my travels, listening to the surf or the wind, writing. Don't have a favorite summer read, but I am reading @Erik_Buchanan's The Iron Noose, which counts. I can't feature summer per se in my current novel since such a season doesn't exist; it's either ferociously hot or also rainy and thus dangerously humid, but I've written it into my earlier stories at the tail end, as the summer season fades into fall and I can evoke harvest festivals, drying colorful leaves, and good food.
Regards,
RSP.S. Still love the hashtag even though I'm not always attending.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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#EroticMusings 2026.05.25 — Week 51 (May 17-23) Craft What kind(s) of intimacy do you find hardest to show in your work? How are you trying to improve?
[Note: This is a discussion about how to include sex in a story. —RS]
Well, there was a time where a friend reading a draft of a novel said, I love the story but I don't believe these people ever have sex. They fade to black.
Well, I was still writing my stories as if they were YA, and I was the type of shy person that was quite okay with tell not show in certain areas of life, and could be quite "appropriate" about hinting at chemistry in bed with intimacy outside of bed.
These last few stories have been a culmination of wanting to write more spicy stories, of trying to show don't tell tastefully yet naturally for the character, to make sex integral to the plot of the story by proving it a raison d'être. It is hard†, no pun intended, for me to do as my censorious mind objects and balks and tries to stop me from writing.
My solutions have been to never use the common, crass, or anatomical words associated with sex in the English language, to always address the event from the racing heart and senses of the first person narrator, what she sees, feels, smells, tastes, hears, or worries about—her assessments, enjoyment and what captures her attention—not what someone standing in the room or looking at a movie expects to see to fulfill their interest. No demonstration sex—what the narrator reports was for her benefit not yours, though once you get into the flow… However, the phrase "being demonstrative" does have a special meaning in the right context. I'm not above using innuendo, double entendre, unusual phrasing, or misusing meanings of words to get the point across!
So far, it seems to be working.
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† Okay, sorry, the pun was intentional.[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
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#EroticMusings 2026.05.25 — Week 51 (May 17-23) Craft What kind(s) of intimacy do you find hardest to show in your work? How are you trying to improve?
[Note: This is a discussion about how to include sex in a story. —RS]
Well, there was a time where a friend reading a draft of a novel said, I love the story but I don't believe these people ever have sex. They fade to black.
Well, I was still writing my stories as if they were YA, and I was the type of shy person that was quite okay with tell not show in certain areas of life, and could be quite "appropriate" about hinting at chemistry in bed with intimacy outside of bed.
These last few stories have been a culmination of wanting to write more spicy stories, of trying to show don't tell tastefully yet naturally for the character, to make sex integral to the plot of the story by proving it a raison d'être. It is hard†, no pun intended, for me to do as my censorious mind objects and balks and tries to stop me from writing.
My solutions have been to never use the common, crass, or anatomical words associated with sex in the English language, to always address the event from the racing heart and senses of the first person narrator, what she sees, feels, smells, tastes, hears, or worries about—her assessments, enjoyment and what captures her attention—not what someone standing in the room or looking at a movie expects to see to fulfill their interest. No demonstration sex—what the narrator reports was for her benefit not yours, though once you get into the flow… However, the phrase "being demonstrative" does have a special meaning in the right context. I'm not above using innuendo, double entendre, unusual phrasing, or misusing meanings of words to get the point across!
So far, it seems to be working.
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† Okay, sorry, the pun was intentional.[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#EroticMusings 2026.05.25 — Week 51 (May 17-23) Craft What kind(s) of intimacy do you find hardest to show in your work? How are you trying to improve?
[Note: This is a discussion about how to include sex in a story. —RS]
Well, there was a time where a friend reading a draft of a novel said, I love the story but I don't believe these people ever have sex. They fade to black.
Well, I was still writing my stories as if they were YA, and I was the type of shy person that was quite okay with tell not show in certain areas of life, and could be quite "appropriate" about hinting at chemistry in bed with intimacy outside of bed.
These last few stories have been a culmination of wanting to write more spicy stories, of trying to show don't tell tastefully yet naturally for the character, to make sex integral to the plot of the story by proving it a raison d'être. It is hard†, no pun intended, for me to do as my censorious mind objects and balks and tries to stop me from writing.
My solutions have been to never use the common, crass, or anatomical words associated with sex in the English language, to always address the event from the racing heart and senses of the first person narrator, what she sees, feels, smells, tastes, hears, or worries about—her assessments, enjoyment and what captures her attention—not what someone standing in the room or looking at a movie expects to see to fulfill their interest. No demonstration sex—what the narrator reports was for her benefit not yours, though once you get into the flow… However, the phrase "being demonstrative" does have a special meaning in the right context. I'm not above using innuendo, double entendre, unusual phrasing, or misusing meanings of words to get the point across!
So far, it seems to be working.
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† Okay, sorry, the pun was intentional.[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#EroticMusings 2026.05.25 — Week 51 (May 17-23) Craft What kind(s) of intimacy do you find hardest to show in your work? How are you trying to improve?
[Note: This is a discussion about how to include sex in a story. —RS]
Well, there was a time where a friend reading a draft of a novel said, I love the story but I don't believe these people ever have sex. They fade to black.
Well, I was still writing my stories as if they were YA, and I was the type of shy person that was quite okay with tell not show in certain areas of life, and could be quite "appropriate" about hinting at chemistry in bed with intimacy outside of bed.
These last few stories have been a culmination of wanting to write more spicy stories, of trying to show don't tell tastefully yet naturally for the character, to make sex integral to the plot of the story by proving it a raison d'être. It is hard†, no pun intended, for me to do as my censorious mind objects and balks and tries to stop me from writing.
My solutions have been to never use the common, crass, or anatomical words associated with sex in the English language, to always address the event from the racing heart and senses of the first person narrator, what she sees, feels, smells, tastes, hears, or worries about—her assessments, enjoyment and what captures her attention—not what someone standing in the room or looking at a movie expects to see to fulfill their interest. No demonstration sex—what the narrator reports was for her benefit not yours, though once you get into the flow… However, the phrase "being demonstrative" does have a special meaning in the right context. I'm not above using innuendo, double entendre, unusual phrasing, or misusing meanings of words to get the point across!
So far, it seems to be working.
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† Okay, sorry, the pun was intentional.[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#EroticMusings 2026.05.25 — Week 51 (May 17-23) Craft What kind(s) of intimacy do you find hardest to show in your work? How are you trying to improve?
[Note: This is a discussion about how to include sex in a story. —RS]
Well, there was a time where a friend reading a draft of a novel said, I love the story but I don't believe these people ever have sex. They fade to black.
Well, I was still writing my stories as if they were YA, and I was the type of shy person that was quite okay with tell not show in certain areas of life, and could be quite "appropriate" about hinting at chemistry in bed with intimacy outside of bed.
These last few stories have been a culmination of wanting to write more spicy stories, of trying to show don't tell tastefully yet naturally for the character, to make sex integral to the plot of the story by proving it a raison d'être. It is hard†, no pun intended, for me to do as my censorious mind objects and balks and tries to stop me from writing.
My solutions have been to never use the common, crass, or anatomical words associated with sex in the English language, to always address the event from the racing heart and senses of the first person narrator, what she sees, feels, smells, tastes, hears, or worries about—her assessments, enjoyment and what captures her attention—not what someone standing in the room or looking at a movie expects to see to fulfill their interest. No demonstration sex—what the narrator reports was for her benefit not yours, though once you get into the flow… However, the phrase "being demonstrative" does have a special meaning in the right context. I'm not above using innuendo, double entendre, unusual phrasing, or misusing meanings of words to get the point across!
So far, it seems to be working.
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† Okay, sorry, the pun was intentional.[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
CW: #EroticMusings — Week 52 2026.05.25 (May 24-30) Culture: May 25 is Towel Day! Share something with a towel (or otherwise related to Douglas Adams or the world of the *Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*). CW: Read the hashtag!
#EroticMusings May 25
Actually, turns out towels add spice to the right kind of story.
In a society that is more permissive than ours with far more restrictive rules on consent, where what they wear has different standards and function than what we are used to, when they go bathing in public bathhouses—a cultural norm—towels have meaning. Look up onsen and konyoku. My "trope" has shown up in a few stories now (and I'm about to write a sensuous bathhouse scene), but it is etiquette to wear a towel around your hips if you want to say you don't want to be propositioned.
If you are a man.
Women wear a towel around their hips to signal they aren't hunting to lower the anxiety level of the men around them.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
CW: #EroticMusings — Week 52 2026.05.25 (May 24-30) Culture: May 25 is Towel Day! Share something with a towel (or otherwise related to Douglas Adams or the world of the *Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*). CW: Read the hashtag!
#EroticMusings May 25
Actually, turns out towels add spice to the right kind of story.
In a society that is more permissive than ours with far more restrictive rules on consent, where what they wear has different standards and function than what we are used to, when they go bathing in public bathhouses—a cultural norm—towels have meaning. Look up onsen and konyoku. My "trope" has shown up in a few stories now (and I'm about to write a sensuous bathhouse scene), but it is etiquette to wear a towel around your hips if you want to say you don't want to be propositioned.
If you are a man.
Women wear a towel around their hips to signal they aren't hunting to lower the anxiety level of the men around them.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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CW: #EroticMusings — Week 52 2026.05.25 (May 24-30) Culture: May 25 is Towel Day! Share something with a towel (or otherwise related to Douglas Adams or the world of the *Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*). CW: Read the hashtag!
#EroticMusings May 25
Actually, turns out towels add spice to the right kind of story.
In a society that is more permissive than ours with far more restrictive rules on consent, where what they wear has different standards and function than what we are used to, when they go bathing in public bathhouses—a cultural norm—towels have meaning. Look up onsen and konyoku. My "trope" has shown up in a few stories now (and I'm about to write a sensuous bathhouse scene), but it is etiquette to wear a towel around your hips if you want to say you don't want to be propositioned.
If you are a man.
Women wear a towel around their hips to signal they aren't hunting to lower the anxiety level of the men around them.
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CW: #EroticMusings — Week 52 2026.05.25 (May 24-30) Culture: May 25 is Towel Day! Share something with a towel (or otherwise related to Douglas Adams or the world of the *Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*). CW: Read the hashtag!
#EroticMusings May 25
Actually, turns out towels add spice to the right kind of story.
In a society that is more permissive than ours with far more restrictive rules on consent, where what they wear has different standards and function than what we are used to, when they go bathing in public bathhouses—a cultural norm—towels have meaning. Look up onsen and konyoku. My "trope" has shown up in a few stories now (and I'm about to write a sensuous bathhouse scene), but it is etiquette to wear a towel around your hips if you want to say you don't want to be propositioned.
If you are a man.
Women wear a towel around their hips to signal they aren't hunting to lower the anxiety level of the men around them.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
CW: #EroticMusings — Week 52 2026.05.25 (May 24-30) Culture: May 25 is Towel Day! Share something with a towel (or otherwise related to Douglas Adams or the world of the *Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*). CW: Read the hashtag!
#EroticMusings May 25
Actually, turns out towels add spice to the right kind of story.
In a society that is more permissive than ours with far more restrictive rules on consent, where what they wear has different standards and function than what we are used to, when they go bathing in public bathhouses—a cultural norm—towels have meaning. Look up onsen and konyoku. My "trope" has shown up in a few stories now (and I'm about to write a sensuous bathhouse scene), but it is etiquette to wear a towel around your hips if you want to say you don't want to be propositioned.
If you are a man.
Women wear a towel around their hips to signal they aren't hunting to lower the anxiety level of the men around them.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
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#ScribesAndMakers № 24 ('26 May) Warp?
What's Let's Do the Time ______ for $100.
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#WordWeavers 2026.05.25 — What one event defines your MC?
That time when Bolt let her pride get the best of her and she took revenge on the Hauler Guild in a high school jock juvenile delinquent manner before running from home, fearing she would be caught by the constabulary. Soon after, needing to eat, her unwittingly doing what turned out to be very useful little messengering jobs for the mob simply sealed the deal.
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Fantastic Feminist Praxis: Consciousness-Raising in the Speculative Fiction of Lady Florence Dixie
Scottish Literary Review 14/1, 2022
Available on Open Access via Project MUSEGrace Borland Sinclair discusses gender politics in Florence Dixie’s speculative fiction
2/2
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/857655
#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #womenwriters #Sciencefiction #scifi #speculativefiction #gender #sexuality
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Fantastic Feminist Praxis: Consciousness-Raising in the Speculative Fiction of Lady Florence Dixie
Scottish Literary Review 14/1, 2022
Available on Open Access via Project MUSEGrace Borland Sinclair discusses gender politics in Florence Dixie’s speculative fiction
2/2
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/857655
#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #womenwriters #Sciencefiction #scifi #speculativefiction #gender #sexuality
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Fantastic Feminist Praxis: Consciousness-Raising in the Speculative Fiction of Lady Florence Dixie
Scottish Literary Review 14/1, 2022
Available on Open Access via Project MUSEGrace Borland Sinclair discusses gender politics in Florence Dixie’s speculative fiction
2/2
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/857655
#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #womenwriters #Sciencefiction #scifi #speculativefiction #gender #sexuality
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Fantastic Feminist Praxis: Consciousness-Raising in the Speculative Fiction of Lady Florence Dixie
Scottish Literary Review 14/1, 2022
Available on Open Access via Project MUSEGrace Borland Sinclair discusses gender politics in Florence Dixie’s speculative fiction
2/2
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/857655
#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #womenwriters #Sciencefiction #scifi #speculativefiction #gender #sexuality
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Fantastic Feminist Praxis: Consciousness-Raising in the Speculative Fiction of Lady Florence Dixie
Scottish Literary Review 14/1, 2022
Available on Open Access via Project MUSEGrace Borland Sinclair discusses gender politics in Florence Dixie’s speculative fiction
2/2
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/857655
#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #womenwriters #Sciencefiction #scifi #speculativefiction #gender #sexuality
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#PennedPossibilities 1024 — MC POV: Name a time where you cried your eyes out.
[Bolt:] Me? Cry? You stupid or what?
Author speaking here. Did you really think that Bolt would admit to this? She's can be very emotional, despite the tough-girl jock image she presents, and the current apathy she's working through as she tells her story in the novel. However, whilst she's talked about being duped by the Hauler Guild into paying heavy initiation fees, passing all their tests, and then being told they wouldn't accept her because she's a woman, subsequently to throw a rock through their window and roll one of their vans down a hill, what she never admits in the book (as a mildly unreliable narrator) is she cried a lot on her own having been made to feel so stupid besides having her dreams crushed. What she can do is haul heavy loads through the sky. As a day angel, she has 99th percentile lading ratio, but without guild membership, she can't work.
As Bolt's author, I think maybe she took her revenge because being made to cry was the final straw for her stupid jock pride.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
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#PennedPossibilities 1024 — MC POV: Name a time where you cried your eyes out.
[Bolt:] Me? Cry? You stupid or what?
Author speaking here. Did you really think that Bolt would admit to this? She's can be very emotional, despite the tough-girl jock image she presents, and the current apathy she's working through as she tells her story in the novel. However, whilst she's talked about being duped by the Hauler Guild—paying heavy initiation fees, passing all their tests, and then being told they wouldn't accept her because she's a woman, subsequently to throw a rock through their window and roll one of their vans down a hill—what she never admits in the book (as a mildly unreliable narrator) is she cried a lot on her own having been made to feel so stupid besides having her dreams crushed. What she can do is haul heavy loads through the sky. As a day angel, she has 99th percentile lading ratio, but without guild membership, she can't work.
As Bolt's author, I think maybe she took her revenge because being made to cry was the final straw for her stupid jock pride.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
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#PennedPossibilities 1024 — MC POV: Name a time where you cried your eyes out.
[Bolt:] Me? Cry? You stupid or what?
Author speaking here. Did you really think that Bolt would admit to this? She's can be very emotional, despite the tough-girl jock image she presents, and the current apathy she's working through as she tells her story in the novel. However, whilst she's talked about being duped by the Hauler Guild into paying heavy initiation fees, passing all their tests, and then being told they wouldn't accept her because she's a woman, subsequently to throw a rock through their window and roll one of their vans down a hill, what she never admits in the book (as a mildly unreliable narrator) is she cried a lot on her own having been made to feel so stupid besides having her dreams crushed. What she can do is haul heavy loads through the sky. As a day angel, she has 99th percentile lading ratio, but without guild membership, she can't work.
As Bolt's author, I think maybe she took her revenge because being made to cry was the final straw for her stupid jock pride.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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