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dsparks redgoldsparks 1 5m ratings 277k ratings see that s what the app is perfect for sounds perfect wahhhh i don t wanna redgoldsparks maia kobabe redgoldsparks on insta bluesky pronouns e em eir author of gender queer a memoir breathe journeys to healthy binding opting out my middle grade fiction debut posts ask about maia kobabe archive mous bones littlefingies sorry for us politics posting but we have until may 22 2026 to submit public comment to the fcc alt more info from glaad https glaad org fcc they have some good tips about writing a comment and protecting your privacy which fuck it i ll just paste here providing an email address is optional if you have concerns about privacy you may use your initials or public address in your local area such as city hall do not use a joke name it diminishes the comment s credibility your submission does not need to be long a single well reasoned paragraph is sufficient do not copy paste a template comment the fcc values unique perspectives and an original comment carries significantly more weight in the public record you can explain why this matters to you without revealing private or sensitive personal information here s what i said free speech is a fundamental american freedom i do not need a warning about seeing queer people much like i do not need a warning about women veterans or any other group of people here s the link to submit your comment by may 22 https www fcc gov ecfs filings express proceeding 5bname 5d 19 41 us politics public comment trans rights trans representation 9 331 notes may 18th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink opting out book tour part 1 we toured thank you so much to everyone who came out to see lucky srikumar diamoric comix and i in the past two weeks to celebrate the release of opting out and i will be forever grateful to the bookstores who hosted us the nonbinarian in brooklyn cover to cover books for young readers in columbus ohio all she wrote books in boston left bank books in st louis and under the umbrella books in salt lake city all of these stores have signed books from us definitely opting out but generally some copies of gender queer too we also stopped in a half priced books on west lane ave in columbus and signed some books there as well it was an absolute whirlwind and i m so glad that i got to do this trip with lucky since traveling with a friend is way more fun than traveling alone i m also so warmed and delighted by the book reviews and moving thoughts and comments that family friends and community texted us or commented on instagram while we were traveling it meant so much to get to read those reviews to each other together during the first two weeks our book was out in the world 3 we already have several more planned events coming up i ll make more event posts soon but you can always find my upcoming appearances in my linktree maia kobabe lucky srikumar opting out opting out comic queer comics 44 notes may 18th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink shortboxcomicsfair shortboxcomicsfair apply to sb fair shortbox comics fair shortbox comics fair applications for shortbox comics fair 2027 are now open full details and form at the link shortbox comics fair comics applications short comics short stories 353 notes may 15th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink outlikethat cosmonaut observer if you live in the uk you need to see this protect internet freedom from now until forever it s important existentially americans stand with uk citizens in our struggle against government censorship russettrush growing up in the online world a national consultation we are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change this includes potential ag gov uk got the link via finalducc if you live in the uk please be sure to take part in this galactic pirates i don t do politics on my tumblr i try and keep it a stress free zone believe me i worry about it plenty that s the point of needing a place to switch off but i just spent two and a half hours filling out that questionnaire and now i m leaving a comment not in the tags but where people will actually see it and i hate drawing attention to myself because this is important the governments agenda is clearly spelled out in this consultation through the phrasing of the questions excuse me while i link a video it s a clip from a comedy so it s a bit exaggerated but it demonstrates the point very well almost all the questions in that survey were leading questions they had an inherent presumption that the person answering agreed with age restrictions wanted more severe ones and wanted more websites and services restricted believe me i take no pleasure in being correct that vpn s are next on their target list this is a consultation where they try and make you look a monster for saying no they push the but it s for the children hard like there was one question where in order to say no you had to not object to children sending receiving nudes which felt wrong i mean that s bad obviously that s bad but the answer isn t total lockdown of the internet to verified id so yeah if you are from the uk then fill this out and fill it out carefully don t let them manipulate or trick you into agreeing that mandated age restrictions are necessary as that is what we have with this you must prove your identity and it looks like they want to make it worse not roll it back also section 4 i think it was is skewed in the opposite direction as it wants to know the benefits of ai chatbot usage for kids so slam that part too say no to ai and no to age verification maltedmilkchocolate when i filled this out i focused my answers to all of these questions on education educate kids and parents in school and at home how to recognise dangers online common recognisable scams links that may contain viruses etc teach them about privacy online not giving your name age or location to strangers on the internet including third party data harvesting that we need more protections around websites trying to gain consent to take our data i pushed how facial and biometric data gathering is synonymous with this and pointed out all the existing data breaches and how that puts our kids in more danger my response was the same for the ai questions i made my answers focus on education on how ai is doing negative things with the environment and water supplies how ai is taking our data from those data breaches and using them for identity theft and other crimes etc all my focus went into ignoring the leading questions that want you to agree with them and putting all my focus into providing education other options methods that already have historically worked awareness and safety campaigns put the onus on learning self responsibility and providing open access resources on internet safety education you don t need to answer their biasedly led questions you can answer the question with the problems they are causing and the solutions for a better path forward importantly though don t be rude or swear or they ll likely dismiss your responses be thorough be smart it takes forever to fill that form out but it can be done in a way that circumvents their bullshit online safety act bad internet bills internet censorship uk politics uk online safety act 18 996 notes may 14th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink bluedelliquanti bluedelliquanti i m so thrilled to share the cover of my next book unauthorized bread a radicalized graphic novel based on the story by cory doctorow adapted by j r doyle and me unauthorized bread is about salima a young woman living on the margins in an apartment building where everything from the elevators to the appliances are designed to enforce inequality can salima work with her neighbors to jailbreak their tech without getting caught or evicted coming out from first second on april 20 2027 preorders ope n comics graphic novel unauthorized bread cory doctorow j r doyle blue delliquanti not my art 252 notes may 13th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink newlevant newlevant alt my book comes out in a week may 12 alt some of my faves gave lovely quotes about why you should read it alt i m doing a bunch of author events and conventions if you re in the area i d love to sign a book for you alt release party at the nonbinarian bookstore in crown heights queer and how we got here queer history trans history queer comics autobio comics hazel newlevant not my art 78 notes may 12th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink unhelpfultarot unhelpfultarot ace of swords and two of wands today you will get a chance to practice thinking under pressure tarot ace of swords two of wands unhelpful tarot 321 notes may 11th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink rhea ewing bigbigtruck slides from my ccs lecture e k weaver get more from e k weaver on patreon patreon slides notes from my april 2 ccs talk on character writing are up on patreon available to both free and paid members comics characters character building ek weaver writing advice 244 notes may 10th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink marsdaydream ellipsus writes right y all we worked our way though over 5 000 responses for our survey on writing in the age of ai we crunched the numbers made some lovely infographics gathered a ton of phenomenal quotes data d the data and shared the results over on our blog who s ready for some pie charts alt keep reading ellipsus ai anti ai writing 2 679 notes may 9th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink one of the most banned books in the u s is making a triumphant comeback next month maia kobabe s memoir gender queer is getting the best treatment despite all the reactions polygon com polygon has a sneak peek of some interior pages of the annotated edition of gender queer it s out on may 19 and you can order it here maia kobabe gender queer a memoir queer comics lgbtq lgbtq comics queer books 125 notes may 8th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink lucybellwood lucybellwood as some of you might recall from this essay i spent the latter half of 2025 working on a comic for the ships of the sea maritime museum in savannah georgia tania sammons a curator at the museum who had previously licensed my guide to sailors tattoos for a show wrote to me with an irresistible pitch four cartoonists would be hired assigned a vessel from the museum s extensive collection of models then given six months to produce a short comic for publication in an anthology alongside an accompanying museum display how could i say no my original brief was to research the anne the ship that brought the first colonists to georgia but in the aftermath of my dad s death the story took off in directions i couldn t have foreseen i m releasing the whole comic online to coincide with the opening of drawn to the sea the exhibition in savannah if you re in the area this week or anytime over the next nine months you can stop in and see all the amazing work that came from myself and fellow artists avery hick rich king and sharon norwood details about the museum show are here in the meantime here s a very personal comic content warning this piece deals with suicide and parental mortality readers with trypophobia may want to skip pages 14 and 15 thanks for reading 3 comics ships of the sea maritime museum ships maritime history parental mortality death grief living history autobio comic tall ships lucy bellwood 1 253 notes may 7th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink april reading and reviews by maia kobabe i post my reviews throughout the month on storygraph and goodreads and do roundups here and on patreon before i get to the reviews i am once again asking you to call your representatives in the united states and say no on hr 7661 this is a federal book banning bill which would cut funding to any public school in the us which offered programing or books which involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism direct quote from this shitty bill which you can read in full here this would essentially ban every book i ve ever published from all public schools in the country unless they were willing to risk their funding here s a very short and simple call script my name is name and i m calling from city state zip code i m calling to ask congress person s name to vote no on hr 7661 i oppose hr 7661 because it would restrict student s access to books and would specifically harm trans nonbinary and intersex students please stand against book bans reviews below the cut keep reading maia kobabe comics reading book reviews comic book reviews 36 notes may 6th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink diamoric comix diamoric comix hey everyone my good friend maia kobabe redgoldsparks wrote a book pre order it here it s my first book ever and maia s first children s book a middle grade fiction graphic novel our main character saachi is an indian american tween who has a passion for creative writing in the midst of getting her period bra shopping with her mother and her best friend dating a boy she questions in her journal why she feels so different and at odds with these changes that her peers seem to navigate so easily how can the aspiring writer speak in her authentic voice when she is struggling so much with her identity read our book out may 5th to find out we ll be going on a book tour in may and we d love to see you there book tour dates click thru for details may 5th new york city ny the nonbinarian may 7th columbus oh cover to cover books may 9th boston ma all she wrote books may 11th st louis mo left bank books may 13th salt lake city ut under the umbrella queer bookstore see you there 3 redgoldsparks look at this wonderful comic about our book s origin story i ll add a few more dates for later in the tour may 29 santa rosa ca copperfields may 30 berkeley ca bay area book festival june 20 los angeles ca qcon maia kobabe lucky srikumar opting out comic lgbtq 187 notes may 5th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink marsdaydream fansplaining re introducing fansplaining writing by for and about fandom fansplaining we re live elizabethminkel i am very tired but very excited that this is out in the world check our the new site sign up for a free membership and if you have the means please subscribe we have so much great stuff in the pipeline and we need your help to pay journalists who actually know what they re talking about when it comes to fandom fansplaining fandom fandom journalism pop culture journalism 526 notes may 4th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink thoughts on thumbnailing from the process of opting out by maia kobabe i drew these two pages in my sketchbook about a year ago when i was trying to explain some of my thought process on thumbnailing while w...