Leo Astrum
@leoastrum.bsky.social
queer SFF writer | he/they | UK-based | the autistic transmasc that infantilisers warned you about | icon: cosmitasia
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Leo Astrum
@leoastrum.bsky.social
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I'm Leo, a trans (+otherwise queer) and disabled writer. I write pieces about queer and disabled people finding justice and love in speculative settings - see any published works in the thread below!
My website/blog: leoastrum.wordpress.com
I'm Leo, a trans (+otherwise queer) and disabled writer. I write pieces about queer and disabled people finding justice and love in speculative settings - see any published works in the thread below!
My website/blog: leoastrum.wordpress.com
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My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
September 30, 2026 at 3:29 PM
My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Hehe it's me in a book 👀
September 24, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Hehe it's me in a book 👀
I tried to order the anthology I was in from the only (?) place selling physical copies in the UK and have been given a *six month window* for delivery. I have never had this happen to me before!!
September 11, 2026 at 8:33 AM
I tried to order the anthology I was in from the only (?) place selling physical copies in the UK and have been given a *six month window* for delivery. I have never had this happen to me before!!
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As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now.
NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
September 10, 2026 at 6:39 PM
As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now.
NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
Thursday night and world is a fuck but you've always gotta look on the bright side (I get to wake up to Intergalactic Mixtape tomorrow)
September 10, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Thursday night and world is a fuck but you've always gotta look on the bright side (I get to wake up to Intergalactic Mixtape tomorrow)
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'The British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it.'
Eric Williams
Eric Williams
'Question' at Lobby today:
"You seem to be just looking at the negatives of [the slave trade] which is of course appalling, but we do have to say about a positive side...we ended it. Don't you accept that?"
No 10: "It's difficult to acknowledge the positive side of the transatlantic slave trade."
"You seem to be just looking at the negatives of [the slave trade] which is of course appalling, but we do have to say about a positive side...we ended it. Don't you accept that?"
No 10: "It's difficult to acknowledge the positive side of the transatlantic slave trade."
September 7, 2026 at 12:34 PM
'The British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it.'
Eric Williams
Eric Williams
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Surprise, vampire short story.
GHOSTS LEFT BEHIND is a quiet story about two siblings reconnecting when their mom dies after 30 years apart. Except one's a vampire now & hasn't aged a day.
Get your vampire & sibling angst right here! 10 freebies up for grabs!
earlronove.itch.io/ghostsleftbe...
GHOSTS LEFT BEHIND is a quiet story about two siblings reconnecting when their mom dies after 30 years apart. Except one's a vampire now & hasn't aged a day.
Get your vampire & sibling angst right here! 10 freebies up for grabs!
earlronove.itch.io/ghostsleftbe...
September 6, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Surprise, vampire short story.
GHOSTS LEFT BEHIND is a quiet story about two siblings reconnecting when their mom dies after 30 years apart. Except one's a vampire now & hasn't aged a day.
Get your vampire & sibling angst right here! 10 freebies up for grabs!
earlronove.itch.io/ghostsleftbe...
GHOSTS LEFT BEHIND is a quiet story about two siblings reconnecting when their mom dies after 30 years apart. Except one's a vampire now & hasn't aged a day.
Get your vampire & sibling angst right here! 10 freebies up for grabs!
earlronove.itch.io/ghostsleftbe...
More fantasy that isn't about quests or the prevention of/fighting huge threats. I want all those mundane but incredibly important, very thorny personal stakes. Basically: more in that middle ground between epic and cosy
(Also, more trans people. Always more trans people.)
(Also, more trans people. Always more trans people.)
What would you like to see more of in the fantasy fiction of the next five years? Where do you think the genre has room for growth and exploration--or which recent developments would you like to see continued?
September 6, 2026 at 3:33 PM
More fantasy that isn't about quests or the prevention of/fighting huge threats. I want all those mundane but incredibly important, very thorny personal stakes. Basically: more in that middle ground between epic and cosy
(Also, more trans people. Always more trans people.)
(Also, more trans people. Always more trans people.)
I just did a lil audit of "books in my house that I currently want to read and have not yet read" and the good news is that the count of physical books is under 100. The bad news is that we're operating in the realm of over or under 100
September 6, 2026 at 1:08 PM
I just did a lil audit of "books in my house that I currently want to read and have not yet read" and the good news is that the count of physical books is under 100. The bad news is that we're operating in the realm of over or under 100
Read 30 pages of Notes From a Regicide and already feel like I've been hit by a falling piano 10/10 can't wait to read the rest of the book
September 5, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Read 30 pages of Notes From a Regicide and already feel like I've been hit by a falling piano 10/10 can't wait to read the rest of the book
Aghhhh placing a 1200 word piece of trans fantasy body horror is proving pretty tricky. If the market I'm waiting on doesn't pan out I might have to take a very sharp knife to that word count
September 1, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Aghhhh placing a 1200 word piece of trans fantasy body horror is proving pretty tricky. If the market I'm waiting on doesn't pan out I might have to take a very sharp knife to that word count
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I really need anyone and everyone who writes about "Gen Z" to be more specific about what age of person they're writing about. It's a wildly unspecific term that spans people of very different possible life stages and I wanna know who you're talking about!!
September 1, 2026 at 4:15 PM
I really need anyone and everyone who writes about "Gen Z" to be more specific about what age of person they're writing about. It's a wildly unspecific term that spans people of very different possible life stages and I wanna know who you're talking about!!
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I wrote up a little Trans Horror Primer; if youre looking for more authors to check out, large&small press, give it a read through
www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/tran...
www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/tran...
Trans Horror Books: 60+ Novels, Anthologies & More
Discover 60+ trans horror books by 18 authors, from body horror and queer Gothic fiction to graphic novels, cosmic horror, and small-press anthologies.
www.whatsleepsbeneath.com
August 31, 2026 at 4:44 PM
I wrote up a little Trans Horror Primer; if youre looking for more authors to check out, large&small press, give it a read through
www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/tran...
www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/tran...
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Brief alt text for peeps who need it: windows settings > privacy & security > text and image generation, and a toggle switch that says "text and image generation: windows and anyone using this device can use text and image generation." "Text and image" has been searched in the settings search bar
Heads up windows 11 users, microsoft now has this setting enabled by default.
Be sure to disable it :]
Be sure to disable it :]
August 31, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Brief alt text for peeps who need it: windows settings > privacy & security > text and image generation, and a toggle switch that says "text and image generation: windows and anyone using this device can use text and image generation." "Text and image" has been searched in the settings search bar
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Sweet, strange uncitizens:
ONCE I WAS MADE OF EARTH is here, an epic fantasy that's been ratling in my brain for years now and that I'm putting out into the world serially outside of the capitalist publishing apparatus. Share, and read, and comment.
archiveofourown.org/works/91618061
ONCE I WAS MADE OF EARTH is here, an epic fantasy that's been ratling in my brain for years now and that I'm putting out into the world serially outside of the capitalist publishing apparatus. Share, and read, and comment.
archiveofourown.org/works/91618061
August 30, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Sweet, strange uncitizens:
ONCE I WAS MADE OF EARTH is here, an epic fantasy that's been ratling in my brain for years now and that I'm putting out into the world serially outside of the capitalist publishing apparatus. Share, and read, and comment.
archiveofourown.org/works/91618061
ONCE I WAS MADE OF EARTH is here, an epic fantasy that's been ratling in my brain for years now and that I'm putting out into the world serially outside of the capitalist publishing apparatus. Share, and read, and comment.
archiveofourown.org/works/91618061
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Nature's most beautiful colors are captured in a five-panel floralscape. Red corn poppies draw the eye in from the left, and the purple-blue clematis contrast with the sunflowers on the right-hand side.
Floralscape in Gold
by Erin Hanson, 2026
Oil on canvas
#bloomscrolling #art @bsky.art #sciart
Floralscape in Gold
by Erin Hanson, 2026
Oil on canvas
#bloomscrolling #art @bsky.art #sciart
August 28, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Nature's most beautiful colors are captured in a five-panel floralscape. Red corn poppies draw the eye in from the left, and the purple-blue clematis contrast with the sunflowers on the right-hand side.
Floralscape in Gold
by Erin Hanson, 2026
Oil on canvas
#bloomscrolling #art @bsky.art #sciart
Floralscape in Gold
by Erin Hanson, 2026
Oil on canvas
#bloomscrolling #art @bsky.art #sciart
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Extraterrestrials: Another Autistic Trans Anthology is out now! My story is about a nonbinary autistic teenager coming out to their friends, who then take them shopping for gender-affirming clothes. bookshop.org/p/books/extr...
August 28, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Extraterrestrials: Another Autistic Trans Anthology is out now! My story is about a nonbinary autistic teenager coming out to their friends, who then take them shopping for gender-affirming clothes. bookshop.org/p/books/extr...
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CABINS, CONFUSION, AND OTHER CONUNDRUMS is out TODAY in Extraterrestrials: another trans autistic anthology!
What happens when Eis leaves Earth? Find out!
a.co/d/01WSvKPu
#queerscifi #books #newrelease
What happens when Eis leaves Earth? Find out!
a.co/d/01WSvKPu
#queerscifi #books #newrelease
Amazon.com
a.co
August 27, 2026 at 5:47 PM
CABINS, CONFUSION, AND OTHER CONUNDRUMS is out TODAY in Extraterrestrials: another trans autistic anthology!
What happens when Eis leaves Earth? Find out!
a.co/d/01WSvKPu
#queerscifi #books #newrelease
What happens when Eis leaves Earth? Find out!
a.co/d/01WSvKPu
#queerscifi #books #newrelease
HAHAHA YESSS I love bookmail <3
August 27, 2026 at 8:53 PM
HAHAHA YESSS I love bookmail <3
Hoohoohoo I treated myself to a book voucher from my productivity bonus at work and managed to grab a couple books from the Le Guin shortlist and they're finally on the way!! Lots of them weren't published in the UK or were published in line with US book retail prices, so they can be expensive
August 25, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Hoohoohoo I treated myself to a book voucher from my productivity bonus at work and managed to grab a couple books from the Le Guin shortlist and they're finally on the way!! Lots of them weren't published in the UK or were published in line with US book retail prices, so they can be expensive
If I said I had a venn diagram with Bisection by Sheila Jenné, Translation State by Ann Leckie, and Scherzo by Robert Shearman, would anyone understand the vision
August 25, 2026 at 12:13 AM
If I said I had a venn diagram with Bisection by Sheila Jenné, Translation State by Ann Leckie, and Scherzo by Robert Shearman, would anyone understand the vision
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welcome to britain, bangers are sausages but also second hand cars and also good songs, good luck out there
August 21, 2026 at 6:49 PM
welcome to britain, bangers are sausages but also second hand cars and also good songs, good luck out there
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OK pals I have some CRAFT BOOK recommendations.
To start out, I would highly recommend Steering the Craft by the incredible Ursula K LeGuin.
It's great for beginners but also hammers down some fundamentals for established writers too. Good reminders!
bookshop.org/p/books/stee...
To start out, I would highly recommend Steering the Craft by the incredible Ursula K LeGuin.
It's great for beginners but also hammers down some fundamentals for established writers too. Good reminders!
bookshop.org/p/books/stee...
Steering The Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
From the celebrated Ursula K. Le Guin, "a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller" (Boston Globe), the revised and updated edition of her classic guide to the essentials of a wri...
bookshop.org
August 20, 2026 at 11:33 PM
OK pals I have some CRAFT BOOK recommendations.
To start out, I would highly recommend Steering the Craft by the incredible Ursula K LeGuin.
It's great for beginners but also hammers down some fundamentals for established writers too. Good reminders!
bookshop.org/p/books/stee...
To start out, I would highly recommend Steering the Craft by the incredible Ursula K LeGuin.
It's great for beginners but also hammers down some fundamentals for established writers too. Good reminders!
bookshop.org/p/books/stee...