#trans science fiction

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An Essay: Trans History and Retcons Regarding IDW1 Arcee and Her Spotlight

As we've slowly learned more and deeply immersed into IDW1 Arcee's writing over the years, finding much more than just kinship to her, we felt this urge to dig further, to understand, feeling threads that were there regarding trans history, but not having much knowledge regarding historical transmedicalism, so we dug. We dug because we wanted to show that Arcee's writing from 2012-2018 not only is a beautiful trans story unique in science fiction, but that her personality there and in part in her Spotlight (which absolutely did not intend trans stuff and walked into a minefield in that regard that inadvertently opened up the opportunity for the writing and consulting team in Phase 2 and Phase 3 to figure out beautiful character arcs for her) are direct successors of the original personality frameworks for G1 Arcees, and to show the impact and legacy of both Sunbow/Marvel and IDW Arcees along with more Arcees combined on many versions of her thereafter.

Here's the introductory paragraph:

In much of the last decade, a lot of people familiar with Transformers’ trans stories appreciate Arcee being trans and her arcs in that regard from 2012 onwards. But during those six years from 2012-2018 where her narratives that firmly navigated her agency as a trans gal were being established by a number of writers, with consulting help in 2015 for Ask Vector Prime and 2018 for IDW1, there was and remains uncertainty over how exactly that works for her, specifically for her comic iteration where her transness was first hinted and then plainly stated. The variety of understandings in this regard in part originates from her introduction to the IDW1 run, Spotlight Arcee, in 2008, which was received rather turbulently because of how it portrayed her gender and transformer gals at large. Writing years after would navigate resolving this rather beautifully as showing Arcee having struggled with transmedicalism, isolation, abandonment, loneliness, and alienation, the brutality of a violent (and androcentric) world, as many trans people across gender and parallel spectrums or lacks thereof have in real life. Her story is done in a wlw trans gal context in particular. She is shown getting closure on all this, finding her happiness by the end of that continuity that would along with her story at large as a sweet, ferocious, outspoken old warrior sage help set the tone for her portrayals afterwards. Much of this overlaps with how she was described in her The Transformers Universe bio all the way back in 1986. In these regards, we (the writer of this is plural, we'll have a note about that near the end) think it is pertinent to take another look at how her story played out, what was actually written and shown vs. what was intended, to navigate transmedicalist history that overlaps with her story, and to show that Arcee’s trans iterations are directly part of the legacy of G1 Arcee overall

also a brief fact check edit regarding HRT:

we said HRT only effects hormones but realized we should fact check that, and apparently for some people HRT does effect their genes!! (this is separate from the discussion of gender journeys and epigenetics which we personally know next to nothing about) this a deeply understudied topic you can read about it here:

Gender-affirming hormone therapy induces specific DNA methylation changes in blood

[saint-vagrant]

THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Everything returns once more, over and over. There will always be: A boy, a soldier, an experiment. A sniper. They'll find each other on opposite sides every time. A mother. A father. A key. A fight. And a weapon whose detonation puts worlds into motion. 119 pages | mature readers 18+ (violence, nudity.)

if i were to do my 2024 retrospective, it would mostly be comics. this is one of them. a few people reached out to ask if THE SOLAR SYSTEM would be available after the shortbox fair— we're asked to shelve our comics for a while first, so, having done that, it's now out here for everyone new or who might've missed the chance back in october. i'm really happy with how this story turned out… i hope you like it too 🖤

i'm having surgery in february. any support you can give goes a long way to ensuring i don't have to stress out about work during my long recovery. your support isn't just of what i Am making, but everything i Have made, and Will make. if my comics, paintings, illustrations, writing, SUPERPOSE or my erotic work, my archiving, etc. etc. etc., if anything i've been and done has meant anything to you, i'd sincerely appreciate it 🖤 i never thought i'd reach this point and still don't fully trust it's real. but i think it is.

best wishes in the new year!

[elamimax]

TEETH (2025)

Dakota Chareon is hiding away on a jungle planet. Hiding from her past, from what she's done. Hiding from the fact that her organs are slowly failing, which is ironic - the neuroimplant in her head won't let her die any other way. But then some strangers come into town, and they set off her implants, and suddenly something big moves between the trees. Something with too many teeth. Something huge and monstrous. Even more monstrous than Dakota.

TEETH is a science fiction werewolf novel about becoming something inhuman because you're terrified of the version of yourself you might become if you allowed yourself to exist. It's about what would happen if someone forced you to be yourself and looked at you with more love than you've ever received.

It's queer. It's horror. It's wish fulfillment. It's about abuse. It's werewolves. It's a love story. It's about TEETH.

- "TEETH is what would happen if Terry Pratchett wrote Worm."

You can currently read the first 6 chapters on scribblehub, or 20 on my Patreon.

This is an extremely brainworms story. It make me go insane. It's like if Nexus Alpha was about trauma, transformation and werewolves instead of sex, capitalism and robots.

[vyriadurav]

(Edit: using this as a pinned post about all my books for now in lieu of another one. This was formerly for International Lesbian Day but now is a one stop shop for all my books) For starters, consider checking out

Catnip Amazon | Itch.io | Alternative Ebook Sellers | Audiobook For all his life, Sol has believed he's only worthy of affection as long as he's useful--and he intends to prove his ultimate use by restoring a colony on Venus as a new home for his friends and lovers. But upon arriving, he realizes there's more here than he bargained for. For one, the resident artificial intelligence wants to make friends with him. For another, the nanites want to completely change his body... and in the process reveal her true self. Stuck (or perhaps blessed?) with a new form, she must find out what it means to live, to be loved for who she is rather than her work. Catnip is a cozy space exploration novel about a trans woman's journey to find herself and what it means to be loved for who she is, with the help of her polycule and a lesbian AI. If Sci-fi isn't quite your speed, you can also check out

The Hatchling Amazon | Itch.io | Alternative Ebook Sellers

Sarric dreamed of dragons all his life; such flights of fancy captured his imagination at a young age and sustained him through the cruelty of the hunters that ruled the isolated mountain town of Rivermist. One day, a real dragon appears before him, dazzling him with her beauty and an answer to the unease that's afflicted him for as long as he remembers. He's eager to take what she offers--but the greedy hunters, driven by tales of treasure hoards, will do everything in their power to destroy her. The Hatchling is a fantasy about a trans woman's journey of accepting her identity and her new found family.

If you want something a little spicier, consider reading Wyrmheart Itch.io exclusive

A mage without home or family seeks to establish a legacy for herself so that her name might ring out through the ages.

An assassin is charged with striking at the heart of a draconic cult that surely hides some greater evil.

Wyrmheart is a story set in Maria Ying's Those Who Break Chains universe and tells the story of trans women making their way through life in this fantastical world.

You can also take a look at my Patreon where I am currently writing several things, but primarily

Forged in the Light of New Stars

Forged is a t4t lesbian isekai story about a closeted trans woman and a repressed, rotten egg (in the trans sense) who find themselves transported to a vibrant, magical world filled with advanced technology, mysteries to discover, and most importantly: a place where they can their truest selves. Follow Gwen as she strives to take control of her life, to be the woman she's always known she could be, and find true happiness.

Follow Brian as he struggles to cast off the chains that his family has bound him in, to undo the bigoted messages they poured into him constantly, and find out, deep down, who she truly is.

Watch them fall in love with each other and with the mystical world of Tellara and all the new friends they make along the way. See them uncover secrets about the connection between Earth and Tellara and their purpose as travelers between worlds. Magic, alchemy, and queerness collide in this otherworldly journey.

[charliejaneanders]

She's certain that she's a girl in the exact same way that she was never certain she was a boy. Or rather, she was a boy because everyone told her she was a boy, not because she felt like one. Until now, she's never allowed herself to even wonder if they were right.

I wrote a p. good description of trans feelings just now

[fez-pwned]

Take me up, don't bring me back /lyr

[womeninfictionandirl]

Rose Tico by DrZime

[dragons-clutch]

Man, seeing how fast Whitepine and Parkour Civilization have exploded really makes me hopeful about Minecraft Nexus! I hope one day I have even half that kind of following!

[tom-bombadil-is-transgender]

One of my current greatest pet peeves with the sci-fi genre is how 99 times out of 100 if a book is marketed as fucking around with gender it's literally just presenting an alien species that has a common third sex or whose life cycles involves switching sexes at some point. Like you read enough of these and it really begins to feel like these authors are imagining a world where trans people are validated by our cultural idea of biological sex and then calling that progressive and diverse. I'm so fucking sick of having to accept that this is what is thought of as queering the gender binary or whatever the fuck when like. Le Guin did this over 50 years ago. Can we stop acting like it's revolutionary. Can we move on and maybe even explore characters who are actually transgender in a meaningful way. By all means do cool things with aliens but don't act like trans people are supposed to bow down and thank you for saying what if transgender was real.

[madlificent]

The first full drawing I've posted to socials in 2025 had to be of Sorochi, specifically her appearance in the play-by-post roleplay that I joined; Boundless Sky! She's taken a hard shift from her Crystal Heart self, now a young adult with heaps of unprocessed trauma, commitment issues, no real sense of purpose, and substance dependency. This particular doodle is of her waiting to be picked up by a member of the ship she will be joining, trying her best not to spiral for the hundredth time about adventuring out into the black (and desperately in need of a good night's sleep).

[cipheramnesia]

Now Playing: "Graft"

The final edit is done and posted, enjoy it today on Ao3. Graft is a cyberpunk story about a girl who gets her vagina hijacked and the chaos that ensues. Oops, I said "ensue."

DeeDee woke up this morning with a bad hangover, and her vagina was missing. This isn't supposed to happen with her secure password; but her whole body is a custom job. Of course her vagina is detachable.

[kacchanot-fucking-deal-with-this]

explaining mpreg to my boss wasn't on my 2024 bingo

[saint-vagrant]

FIAT LUX

from my comic,THE SOLAR SYSTEM

[elamimax]

Hey I wrote a book!

It's called

FURTHER PRINCIPLES: ON THE DYNAMICS OF INTERDIMENSIONAL EMOTIONAL SUPPORT

I'mma be real with you gang.

This one rules.

I'm really freaking proud.

This is the sequel to Principles of Non-Euclidean Romance, a science fiction romcom starring a transsexual lesbian Lovecraftian horror obsessed with the Vengaboys. It can be found on itch and Amazon.

Further Principles follows the continued adventures of the eldritch abomination Sammaël through time, space and a secret third thing in its attempts to connect to the ineffable human experience, this time through the power of friendship and awkward conversations with someone who literally doesn't have anyone else to turn to.

If you like fantasy, science fiction, and metanarrative stories with a hefty helping of linguistic jokes, inspired by Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams, starring an eldritch abomination that just wants to be friends, you really should check it out.

You can purchase it on amazon here

To whet your appetite, I have provided you with some excerpts

Finally, I would also like to offer:

It contains the best kiss I have ever written and, potentially, the best kiss in the multiverse.

So come on, give it a shot, and please share the post because lately my reach online has been lacking and selling these things is how I pay rent lol.

[hypnoticauthoress]

Fly High, Sink Deeper

Fly High, Sink Deeper is a sci-fi series set in the 5030s. A story about women who love women learning who they are, who they want to be, and how to use that to destroy a fascist theocracy.

FHSD is a story about identity, about society, about girls loving girls. It's a story about love, hope, and finding happiness even in the darkest of times.

It's a story about desperation, war, and the understanding that one is not chained to their past. That change for the better is always possible, and worth fighting for.

Fly High, Sink Deeper is drama, humor and horror, all wrapped in a compelling far future setting!

If that sounds interesting to you, you can find it here:

[henry-the-queer-artist]

they're the transgender aliens that they were talking about in the presidential debate