tyFlow quietly drops a CUDA fluid solver and 20 Inferno ops. Particle artists may want to look twice.
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CES 2026 was awash in bodily fluids
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At CES 2026 this week, people kept asking me what health tech I was seeing on the…
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sometimes a bands vocals are so sick im genuinely just listening confused as to how a human being is making that noise
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my body has just decided to see how long it can stretch out acute illnesses. it’s started chaining them together…
i am so fuckin’ tired…… all the time………
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I wanted to reach out because i think there was a misunderstanding and as a fellow trans person I want to just get the air clear. I loved Fluids, my review was positive, with both Angels and Girl Flesh on my reading list because I enjoyed it so much and think you have such a special and unique voice and understand the unique experience of womanhood in a way that (having detransitioned from 18-31 and not coming out until age 16 i have a lot of experience with girlhood and womanhood and you really captured it in a way that moved me) spoke so deeply to me as somebody who while living as a woman was in toxic but intense sapphic relationships like the two leads of Fluids both romantically and platonically.
At the end of my review I probably didn’t use the most sensitive wording when I asked if anybody could recommend me any AFAB writers in the genre. Im AFAB, Tans, and just put out my own first extreme horror/splatterpunk novel. We have so much more in common than we do different and I didn’t want you to think i was saying you werent a real woman or didnt understand womanhood because you do it beautifully and Im always happy to support another LGBTQ author in extreme horror where its 90% Cishet White men in their middle ages gooning to rape fantasies.
When I asked for any afab recommendations I didn’t mean “real women” or anything gross llike that, im AFAB and not a woman, but since theres so much focus on body horror in the genre I was hoping for a recommendation from somebody with the same type of body as mine to talk about the horror of (pregnancy, menstruation, PCOS, etc). I was asking for ANY afab recommendations from anywhere on the gender spectrum; cishet, lesbian, transmasc/trans man, enby, if anything I was really hoping to be directed toward a trans man or afab enby author.
But your writing is distinctly and entirely womanly and I go out of my way to read LGBTQ authors and was delighted by Fluids and recommended it to dozens of people. I just noticed whenever I saw a feminine name (Judith Sonnett who is a gooner who you run circles around, Alison Rumfitt and Eve Harms are the next two trans woman Im reading im just waiting for the amazon package, I LOVE all my trans siblings and am honored to support them but your work especially hit home) the writer was a lovely woman who was AMAB. Like I said I LOVE supporting the art of my trans siblings but I was in the mood for body horror and was hoping to find a piece (Wetlands was as close as I came) that described body horror to the female body through something other than sexual violence inflicted by a man, like I said preferably written by a trans man like myself, I was IN NO WAY saying I didn’t want to read trans woman or that fiding out you were trans negatively impacted my experience, if anything it enhanced it because you GET and OWN womanhood in a deeper way than I ever will.
I really love your work and admire you as an author and it devastates me that i was so sloppy with my words and made you feel invalidated because like I said my feelings toward Fluids were 100% celebratory and aspirational. Im really sorry if I got autistic with the language and didn’t realize i was implying something misgendering. Even in my “im not allowed to be trans so i have to intellectualize why the whole thing is stupid and postmodern to cope with the fact that others are happy and Im not allowed to be” horrible phase I never misgendered or deadnamed a trans person. Im very large and lost weight from medication and literally donating all my old dresses and barely used makeup to some local trans women I made friends with on the open mic scene who are large enough that they never get hand-me downs because they deserve sanrio and pink checkered sundresses with hearts for buttons and all the makeup i used once for a wedding and never again. I walk with my trans woman friends into the girls room at the bar to make sure nobody gives them shit. I was the first trans guy in the history of my school district BEFORE it was an okay thing to be and ran the LGBTQ club behind my protestant mothers back.
Trans is beautiful. Trans women are not just real women but some of the realest women on the planet. Gender isn’t a birthright (sex is but as a female with an intersex condition i know even that can be blurry). You are in every way a Real woman. Im a dude with a pussy, you’re far more of a REAL woman than I am by any stretch. I really wanted to personally reach out with this post and also do so in a public way to take accountability for my inconsiderately sloppy language because like I said my query was in NO way meant to discredit your womanhood or the value of your work. Girl Flesh is on my list as soon as it has been in print for long enough that my very poor SSI sustained disabled ass can buy a used copy.
But TL;DR I think you are a wonderful author and admire your craft, my language wasnt meant to imply that only AFAB people are real women or that being AMAB makes you less of a woman in any way thats why I specifically didn’t request “recommendations by women” but rather “recommendations by AFAB authors” mainly questing to find a fellow trans male/transmasc enby to read. there was no shade or snark intended in my post about it, just that I have read a lot of extreme horror by trans women and it is WONDERFUL and GRIPPING 90% of the time (the other 10% being Sonnett’s “No Free Rides” which I disliked for the same reason Im not a fan of a lot of extreme horror written by cishet AMAB writers as well, it felt goonerish and exploitative, where I found “Fluids” fresh and emotional and psychological and intellectual and way more moving than I walked into a Splatterpunk book expecting to find)
but I didn’t mean to taint a positive review of your book with a footnote that I was seeking an AFAB (preferably queer or non-cis) author to read next and re-reading it I hate that my tone implies disappointment (I have severe bipolar 2 and must have written it in a depressive cycle which is no excuse but i hope explains the tone and sets you at ease that I loved your work, am excited to read more, and VERY much do see you as REAL WOMAN and your novel could have only come from a place of REAL WOMANHOOD). I wish you the best and can’t wait to read more by you and am very impressed with your craft. I think maybe you captured womanhood SO accurately and in such good taste that I was simply so shocked that you were not AFAB and responded with an ice bath plunge reaction that was unflattering and didn’t accurately portray my feelings toward you or your work accurately.
Please accept my sincerest apology from one transgender extreme horror author to another. Also Im overrun with hand-me-downs from a 180-lb weight range (yay meds) and used-once makeup if you want to DM me dress or jean size and what kind of makeup you like Im moving soon and trying to unload some care packages and would love as an olive branch to send you some cute stuff (mainly plus sized hot topic dresses or size 8-14 thrift store indie, but if you like punk I also have some skinny jeans I punked-up with patches, studs, bell bottoms, rainbow seam ties, etc that i need out of my house because my dr wants me to get rid of all my pro-ana/meth addiction clothing because having it around is triggering)
But Im so deeply sorry if my inconsiderate lazy phrasing made you feel dysphoric or like I wanted a book by a “real woman” I love my trans sisters and yall are as woman as women come like I said i was more specifically seeking out something body horror related by somebody whose body more resembled mine anatomically and even more specifically was looking for non-cis AMAB voices most particularly other trans men because I like to vary the demographics i read as far as authors go and really wanted to read something by a fellow trans man but did not intend ANY of the shade I may have unintentionally casted. I admire you as an author, from your blog you seem like a really chill person, and I genuinely loved your novel and I should have left it at that and made a separate post about seeking authors from a different demographic. Sometimes in life we’re all the asshole, and I was totally the asshole in how I worded that post and want you to know I take total accountability for how I came off even if it wasnt my intention the intention means nothing if the result was that it hurt the feelings of a person who’d done nothing but written a book i enjoyed and connected to.
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Just finished reading Fluids by May Luitz and god that was so good. Its gonna occupy a space in my mind for a really long time that was incredible, it represented transness (and queerness) in a way I’ve never seen depicted and I resonated with it so deeply.
Heres my goodreads review! I have so much to say but I’m to lazy to write it out rn
I saw myself in Dahlia and I hated it.
I ADORED this book, it kept its tension high, I couldnt put it down. I read nearly all of it in one night.
Its gross and violent and talks about the queer and trans experience in subtle and unique ways that I’ve never seen covered. I love that Dahlia was a complete person beyond being trans but her gender was still crucial to her identity, just as it is in real life.
I also really enjoyed the horror of finding a pristine clean room. Theres a few moments in the book where the characters, and you as the reader, are praying that there will be a murder scene but you’re met with nothing and it causes so much anxiety.
I think the brief descriptions of violence sell the vividness of it because it really trusts the reader to fill in the blanks.
I fluctuated between loving and hating these characters, much like Laurens fluctuation.
I’m rating this five stars because *I* loved it, but I certainly would not reccomend it to everyone because of its heavy topics. This book will hold a place in my mind for a very long time. It captures the nervousness and yearning and obsession of queer relationships, that I have also lived through. God this was good.
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fluids dynamics!!
I had lots of fun recently returning to coding by trying to implement a little fluid solver (a program that simulates the behavior of fluids) in C# and Unity that’s going to be a very important part of my future project(s). It’s based (as many such solvers are it seems) on the Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games paper by Jos Stam.
It’s quite basic for now and not optimized at all (no shaders to be found here) but it produces cool colorful swirlies so its worth sharing
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Average experience of a fluid (me) person when something triggers their femmnility but sudden someone which they use their male personality calls them
(It took me too long to writer this and its confusing i know but I had to make this joke that only some freaky twink like me could undersrand😛)
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phase of the cycle where cold shower followed by bloodletting and finger painting over a glass of port is self care. Is this anything