compliments from dolls at the gender clinic, the best

ink drawing of two women kissing in bed

sweet

appreciating that the very first oral history is from a trans femme sex worker ✊

from Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072

long passage describing a fictional US invasion of Iran in the 2040s

lolsob

love being early

real answer -- the vibe is treating yourself nicely and making it special, as you might on a date.

OK here is the poem, it is called Dear John Weir

style is 100% STOLEN from another poof I adore, Arthur Hugh Clough

oh right i live in the same building as some of my best friends.

gosh, that's nice.

yes exactly!

also selecting your romantic partner based on traits like "highly dangerous" and "sees through one's bullshit" is just sensible as far as i'm concerned

it's not my fault that if you put on a good show and look like you know what you're doing, people will generally do what you ask.

comfort reading terry pratchett, and uncomfortably aware that moist von lipwig's internal logic and methods of problem solving are a close match to my own

tooooooo much work for the morgan

any event blessed by sisters is a good one

relatedly — my old social anxiety has receded to the point where i can cheerfully hawk raffle tickets to guests at a fancy gala for 2 hours cheerfully

Gosford Park (2001)

Gosford World (2015)

Gosford World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

Plastic, Prism, Void by Violet Allen — Debut trans romantasy — LittlePuss Press A time-skipping quick-quipping trans romantasy supernova! "An utterly essential, astounding new voice." —Charlie Jane Anders

I promised a second thread on Plastic, Prism, Void & here it is! This time I want to talk about it as writing, not as typesetting. And I want to talk about it as writing about love, specifically about trying to be loved as a trans woman.

(remembering to put the pre-order link at the top this time!)

do a cover of lilies by the cranes

i would learn an instrument for this if needed.

throwing muses fandom lookin a little creaky around the edges

(myself included)

trans femme band, every member is named jamie. the band is also called jamie. they only play covers of james songs.

let’s make it happen.

this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026.

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

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Jordan is amazing and has helped me feel pretty over and over again. Let's help her out!

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it is possible for [redacted reasons] that i am the person who both can and should do something about it. but i am *so* tired. we’ll see.

having an anti-trans journalist as your guest speaker at an lgbtq reception is certainly a choice you could make i guess

ooooh nice!

sunset shoe repair

April (thunderous) showers bring May flowers. And stories related to plants and flowers - six of them.

Tickets for our May show - Full Bloom - are live! Get your tickets:
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Hosted by Martin Strauss

Tuesday, May 5th
Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:30pm
Public Works, SF

A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.

A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

looks proper to me