But they're over now, and this place is in capable hands. New job starts on Monday.

Today might actually be my last day in the Shapeshifters studio. Wrapping up tax stuff. Looking around and picking up the last personal items. I found a Left Hand of Darkness screenplay and a jar of honey on a high shelf, those are mine.

It's very strange to leave behind ten years of my life.

omg they're back 😍 is being monstrous in vogue again??

Had a table read of this last summer. I read for the gay man who could have killed Hitler. So many lines resonate with me still.

Oh, this looks amazing. I needed more calming and less stressful games!

(been replaying Papers, Please for some reason)

Thank you to everyone who has reached out to offer to help. Especially you, @neolithicsheep.bsky.social . Seeing your response first steadied me through that whole weekend.

Thanks.

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And good legal help is not free legal help.

If you have a few outrage dollars to toss at the Shapeshifters GoFundMe for help in responding to the FDA's frankly weird threats, we would all very much appreciate them. $1275 would cover our advisory counsel.

gofund.me/4dd707af7

With days to spare on the response timeline, we secured good help and were able to send a response.

Though the FDA is now aware that I do not own the company anymore, they have yet to deign to address Bryce and Gwen, the new owners with their concerns. This made responding more complicated.

Hi folks. Funny story!
Last December I sold Shapeshifters. We signed the contract on 12/18.
On 12/19 we learned that the FDA was sending threatening letters to chest binder companies. I got mine on 12/22. Merry fucking Christmas to me.

Cue the mad scramble for legal advice over the holidays. (1/3)

Haha! Hahahahahaha!!!

Oh man it sure feels great to be directly under the gaze of the Eye of Sauron, i'm getting a tan over here

the trump admin is going after binder distributors

It hits. A lot of midcentury stuff is dated now, but TLU, I think, will last.

I'm biased, but yknow.

I was such a kid. He was so good at being kind and I didn't even really know how rare that was.

Thanks for bringing this back around today.

Dionysus in the woods: purple holographic leopard print spandex bodysuit, silver zebra print chlamys, white gloves and boots.

Costume: Dionysus, from The Bacchae.

It was a new translation. The production involved blacklights and dance parties.

I do, in fact, sometimes take commissions.

the sound this made in my head as it skitters gave me ASMR

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NEW ENGLAND FAM! Did you know about TRANSMASC CAMP? It's an AMAZING time run by truly thoughtful and excellent people and they have spots left for this year!

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They're pricier than off-the-rack but I swear by @shapeshifters.bsky.social - they're customised to you both in measurements and in fabric choices! Mine lasted me for a good 8 years before I finally had my top surgery, with only a little bit of rolling up at the bottom.

Today for Pride, I want to highlight my amazing friend Eli's amazing business, Shapeshifters, owned and operated by @shapeshifters.bsky.social. COMFORTABLE, custom binders, bras, dresses, and even kits to sew your own binder! Lots of fun and beautiful fabrics to choose from, too!
#LGBTQIA #Pride

snowed-over mountains behind a frosty mountain road

snowed-over mountains behind a frosty mountain road, feat. lonely mountain house

Hi from my mid-April commute

"Fellas, is it gay to make everything up as you go along because the existing processes don't fit your life?"

-actual thing I said in a podcast interview today

You make the best pottery in the world.

Shapeshifters.co! They are right here on bsky at @shapeshifters.bsky.social - chest binders made to your measurements, lots of nifty customizations, I could do normal things like manual labor outdoors in the south in the summer and go to the all you can eat Chinese buffet in them!

Costuming for THE BACCHAE. Opening this weekend.

Ice seeped out from under a snowbank on a cracked sidewalk

We thawed for a minute there. Now we're locked up again.

Spring comes in fits and starts.

Idk, I'm a mouthy trans business owner and the IRS has fucked with me for years over basically nothing, maybe this year I earn it

Over here the Good Local Farm eggs are $7/doz and the store brand factory shit is $10/doz and i hope that wee tiny farm is making absolute bank right now

Hey can somebody remind me why I should pay federal taxes

Sticker of an angry clown, labeled 'Vampire'.

Sticker of a blue fuzzy horned monster, labeled 'Minotaur'.

Red devil sticker, pointy tail and no legs, also labeled 'Minotaur'

Grim Reaper sticker labeled 'Witch'

Cursed Item of the Day: this Halloween sticker sheet.