Well, this resolves at least one open question I had about the near future. (My passport is in my birth name/assigned gender, because I didn't have time to get my birth certificate updated.)

I realize now that photos don't make the difference as clear, but it is significantly more vivid blue now and the roots had gotten very grown out. I asked to take off some length so I have room to grow before it starts pooling on my shoulders

@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social @djinnandtonic.bsky.social Almost spooky

8 AM hair appointment means just throwing myself together, but this is the before pic (I'm mostly just recoloring and trimming, unless my stylist convinces me otherwise)

I am so fortunate, it's hard to believe sometimes

Girlfriend asleep, time to post fish I had the Nuri spiced mackerel today; they are out of this world. These are small fish the same size as 3/5 sardines & prepared the same way. The texture is firmer, meatier, and a bit drier than pilchards, but still quite tender. Very tasty & good beginner fish.

I have been reminded that @beneprism.rip’s real name is in her gosh dang bio (c’mon, Jen 🤦🏻‍♀️ 😅) so I am authorized to reveal: Marcy, Marcy the Snorunt 🙌

Legends ZA t’other day I met Mega Froslass—*excellent* new design—so I went looking for a good Snorunt to evolve. “Wait, is that one blue?”—a Shiny!—“please be a girl”—it was! I named the Snorunt after @beneprism.rip, bc I promised I’d name a Pokémon after her & shiny Snorunt matches her hair 💙🩵😉💖

For those who weren't there or forgot, the reaction to Mamdani is extremely reminiscent of the reaction to de Blasio's election, including the threats of an exodus and the idea that the city would fall to ruin. Similarly, the dismissal of the results nationwide are reminiscent of 2018 midterms

Cohn definitely prewrote this expecting a Dem underperformance and then grudgingly reworked it after the results came in. (The Youngkin stuff stayed in because it was stuck to the page.) You saw a bunch of this in 2018 as "so much for the Blue Wave" pieces got mulched by reality

In 72 hours I'll be up getting dressed and washing my face, trying my best not to freak out that my ride to the airport will arrive in 20 minutes. It feels suddenly so real. It's hard to believe that the past few months have happened, sometimes. Like I might wake up out of this dream.

The girls are going wild tonight, at least on my TL

The secret on your lips That nobody knows Gentle in your eyes You can wear my clothes I didn't think I'd find you Perfect in so many ways But I've been waiting (waiting) And I want to (have you)

Anything cool happening on here tonight

Joy and hope are actually pretty cool and sexy, in certain cases

Day after tomorrow I get my hair cut and colored, and I should be finishing up my last work obligation for the week tomorrow. I do laundry, and I start packing. I scheduled my ride to the airport. It feels so incredibly close. I'm anxious but so, so excited. I've been waiting so long

This picture caused me to say something that I had to rebuke *myself* for saying

Turbovicki triumphant (iykyk)

I'm sure you've all seen this, but if you haven't, get crankin'

Sitting on a call with my girlfriend working on my roguelike while she does coursework, listening to Quincy Jones, chatting with my lady friends... modern technology has a lot of problems but it certainly has its compensations as well. Kind of living the dream right now

Just received a box containing, by my count, 11 different species of sea creature. I will be spacing them out over a while but there is the perverse urge to somehow combine them all into one unspeakable bite. I think they call that a Watery Grave

Just because it's Monday and DST just ended doesn't mean I can't put a brave face on

Ones that didn't make the cut: Gravy Hose Trebuchet & Merlon, Authentic Medieval Siege Food Oh What A Long Strange Trip It's Bean Saturn's Delicatessen

Writing a fake survey for a school assignment and thinking of fake restaurant names

This is the story that helped us find each other

Five work days left and then I get on a plane. Five days and then I will be going to see her. Five more nights without her. Going to feel like an eternity while it's happening and like it passed in a flash when it's over. I might go slightly out of my mind

One of the best things about having a girlfriend 3 time zones ahead of you is that you can have a quiet little conversation with her until she drifts off to sleep. On the other hand, I would much rather be three inches away instead

Sunday scaries hitting me hard in the middle of D&D, not sure why

Because look at this glow up. I have log deduplication now too!

How many cannable fishes are there in the sea woman

Working on CSS. Pray for me

Latvian smoked sprats are wonderful treats but it is really hard to budget the sodium for them. Even for tinned seafood they are very salty

going up to a T4T lesbian couple like "which one of you is the poster and which one is the reply girl?"

Putting on my roguelike-programming face

If I'm being honest? There wasn't a single moment between the sixth inning of game 1 and the final out of game 7 that I felt confident the Dodgers were going to win the series. That's how good the Blue Jays were. I'm happy the Dodgers won, but Blue Jays fans have so goddamn much to be proud of.

tfw you're literally showing your girlfriend a tit to try to distract her from baseball and it doesn't work Going to file a complaint with estradiol

if the Dodgers end up winning this I will swear off baseball for the rest of 2025

I think tonight would have been entertaining in any case, but having a Torontonian girlfriend has poured gasoline on the fire. And at the same time I'm having fun teasing @mrbtx.bsky.social. Great night over here

It worked though

Relatable

Think I'm going to bust out the tablet and try to update my character art this weekend. I have surprisingly few chores to do and I'm not behind on work, which is an unusual feeling. But I am too sore and tired to do a lot of physical work.

Need to cut back my sodium to help my diuretic work, and yet I have a great hunger for tinned fish. Takes some finesse. Helps to eat them with greens or other veggies. Regardless, I had Matiz sardines right out of the can for breakfast and they were immensely satisfying.

So out of it this morning that I almost made a very unfortunate medication substitution. You see, the 2mg [loop diuretic] pills I take two of every morning are a very similar size and shape to the 50mg [PDE5 inhibitor] pills that I definitely should not take two of.

The worst part of having a body is having a back

Come on dinger time

You know you're doing good posting when you start getting replies like this

Thanks for the borrowed face, Siouxsie. And Kim, before that. After 39 years I'm finally happy with my own.

Too tired after a long week to do Halloween stuff but