okay, but being at the rail for fluffing @silentvj.bsky.social and @donutshoes.bsky.social was the absolute peak of MAGFest this year.

holy fluff, @faithintheglitch.bsky.social with the cyberpunk flip of Clair Obscur. I love MAGFest so much.

as a classical guitarist, there is something weirdly satisfying about live metal concerts, just seeing someone use the same instrument and theory in such a weirdly, wonderfully different way.

"3am secret cheese party" is one of the most hype phrases in any language. 🧀

Dear DJs, I have one request: pick a tempo. Please. 🥺

Karaoke in front of several thousand people and someone sings a Clair Obscur song. Fluffing *respect*.

new illogical but powerful dysphoria source unlocked: seeing people do crossplay. if my brain could shut up and mind her own business that would be great.

Rebeca Sugar live at MAGFest was the pleasant surprise of the year by a lot. Just the way she *exists* is a testament to how powerful her art is. 💕

the girls at the nail salon all ganging up on me about how ticklish I am when I get a pedicure. 😭

"four girls, one pint." - Fwae Ice cream, my beloved.

K-On: "we ate cake instead of practicing and we're no good, but we have fun!" Girls Band Cry: "we had no cake and we're all grumpy but really good on stage." Bocchi: "Autism, The Musical."

"At her words, a whole future expanded like a pool ripple in Em's mind, so fresh and so huge that she couldn't breathe." I love when an author perfectly captures the most ineffable feeling.

We all knew that Americans elected a might-makes-right nutbag; what should surprise and anger us is that our spineless Congress refuses to check-and-balance him. Contact your reps, yo.

Continuing our ridiculous re-watch of Shokugeki tonight. Got to the burger arc, paused and went out for burgers and made them fancy. Got to the ramen arc, paused and made ridiculous umami broth. And we're doing this on almost every episode. 👩‍🍳

It's been a few decades, but I am finally starting to look forward to each new year. I never thought it would happen, but it turns out, the secret was patiently waiting for the right people to build a life with. If you are in my world, you're one of them. 💜

Happiness is not being able to get into the rave, but they're such nerds they stream it and you can jam to the who @grazcore.com set live anyways.

Fate is when you watch the karaage arc of Shokugeki, the best fried chicken place is closed for repairs, but then the izakaya has not one but six versions on the menu as a special. So happy.

me: starting to feel good about my guitar playing. me: rediscovers Rodrigo y Gabriella. me: "oh fuck, I have so far to go." time to go practice!

It blows my mind that we're living through a 3rd golden age of trance and progressive and the number of people who know or care is so small. But it's a cozy sort of thing, which I'm okay with.

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

Getting to unironically say, "I'm looking for my contact" when the bar/café owner asks if you need something else.

"They thought they had to worry about drug addicts, but they didn't know about cheese lesbians."

lounging on the sofa with red wine and strawberries while soaking up compersion by watching your loves get attended to by someone more dominant? peak. 💜

ABGT 700 ABGT 700 ABGT 700 ABGT 700 ABGT 700 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa~ 💕💜💕

Today I Learned that the voice actor for both Maelle and Shadowheart is a lesbian and neurodivergent. Powerful. >:3c

Making my 8th and final international trip of the year. What an unbelievable journey 2025 has been. I'd barely have believed this life as fiction before I started living it, there's so much love in it.

without downloading any new photos what's it like to date you

It's good luck when the bagel place has a really good special and they play Massive Attack on the stereo and accidentally make your latte twice.

Welp, just had one of those landings that reminds me why I always tell the handful of people I love how much I love them before I fly.

The big guy to my left is coked out of his mind and fidgeting so hard it's loosening the bolts on our seats. The even bigger guy to my right is sprawled into the aisle so bad the beverage cart can't get past and is snoring so loud it's rattling the overhead bins. Politeness is dead. 🪦

There's no exhaustion quite like a week of traveling for work and getting misgendered by men while they simultaneously leer at me. 🤮

Surprise of the year - women in their 30s keep complimenting my hair the longer it gets. Apparently the grey streaks are powerful?

Quaffing a month's wage worth of mid champagne and making charming smalltalk all night to smooth things over while nepo cis men close million dollar contracts: am I a 19th century European princess or the sole female cloud engineer in a tech company?

Oh, no. I've hit that age where I'm one of the grumps complaining about accessibility at pretty much every event I go to. Professional events in particular baffle me that they get this wrong.

Netsky after playing some amazing DnB flips of 90s and early 00s tunes: "if you loved all those, congrats, you're going on 50." bruh. 😹

I don't think any one album has grown on me like Above & Beyond's Bigger Than All Of Us. Every time I listen all the way through I realize each song speaks so closely to how I experience love and connection. I want to love even more, even when it hurts. I want to be a part of whatever this is.

The quality of house music is directly proportional to how much piano is in it.

Every now and then it is lovely to get to be a pillow princess. As a treat.

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Seven years of finally being alive.

Well, tens of millions of Americans are going hungry and tens of millions of Americans are losing their health care, but it's all been worth it to ensure transgender citizens can't get passports.

Just bought a 2 year supply of syringes and needles for the same price as I normally pay for 2 months from my pharmacy from . . . a veterinary supplier. Same *exact* brand and SKU. Healthcare is where good logic goes to die.

It's good luck if the spotify station at the café plays Jamiroquai out of left field.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce its anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy during litigation. The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent. More to come: www.lawdork.com

Nothing breaks the immersion of a story for me quite like a character struggling with internalized CompHet. I'll believe in magic and aliens, and I know it's a lived experience for some gals, but feeling guilt about liking beautiful women? Unfathomable!

okay, Commander T'Ana might be my new favourite Trek character ever. 😽

The discourse around voting in local elections in Seattle is sometimes depressing and sometimes amazing. Today is the latter thanks to this out-of-context gem:

raving after your twenties: dancing for 7 hours and then walking home across town because the trains don't go that late is indistinguishable from spraining both ankles. 😂

Say what you will about their prices and leadership, but Insomniac throw amazing events. Finally some real fucking bass! 😍

I think my new favourite thing ever is still doing sleep calls with long distance partners even when they or I have other partners over. What could possibly make a date better than more girls? :3