What song does Tamsin have stuck in her head this morning? Oh, you know, just the most tragic version of the saddest song ever written. Part of that is the song itself, and part is the context of this version. Regardless, you should hear it. Like so many things I love, it’s broken and beautiful.

I’m going to be real with you all: I’ve found no great joy in this year’s Pride month. June has been one long string of disappointments, losses, and outright attacks on LGBTQIA+ people in general, and on trans people in particular, capped off with today’s utterly disgusting Supreme Court decision.

If you’re not going to defend trans women then what’s the fucking point of you?

I keep hearing coworkers telling people on the phone to “enjoy the Fourth,” and I’m just like, look, I haven’t “enjoyed the Fourth” since I was old enough to understand exactly what kind of genocidal abattoir this country is, but really? REALLY really? Enjoy the Fourth? In THIS fascist collapse?

if you're cis you have a moral imperative to give a trans woman money today. doesn't matter who. just pick one from your timeline, there's like a 90% chance they've got a gofundme linked on their page.

I’m already “celebrating.”

Feels like I’m gonna get a lot of mileage out of this skeet.

Look, universe, when I was a kid and I said I wanted to be a mutant just like the X-Men, you know perfectly goddamn well this was NOT what I fucking had in mind.

I love Lilly so much. She’s awful and glorious and kind of a total asshole and she’s never wrong. 🥰

I love this chapter. You should see if you do, too. 😎😈

Subtle as a sledgehammer to the face. This really is just “we hate trans women.”

I don’t have words, so I’ll borrow Jana’s. Cis friends, I love you, but we have to talk about “support” and “being an ally.” Just not today.

I am so incredibly angry right now. 🧛‍♀️

Obligatory “wake up babe shen is eggbaiting again” comment. 😂

It’s out, it’s free. Decided to not tweak anything in an effort to not betray the experiment.

Without downloading new pics, describe your gender in one image.

With all due respect, I decline to be the child that fuels someone else’s Omelas.

I have ADHD and it's really hard to stop reading and look up a word. Luckily there's a definition right there in the book! On the entire rest of the page! Ample context clues, yours for the taking! Unhindered by your executive dysfunction! If anything it helps the process! 🤬

I am currently writing in a genre known for a characteristic use of unusual, even archaic terms: eldritch, bodkin, incantation, squamous, thews, and so many more. I think they're fun! If someone asked me to use "easy" words instead, I would probably laugh until I choked to death on my own uvula.

The fact that my boobs can be this small and STILL have post-training underboss sweat is frankly a transphobic personal attack and I am not okay with it. 😝

brb sending this cartoon backwards in time to myself

Oooh, there's a third contestant! "What are you fucking, stupid?"

Unrelated to recent posts, a quick syntax question: which of these has better comma placement? "What are you, fucking stupid?" —OR— "What, are you fucking stupid?"

Any time someone says something is inevitable—genAI, war, bigotry, whatever—all I hear is, "I want to be excused for doing bad things." Someone having a bad idea does not make it inevitable. Doing bad things is a CHOICE. Doing nothing is a CHOICE. That people don't understand this terrifies me.

If you're into metal, supporting trans people, or both, this is relevant to your interests. Per the Bandcamp page, "ALL purchases will go directly towards trans people in need, prioritizing trans people of color and those in situations who require urgent relief." And you can't beat the price!

New item on Tamsin's idea board: start a ethereal-female-vocals-over-synth-heavy-darkwave musical project (no pun intended) called Noun Verbs Descriptively

Yeah, well, I want companies to stop sucking AI off. Guess we’re both gonna be disappointed today, huh?

I cannot imagine writing these words and posting them publicly on Al Gore's internet where other people can read them.

[deep breath] I do not have the time or the budget for a giant X-Men LEGO set. [deep breath] I do not have the time or the budget for a giant X-Men LEGO set. [deep breath] I do not have the time or the budget for a giant X-Men LEGO set. [deep breath]

Off to electrolysis, freshly showered, with my chin slathered in 5% lidocaine cream. Today's fit: sunglasses, denim shorts, and a dark rose-colored tank top from Dirty Coast with a NO X LA logo. It's officially (Way Too) Hot T-Girl Summer. 🌞🥵🔥

This picture fills me with an inexpressible joy.

Okay. It’s okay. I’m okay. I’m good. Just. Holy fuck. This album, y’all. Everything I said about part 1? Yeah. All of that, but snuggled up to you. Inside your clothes. Inside your skin. These albums are why words like “psychosexual” exist. Incredible work, @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social. 😱

As the name suggests, a collection of pieces cut from BLOOD ON THE LENS. Their absence doesn’t mar the album, but they do provide additional depth to the story, as well as being breathtaking on their own merits. I’m curious how they’d work interleaved into the album. One way to find out, I suppose.

Have you ever started an album with absolutely no idea what to expect, listened the whole way through, and sat in the silence afterwards, knowing that something inside you had changed in some irrevocable way, neither wholly bad nor good, but somehow both monstrous and beautiful? Yeah, me neither. 😳

Today’s weird search terms to puzzle the NSA flunky assigned to monitor me: “11th century blacksmith forge tools”

It’s not that I forget how much I hate the 48 hours of facial stubble before electrolysis. It’s just always a surprise how visceral my hatred is. People think dysphoria is purely a mental state, but sometimes, it’s a deeply physical experience of almost unbearable irritation and discomfort.

Without downloading new pics, what’s it like dating you?

As James Baldwin wrote in 1970 to Angela Davis, "...if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night." Or to quote Benjamin Franklin, "We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." Respectability politics will not save us.

This album is so fucking good I almost can't stand to listen to it.

npc character sheet: name: tamsin, c'est moi epithet: swordmaiden and sorceress stats: WHIMSICAL: metallic, sweet, earthy OMINOUS: a choir in a forgotten language FUCKABLE: cherries and blood inventory: red-framed spectacles (equipped) whiskey flask dark circles under eyes (metaphorical, literal)

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I’m glad that Andrew Stanton still has a career, but I will always be angry at how dirty Disney’s corporate machinations did his 2012 JOHN CARTER OF MARS. Was it flawed? Yes. Was it FAR better than we had any right to expect from an adaptation of a 114-year-old sword-and-planet novel? Also yes.

I adored @ravenswordpress.com’s THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE, and I’m quite curious to see what they do with this premise. And hey! This one’s free!

You’ve Crimsoned your last King. 👑

me, to the me that wants to vaguepost an obscure hot take that would still get me yelled at

For Pride Month, i wrote about Stop!! Hibari-kun, an accidentally trans-positive gag manga from the 1980s about a girl who serves sickening fish and her idiot boyfriend’s inability to chill out about it. @aftermath.site

I was today years old when I first read this story and heard the music associated with it. And now, you can be, too!

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My coauthor @jamiegeeksout.bsky.social and I are BEYOND excited to announce DREAMING OURSELVES INTO BEING: THE RHETORIC OF TRANS COMICS, through @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social, & featuring cover art from the absolutely amazing @assumptionprime.bsky.social out on February 4th! tinyurl.com/5u2fadxd

This is the cutest thing I’ve seen all morning.