tiny college town queer bar vibes are impeccable

current status

currently thinking about the book house of stairs by william sleator, which *really* fucked me up as a kid en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_o...

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

the thing is this is not abstract to me, and not just in the sense that i can see myself as a young trans person that would have been affected. i know *specific* kiddos that this will hurt. that it is *intended* to hurt. it's their faces i am seeing right now.

hey man did you notice that the Westfold fell. yeah everyone was looking for you. i mean it’s not a big deal. no really it’s fine just for next time you should probably be around

highlight of an otherwise tough day was someone meeting me for lunch with the explicit purpose of thanking me for the work students in my class did for her organization over the years.

got my adhd eval turns out i have both kinds, lemon-lime and blue raspberry

afternoon tune femtanyl - BODY THE PISTOL www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsaQ...

What’s the point of transitioning after your thirties? Best case, you’ll just end up becoming an older lady…who’s calm and self assured…*realizes in drooling*… who knows what she wants……and… sorry, what was I talking about.

holiday craft fair maxing

rian johnson, probably (wake up dead man is very fun)

pinging old coworkers to solve a problem through networking when you've transitioned since working together is a delicate art

evening tune continuing on my HEALTH kick Trash Decade www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Og1...

ok so call me picky but i would have expected that by the time i was halfway through a book entitled Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy (which is a bangin' title, btw! ) that the voices of *actual children* would be included in some way shape or form

i realize that "16 year old finds even the most minor habits of parent insufferable" is a tale as old of time but it is a tale being told at our house this eve

does anyone do ice cold breakup lyrics better than ladytron? "There's a ghost in me / Who wants to say, "I'm sorry" / Doesn't mean I'm sorry" "I wrote a protest song about you, about you / Set off on a long march without you"

do not listen to 3am brain, 3am brain lies. (relearning the eternal lesson)

man, the collective grief from older trans people at the violent death of the world we briefly hoped was coming, a world in which trans children would be recognised, loved, and helped... yeah.

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN, BABY Lilac Peril Issue 02: IDOLS Send work to [email protected] until February 7 Expected pub: late 2026

"Me -- I'm unreliable. I've got these evil hand issues - and I'm bored with this crap."

friday afternoon tune: the ick by panic shack "you do not shush me in the cinema!!!!!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SoD...

morning tune is this entire 1 hour cyberpunk/industrial mix from HEALTH in an LA dry cleaners this is the good shit, better than coffee youtu.be/WZkHh6DLhUY?...

"And Mae would want Jamie to be brave and humble, two virtues that oft kept company. Which might mean a certain amount of vulnerability and willingness to make everything not about Jamie." - Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders

It's my pleasure to announce the Longlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction in the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards! This year, TFR recognizes 14 titles from every genre and section of the industry 🩷 Thank you to everyone who voted early to craft this list! Voting ends December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.

2 casablanca 2 furious here we come

maybe piling all the medical appointments that were likely to trigger strong emotional reactions into one week was poor planning

lost landscapes audience not in favor of daylight savings

afternoon tune go! - public service broadcasting in honor of last night's show & the great gene kranz "it's quiet here at mission control" www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8hz...

[squelching noises]

public service broadcasting were phenomenal. “we jam out to footage from historical events plus beats” should not work as a live show and yet it absolutely does — bc you can tell the gents on stage (and audience) really care about the history, it’s not just a gimmick

sometimes the opening band is just two lads from birmingham ranting about stuff, and that’s ok.

Trans women can be hard to shop for. unless you've read my gift guide for trans. which you can, because it's here. now. open.substack.com/pub/halimede...

disappointing night for 17th century playwrights, electorally speaking

ugh i am dancing to the most heterosexual song, kexp what have you done to me

My (memorable) local comic book stores: Another World / Another Universe (DC, RIP) Comix Experience (SF) Comic Relief (Berkeley, RIP) Fantastic Comics (Berkeley) Isotope Comics (SF) Two Cats (SF, RIP) Others in Florida, Mountain View, and locally, but those are the ones that stand out.

pudding creek, from the trestle bridge

misgendered! at the neighborhood financial center

"you sunk my cost fallacy!"

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to: David Bowie PJ Harvey Savages Janelle Monae Pigface

They shot moss into space, stuck it on the outside of the International Space Station for nine months, and then brought it back down to Earth to see how it was doing. It was basically fine! defector.com/one-small-st...

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

i should have got this up sooner, but i was ashamed; need to try to raise money for rent again this month and i remain (mostly; might have PT work!) unemployed as we approach year end. please help me keep myself and my partner housed. #helpsky #MARequest #transcrowdfund ko-fi.com/iafishman/go...

morning tune is love an illusion? - hectorine they were so good at dna on friday www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBHD...

really nice history (and current good news) of my favorite venue in the city www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

"Pigface intentionally left out to avoid further confusion."

first of all, i dismembered the corpse”

fuck yeah halou