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arwainian.bsky.social
he/she | assigned nerd at birth | queer as in [microphone cuts out before i can explain my embodied identity and personal experience of gender and sexuality in historical context and with academic citations]
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Bluesky when something funny happens

happy election arc to all media club plus listeners. its full of characters of all time to me #hunterxhunter

Conservative scorning, poster's warning. Conservative fight, poster's delight.

earthsea

Hope your pride month is off to as good a start as ours...we're thrilled to announce we'll be performing the national anthem before the Pride Night game at Fenway next Monday, June 9th! 🤯

Pride is HERE! Catch us at any of our 💥many💥 performances this month!

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

The Flanderization of ghibli in the public mind is just so insane to me. Acting like it’s entirely wholesome and cutesy but is really overtly anti capitalist, depict the horrors of war and environmental decline, and have TONS of body horror and depictions of death and disease. it legit annoys me

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made a reclist of queer romance movies for /r/Romancelandia, crossposting here as will likely be of interest! mostly M/M romances here, and with a big focus on intercultural and/or interracial romances! boxd.it/HvZ02

Some of the conversation on a recent @friends-table.bsky.social Perpetua episode about item descriptions reminded me of the end notes of a @fieldnotesbrand.bsky.social notebook. It made me imagine the company selling all the basic adventurer gear was including helpful product guides.

the people on the podcast Side Story got asked whats the most Blue Prince experience theyve had with a building so i'll share mine: the house one pair of my grandparents live in has a secret bookshelf door into the attic and the other door to it is the back wall of the coat closet downstairs

Don't make me get out the chart

New month, new book :) I thought I'd try something new! To join: Reblog + tell me about one of your favorite stories that is published on itch (links welcome!) and on the 31st of May I will pick a winner, who will receive one copy of any book of their choosing from itch under 7$ #samreads.

i’ll grant there are plenty of shitty butches out there bc we are human beings and not fantasy creatures. what i won’t grant and am sick of hearing is that there is something particularly or uniquely damning in butches being shitty that sets them apart from femmes. yet lots of folks believe this.

idk who needs to hear this but you are supposed to have fun with your sexuality. if your sexuality brings either neutral feelings of benign inevitability you cannot escape or actual misery to you then there is another way, if you can be gentle with the desires in your heart

The Shadow of the Dragon Tower Part 2 #perpetua #friendsatthetable

The shadow of the dragon tower part 1 #perpetua #friendsatthetable

Drumroll please... I am very pleased to share the cover of ALL OF US MURDERERS, coming Oct 2025 from @sourcebooks.bsky.social @poisonedpen.bsky.social, with utterly stunning cover art by Marcela Bolívar @tropicalgloom.bsky.social!

1/2 An adaptation of a scene from Tehanu (my favorite Earthsea book) from 2023. TW for implied past child abuse? #thistlequestcomics

arbitrary gender experience this week: went to paint my nails and bought a matte top coat because it felt more masculine. because the shininess is obviously what makes nail polish femme

Calling video game industry folks! You know the Strong Museum of Play, right? The museum that understands us & is documenting OUR history? Federal budget shenanigans have them in a surprise $500K hole. If you're able to support them, now's the time. Here's the link: www.museumofplay.org/support/

free mass public transit should be a climate policy supported by anyone who claims to care about the problem reduce miles driven by those most in need and you reduce emissions while also reducing income inequality

few weeks ago a friend and i met up to hang out only to realize we'd brought the same book to read! tell me you do gender studies without telling me you do gender studies

NEW MANGA ANNOUNCEMENT: Love Bullet You've asked for it and we GOT IT! The highly anticipated GL manga from inee that exploded with support last year is coming out in English print! Get ready for love-infused shootouts in a world where a cupid's tools aren't a bow and arrow—it's guns!

Making a bug engineer lady

sigh. you might want this

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

if you like cozy sweet slow burn romance and you aren't already reading the manga Skip and Loafer by Misaki Takamatsu what are you doing with your life

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

Brief respite ✨️

Doodling a socialite dragon tamer

wrote about everyone's favorite woke show for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

re: the current “are sex scenes necessary?” discourse, i think it’s fundamentally a mistake to accept that framework, concede the premise of necessity when arguing about art and media. once done, one is trapped as if by a boa constrictor, because there will always a “reason” why whatever scene is—

i've been enjoying perpetua greatly. here's elena <3 #friendsatthetable #perpetua #🩸

Fact of the matter is "hey, I have uncertain feelings about my gender identity I want to discuss with a therapist who can help me make sense of them" and "I would like to change my sex characteristics" are two separate healthcare issues that can and should be provided independent of each other