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nomadsland.bsky.social
Queer parent | any/all pronouns | 35 | nomadsland on AO3 🌈🏴‍☠️🍊🦀🥨|| perennial grad student
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Kitten Ed is the reason Ace Hardware sells empty spray bottles. Kitten Ed will ruin your furniture. Kitten Ed will rack up $2500 in vet bills the first year you have him eating things he shouldn’t (eg twine on the breakfast tray)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

My birthday is in 4 weeks so if anyone would like to locate my ability to write and return it to me (gift wrap optional) that would be SWELL.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Watching Wicked with my 4yo and it’s the ballroom scene and she goes “what if they kissed?” Should I just sign her up for AO3 now or??

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Given the news out of SCOTUS today about healthcare for trans kids in Tennessee, now is the time to support orgs doing good: Trans Youth Emergency Project: southernequality.app.neoncrm.com/forms/60 Transgender Law Center: transgenderlawcenter.org/donate/ OUTMemphis: www.outmemphis.org/donate

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Still waiting at the airport AMA

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Linguists are mostly anti-prescriptivists. Is it a word? It is now! Is a hot dog a sandwich? Hell yeah! Can I call someone a douche-waffle? Yes, and here’s an analysis of how compounding works.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Two things I should have bought in Zagreb: a ship’s wheel keychain and a bag made of recycled sailboat sails.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I have successfully squashed my Stede Bonnet tendencies and packed six days worth of clothing (business, beach, city; 58-90 degrees F) into one smallish roller bag.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Big travel day tomorrow - what are your Fics of All Time in any fandom you’ve ever been in?

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

I had a dream that I wrote a whole multi chapter fic and forgot about it — when I woke up I actually went and checked my docs just in case, but alas.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah, my wife and I are compatible in other ways but I really appreciate that she matches my level of excitement at finding a new way to cook beans.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

🎵 no cops at Pride! I’m gonna keep insisting that there’s no cops at Pride, no cops at Pride🎵 (To the tune of Pink Pony Club)

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Mulling over a student/teacher fic where Jim is Izzy’s Murder Protégé or something and Izzy finally gives in to building tension, thinking he knows how the power dynamic is going to play out bc that’s how it always plays out, and then Jim proceeds to absolutely wreck him

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

I used my wife’s curly mousse this morning and now unfortunately I’m one of those TikTok lads with broccoli hair

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Went out to brunch with some of my kid’s friends and their parents. R (5) claimed all the bacon on the table by licking it. Utterly diabolical.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

A poll: when you sit on a partner’s lap, do you sit on them like a chair (left) or sideways (right?) There is a correct answer and it is very Stede coded

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

A well meaning colleague today was like, "Oh my gosh, I don't understand how you juggle it all!" and I was like, "Oh! I don't! I am just constantly doing everything poorly and disappointing everyone!" and she was like [shocked_pikachu.gif] but I'm not fucking wrong.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Here’s my question: do you believe Stede left to be a pirate, or did Stede leave because he needed to leave and the piracy was an added bonus?

submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

My auction socks made by @maddie-stc.bsky.social are here and AMAZING

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Big news: this year, upon hearing bagpipes in the Memorial Day parade and me saying “I wish I could play the bagpipes” my wife has said, “you should learn!” instead of immediately commenting on nearby billboards for local divorce attorneys 😂

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

My kid asked me for help stopping biting her nails so we got some of that awful tasting polish and I agreed to put some on n solidarity and holy SHIT I know it is the point but it is SO BAD

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Why Am I Like This, part 372919: “huh sure would be nice to get back into lap swimming” Ninety seconds later: “ooh there’s an LGBTQ+ Master’s swim team that practices six days a week in Philly!”

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments