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that Larkin line about doffing cycle clips in awkward reverence but it's me taking the carabiner off my belt loop when I go into church so it doesn't jingle in the hush

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@dew_ofthesea

3 years

found a copy of Kate Bornstein's 'Gender Outlaw' in a Brighton Oxfam with this, the dykiest inscription ever

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@dew_ofthesea

4 years

@jk_rowling terf is an acronym standing for trans-exclusionary radical feminist, a phrase which perfectly describes the viewpoints you have expressed this evening, and which you seem proud to express.

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@dew_ofthesea

2 months

ok this was six months before and it was for a party but look at this shit

saoirse dream 🇵🇸

@saoirsedream

2 months

beautiful trans woman mere days before realizing her gender: I think i could pull off a handlebar moustache

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@dew_ofthesea

11 months

@meakoopa wow his head is fully under that loincloth

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@dew_ofthesea

3 years

@uncanny_eli new dating app bio: safety tested and eco friendly

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@dew_ofthesea

8 months

I refuse to believe anyone but a trans woman runs this account, it's all so precisely skeweringly realised

Halimede

@HalimedeMF

8 months

boys get taught to but don't. girls would but never get taught to. but by combining a woman's need to please everyone around her with a sharp jawline a new more beautiful kind of woman is born

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@dew_ofthesea

6 years

@HeraLindsayBird

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@dew_ofthesea

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@lottelydia I suspect unfortunately this will end with trans people simply denied care because of lack of 'suitable' spaces to put them

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@dew_ofthesea

8 months

one of my favourite little side bits of infinite jest is the tennis player who is unbeatable because he is constantly threatening suicide if he loses

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@dew_ofthesea

4 years

excuse the cringy work tweet, but: bookish Oxford people! I work at a new bookshop ( @bookstopoxford ) on Magdalen Street, next to the Randolph (where Jimbobs used to be). we sell an eclectic and very cheap range of new books! come and have a peruse.

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@dew_ofthesea

4 years

@thatmaninahat @leigh_fall @AliceAvizandum 'How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?' Great line.

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@dew_ofthesea

13 days

@memilies 'complex female protagonist' is like the last thing that you reach for if you have absolutely no themes left to talk about, which cabaret is...not poor in

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@dew_ofthesea

5 years

after five years (FIVE FUCKING YEARS) including two suspensions I am finally, officially an Oxford graduate!! (with a 2.ii but what the fuck ever)

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

typing out a poem from longhand, misspelled a crucial word, cracked myself up

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@dew_ofthesea

3 years

was just on the tube reading @hangsawoman 's Tell Me I'm Worthless, looked up and the person across from me was reading @FancyEliza 's Boy Parts - a carriage of Bad Vibes in the best way

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@dew_ofthesea

6 months

genuinely sickening to me that labour thinks it can get away with this shit while merrily throwing us under the bus every other day of the year. do something before we're dead, you feckless cowards

The Labour Party

@UKLabour

6 months

On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the many trans people whose lives have been tragically cut short by violence. The Labour Party will always stand with LGBT+ people.

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@dew_ofthesea

5 years

@Nicole_Cliffe when I lived in China old folks would freak out if I ever left the house with wet hair bc that'll kill you, as does sleeping on a bed any softer than stone. also my brother has blond hair and he got used to ducking bc people in the street would just rub his head for good luck

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@dew_ofthesea

9 months

@nrduford tapping the sign

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@dew_ofthesea

6 years

@Nicole_Cliffe my granddad, while redoing the kitchen, once discovered a cavity in the floor full of the (v expensive at the time) multivitamins which my aunts hated so much that they would poke through a knothole instead of eating

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@dew_ofthesea

5 years

@Nicole_Cliffe my dog once caught a pigeon. we have no idea how; she is v laid-back, the idea of her sneaking up on one or snagging it out of the air is laughable. more laughable is that she didn't know what to do with it; she wandered around whining until we took it out of her mouth for her.

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@dew_ofthesea

8 months

@HalimedeMF you're a savant

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@dew_ofthesea

5 years

@rachsyme

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@dew_ofthesea

4 years

quick note: my name is Rosemary and my pronouns are she/her.

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@dew_ofthesea

2 years

it's been a while since I watched this perfect video and I forgot the complete and utter adoration with which Red Shirt Guy looks at Guy Who Looks Like If Fanfic of Harry Potter In His Twenties Was A Person

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@dew_ofthesea

2 years

@lumpen_princess oh fuck that haircut...help

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@dew_ofthesea

8 months

@uncanny_eli transfem4transmasc (or whatever you want to call it) is in a sense gayer precisely because in a couple of senses it is potentially or ostensibly heterosexual, is my galaxy brain take

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@dew_ofthesea

10 months

who wants to be in the all-trans mountain goats cover band that I just realised was the greatest idea ever. I don't mean a band that does a couple of their songs: I mean we have a name like The Alpine Caprae and we do, like, we shall all be healed front to back

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@dew_ofthesea

8 months

had kind of a horrible experience earlier this evening (got on a bus and a woman said 'that's disgusting, get it away from me') but then i went to a ten-course italian dinner party my dear friend cooked for his partner (also a dear friend) and was among friends and felt so loved

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@dew_ofthesea

4 years

officially deed polled today so now i am legally Rosemary Petra Willow Newman!! what, i restrained myself with the first name, you gotta let me have two Extremely Pretentious Trans Middle Names, it's the law

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@dew_ofthesea

7 months

1296 years ago, Frithuswith, princess and later patron saint of Oxford, died; today is her feast day. 4 years ago today in Oxford, I, saintly and princessish, was reborn (realised I was trans). COINCIDENCE? here is a healing well she drew from the ground. happy rebirthday to me.

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

sometimes I think about my terfy girlfriend who I broke up with after an argument about trans stuff (sample quote from me: 'it just really bothers me because maybe I might be trans someday!') and then a year nearly to the day later I realised I was a woman

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@dew_ofthesea

2 months

@memilies holy shit also if it's like the TSA ones isn't this going to be horribly transphobic?

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@dew_ofthesea

7 months

today I introduced myself to a new hire with my mouth full and they were like '...sorry, your name is Robespierre?' so that's a free name for any particularly revolutionary-feeling trans dudes out there

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

transsexual self-fashioning is a godlike act

ophelia🪆

@opheliamuses

1 year

what’s your most woo woo belief?

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@dew_ofthesea

6 months

perils of the modern world: the choirmaster yelled the word 'slay' at us to make us emphasise it in of the father's love forgotten and the entire homosexual first bass section collapsed in giggles

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@dew_ofthesea

4 years

i only learned about this today and it's genuinely horrifying

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@dew_ofthesea

4 years

Antonio Salieri for the entire 161 minute runtime of AMADEUS (1984):

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@dew_ofthesea

8 months

2019/2023 I was, somehow, still five months away from my Damascene trans conversion on the left here

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@openlyhot

8 months

2019 you vs. 2023 you

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@dew_ofthesea

9 months

me when I'm sad: woesmary

The Stopgap

@The_Stopgap

9 months

Woesmary: My rosemary plant has died in Milan, Italy.

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

@jestom don't trust the b in apartment 23!

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@dew_ofthesea

8 months

new hair reveal also I fervently believe that dark green/dark red is way too good a colour combination to relegate to mere Christmassiness

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@dew_ofthesea

9 months

hello gay people in my phone

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@dew_ofthesea

11 months

I like calling myself a transsexual with a really faggy little lisp at poetry readings and watching the usually predominantly nice cis audience try to work out how they're meant to react

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@dew_ofthesea

6 years

@Nicole_Cliffe ah gotcha! I always forget that people's hair changes colour on its own, we are all very slow shapeshifters

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@dew_ofthesea

7 years

@BadBuffyOutfits the single button decisions in buffy are universally bizarre. so many dudes just button one button and it's never a rational one

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@dew_ofthesea

2 years

a girl on the tube smiled at me, came over, said I'd caught her eye and told me that I was very beautiful and that usually very curly hair like mine is in your face and voluminous but that mine is ethereal. so I'll be living off that one for weeks

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@dew_ofthesea

2 months

@forgetfulsurf my very dear friend told me recently that when I did have a beard it always looked spirit-gummed on so you might be onto something here

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4 months

love to yell

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

sara, if you're out there, you lose - I'm hotter and way more actualised now

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@dew_ofthesea

5 months

it's my birthday and I am home in Scotland in the bosom of my family. good night 26, you were hard but very good to me; good morning 27, I can't wait to find out who you are.

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@dew_ofthesea

2 months

man who is bookmarking this, get tf outta here

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@dew_ofthesea

2 years

small collection of lewks from my first fortnight as a full-time lesbrarian

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@dew_ofthesea

10 months

pictures taken before disaster (I fell asleep on this sofa at a festival last year in this crop top and woke up with a horrible tummy sunburn, it tanned and I looked like the world's shittest tellytubby for months)

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

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#1 nonbinary Van Palmer truther

@VanistheOGlhb

1 year

I am once again doing my dyke duty and reminding everyone that adèle haenel looks like this now

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@dew_ofthesea

9 months

there is nothing better in the world than falling in brief love with strangers on public transport. there's a girl across from me on this train with the pleasantest face and I've been homemaking for us since Penrith

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

@melifonos damn 'ctrl-f is not a politic' is so blunt and so perfect a way to express this persistent annoyance

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@dew_ofthesea

8 months

the moral here is that the love of your community will bear you up through any harm the world can do you. i have had several wines, a dram of limoncello, a negroni i made in a bucket and a fair bit of just straight vermouth but i fervently believe this to be true

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@dew_ofthesea

7 months

I read the book this is from last year and 'sweetheart, it isn't lust; it's all the rest/of what I want with you that scares me shitless' has rarely left my head since

Juliana 🕳 👁‍🗨

@YourWorldlyAunt

7 months

Few more beautiful poets, by the way

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@dew_ofthesea

9 months

hilarious piece in today's spectator which seems to suggest that the reason menopausal cis women are not often prescribed testosterone by the NHS is because they are too willing to hand it out to trans men. babes do you know anything about anything

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

hot guy with gay ear pierced smiled at me and I immediately tripped over my feet, entering my heterosexual romcom era

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@dew_ofthesea

6 months

hot! girl! play! bass!

Divine Schism

@DivineSchism

7 months

new show DELIGHT! teaming up with ALTAR as we welcome Hands Up Who Wants to Die & The Eurosuite to Oxford alongside a debut show from Top Shortage! Sat 18th Nov at the Library with ALTAR DJs after the show (after show is free!)

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

10 year anniversary of the first savages album is a good time to bring back this oblivious fucker. it took me three and a half more years to work it out!!!

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@dew_ofthesea

8 years

one of the main reasons i regret my maleness is that i will never be in a savages-esque all-female post-punk band. that cuts me to the quick

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@dew_ofthesea

7 months

Oxford people! @topshortage , the queer post-punk (ish) band for whom I have the honour to be the obligatory trans girl bassist, have our first ever show in November - would be delightful to see you there!

Divine Schism

@DivineSchism

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new show DELIGHT! teaming up with ALTAR as we welcome Hands Up Who Wants to Die & The Eurosuite to Oxford alongside a debut show from Top Shortage! Sat 18th Nov at the Library with ALTAR DJs after the show (after show is free!)

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@dew_ofthesea

4 years

this is from the wikipedia page for Robert Galbraith Heath, the psychiatrist mentioned in that thread. tw for conversion therapy

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@dew_ofthesea

4 months

a guy on the train home last night told me he was the first man to wear nail polish in Bristol

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@dew_ofthesea

27 days

I think my next deranged mountain goats playlist is going to be all the songs with Biblical references in order of the book of the Bible where the reference is to be found

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@dew_ofthesea

6 years

@Nicole_Cliffe you look super goth with black hair (in a good way!) although the plague rat poster might be contributing to that impression

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

before/after being entirely bodied by sunburn and day drinking last weekend

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@dew_ofthesea

2 years

hello. tomorrow is my 3-year anniversary of Being Transgender (thank you, thank you). I want to do something mildly special with myself to celebrate. any suggestions?

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@dew_ofthesea

2 months

important things about this outfit that aren't immediately apparent are that I got this cardigan from a nun and I smell like walking in a pine forest just after it's rained

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@dew_ofthesea

5 months

by the way i'd forgotten but i think today is my third HRTversary!! not going to do pictures because i am Ill but i will say that exogenous hormones are a gift and a blessing and i love living in this body that i am reshaping in my own image.

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@dew_ofthesea

2 years

baby beardy rosie finishing her exams about 3 years ago/present day rosie doing an incredibly gay stand at celebration of friend's finishing exams today

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@dew_ofthesea

5 years

@Nicole_Cliffe tweeting this and not posting it is a vast power move, I am in awe

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@dew_ofthesea

4 years

@kateleth i just recently came out as trans and it has been almost exhilarating to fight this fight as myself, rather than as a closeted 'ally'

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@dew_ofthesea

4 years

@jk_rowling terf is an acronym standing for trans-exclusionary radical feminist, a phrase which perfectly describes the viewpoints you have expressed this evening, and which you seem proud to express.

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@dew_ofthesea

9 months

my parents' kitchen has very dramatic lighting

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

estrogen claims another victim: ripped my favourite pair of jeans because my arse is too luscious now :/

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@dew_ofthesea

7 months

having essentially the perfect Sunday, hope all your Sundays are just as good as mine but I fuckin doubt it

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

god I'm pretty

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@dew_ofthesea

3 years

@yashwinacanter also combined with the subject matter the name Diana is extremely transbian, I love it

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

iso someone to paint sappho's ode to aphrodite on my back like willow and tara in buffy s4e22

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@dew_ofthesea

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

five years ago I was just starting my second suspension after having survived the worst winter of my life. also I had to cut off all my hair and I was incredibly upset about it For Reasons Unknown. look at this buttoned-up little nerd

anatomie d’une fruit

@uncanny_eli

1 year

five years ago i was doing english undergrad finals a couple weeks after filming university challenge. was briefly trying to be an ig fitness/health food girlie. told a bunch of people i was maybe using the wrong pronouns and then selectively forgot i said that.

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

@rajandelman Suzy is such a lovely name! I will always have a soft spot for her, she was both the first trans person I was ever aware of (when I was like 10) and also my first experience of laughing so hard I actually couldn't breathe

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

@james_f_thomas pleasanter when you have them at a disadvantage... that's hot

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@dew_ofthesea

2 months

this might be my stupidest jacket which is really saying something

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@dew_ofthesea

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the optimal compromise on this (by which I mean what I have done) is have a relatively normal first name and some very silly middle names. I'm also going to add a new, sillier middle name every five years so that I will die sounding like the world's gayest Spaniard

Amber / Berry

@bloodberry_tart

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an important part of being a trans ally is pretending your friend’s new name isn’t extremely stupid, and then resisting the urge to say “yeah that old name was stupid” when they switch to a normal name in 2-5 years

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@dew_ofthesea

5 years

@rachsyme @danielortberg doing the lord's work one of many many times

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@dew_ofthesea

1 month

happy, sweaty and soulful at the @DivineSchism Good Fri all-dayer with @topshortage

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@dew_ofthesea

9 months

going to sad gay glastonbury tomorrow (boygenius in london). praying that british gen z she/theys are less annoying than the american ones seem to be in all the concert videos. hopes not high

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

l call this look 'what if the sexy assassin secretarial agency from John Wick also hired librarians'

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@dew_ofthesea

11 months

I have moved house successfully and I am settling down to sleep in my nice new room for the first time and I am feeling very grateful for the love of the community that surrounds me. good night moon good night stars good night all the little gay people in Oxford

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@dew_ofthesea

8 months

the fact that sufjan stevens looks like the most generic possible gym rat gay dude is really funny to me, such an intense voice/visual contrast

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@dew_ofthesea

4 months

learned from this piece that Virginia Woolf said that Mansfield 'stinks like a...civet cat that had taken to street walking', which sounds like the description of a niche perfume that would sell out instantly

London Review of Books

@LRB

4 months

‘Katherine Mansfield complained that although ‘there are many people that I like very much,’ she didn’t know how to reach them: ‘They call me false, and mad, and changeable.’ @DebFriedell on a writer with ‘hundreds of selves’:

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

I have been given my ideal job at work (doing something important but mindless and routine in the weird-smelling underground extension full of old journals no-one's ever read that feels like it connects to the Backrooms)

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@dew_ofthesea

4 years

(going locked for a bit because i have a follow-up gender psychologist appointment on monday where i will hopefully be prescribed hormones and i don't want her to see me being like 'autogynephilia is both not a thing and good actually' lol)

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@dew_ofthesea

1 year

kissing the 262k people who said they were trans on the UK census on the mouth

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@dew_ofthesea

5 years

have finally just got my exam timetable and they're over on the 1st of June, which gives me a good three weeks to laze around Oxford in a punt living my best Brideshead life. cannot bloody wait tbh

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@dew_ofthesea

2 years

v much enjoy occasionally wearing the kind of outfit that was essentially my uniform from ages 16-22 but in a 'cool indie rock hipster chick' way not a 'why am I so bad at being a boy' way

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@dew_ofthesea

3 years

@ellbutpriv the calligraphy, the capital s Savour, the single X - whoo mamma

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