#librarycards

set 1:

Get to know your mutuals!

Rules: answer and tag six people you want to know better.

Favorite color: green and blue! mostly translucent iceberg aquamarine, but also deep coniferous green, and clear blue winter sky. ivan aivazovksy knows what im talking about

Last song: HARRIET BY ERICA FREAS i am so normal about this song, it's a very heartfelt acoustic song from someone i originally discovered as a main singer for a trans punk band!

Currently reading: lol i have so many open books i should just make a post atp, but i am primarily hopping between Ulysses by James Joyce (reading it w my school friends because we are all masochists and perverts apparently), and Sinister Wisdom 139: Mad Dykes, Queer Worlds (ed. Cavar ;) )

Currently watching: i have not regularly watched tv in years, but i'm waiting for the final video in this series about constructing every official national flag in the world, solely with PowerPoint (or Google Sheets). oh also i might finally watch the new trigun since im on break! WAIT EDIT FRIEREN S2 IS OUT RIGHT ok im gonna watch that

Currently craving: WATER. i need to swim and sail and dive and float ASAP...i haven't sailed in years but i really really want to again. also want to do pole or rope dart rn but i promised myself i'd have an actual 2 day workout break -_-

Coffee or tea: this is so hard....coffee is my long time frenemy bc she is so dark and silky and tempting and beautiful but then i get upset if i have too much...i will say for my overall health its tea that i fall back on for calming/emotional stabilizing reasons, but i really love both drip coffee and espresso drinks.

set 2:

reading: bonus! i am intending to take better notes on Orality and Literacy: the Technologizing of the Word by Walter Ong (tw jesuit author /hj) and am slowly pickin my way through Scale by Andrew Herod

last series: see above

last movie: SINNERS SINNERS SINNERS OH MY GOD SINNERS (yes i'm late don't judge me)

last song: bonus- love is embarrassing by olivia rodrigo

working on: my novel is always in my mental background! have managed to put in a few words recently, wanna block out more time for that. but also i am trying to get to the point of being able to reliably invert (flip upside down) on the pole, and i'm planning to catalog my wardrobe!

sweet or salty: ouhghhghghhhhh hmmmm i have such a craving for both of these, so i'm gonna say depends on the day-sometimes it switches from morning to evening lol

coffee or tea: see above!

ID: a reply by @librarycards which reads: there's much to be said about butchfemme mirroring but it strikes me that once in an airport a Black woman with gorgeous acrylics was working at this cafe and i watched her, in one smooth motion, open a soda can with a little card she pulled out of her pocket; the thing is, i had just shorn my nails right down to the quick for practical and sensory reasons and also can't open stuff when they're like this, and i've been using that strategy ever since. end ID

YES oh my god i feel like i’m gonna weep reading this, i feel this particular solidarity so deeply

i left the house for the first time in 5 months for bloodwork on monday & the Latina phlebotomist complimented my nails & on the way home my femme & i (both white) were talking about the presentation-disability-race-class intersections of like

1) white doctors cannot handle my buzzcut-acrylics-beard-tits situation, & i don’t let them see it — even though i’d be more comfortable if i could, thus the months i spent coming home from an appointment & immediately putting on a dress to do my nails.

Black & Latina phlebotomists may assume i’m a cis woman but they talk to that nonexistent woman like she matters, like she’s full of style & humor & pain, so i can still describe the exact peacock feather pattern on my extra-long stilettos when the medical assistant complimented them what must’ve been close to a year ago. i am — i’ve been challenging myself to reroute from human-centric language lately, so not humanized, but solidified by these rare affirming medical encounters. especially considering how rarely i interact with people in person beyond my two housemates, it’s so energizing.

Eeny, meeny, miney, treat!!

(Stickers below the cut!)

I knew very few lesbians irl until college honestly, the relatively few lgbt people I knew irl before that were bi/pan