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what is a book whose prose blew you away???

A recent read that did this was All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt! It's a memoir about queer grief and enduring + emerging from an abusive, manipulative relationship, and also a meditation on queer authenticity/"self-acceptance"/self-denial. I don't think Hewitt is a poet, but this very much read like a Poet's Novel™.

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Thank youu!! Honestly love when you reblog stuff from me because you always leave some funny, cool, or genuinely interesting things to say in the tags, which is a true rarity on this website lol You're also one of my favorite mutuals honestly, like you have such a nice chill presence that I look forward to every day <3

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what are some of your favorite zines (can be available online or just zines u have encountered in the flesh that left an impact!!)???

i love this question!!!

the first zine I ever fell in love with is Every Thug is a Lady: Adventures without gender by Julia Eff. It's about Eff's experience/perspective on neutrois subjectivity, and really changed my life at the time. looks like you can request to view an archived copy here, though i wish it was more readily available online!

one of my recent favorites is kitty lu bear's "(un)sane: a collective story," a superb collective & experimental autoethnography on (trans)//Madness, plurality, and the strategic refusal of sane/sanitizing narratives.

The Trans Woman Writers' Collective has also released some excellent zines, in particular my beloved friend @grimesapologist's Anorexic Becomings.

I love my friend/comrade Twoey Gray's Mad zines/poetics, and loved & got to to review her zine Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder on the pathologization of asexuality. like bear's work, it's a brilliant fusion / refusal of the binary between of the auto- and the rigorously scholarly.

Lastly, i wanted to shoutout two older zines I absolutely adore. one is, of course, Mira Bellweather (z"l)'s Fucking Trans Women, and the other is Andrea Dorea's N'Drea: One Woman's Fight to Die Her Own Way.

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u have gotten more than 3 piercings?

very correct! i have an industrial piercing and three lobe piercings in each ear, a bridge piercing, septum, and medusa. i formerly had my tragus done but it ripped out on a headphone (rip) and i had my eyebrow for about 5 years before it rejected - i want to get that one redone. i'd like to get double high nostrils, nips, and maybe some more ear piercings/mods!

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ooh top 5 instrumental songs??

love this q! going to do albums rather than songs bc that's how i tend to listen.

Kôrôlén - London Symphony Orchestra + Toumani Diabaté

Baphomet Nothing - EP2

HandMade - Charbel Rouhana + The Beirut Oriental Ensamble

The Suffering of the Sepulchre Slasher - Wretched Crawler + A Rose from the Catacombs

Finite Universe - Penguins Have Knees

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20, 28, 29??

If you could revive one tv show that has been cancelled, what show would it be?

orphan black but i'd actually also make the last couple seasons good

when you’re sad, do you prefer to listen to music to match your mood, or listen to happy music?

usually to match my mood! i always hesitate to make it so that i associate a particular song with being said, even if it's a sad song - i just get concerned about ruining a song for myself that way.

what’s the last outfit you wore?

i had a pajama day today bc i was just at home packing! so, i wore a pair of cotton shorts and an old tank top that i actually just had to mend because one of the straps was falling apart. the day before that, i went out, and wore a pair of cargo shorts and a cut-off black t shirt.

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26, 30?

what movie would you want to live in?

the end of matilda iykyk

what reminds you of home (doesn’t have to mean house… just things that remind you of the feeling of home)?

foliage, cold wind, pine trees, the smell of drip coffee!

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16 and 26 for the ask meme?

thoughts on mint chocolate chip?

big fan. mint and chocolate are a great combo. i love junior mints and also the thingies at olive garden.

how’s your spice tolerance?

i get "white people hot" at thai places.