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What’s going on with my "tops" and, in some cases, "bottoms?”

I disappeared for awhile. I have been volunteering and doing yoga. I'll be around when I'm around ✌️

Sidenote: my watch informs me that as I posted this I developed an abnormally high heart rate.

Thanks for keeping the score, body! ✌️

5) I was in a low key cult led by my best friend and mentor who was 20 years older for almost all of my 20s. She financially and emotionally abused me significantly. It feels weird and embarrassing to call it a cult but it pretty definitely was and I generally find it hard to talk about.

4) I have hemochromatosis, which means my blood has too much iron in it. The treatment is bleeding. As if A and I could be any more each other's soulmates.

3) I haven't seen it, but the musical Come From Away is about an experience I lived through and participated in.

I don't usually like media about my home created by people who aren't from there but I'll probably check it out someday.

2) when I was touring a lot, my contract had very general accommodations reqs. I should have known when the event sponsor confirmed I was catholic and then separately that I was unmarried, but it wasn't until I arrived at the address that I realized it was a convent.

Honestly it was great.

1) my paternal grandmother's family was very, very rich (and intermarried with some interesting people) for a generation or two thanks to rum running.

1 like = 1 piece of personal lore

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Tmw you realize FetLife still exists and there are still.people using it

(Object permanence is a hell of a drug)

Absolutely beefing with whoever didn't tell me that press on nails would make me feel like a full on goddess immediately

a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it . ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it .

Me waiting for (maybe) a new contrapoints video (maybe) today like a fucking swiftie.

I'm dying. My sister (future genre fiction writer) convinced me fully for several years that I was a secret green alien hiding on earth. There was a full political backstory. I really believed it. She's also a fan of yours. I can't wait to read this 🌱

Next time someone comes at me with some "the moral arc of history bends towards justice" trash I will probably counter by telling them we live in a factory second Atlas Shrugged world.

Sometimes I fear we live in an Objectivist simulation, then I remember that in our universe novelty metal billionaires aren't just amoral they're also too dumb to invent Rearden Steel so their stupid novelty metal bridges (in our case dumpster trucks and tin can submersibles) just fail.

Qatherine, on aerial silks at Tethered 2024

Tethered Together is this weekend, and I am thrilled to be producing the Saturday night show, Circus of Elements!

🌿🌊🔥💨 Earth, Water, Fire, & Air – bring the elements to life as Tethered Together & @twistedwindows.bsky.social combine aerial acrobatics, dance, drag, and spoken word.

Sometimes a family is one white woman and her family sized bag of peanut butter m&ms

Ok go forth and discuss which liquors are being removed from shelves and energy tarrifs my friends.

It's not like "premiere" (similar pattern as "Lumiere" from Beauty and the Beast) NOR the way "premier" (masculine, no second e) is pronounced in French.

You say "PRE-myer" with an emphasis on the first syllable and no fanciness at the end, a similar vocal pattern as something like "failure."

Ok I have a great problem because Americans are finally learning about Canadian current events. This is about the correct way to pronounce "premier" (the leader of a province) and if you get it right you'll be better than most US media.

Yesssss 😍

My great-grandfather brought a date to my great-grandmother's funeral. I was 7 and it was also the day I got my first pair of glasses. I saw a lot of things more clearly that day, I suppose.

Anyway, agreed obviously.

For the last time it's not "blush blindness" I'm flagging sapphic 🩷

The Diplomat

I get this a lot (and was almost named after her!)

I have literally thought this!!!

Are you coming to Tethered Together? I'm helping with the Saturday night show – dance/circus performances are fully booked, but we have openings for a few spoken word pieces!

Details: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📸: Qatherine, photo by JD

Going full freedom fries. Honestly I'm fine with this.

I fly on little commuter planes a lot because my home is pretty remote and this happens almost every time and it's always so weird.

Ok yes. I had nightmares after seeing this movie (also 16) for a long time and I still get a really sick feeling in my stomach when I think about the premise. When I realized what it was about I felt Iike the wind got knocked out of me.