Krista Zombie Vampires

A colorful flyer with a textured background promoting an event titled “Paint and Protest for Trans Care.” The text reads: “Saturday, 11/1, @12pm - 1340 Boylston St. - @ProtectTransFutures.” It invites people to join for an afternoon of sign making, chalk art, and hot chocolate to show support for gender-affirming care at Fenway Health. It states the protest welcomes community members of all ages and encourages bringing friends, kids, and neighbors. It also mentions that those unable to attend can donate art supplies by contacting @ProtectTransFutures on Instagram. At the bottom, bold text reads: “OUR GOAL: Bring the Boston community together to show Fenway Health that we won’t turn our backs on trans youth. Healthcare is a human right.” Logos for ACT UP Boston and Protect Trans Futures (PTF) appear at the bottom.

Protest tomorrow at Fenway Health at noon over abandoning trans youth. If you're in Boston, come out and support.

Tfw you misread TorT (trick-or-treat) as T _for_ T, and then recognize the error.

[at least I wasn't thinking lawsuits...]

A pic of me, a white woman with chin length brown hair wearing all black and with most of my face in shadow. The lighting is dim, dark yellow & features are difficult to make out. From my face, only the bridge of my nose and center of my forehead are visible. I wear a longsleeved black crop top with black fringe, and am leaning slightly forward so very little abdomen is visible. I wear a long black skirt and my hands are partly visible holding it out on either side at hip level. Generally creepy vibes

The veil between the worlds grows thin...

[Pic of proto-Krista from <cough> 27 years ago...]

YouTube video by GIGS Siouxsie and the Banshees - SpellBound (Nocturne)

🎵From the cradle bars
comes a beckoning voice.
It sets you spinning.
You have no choice.🎵

youtu.be/xp4ZiR_mc5k?...

Essential song for a Halloween playlist.

"I never said I was the mayor" scans to the same cadence as
"I'm on the Downeaster Alexa"

Stranger still is Lost Carcosa

YouTube video by The Smiths Live The Smiths Live | Ask | Brixton Academy | October 1986

🎶 If it's not love
then it's
the bomb
the bomb
the bomb
the bomb
the bomb
the bomb
the bomb
that will bring us together 🎶

Earworm of the moment because...

youtu.be/2zIkT6OfOXE?...

See... it's been 10 months since I last read @pairofclaws.bsky.social 's Three Sharp Knives, and it cuts deep enough that I keep getting echoes of it returning to my brain.

Reading about Utah's plan to forcibly detain homeless people in facilities it swears are not prisons but rather "accountability centers"

It's been pointed out to me that an impact of that scale would probably destroy all life on the planet, which has its downsides, so...

How about this?

We loop a near light-speed, massive train around the planet in the mirror direction to our rotational offset angle and _never turn it off_?

Ok, ok, so how about this?

We capture a _really massive_ comet & have it impact the planet near one of the poles at _just_ the right angle so that it exerts a torque on the Earth and knocks the of Earth's axis of rotation more perpendicular to our orbit.

Even day lengths.

No seasons.

No problem?

Not a WASP, but from a white Catholic family of Philadelphia Irish/German background & we didn't use aunt & uncle outside of parental siblings, & grandparental siblings.

I was probably well into my 20s or even 30s before I noticed the more general "community adult" usage (2-3 decades ago).

YouTube video by abba2shay Alcazar : As Good As New [ABBA] Live Sweden 2002《Stereo》30th Anniversary Tribute

🎶 I'll never know
why I had to go
Why I had to put up
such a lousy rotten show

Boy, I was tough,
packing all my stuff
Saying I don't need you
anymore, I've had enough... 🎶

Earworm of the moment...

Plus stage costuming...

youtu.be/J3UsoJXiCvo?...

Twitter reprise 10/5/22:

It took me a _long_ time to figure out that I needed to transition.

(long thread)

I started HRT in the summer of 2019, a couple months shy of 46, and came out as trans at work and everywhere I wasn't previously by that December.

Among the best things I've done, and it was a long road to get there.

bsky.app/profile/kris...

My mid/late 20s (~1998) through early/mid 30s (~2007) involved a lot of time presenting fem in clubs on goth and fetish nights, as my non-work, non-clubby wardrobe converted to "boy-moding, but from the women's department", while in denial about needing to transition.

It's my birthday!

If you would like to help me celebrate, check out The Thread. Buy a book by a trans author, or review them online, or just drop them a line and tell them how much you enjoyed their work

Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship? From late-night host cancellations to removing LGBTQ+ history from government sites, politicians in both parties are contributing to the overwriting of the internet — a place where lots of queer and t...

Online censorship is one of the many levers of state power right-wingers have been pulling to try and snuff out queer and trans existence. But instead of fighting back, some Democrats are helping them at the controls. Read the full #OpEd from @fightforthefuture.org

Meanwhile, Dorothy Fontana wrote 10 TOS scripts, a TAS Script, 5 TNG scripts & a DS9 script...

memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/D.C._Fo...

Resistance runs on Dunkin’, baby!

I do like Earth 616 (and Earth 811) Kitty/Kate & she's been one of the X-folks I connect with most, but if there isn't already a variant... Cassius? Pryde from Excalibur or Exiles to draw on, they could certainly craft one for the MCU anyway.

There's a bunch to like re: Helluva Boss, but one detail lots of productions don't include that it does:

The constellations - they're real ones.

When you see Stolas w/ stars, they're right & proper constellations -not only the zodiac, but stuff like Draco & Cepheus, in the right relative positions

Abuse, detransition, deadnaming and preaching: Trans Orlando protester describes horrific jail ordeal A transfeminine protester of Florida's removal of the Pulse Nightclub memorial crosswalk recounts her horrific experiences in state jails in an exclusive interview with TNN

BREAKING - Overnight in August, the city of Orlando, Florida took down the Pulse Nightclub memorial rainbow crosswalk. The next day, people began protesting. TNN interviewed one of the protesters, who recounted horrific human rights abuses after her arrest. Written by @thefreeradical.org

🧵

YouTube video by Tory Burch Mad World performed by Curt Smith of Tears For Fears

Curt Smith of Tears for Fears and his daughter Diva play an acoustic duet of Mad World in 2020.

youtu.be/NEpfvTdR5-U?...

The cover for queer magical girl novel "Magica Riot: Full Bloom," by Kara Buchanan. The text "Magica Riot" is in the upper left corner in black in a combination of fantasty/crystalline and punk script fonts, while "Full Bloom" is below it in an interwoven script font in orange, red, and purple. The artwork depicts two trans girls, Iris and Bloom, laying on a bed of orange rain lilies. Iris has purple hair that fades to orange at the tips. She is wearing an orange sun dress, and is laying with her eyes closed. One hand is draped across her stomach, and the other is reaching up. Her fingertips are barely touching those of Bloom, also laying on her back and who is wearing a black corset dress, red bow, and long black gloves. She also has purple hair. Her eyes are open, and red. In her other hand, she holds a purple flower. Iris and Bloom are arranged diagonally across the page, head to head.

One year ago, you met my queer Portland rock band/magical girl squad, and their new trans member, Claire.

Soon, it'll be time for their next adventure!

"Magica Riot: Full Bloom" is the sequel to my debut. This is the cover, once again by @ambisweetiepie.bsky.social.

Release date & preorders soon!

YouTube video by Covenant - Topic Bullet

🎶 As the water grinds the stone
We ri-i-i-ise and fall
As our ashes turn to dust
We shi-i-i-ine like stars 🎶

Another bring my head back to goth/industrial/ebm/fetish club nights in the late 90s song.

youtu.be/wj2ThVErzNE?...

"You don't need an alarm clock, Krista, you have a cell phone" she told herself, forgetting how often she forgot to charge the darn thing...

[Takes a bite of hot pizza]
Anybody else: Ow! that burned the roof of my mouth!
[Takes another bite anyway]
Ow!

Me, an intro physics teacher: Ow!... I wonder what the specific heat of mozzarella is & how it compares to those of tomato sauce and of pizza crust.
[Takes another bite]
Ow!

i was making a point about how the collective power of crowds works. i made a comparison with bastille day in a follow up tweet.

i am very happy with the protests yesterday as literally all the rest of my posts yesterday made clear. but sure, have fun chasing clout with an out of context screenshot