Laura Foster

I feel like I'm attending a revival meeting inside an empty metal shipping container.

(Vaporwave gospel hymns play faintly in the distance over PA speakers)

And the backlash I got for that made me fear my so-called "allies" almost more than the neighbours. The whole "if I'm out, everyone should be out, and if they're not they're traitors to the LGBTQ movement" has a very "nothing bad has ever happened to me" and "I'm a malignant narcissist" energy.

This. I deliberately went stealth before I moved into my current neighbourhood - scraped the little rainbow pride kitty sticker off my car window and don't breathe a word about being trans to anybody else here. Given some of my neighbours, and having been assaulted for less, it's not safe to do so.

Sounds a lot like my city putting on a big expensive licensed holiday Harry Potter themed event (and kicking out a charity to do so), getting massive backlash about it both internally & externally, then saying "We're Deeply Sorry, We Apologize, We Didn't Know (but we're still going ahead with it.)"

As a Canadian, I also find that Nanaimo Bars are... a lot to deal with. You have to really really be in the mood for a ton of sugar and chocolate in one go. I can't remember the last time I ate one.

It turned out there were at least three of us in my high school (400-ish students) in the mid 90s. I was the first one to transition in 2002, the others a few years later. At the time none of us knew that about each other.

I also didn't meet a transitioned trans person till my 1st support group.

Can I just say that finding out there's a Father Dowling in Chicago standing up for justice and truth made me do a double take? I wonder if Sister Steve was there too? IYKYK. My grandparents used to watch that show all the time.

Has anyone seen them in the same place at the same time? Hmmm... 🤔

A little bit in the cheeks, a lot in the angle of the back of the jaw. I don't know the terminology for facial structure so it's hard to explain. It's too bad I uninstalled FaceApp a couple of years ago, otherwise I'd trying combining them into one person and ponder the result.

That's on the inside of the doors of quite a few Timmys and it makes me oogy.

You see, when a flamingo and a camel love each other very much despite their romance being forbidden by society...

Hot Sulfur Hexafluoride Balloon Rides just get really weird.

Painfully accurate in my experience. At least it goes a little ways towards balancing out the hip dips from hell / wide shoulders upside-down-triangle shape I was stuck with for years when I was starving due to poverty.

This randomly showed up in my Bluesky feed just now and I'm here for this kind of adorableness.

CoV "apologized" for putting on a for-profit several-month-long event centered around the godforsaken anti-trans wizard franchise & said it "won't happen again".

Which is to say they're still putting it on & not changing anything but they paid lip service to their LGBTQ+ employees who complained.

First horses, now ice cream cones.

(taps the My Giant Zoe sign again)

Anti-Claire. Erialc, if you will. All her intentions are malicious but are misinterpreted by the fandom as good.

If you are afraid, we will look together.

Also if I'm out and about I'm not listening to anything, besides the environment around me. Willingly shutting out noise in a public space feels like putting myself in danger.

I am team headphones for life. I spent two hellish years having to wear industrial earplugs to sleep in a horrible illegal basement suite, and earbuds remind me too much of that. And they're uncomfortable. The only reason I'll willingly have things inside my ears is if I need to protect my hearing.

The people who watch Local 58 versus the people who don't.

TMNT / House MD / Sopranos crossover when.

The door closing chimes on Skytrain in Vancouver, if you slow them down to one-quarter speed, are the first three notes of Also Sprach Zarathustra.

"The next station is... Jupiter."

David Attenborough confirmed as a Time Lord. Or he *was*, he's stuck in 1969.

I know they can be downloaded from somewhere but it's not quite like have the real deal in your hand.

(Also I don't think my Power Mac 8600/300 - which hasn't been powered up in over a decade - would boot into System 0.1. The old Mac Pluses in the school computer lab circa 1993 would though!)

In the early-mid 90s I somehow ended up with a couple of Apple software developer toolkit CD ROMs from 1990 (Vol 3 - A Disc Called Wanda, and Vol 4 - Discy Business) that had among other things every system software install from 6.0.5 back to 0.1.

Dunno what I did with them. Wish I still had them.

Now I'm imagining a Ben Folds cover of Komm Susser Todd.

I didn't quite get that far, but lots and lots of twiddling around in ResEdit and HyperCard.

Two dozen of these in a row = my junior high school computer lab. The cheerful little startup "DING!" is a core memory. Also hitting the interrupt button the side & typing a command that would let you sort of see what the last user was doing before they shut down, in a zombie half-logged-off state.