Kalyn TinTin

ghost with a big gulp

Also we're the only country to have used these weapons on such a scale that people in Japan are still feeling the impact 80 years later...

On Friday, I got my locs washed and took myself to dinner as a mini-date.
On Saturday, I helped out at the Meadowbridge Community Market and kept an eye out for solid water scumbags.
Today, I tried out two different tofu recipes and played Kingdom Hearts 2.
Tiny sprinkles of glimmer and purpose.

Quite frequently these days I feel like one of those violin guys playing music in the movie Titanic as the ship sank 🎻

While I still dream of being a little old lady working at a library with a herd of fat cats, this is fulfilling me in a similar way, and I'm grateful for this experience and the support I continue to receive.

My first job was as a library aide in high school, putting books back on shelves, organizing and cleaning mess left by patrons.
In my current job, I get to build and manage a digital library for hundreds of employees.

Digital illo of a goddess doing a wide embrace of the moon. There is an Starry Night type aesthetic to her hair. She's wearing a simple dress and dark blue/brown robe. The moon has light gravitational rings. Art by prinnay/gdbeeart, paint tool sai 2025

((( love you to the moon and back )))

Illustration of a witch waiting to get off the bus with her flock of pigeons :) It’s the end of the day. Multiple pigeons are picking up cheesy cracker pieces coming out of the witch’s bag. Drawn in paint tool sai by gdbeeart, 2025

Bus witch

Wishing every trans person a merry look into the mirror and realize damn I look cute

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I wish chaps were more mainstream and available in clothing stores. Sometimes, the 🍑 just needs to breathe when the rest of me is cold. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Men Wasting My Time in 2025, the sequel no one even asked for.

It's so disappointing when the bar is on the ground and some people are determined to dig under it, yet act surprised by the consequences.

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.

This is a manifesto against disability.

This is the language of eugenics.

I know a lot of us have doubts about whether we could organize a potluck or book club, nevermind a revolution.

So if you need to start with potlucks and book clubs, try that for starters.

Is this...is this a rhetorical question? 😆

a blessing

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Today, I said, "In my professional opinion," at work and felt like I actually meant it. Did I automatically level up my adulting skill on my birthday, or was it some kind of patch update that was installed overnight? 🤔

"I want to perform their favorite song, but you know they love to sue me."
#Kendrick #SuperBowl #Halftime

Folks have asked what I'm doing for my birthday, and honestly, tomorrow, I plan to be as lazy as I was when I first came into this world - adorable, wrapped in blankets, and addicted to naps. 🤷🏾‍♀️😆
#SundayBirthday #LazyBirthday #Aquarius

"I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language." I began to ask each time: "What's the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?" Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, "disappeared" or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever. Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it's personal. And the world won't end. And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking." Your Silence Will Not Protect You

"For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices." The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House "Revolution is not a one-time event. It is becoming always vigilant for the smallest opportunity to make a genuine change in established, outgrown responses; for instance, it is learning to address each other’s difference with respect." Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

"Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression. But community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist." The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House "Change means growth, and growth can be painful. But we sharpen self-definition by exposing the self in work and struggle together with those whom we define as different from ourselves, although sharing the same goals. For Black and white, old and young, lesbian and heterosexual women alike, this can mean new paths to our survival." Age, Race, Class, and Sex

Day Six of #BlackHistoryMonth Black Theory:

Audre Lorde

Writings:

The Master's Tools
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There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions
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Help Us Buy Meadowbridge Community Market We are raising funds to purchase the building for our free grocery and supply store in Richmond, VA!

The fundraiser started in September and is halfway to the $90k goal, and owning this property will go a long way in providing accessible resources to communities who really need them.
givebutter.com/buymcm

Flier pinned to corkboard, states: HELP US BUY THE MEADOWBRIDGE COMMUNITY MARKET @mad_rva givebutter.com/buymcm Text "BUYMCM" to 53-555 We are raising $90,000 to purchase the building for our free grocery and supply store in Richmond, VA! Owning the building will secure the future of Meadowbridge Community Market and ensure that we are able to continue and grow our efforts. Every dollar goes a long way! If you're. Kt able to give money, you can help us by spreading the word! Without and solidarity, MADRVA

For my birthday, I want to share MAD RVA efforts to buy the Meadowbridge Community Market. This group runs a free market that provides food, infant goods, covid tests, narcan, menstrual products, and so much more, along with offering mini-grants to Richmond residents in need.

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

Fun Fact: When threatened the hognose snake will writhe in pain and turn over onto its back sticking its tongue out. If it's turned back onto its stomach it will flip back over insisting its really dead! They even emit a smelly odor really selling the whole corpse thing 🐍☠️🤪

Portrait illustration of a woman underwater with fishies. She's looking at the viewer. Her hair is made of seaweeds. She's wearing a white tanktop. There are multiple types of angelfish and other saltwater fish intermixed with the seaweed. Most of the fish are golden except for one fish in the middle, which is black and white striped. Painted in 2022 / gdbeeart/ photoshop

Shelter

I enjoy the work that I do, and my boss is amazing, but I'm getting overwhelmed by the number of projects (and therefore people) I'm juggling. I took the day off tomorrow so I can make the trip to Durham at my leisure, but I'm already feeling stressed about the lost time. Make it stop pls. 😩

The Katara one was cool, pirate shenanigans and Katara being badass. The Toph one was alright, introduced magma bending, but also started her journey to being a cop 🙃

The ATLA comics are free to read on the Webtoons app. Though I'm not certain if they've reached these issues yet.

#HappyLunarNewYear 🐍 🏮 🎆

To celebrate the year of the snake, I wanted to combine the snake with my other favorite scaled animal, the goldfish!

#happychinesenewyear #yearofthesnake #snake #art #painting

Me getting hype for a date at the library later 😊