I read Amy Tan’s THE JOY LUCK CLUB on a train while mulling over potential names and I liked the way “Waverly” felt on me. fun fact I currently live quite near the street the Waverly character is named for
who wants to hire me to do educational talks about gender in a very respectable British accent that some have described as “fancy” and “calming”
they laughed at all my little jokes… they asked good questions… they chipped in excitedly when they knew about something already… I used to pray for times like these
hey I did my little gender talk and it went well and I feel good about having helped people understand something that can feel pretty daunting to engage with from the outside. action alleviates anxiety, can you believe it
HOW have you not read it, it's everything you love (genderfuck cold boys* yaoi*)
yes, i should stress that UK citizens also have no idea how UK immigration works! and yet they continue to opine
i continue to beat my "Americans don't understand how American immigration works" drum in tragical solitude
i am at the point in my Immigration Journey tm tm tm where i need to remove the conditions on my green card. this means paying $700 for the privilege of having my application completely ignored until I apply for citizenship in another year's time
that would not surprise me one bit
literally my parents got within INCHES of an autism diagnosis for me and then decided it would create too much stigma for me as an adult if they got it on my record. the kids don't even know.
RESCHEDULED! We're celebrating Notes from a Regicide's new paperback at Capital Books in Sacramento on March 21 (Saturday). Book comes with the ticket. Can't wait for this -- book events are how my performance bug comes out, and it's been way too long.
(like, should this man ever attempt to write roadman slang again? probably not. but he's right about my country and so I must forgive)
read this last night, rapt and horrified. (also I really enjoyed O'Hagan's novel CALEDONIAN ROAD last year, I recommend it if you want more on the theme of "England is rotting from the inside out")
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
I think about how Kaleb Horton died niche and underemployed and my thoughts very quickly turn redacted
if i do this right then there will be at LEAST one more scene in which the protagonist is hunted into the forest alongside incompetent neo-nazis than this summary implies
cancelled documentarian ten years later
trying to conserve a crumb of dollar by bringing coffee into work in a flask rather than stopping at the coffee place en route to my desk. but i had become very tight with the barista at the coffee place and now i feel guilty for not supporting her. why is life like this
on this subject i can confirm that, with isaac back home, i woke up promptly at 8am (the artist formerly known as 7am) and immediately hopped up to have breakfast. marriage is good for mainly this reason
Reading the news today
when left to my own devices i cease to be a person and instead become a weird blur that cannot stay inside the lines of its own prescribed form. i get so weird and incorrect. i need one (1) human person around to keep me vaguely honest
genuinely can't believe i used to live alone and, like, keep my life even halfway on rails. this week without isaac has felt so shapeless and weird and i am so glad he's coming back tomorrow
we had an entirely acceptable time with holafly in the uk!
it's so cool that i'm finalising my twenty-minute guide to transness and there are so many fun new legal horrors i now get to include. great stuff. wonder what fresh nightmares will befall my people before 1pm on tuesday
wish i were there!!
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hey guys i'm starting to think it wasn't a great idea to elect the failson heir to a jeans empire as mayor of an actual city?
