Leo leventhot

Living up to your name !!!

You’re perfect 🫡

Thank you 🫡

Waiting to pull out a bus on my own for the first time ever everyone say “good luck leo you’re taking the bus world by storm”

This year has continued the trend in my adult life of “every year being better than the last” but I also think this has been the most stressful year of my adult life

Rapid onset of winter + starting a new high stress job + job training requiring a very unpredictable schedule so I can’t settle into a routine= i really just am crying a lot out of nowhere

Dawg . . . Winter is fuckin killing me this year

basically its all about knowing smart women and asking them questions

and I wait for you/and nothing stops it happening/and I knew I'd cherish all my misery
alone

she's back on her 'im writing a book' grindset

fucked up that textedit autocorrects shemale to shamble

Grabbing the nearest faggot in this coffee shop and whispering through gritted teeth “I used to be a welder, you know, I came by these steel toes honestly”

Trans Catskills routine about my name:

1: hi my names leo
2: hi Leo
1: oh please, god, don’t call me that, that’s my deadname !
2: oh I’m so sorry, what would you prefer?
1: call me leo
2: wait then what’s your deadname?
1: well that’s a rude question !

As often as I want and nowhere near as powerful as kneeling the bus to be gracious and welcoming to customers

Anyhow if anyone has bus questions feel free to ask I love to enlighten

Just happened w a barista I haven’t chatted w in like a month

Very funny that without fail whenever I see someone I haven’t seen in awhile now, ~20 mins of conversation time are set aside for “bus questions”. People are mad curious about the bus system !

on laundry day in the winter i like to play The Most Dangerous Game (quickly undressing in the shared laundry room so i can throw on my pajamas straight from the dryer while they're still toasty without getting caught naked by my landlord)

Or. The thing I loved in we who are about to is the enormity of feeling sharpened to a razors edge. Female man is the ore that could be a scalpel one day. that is more exciting to me. I have her earlier novels not collected in the loa edition, excited to check those out after cleaning the collection

Idk im being forced to sit and do nothing at work for several hours so I’m reading and thinking aloud. Just surprised by how muted my reaction to revisiting we who are about to is considering how hard it hit first go round. I think female man is just more what I love even tho it’s way less refined

I think we who are about to is about as technically perfect as a novel can get. Crystalline in its brutality/ but female man just simmers w a raw kinetic energy that is the exact thing I’m always hunting for in a book. style as direct conduit to difficult and complicated emotions. Messy messy

Okay re reading we who are about to after the female man. Very interesting to revisit. Felt like a bolt of lightning when I first read it, but reading the totally unvarnished, rough hewn power of female man really mellows we who are about to in comparison

Have you ever seen anything more beautiful in your life .

Doo doodoo doo doodoo doooo doooooo doo doodoo dooooooooo

They’ve Perforated Your Bowls, Charlie Brown !

Stellaluna, my baby, golden Wanda the golden Honda will never take the place you have in my heart

Like my whole life prior to 2024 had been public transit and biking on the same bike I’ve had since highschool, and I learned how to drive for a fully separate career that didn’t work out (transphobia) but I turned that into being a bus driver. Hilarious. Hilarious!

It remains insanely wild to me that I had never really been behind the wheel of a car before two years ago and next week I will be a professional, full time, Chicago transit authority bus operator

STOPPPPPPPPPP THATS TOO WILD

Wow . . . Just I mean . . Wow . . I’m glad I was sitting when I read this is all I’ll say