Dee Cooley 🏳️‍⚧️

me: this horror protagonist is an idiot
also me: huh this looks weird

pixel art of a male Townsend's warbler perched on a small branch and looking up, its legs and feet partially obscured by two oak leaves protruding forward and to the right. The warbler has bright yellow colorings on its face and breast with a black eye-ear patch and smaller yellow band just beneath the eye within that patch, and stripes of black and gray following just underneath the wing, giving way to white, gray and brown colors below. The wing feathers are dark with light edges and two wing bars. A subtle beam of light crosses behind the bird from the upper right to the lower left, against a light reddish-tan background

Bird for my father.

yeah I saw this one on airport last month so they are def out there

I mean I can't guarantee that, but I'm gonna try.

also if I'm this sappy today wait until I actually hit my one year transiversary lol

the drumbeat of my state and country's persecution along with the ignorance and indifference of even my closest cis friends is the background music of so many of my emotions and conversations and issues and existence

Last year I found out I have a future. I'm going to make it, we are all going to.

the people I love mean everything to me (hi ones reading this) and my life is so much richer and full of light and color in ways I had no idea I was missing. I exist and am embodied - I am actually living a life worth living.

I started transition in April 2025 and shit has gotten so much fucking worse and scarier even just since then, it's overwhelming

This is still the happiest and best time of my entire life, and nothing previous to transition comes close.

flipping between these thoughts can hurt even more sometimes

Poster for Fight Opera Presents Wrestlepotamia 7PM 6PM doors Saturday, March 14th Austin Beerworks Sprinkle Valley Free Show

Historically accurate wrestling in Austin has time traveled to next Saturday, March 14th! 🤼‍♀️

nap failure time for more caffeine

studio: we keep sending it for punch-up but we just get the same drafts back covered in tears so I guess we are just gonna film it 🤷‍♀️

right?? makes me feel like a ghost

But I still live here and many other trans people do too, and my initial reading your posts was despair: We live here and do things here and want to see cool things here, state be damned. As I said these are just my thoughts and honestly nervous about sharing them but wanted to.

when I saw your posts earlier I felt sad because if I were in town for it I would love to go but then I felt guilty about it because you're obviously not wrong: sales tax and money does go to my city, but some does also go the state.

SX in general is something I... quite dislike as an Austinite, but as someone who has worked theater crews and music shows it is very important to a lot of incomes and careers of people who work here on events.

I have complicated feelings about it as a trans woman in Austin, and all of this is just speaking for myself but I'm gonna give it a shot.

Events like this are not things people are traveling to Austin specifically for, it is for people who have already made a choice to come to SX.

ah I saw the publisher (Unbound) and now know why it is so unavailable

Austin Public Library had an ebook on Libby so, got it!

thank you!! I love when joke threads lead to book recommendations 😌

I saw! It appears very unavailable but I will... hunt it 💕

omg is that a heist book?

are there any sapphic romance stories about the retro games community and if not why not

insomnia! on a tuesday

I believe in my snow white field and calm demeanor!!

(I will not be sad if I am wrong it is always up to cats)

bweh I'm sorry Polly 🫂🫂

yes this was all inspired by this thread

other titles

Cast your Dreams

GD-ROMance

Virtual Memory Unites

Split/Screen

can cis people fucking do something about this shit for once

there's a lot of yearning in the first and middle parts and a lot of false starts but it all works out in the end

and the title for the book is uh

Skies of Arkady

there are three parts to the book:

- a meeting at a classic games convention in the POV characters' hometown where the love interest is visiting

- mostly on the internet in a series of twitch chatrooms and signal conversations

- after the love interest gets an opportunity to move to the same town

I am annoyed this is still marked as explicit

gdi yet another hobby/skill I had pre-transition I should have taken as a sign