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felix 🔯⚧️🍉

@lousullivanbf.bsky.social

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futch commie dipshit (he/him) || anti-zionist jew || trans history enthusiast

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felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Feb 11

I’m so good at finishing big projects and forgetting to post anything about them. This is one in a series of paintings I’ve done of people from trans history- this is 19th century trans actress Lavinia Edwards (who also sometimes went by Eliza). 🧵 about her life:

Painting of a young woman in a black 1830s dress with a large white collar. Her light brown hair is loose in ringlets around her shoulders. She holds a tragedy mask in her right hand and rests her left hand on a large brown book with “The Fatal Marriage” written on the spine. A red curtain, suggestive of the theatre, hangs behind her.

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felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · 12h

oh boy I sure would HATE to figure this out with someone 👀

1908 headline from the St Louis Post Dispatch: ‘When Girl-Boy Weds Boy-Girl, Who’ll Be Boss?’

felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · 1d

I had the privilege of interviewing this absolute legend a couple of years ago. Rest in power. www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/blac...

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felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · 24d

in a twist shocking to no-one I went to the flea market to get furniture for the new flat and came home with yet another Little Guy

a tiny ceramic clown held between two fingers. he has red hair, a green outfit with a yellow star on the side, and a delightful smile.

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felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Sep 12

It is sort of validating when knowing a bunch of extremely online terminology becomes highly relevant to understanding the affairs of the day, but it probably doesn’t bode well overall.

felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Sep 12

had to explain ‘owo what’s this’ to my very offline friend, which gave me a feeling of deep personal shame that I don’t know if I’ve felt since watching January 6th live on the BBC with my dad and having to explain what the Kekistan flag was.

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felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Sep 6

hot damn, look at this picture my friend took of me at trans pride. it’s great having friends with cameras

Felix leaning against a pillar, wearing a baseball cap and a floral shirt hanging open to show full chest hair and male-presenting nipples. he’s wearing a cardboard sign that reads ‘YOU WILL
NEVER HAVE THE COMFORT OF OUR SILENCE’. Behind him is a large trans flag banner that says ‘TRANS STRUGGLE = CLASS STRUGGLE’.

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felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Aug 28

had the kind of 45 minute phone call with someone in a customer service call centre that makes you somehow even more communist but on my way home I ran into one of my favourite cats who haunts a particular location, who for obvious reasons I have nicknamed Monsieur Poirot

an hand outreached to a tuxedo cat approaching with friendly question mark tail. he has a white bib, two white toes on one foot and a perfect tiny little moustache à la Hercule Poirot.

the same cat rolling over to expose his tummy, with an expression that seems to say ‘mon dieu!’

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felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Aug 16

passing sucks actually and nobody should try and do it

felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Aug 16

nothing more heart wrenching than being out and about in my most Some Guy outfit and seeing a beautiful trans woman and trying to desperately convey ‘I’m looking at you out of CAMARADERIE and also YEARNING not the bad reasons’ but from her POV I’m just Some Guy grinning like an weirdo 😭

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felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Aug 13

a girl on Grindr voice noted me her recipe for mushroom carbonara, thank you for your service girl from Grindr this slaps

an absolutely banging bowl of mushroom carbonara

felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Aug 5

[screaming, grinding my teeth, pounding the earth with my fists, rending my garments] THEY DON’T MAKE ‘EM LIKE THIS ANYMORE!! boxd.it/aCnPbn

A ★★★ review of Constantine (2005)

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felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Jul 28

In retrospect it made slightly more sense in the context of what she was saying, she was talking about camping or whatever

felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Jul 28

In my defence I recently went on a date with a girl who infodumped at some length about different types of concrete, so I didn’t even bat an eye at the idea that her special interest was plumbing! I was SO READY to hear her monologue about U-bends or whatever!!

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felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Jul 28

Extremely Transgender Moment on a date with a trans woman today: she was talking about her travel plans and mentioned that she ‘liked plumbing’. I took it at face value that she’s literally interested in the mechanics of plumbing. She just meant she likes having access to flushing toilets 😑

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felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Jul 28

Shoot, is there a way to edit that?

felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Jul 28

it’s ya boi in ID magazine! i-d.co/article/lond...

Screenshot from an article in ID magazine. the photo shows Felix wearing a black baseball cap, floral skirt, black trousers and shoes with bisexual coloured laces, holding a sign that says ‘You will never have the comfort of our silence’, with the word ‘never’ in hot pink surrounded by gemstones. In answer to the question ‘What does Trans Pride mean to you?’ he responds: ‘It's a reminder of how many of us there are and how angry we are. No law, no politician, can put this genie back in the bottle. Like my sign says: They will never have the comfort of our silence again.’

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felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Jul 28

I had a huge crush on him as a teenager which I think says a lot about the type of teenager I was.

felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Jul 28

genuinely a bit weepy about Tom Lehrer, may his memory be a blessing 😭

felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Jul 27

actually technically she wasn’t my first trans girlfriend because the least worst of my teenage exes is a girl now but she’s the first one who I was aware was a girl during the course of our relationship.

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felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Jul 27

idk it’s just really getting me that this girl who in my memory is freshly cracked, wearing a skirt for the first time, so brand new and vulnerable, feels old now too.

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felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Jul 27

ran into my first trans girlfriend at pride. she reminded me that the first time she ever wore girl clothes in public was with me, ten years ago. some of them were probably my old clothes. she asked me if I ever feel old around other trans people. I said yeah

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felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Jul 22

The girls sitting behind me on the bus are reciting the ‘nothing beats a jet2 holiday’ ad, in unison, Greek chorus style. If I have to hear TikTok sounds on the bus I think I prefer the acapella version.

felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Jul 19

I feel like Larry Gopnik. WHAT IS HASHEM TRYING TO TELL ME????

felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Jul 19

It truly felt like someone had been plucked at random off the telly and plonked into the congregation, which, by the way, was not large. Like I was in a dream and my subconscious was filling things in with faces I’ve seen a lot.

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felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · Jul 19

One of Britain’s foremost Hey It’s That Guys. I guarantee even if you don’t recognise the name, if you look him up you’ll almost certainly have seen him in something. And he’s just…there. At my bar mitzvah.

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