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@gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social

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Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 8h

skill issue :P

Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 12h

it's not a scientific term. colloquial language is defined by how people use it.

if other people understand what you mean when you say a word, it's the correct word.

Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 1d

panther just isn't a scientific term. it means whatever people say it does colloquially.

calling pumas panthers is no more or less correct than jaguars or leopards

now, *panthera* is a scientific term, and it refers to the genus which includes jaguars, leopards, lions, snow leopards, and tigers.

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Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 1d

sort of. people call all sorts of things panthers, they don't refer to just one species.

black panthers can either refer to melanated leopards *or* to melanated jaguars, which are different species

and some people do call pumas panthers!

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Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 1d

I often wonder how much the economics would change if you just took away rent. it would mean businesses could sell for lower prices and customers could buy for higher

and that applies to basically everything, both service and retail

Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 1d

yeah I feel like most people just haven't bothered to think for half a second about how much time it takes to make things

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Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 1d

did you know I wrote a D&D 5e one-shot adventure with rules for playing critters like isopods and chipmunks and birds? 50 lovingly typeset pages, with many illustrations and printable digitally painted tactical maps?

you can get it for 3 whole dollars on my online shop

gwenverbsnouns.com/links/

a digital painting of a magpie sitting on a pile of purple cushions, in an extravagantly ornamented nest with tapestries and all manner of trinkets

Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 1d

I think it would depend on the terms on which they broke up. if they parted amicably and just weren't romantically compatible, it seems like it could be fine?

very weird if it was an acrimonious breakup though

Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 1d

this is a really pretty photo. the color composition works really well with the pattern of your dress, the red brown color of the bridge, and the vibrant foliage in the background

and while yes, your pose is quite odd, I think it's very flattering somehow?

what a cool picture

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Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 1d

this is your periodic reminder that hair is skin, and is in fact the same fundamental skin structure as fingernails, feathers, and reptile scales.

weirdly, not fish scales though. those are something else

and of course claws and talons are bones

Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 1d

27 (and approximately healthy) to 32 (and quite chronically ill) and I still look younger now than I used to, lmao

me pre-transition, sporting a trimmed beard and mustache, contemplating a woodworking project with my arm crossed over my chest and my index finger resting of my lips. I have curly brown hair which would be considered a medium long for a guy and quite short for a girl. I am wearing blue jeans and a black mag fest t-shirt. there is a silver wedding band on my left ring finger. I am white, and ethnically ashkenazi jewish (fuck Israel)

me after transition, sitting in my office chair with my feet elevated for POTS reasons. I have long curly brown hair that is quite messy in this picture because it needs to be washed. I am wearing gray sweatpants and a brick red "desert bus for hope" t-shirt, and a black heart rate monitor armband. a tattoo of a flower is partially visible on my forearm. ally beardsley it's partly visible on dimension 20 on my computer monitor in the background. I have round silver framed glasses, and dark bags under my eyes, yet I still look younger than my 27-year-old self. I am of course still white and ethnically ashkenazi jewish, though the latter is a bit less obvious since I got my nose done (which I have complicated feelings about—I love my nose, but the increased disconnection from my cultural heritage is weird).

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Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 1d

more like, waking up with a headache from a subluxated jaw 😢

Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 1d

even then we've been going back and forth on it. currently we're feeling that marrying will work out better, for now, because she has a very good insurance plan

if I went on medi-cal, I'd have to replace a number of people on my medical team, and it's so hard to find good doctors in the first place

Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 1d

to get benefits I not only couldn't marry my partner, I would also have to give her all my savings.

which is a kind of crazy thing to do when you're expressly *not* married to somebody!

and who knows how long it would be before I even got anything

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Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 3d

that would be p great though, that might even cover my specialist visit copays

Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 4d

I'm pretty sure posting us political satire at midnight pacific time is how to do the most numbers

if I've learned anything from social media it's that you get the most engagement when nearly your entire target audience is asleep

Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 4d

for example, I'm willing to let landlords keep the deeds to other people's homes, as long as we also abolish police and prisons

(I'm sure people will continue paying rent if the landlords just ask politely, with no ability to enforce their "ownership")

Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 4d

you can trust me to have unbiased takes on us politics, because the blue washed out of my hair. now I just have pronouns. basically a centrist

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Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 4d

the us military really is too pure of an ideal, actually existing in reality is a debasement of the abstract conception, when you think about it

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Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 4d

I'm okay with them banning trans people from the military, as long as they also ban cis people. fair's fair

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Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 4d

they vary a lot even between different pharmacies near where I live, so guessing is something of a fool's errand but it's a fun game to play 😆

Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 4d

yeah I noticed that zooming in and seeing kana on one of the pills lol

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Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 4d

is the white pill scored in half a lamotrigine (lamictal?)

one of the others looks like cetirizine hcl (zyrtec)

the white capsule looks like a vitamin C supplement

not sure about the others, wouldn't guessed bupropion for the red ones but you said you're not on antidepressants

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Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 4d

perish the thought!

Gwen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿ @gwenverbsnouns.bsky.social · 5d

I need more audio dramas on par with MIDST/UNEND and Worlds Beyond Number

partly bc they're the only media can easily tolerate with these chronic migraines

but also because they are SO FUCKING GOOD