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Wizard Tome

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Wizard Tome @nicebats.bsky.social · 18d

a page from something i was working on. what if i just illustrated my entire life in this format and then laid down and dissolved into the atmosphere due to finally fulfilling my only purpose (to make a really long mid memoir)

Wizard Tome @nicebats.bsky.social · 12h

i love a meeting late in the work day or at the very beginning, but anything between 10 and 3 is evil

Wizard Tome @nicebats.bsky.social · 12h

sorry if these aren't specific enough to trans men though wrt your thread. I have also gotten really weird comments pertaining to pregnancy (or, my lack of wanting to) and wild assumptions about my role in my marriage... I grew up in a conservative area, so the list is unfortunately bottomless 😅

Wizard Tome @nicebats.bsky.social · 12h

I had a coworker, within our first week of meeting, unload that her nephew came out as trans and she was worried her brother was gonna resort to violence... I had to provide advice, bc obviously no way in hell was I about to just walk away from that... but oh my gosh. I am not a free social worker 😭

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Wizard Tome @nicebats.bsky.social · 12h

It wears on me, but at least it's evident when it's malicious. I can't be bothered to get upset if someone is in good faith.

omg though, it's also wildly common for cis people to vent to me unprovoked about their issues with gender or their lgbt family members as well or something.

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Wizard Tome @nicebats.bsky.social · 12h

at every job I've ever had, a supervisor has asked me about my genitals... my current one asked me during training my first week on the job.

every time I've ever gotten HR involved in anything it only made things worse, so I've given up on that. I just try to express discomfort & politely redirect

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Wizard Tome @nicebats.bsky.social · 14h

i am convinced only being able to do social transition for years before i had access to HRT gave me temporary insanity of some form.

Wizard Tome @nicebats.bsky.social · 14h

social transition has a "timeline" the same way medical transition does. if the two get desynced too dramatically it increases the spawn rate of brainworms.

Wizard Tome @nicebats.bsky.social · 14h

12:34 o clock is far more whimsical than 11:11

Wizard Tome @nicebats.bsky.social · 1d

u can mention having done years of successful therapy and people will still treat it like a Personal Failing if u still struggle with some things after it all. frustrating.

Wizard Tome @nicebats.bsky.social · 1d

the way people talk about ptsd+anxiety makes it sound like the symptoms stop happening if you get good enough at Thinking And Responding Effectively but ime nothing will stop me from getting the shakes in some settings. i just have to push through it. i can make peace with this but it is rough.

Wizard Tome @nicebats.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes i get really anxious and procastinate on things that make no sense to procrastinate on bc i get too locked into being frozen in fear. my coping mechanisms for it work fine but its annoying that it happens in the first place regardless. and the response is kind of delayed bc of how it works

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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 2d

In my personal life I have moved away from thinking of people as stupid. Instead I just think of people as "incurious," where the Doing of learning has become something they are too tired, scared, or proud to pursue. Curiosity is, I think, the greatest human virtue, the Doing of learning.

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 13d

to me, Doing is a knife that must be continually honed, however small the grind wheel available to you is, because to me it's not about how sharp the knife actually is it's about the process of honing itself. if you are Doing then you are living. there are always opportunities to Do if you seek them

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