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sarah

@sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social

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trans || lesbian || leftist || musician bands: analecta, Chin Up! (she/her) mdni 🔞 discord: same username

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sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · Nov 28

oh my god, i just got sent pictures from a photographer friend who shot the Chin Up! set last friday.

pink haired woman with her hair in a high ponytail and a cropped cami that says FAG on it. she’s doing vocals and looks moderately aggressive. the background is blurred.

pink haired woman in a cropped cami that says FAG on it and camo pants two-stepping on stage while her band plays.

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sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 4m

i …uhm.

i have never once done karaoke.
but then, i suppose…

there’s a lot of things i’ve never done.

Lily Alexandre @lily-is.online · 3h

deadly serious question for transgender women: what are your go-to karaoke songs

sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 14m

now wait a minute.

my lighting in my bathroom is the one thing i’ve got going for it!
the rest of the bathroom is a disaster i lack the knowledge base to tackle, but my lighting is excellent!

sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 29m

in raising myself in transition,

i feel like i missed out on…
an awful lot.

random little milestones that just weren’t a thing in my life.
or larger experiences that i’ve never had.

i… it makes it feel like somehow i just barreled off path again like everything else in my life.

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sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 48m

to what deity?

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sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 49m

great for marimba practice.

sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 1h

huh.

i think i have passed the marker of posting old photos. pre-transition stuff.

it’s out there. i’m not hiding it.
but also, if i do comparisons? it’s just for me. as a reminder. not for everyone to see.

sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 1h

i haven’t lived there in 25 years.

but damnit will i always be a massachusetts girl at heart.
it’s where i was raised.
and it’s still, in my mind, home.

despite living in the midwest for all that time.

Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 6h

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Sen. Ed Markey, a white man with white hair, standing at a lectern with a dark background, and Sen Elizabeth Warren to camera right, in a black top with a red blazer. Markey wears a trans pride flag draped over his shoulders. The closed caption reads "trans people because trans righs are human rights. We" The chiron underneath reads "No Kings Rally Underway In Boston"

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sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 1h

face right into the bowl.

sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 1h

sex so bad you leave the country and vow never to return.

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraculous.net · 2h

sex so bad you burn their house down

ficklenuts has a pair of normal entiddies 👻 @ficklenuts.bsky.social · 5h

Sex so bad, you erase your number from their phone

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sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 1h

my freshman year of college, i had two roommates. one who died our first semester. and the other… i’m still friends with.

my sophomore year,
i roomed with a junior with neon yellow hair who loved punk and ska.

after him, i never had a dorm roommate again.

sometimes i wonder what happened to him.

sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 1h

lazy vegan biscuits and gravy (on just toasted english muffins instead of biscuits) for dinner.

tasted good at least?
probably will have it for breakfast tomorrow too, since there’s plenty of leftover gravy.

sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 3h

it’s a catch 22. like “look at this thing everybody says you need and you don’t have… but you’ll feel worse if you leave too”

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sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 3h

sometimes i wonder why…

i came back here.
why i stay in most of the discords i’m in,
or why i even got invited to multiple regionally based discords nowhere near where i live.

it’s all just reminders of community i don’t have. people always hanging out together. out doing shit…

so why do i stay?

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sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 3h

i live in a city. but… community is …

lacking is an understatement.

sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 4h

a lot of us just … don’t have IRL community.

all those things in the list? most of them simply do not exist for us.
there are no parties or shows or raves or sleepovers or any of that…

irl trans community feels like a nice myth,
but not an attainable one for a lot of us.

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sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 4h

reality:

these things are nice to imagine.
most of us will likely never have them,
i don’t think.

sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · Aug 10

last night i saw this meme in a discord.

and…
it just made me sad.

comic panel of a woman with a gun captioned to say “Communities of trans women are beautiful things, even when they're messy. There will be parties and shows and meetings and raves and finally getting your hair cut the way you like and sleepovers and girlfriends and a thousand other wonderful things. We want you to see all of that.”

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sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 4h

spent the last few hours laying in the dark.

now what?

sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 6h

it’s not been a bad brain day.
it’s been a bad brain week.

sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 2d

sometimes i just feel…

old.
and invisible.
like i don’t really belong anywhere anymore.

sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 6h

it’s not been a bad brain day.
it’s been a bad brain week.

sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 2d

sometimes i just feel…

old.
and invisible.
like i don’t really belong anywhere anymore.

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sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 6h

… sure would be nice to really know what IRL queer community is like.

cause nearly 9 years of transition and i still haven’t found it.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 13d

me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis

my brain: not u though

me: not me though

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sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 8h

in my area? it’s less likely than you’d think.

sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 9h

realizing that locally i have a lot of acquaintances,

but really only two people who i ever spend time with anymore. a married couple with a young kid. who i haven’t hung out with in two months.

… no wonder i feel so alone most of the time.

sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 23h

it’s definitely one of my favorites.
i’ve seen it… several times.

sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 23h

“trumpy, your eyes are glowing!”

“it’s called evil, kid. get used to it”

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sarah @sarahxelizvbeth.bsky.social · 1d

well. here’s the thing.
i don’t like horror movies as a rule.
not most of them.
i like *bad* horror movies. but like… when they’ve been MST3K’d (pod people is hilarious)

my favorite horror movie… isn’t scary at all. Army Of Darkness.
liked Cabin In The Woods a lot, though.

ngl question:

“what’s your favorite scary movie?”

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