Kari, Estradiol Ascendant 🏳️⚧️
@transarcana.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️Trans Lady into the Occult, Cryptids, Comics, and Queer Theory. Ex College Instructor.
Also, buy my stickers so that I can keep making stickers! https://www.etsy.com/shop/TransArcana
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Recovering from a flu, so not up to drawing a cryptid piece today. Instead enjoy this opossum who’s taking no shit.
#trans
#trans
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Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
“I miss seeing me the way another artist could see me. I was so beautiful through their eyes. When I draw me, all I can see are my flaws. It’s hard to see my own beauty, but I am going to try.”
I do love the way @chlowski.bsky.social draws women with curves and curls, and I got inspired.
I do love the way @chlowski.bsky.social draws women with curves and curls, and I got inspired.
December 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
“I miss seeing me the way another artist could see me. I was so beautiful through their eyes. When I draw me, all I can see are my flaws. It’s hard to see my own beauty, but I am going to try.”
I do love the way @chlowski.bsky.social draws women with curves and curls, and I got inspired.
I do love the way @chlowski.bsky.social draws women with curves and curls, and I got inspired.
So I finished reading Make Room for Love last week, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it.
It was the first romance novel that I read in its entirety, and it's also the first time I've been so overwhelmed by a book that I wrote fanmail to the author.
#romance
#sapphic
#trans
It was the first romance novel that I read in its entirety, and it's also the first time I've been so overwhelmed by a book that I wrote fanmail to the author.
#romance
#sapphic
#trans
December 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Good” reason to lose weight: to improve overall health
“Bad” reason to lose weight: to fit society’s expectations of my body
*My* reason to lose weight: so that a buff lady could pick me up princess-style.
“Bad” reason to lose weight: to fit society’s expectations of my body
*My* reason to lose weight: so that a buff lady could pick me up princess-style.
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Good” reason to lose weight: to improve overall health
“Bad” reason to lose weight: to fit society’s expectations of my body
*My* reason to lose weight: so that a buff lady could pick me up princess-style.
“Bad” reason to lose weight: to fit society’s expectations of my body
*My* reason to lose weight: so that a buff lady could pick me up princess-style.
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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This 1998 Tove Jansson piece about the kind of mail she gets is uncomfortably familiar.
(From The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, NYR Books)
(From The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, NYR Books)
December 2, 2025 at 4:08 AM
This 1998 Tove Jansson piece about the kind of mail she gets is uncomfortably familiar.
(From The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, NYR Books)
(From The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, NYR Books)
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
So, for real. Before I transitioned, I was very much on the verge of going weird, angry incel. I was desperate for intimacy in a way that my guy-pilled brain could only understand as sex. And as a result, rejected emotional closeness, creating a feedback loop of isolation.
Transitioning saved me.
Transitioning saved me.
I have a suggestion
male loneliness death spiral
December 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
So, for real. Before I transitioned, I was very much on the verge of going weird, angry incel. I was desperate for intimacy in a way that my guy-pilled brain could only understand as sex. And as a result, rejected emotional closeness, creating a feedback loop of isolation.
Transitioning saved me.
Transitioning saved me.
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when a trans person exists in a video game
November 17, 2024 at 8:20 AM
when a trans person exists in a video game
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ok this joke might be a little too specific
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ok this joke might be a little too specific
I decided to re-watch Adventure Time on a whim, and holy crap, "What Was Missing" just absolutely cold-clocked me.
Just ... A+ writing, wonderful songs, seeding Bubblegum/Marcline in a way that feels genuine, and so SO much heart.
I didn't expect to cry on this rewatch, but here I am.
Just ... A+ writing, wonderful songs, seeding Bubblegum/Marcline in a way that feels genuine, and so SO much heart.
I didn't expect to cry on this rewatch, but here I am.
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I decided to re-watch Adventure Time on a whim, and holy crap, "What Was Missing" just absolutely cold-clocked me.
Just ... A+ writing, wonderful songs, seeding Bubblegum/Marcline in a way that feels genuine, and so SO much heart.
I didn't expect to cry on this rewatch, but here I am.
Just ... A+ writing, wonderful songs, seeding Bubblegum/Marcline in a way that feels genuine, and so SO much heart.
I didn't expect to cry on this rewatch, but here I am.
They were supposed to be pumpkin-custard tarts, but somehow ended up as just … basic pumpkin pie?
I’m simultaneously disappointed and impressed with myself.
I’m simultaneously disappointed and impressed with myself.
November 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
They were supposed to be pumpkin-custard tarts, but somehow ended up as just … basic pumpkin pie?
I’m simultaneously disappointed and impressed with myself.
I’m simultaneously disappointed and impressed with myself.
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"Why did you not just make me be born as a girl in the first place?"
"Why does a child with a windup car not place it at the finish line? Defeats the purpose of the game, doesn't it?"
"Why does a child with a windup car not place it at the finish line? Defeats the purpose of the game, doesn't it?"
November 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"Why did you not just make me be born as a girl in the first place?"
"Why does a child with a windup car not place it at the finish line? Defeats the purpose of the game, doesn't it?"
"Why does a child with a windup car not place it at the finish line? Defeats the purpose of the game, doesn't it?"
I maintain that if Blue Oyster Cult's "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" isn't *directly* the inspiration for D&D's githyanki/githzerai, it at LEAST shares some DNA in root origins through Hawkwind, Michael Moorcock, and/or The Doors.
What's your crackpot D&D fan theory?
What's your crackpot D&D fan theory?
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I maintain that if Blue Oyster Cult's "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" isn't *directly* the inspiration for D&D's githyanki/githzerai, it at LEAST shares some DNA in root origins through Hawkwind, Michael Moorcock, and/or The Doors.
What's your crackpot D&D fan theory?
What's your crackpot D&D fan theory?
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idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting, Charlie Brown.
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Me, trying to explain to retreating acquaintances how there are numerous schools of thought on queer readings of cryptids, and why they ...
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Me, trying to explain to retreating acquaintances how there are numerous schools of thought on queer readings of cryptids, and why they ...
If you’re near #HammerheadGames today, make a donation to the food closet and help yourself to some stickers! Just added: Tarot-treatment Bumbleflower, Fairy Cats, and Trans Pride Possums!
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
If you’re near #HammerheadGames today, make a donation to the food closet and help yourself to some stickers! Just added: Tarot-treatment Bumbleflower, Fairy Cats, and Trans Pride Possums!
So what are you doing tonight? Oh, you know. Just poring over international phonetic alphabets so I can translate a fictional character's name into another fictional language because I want to get said name as a tattoo.
You know, healthy bedtime routines.
#mtg
#Phyrexia
#Xantcha
You know, healthy bedtime routines.
#mtg
#Phyrexia
#Xantcha
November 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Calling all Basic Witches! My shop now has a trio of sparkly suncatcher stickers!
www.etsy.com/listing/4409...
www.etsy.com/listing/4409...
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Calling all Basic Witches! My shop now has a trio of sparkly suncatcher stickers!
www.etsy.com/listing/4409...
www.etsy.com/listing/4409...