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Kari, Estradiol Ascendant 🏳️‍⚧️

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🏳️‍⚧️Trans Lady into the Occult, Cryptids, Comics, and telling you all about them: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/transarcana/id1634726839 Also, buy my stickers! https://ko-fi.com/s/48ec6ce39f

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Kari, Estradiol Ascendant 🏳️‍⚧️ @transarcana.bsky.social · Mar 6

Recovering from a flu, so not up to drawing a cryptid piece today. Instead enjoy this opossum who’s taking no shit.

#trans

Ink drawing of an opossum with a spiked bat in trans flag colors in its tail

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Kari, Estradiol Ascendant 🏳️‍⚧️ @transarcana.bsky.social · 12h

From your professional opinion as an actor, how would you rate his fake British accent?

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heathcliff, but frog @hopcliff.heathcliff.cat · 15h

me and the crew, on a quest to find the legendary mitten we can all take a nap in

Painting by Larry McDougal dated 2018. A band of anthropomorphic woodland creatures wearing cloaks and pouches and swords and stuff traverses a snowy landscape. There is a brown rabbit and two raccoons on for and a badger following riding a black pony.

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Kari, Estradiol Ascendant 🏳️‍⚧️ @transarcana.bsky.social · 1d

Soda in the bookdrop

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Florence @justflorence.bsky.social · 3d

Tokyo Godfathers

I'm glad people have largely rejected the idea that Hana is bad trans rep. If being clocky and flamboyant is all it takes for a character to be bad trans rep in someone's eyes, then I'd be afraid to know what they think of the trans people that describes

A scene from Tokyo Godfathers: A homeless man, woman, and child look over a crying baby.

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Kari, Estradiol Ascendant 🏳️‍⚧️ @transarcana.bsky.social · 1d

Don't forget this lovely piece for the Eventide bundle by Christopher Moeller

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 2d

Happy #Caturday!

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Digital drawing of a white cat sitting in a garden. There are layers of flowers echoing the blue, pink, and white colors of the trans flag. Blue hydrangea at top, pink roses, white snowdrops, pink daisies, and finally, small blue flowers among the grass at bottom.

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Kari, Estradiol Ascendant 🏳️‍⚧️ @transarcana.bsky.social · 2d

Holy shit, just watched Kiss of the Spider Woman (2024) and not only was it amazing, it is also everything that Suckerpunch WISHED it could be.

Or I guess "could have been" if Zack Snyder had the capacity to understand or use subtext like, at all.

Kari, Estradiol Ascendant 🏳️‍⚧️ @transarcana.bsky.social · 3d

patrick star and mr krabs from spongebob are standing next to each other

ALT: patrick star and mr krabs from spongebob are standing next to each other

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 3d

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
"When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in its citation.

58 year old Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who lives in hiding, won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting dictatorship in the country

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Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 3d

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 3d

If it’s worth banning, it’s worth owning.
#BannedBooksWeek

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Kari, Estradiol Ascendant 🏳️‍⚧️ @transarcana.bsky.social · 3d

Listen, I *know* that Judith Cutler was a famed crime fiction writer and her own person. This is an established fact.

But I'm just saying that if I was Judith Butler and needed a pseudonym for writing murder-mystery novels, well ...

Kari, Estradiol Ascendant 🏳️‍⚧️ @transarcana.bsky.social · 3d

In learning to use the Cricut machine, I have discovered that Cricut as a company sucks and specifically designs their software to discourage community use.

I am no longer excited about the Cricut machine.

Deeply Unsexy Scary Gorgon Costume @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 4d

Very good, very good.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Kari, Estradiol Ascendant 🏳️‍⚧️ @transarcana.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, are we gonna get this one on Youtube? I keep wanting to get a friend into BtB, and I think the additional elements of having Cody there to dogpile on Shapiro might do the trick.

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Kari, Estradiol Ascendant 🏳️‍⚧️ @transarcana.bsky.social · 3d

Screw you, Cricut. I’ll take the soreness from hand-cutting my own stickers rather than deal with your anti-community stance.

Clay bowl full of hand-cut Halloween stickers

Kari, Estradiol Ascendant 🏳️‍⚧️ @transarcana.bsky.social · 3d

Okay, so Cricut clearly does NOT want you to print your projects elsewhere and then go to a Cricut machine to print them out. Cricut software specifically stymies this.

Because that might mean people are *gasp* SHARING or communally using Cricuts rather than everyone buying a personal one.

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graskip @graskip.bsky.social · Apr 24

leaf

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Kari, Estradiol Ascendant 🏳️‍⚧️ @transarcana.bsky.social · 4d

I’m trying to learn how to use their cricut machine so that I can make some spooky stickers for the season.

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Vanessa Ramirez @vanessaramirez.bsky.social · 5d

Meet the Hairy Seahorse. This is one of ten new pieces for my solo show Uncharted Waters @strangerfactory it explores the furry monsters of the deep. Online sales are now open
www.circusposterus.com/product-cate...
#strangerfactory #vanessaramirez #sculpture #UnchartedWaters #originalart #seahorse

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Kari, Estradiol Ascendant 🏳️‍⚧️ @transarcana.bsky.social · 5d

Oh!!! And the Horror Noir documentary, if you haven’t already seen it—about the history of Black people in horror cinema.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 6d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 6d

California has now banned algorithmic price fixing.

The state has outlawed the practice of landlords colluding to raise prices using rental software and AI.

This is a huge victory for renters in the biggest state in the country.

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 6d

Judith Butler warns that society must resist right-wing transphobia, or else…

Judith Butler warns that society must resist right-wing transphobia, or else... - LGBTQ Nation

Transphobia is a form of fascism, the nonbinary queer theorist said in a recent talk.

www.lgbtqnation.com

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Owls in Towels @owlsintowels.org · 7d

6th of Owltober!

Olaf was missing some feathers that affected his ability to fly well enough to catch prey in the wild so became an ambassador at World Bird Sanctuary. Want to donate to WBS? worldbirdsanctuary.org/ways-to-give/ Source: fb.com/120623111273... #owlsintowels #owltober 💛🦉

Olaf the Northern Saw-Whet Owl is wrapped in baby blue cloth that's styled like a head scarf. According to the uploader Paige Bucalo this makes him look like a babushka. His golden-yellow eyes are piercing, pupils wide, and feathers fluffy. What a cutie.

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