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Wendy Alexander

@wxander.bsky.social

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(she/her)/ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Advocate Multi award-winning Web designer-turned-Manager + UX UI ADA “And you know I deliberate on cutting out the demons – I still need a dark side, they just need a reason" 🦋💙🎨🎬🎸🩰 #Resist

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Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · Jul 22

I wrote an essay regarding my thoughts about seeing #SleepToken this fall, alone.

Check it out: wxanderdesign.com/thoughts-abo...

Thoughts About Sleep Token Live - wxanderdesign | portfolio and resumé

So, I’m seeing Sleep Token live for the first time this October Before I begin, I need to preface this by saying that I have, over the course of my adult life, I have been to far more live shows alo...

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Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 1d

Because it’s easier here than outside where the world is cold
And unforgiving
And only seems to want the thing that I never was to begin with
(3/3)

Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 1d

While the fall grows colder into winter
And you want an eternal springtime
That I can’t ever be again
And no amount of wishing will make it so
So I retreat into the space I’ve built to protect myself
(2/3)

Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 1d

I missed my window long ago
You know the one
The one where viability and vulnerability converge
And I still had a kind of magic
But now?
Now I’m too jaded, too broken, to find all of the pieces
To the puzzle that made me easier to love
And so now the window is closed, locked up tight
(1/3)

Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 5d

"...And my reflection just won't smile back at me like I know it should
And I would turn into a stranger in an instant if I could
And there is something eating me alive, I don't know what it is
Maybe not that you conceal your feelings, they just don't exist..."

Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 8d

The one thing that’s always been there for me
That will never abandon me
Music is my boyfriend, lover, partner, companion, and consort
Poetry and desire set to music
My only hope for salvation
(2/2)

Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 8d

My love is reserved
Not for you
Not for the ones who let me down, abandoned me, taunted, and teased
Not for the ones who rejected me, said I don’t like you like that
The ones who promised but never delivered
No
My love is reserved for music
The one thing that has never let me down
(1/2)

Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 8d

Yes. She’s in Minneapolis…waiting.

Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 8d

I lay coiled in the howling silence
Wrapped in
Trying to hold the pieces of myself together
But I don’t know how anymore
How to keep from spilling out and over into the depths of the night
How to fight the silence and not lose myself in the process
And whatever feeling I’ve got left.
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Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 8d

Loneliness screams in silence to those who can hear it
When I’m alone, the quiet feels like a death sentence
Like there’s nothing left
Nobody to save me
Nobody who cares enough to
Offer a hand to grip on to
Tell me “it’s all going to be okay, baby”
Or even just a rope to tangle myself in
But no
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Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 9d

“…You might be the one to take away the pain and let my mind go quiet
And nothing else is quite the same as how I feel when I'm at your side

Come on, come on
Out from underneath who you were
Come on, come on now
You know that it's time to emerge…”

Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 10d

Right here, baby. 😈🤭

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

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Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 11d

Gross. And this is why I won’t watch CNN.

Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 11d

What. And I repeat, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?! This entire administration needs to be held accountable for the atrocities committed against the American people.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 11d

JFC.

Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 12d

🤭🔥

Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 13d

Everybody’s got a fucking opinion, yet wait to say anything until it’s too late. Or, conversely, when you’re doing my job then you can make all the aesthetic decisions.

Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 13d

🤭🔥🥵🫠🥀🪦👼

Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 15d

Feeling neglected by you. And so now the doubts start. What did I do to cause this?

Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 17d

“I woke up surrounded, eyes like frozen planets
Just orbiting the vacuum I am
They talk me through the damage, consequence
And how it's a pain, they know, they don't understand”

youtu.be/gN9A19pu8Wk?...

Sleep Token - Atlantic (Visualiser)

YouTube video by Sleep Token

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Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 21d

Sweet baby Jesus…are you *TRYING* to kill me right now?!

a woman in a floral dress is standing in a room and smiling .

ALT: a woman in a floral dress is standing in a room and smiling .

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Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 26d

this song still slaps. so. fucking. good.

youtu.be/WflkuBweSYo?...

Kenny Loggins & Michael McDonald-This is it.

YouTube video by Mjmusicwifey09

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 26d

But I know that’s just a dream. That it’s not reality. That beauty doesn’t choose ugly. That’s not how the world works. And so I know, in the end, that if I do find someone, it will be settling to stave off the loneliness that sits like a constant ache in my brittle and broken heart.
(3/3)

Wendy Alexander @wxander.bsky.social · 26d

Just once, I want to be chosen by someone beautiful. To be told that I’m worth the time – worth being loved, no matter that I don’t have superficial beauty. That I’m not the physical embodiment of perfection.

To be worthy, in spite of it all.
(2/3)

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