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Ellie
@catnipod.bsky.social
Aftermarket girl. Better at this than I ever expected to be. Mostly sunny, chance of showers. 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her
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If you want to be a girl, you can just be a girl.
Rereading Dorley, and randomly wondering what’d happen if one of the boys was on an SSRI or something because surely they wouldn’t have him go cold turkey on it.

Then I realized that the boys who end up basemented are absolutely not receiving any kind of mental health care. It’s why they’re there.
January 21, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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*Getting shoved into a train to the camps*

Liberal getting shoved in with me: “Remember, don’t do violence against the people shoving us onto the train. That’s what Trump wants. Don’t take the bait and let him declare martial law!”
January 20, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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Soon:

*The military drops a bomb on a protest, killing 2,000*

"I know you're upset! But DON'T TAKE THE BAIT! He wants you to give him an excuse! Shut up and BE POLITE!"
January 10, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Shot Day on December 25th? Call that a Merr-E Christmas. 😄
December 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Went back and re-read the last chapter of @badambulist.bsky.social’s All The Way before starting the first chapter of the third WYFFH book, and the scene with Taylor & Coach Dale is still absolutely amazing.
December 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I've mostly defeated dysphoria at this point in my transition because I know that all the forms of it I get now are just the same ones that cis women get.

Like oh, my brain is making me hate some random facial feature of mine today because of societal beauty standards? Me and literally every woman.
[pointing to a jawline I’ve seen on a thousand cis women] im doomed forever
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Between Secrets of Dorley and When You Fell From Heaven, I feel like @badambulist.bsky.social has captured a dynamic that kept me alive from age 3 to 22 as a trans egg... randomly getting adopted by cis women who befriend and treat you as one of the girls.

I'm glad this is a trope and not just me.
November 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Never Newsom
When asked in an interview whether it would be fair to say he would give a campaign serious thought after the November 2026 vote, the term-limited governor said, "I'd be lying otherwise."

More: abc7.com/post/democra...
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is this:

Even if I don't talk about it very much, discovering that I'm a lesbian is one of the best things that ever happened to me. I love it more than words can say.

Even if I feel self-conscious about claiming that space for myself.
October 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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The transition didn't make my life easier but it did my life worth fighting for
September 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Just got to help a trans girl change her display name for her email & Teams. 💖
September 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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"i'm afraid to start HRT because it might be taken away"

they've already taken it away from you by making you afraid they will

make the appointment
July 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM
TERFs: “Trans women are performing a stereotype of femininity, and aren’t actually women!”

My cis daughter: *Puts on a dress, immediately does ‘dress goes spinny’ without prompting*
July 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I *know* it’s such a Basic Bitch answer, but mine is the Timberwolf/Mad Cat. My entry point was Mechwarrior 2 for PC, and that cover art just Did Something to 12 year-old Ellie.
I feel obligated to say urbanmech but my heart says the ASN-21 Assassin mech rn tbqh
what is your favorite battlemech
July 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
If you’d told me five years ago that I’d be in my bathroom with a q-tip and a botttle of rubbing alcohol, trying to get nail polish out of my favorite skirt, I would not have believed you.
July 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Sometimes the men in my life remind me that I really never was a boy, and it's both gratifying and a little frustrating.
July 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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July 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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"ugh trans women get all the attention"

the attention trans women get:
October 9, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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Certain Leftists, to me, seem like Republicans in that they really WANT the fascist boot to come down, as long as it comes down on the Liberals first.

And I gotta say, fuck you if you're like this.
June 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
So is ‘the largest personal revelations since my egg cracked’ the usual outcome from reading Dorley for the first time or is that just me?
June 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I don’t know what’s more surprising to me: My sudden motivation to break out of the transition-related stagnation I’ve definitely been experiencing for a while, or the fact that this motivation has come from reading a book that’s a (surprisingly non-smutty!) deconstruction of the force-femme genre?
June 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“The final boss of transition is killing the gender cop in your head.”
June 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Finally reading Dorley, and there are parts of this that absolutely feel like they’re talking to me specifically.

Christine’s discomfort at not being as good at being a girl as she feels like she should be at this point is *immensely* relatable.
June 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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anyone saying that Bluesky is dying just wants everyone to go back to twitter where their follower number is big and makes them feel important
June 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM