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Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th
@challahchic.bsky.social
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Poet. Butch. Boy dyke. Librarian. Chronically stressed. On at least three tiers of gender at all times.
(they/them, ey/em, ze/hir, etc)

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happy honk
A blurry low light photo of a small channukiah. One candle and the shamash are lit
December 15, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Cover of "Infinite Audition", by Charlie Petch. The title and author are displayed in a marquee set against a red background covered with illustrations of various items (Mountain Dew can, swan, spoon, cigarette, Brittney Spears, etc) Cover of "A Black Queer History of the United States" by C. Riley Snorton and Darious Bost. The title is in black and yellow print type on red and black background The cover for "Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen & Girlbosses Against Liberation" by Sophie Lewis. Title and author are in architectural silver font on a plain red background The cover of "Strange Houses" by Uketsu, trans. by Jim Rion. The layout of a house plan in red white and black is in the middle of the page with the text "The chilling Japanese mystery sensation" next to it. Title and author are in simple black sans serif font, title at top, author at bottom.
December 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Swiped from @nightsire.bsky.social:
(SKZ, &TEAM, Kpop Demon Hunters, Jewish history/legends, Gundam Wing-- anything you know I dabble in is fair game)
SPOTIFY WRAPPED Writing Challenge! Reply with: • A character or pairing • A number between 1-100 And I will write a drabble based on the corresponding song from my Top 100 Most Played Spotify playlist!
December 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Good Bones BY MAGGIE SMITH Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.
December 7, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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It's been a whole day and I'm still not done crying over XG's Cocona coming out as nonbinary, and their group members doing the photoshoot and styling for their announcement 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
#XG #COCONA #JURIN #CHISA
An androgynous Japanese person with a shaved head, in a black suit jacket with no shirt on beneath. They hold a ruffle red flower on a long thick stalk. The peak of chest visible shows a small part of top surgery scar Same as previous, but the photo is pulled out further, and they are standing contrapposto. Their top surgery scars are a little more visible Same as previous, but pulled out further. Cocona holds their belt buckle and poses with swag, staring directly at the camera. Same as previous but Cocona is kneeling and framed as the reflection in a fancy gold mirror
December 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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This is a self-care checkpoint

Post your favorite selfie that makes you feel good about yourself.
Selfie angle photo of a light-skinned person with round glasses, wearing a binder and black tanktop. They are wearing a red and black bandanna over short hair.
December 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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It's confirmed in episode eight that the one with short hair is a woman that everyone believes is a man for reasons . she gets shots like this, so I'm being fed tho
Jeokyeon from the webtoon Mystic Prince writing a letter. Her red robes are sliding open to show the tops of her scarred pecs.
December 4, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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i had to check the wiki to figure out if this was going to be BL
screenshot from a webtoon. A split shot of two androgynous people in profile. The person on the left has short blue-black bangs, red eyes, and slightly glossy lips. The person on the right has long purple bangs, golden eyes and soft matte pink lips.
December 4, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Drop something BLACK & WHITE
Black white collage of members of stray kids with torn newspaper, eyes, and knives. In the middle is Bang Chan loosening his tie. Along the sides are Polaroid-styled images of (from top to bottom) Changbin, Han, and Lee Know
December 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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realizing i have opinions on xenofeminism:
XKCD "experts in anything" meme. Text in brackets are impact font text replacing the original. Stick Figure w a Ponytail: [FEMINISM] IS SECOND NATURE TO US [QUEER THEORISTS], SO IT'S EASY TO FORGET THAT THE AVERAGE PERSON PROBABLY ONLY KNOWS THE TENETS OF [LIBERAL FEMINISM] AND ONE OR TWO [INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS]. Bald Stick Figure: AND [RADICAL FEMINISM], OF COURSE. Stick Figure w a Ponytail: OF COURSE. Bottom Caption: EVEN WHEN THEY'RE TRYING TO COMPENSATE FOR IT, EXPERTS IN ANYTHING WILDLY OVERESTIMATE THE AVERAGE PERSON'S FAMILIARITY WITH THEIR FIELD.
November 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Here's the assignment for comparison, too
Lesson 3.3: Reaction Paper: Gender Typicality, Peer Relations, and Mental Health You must write a 650 words reaction paper demonstrating that you read the assigned article, and includes a thoughtful reaction to the material presented in the article. Possible approaches to reaction papers include: 1. A discussion of why you feel the topic is important and worthy of study (or not) 2. An application of the study or results to your own experiences 3. An application of the study or results to observations about other behaviors 4. Linking the objectives or findings from the assigned article to other domains of development or other findings that we read about or discuss in class 5. A suggestion for further studies or experiments that might help researchers better understand the topic being studied 6. Alternate interpretations of the researchers' findings 7. A discussion of how development in this domain might proceed differently at other developmental stages 8. Your own thoughts about how development proceeds in the domain being researched in the article There are other possibilities as well. The best reaction papers illustrate that students have read the assigned materials and engaged in critical thinking about some aspect of the article. GRADING: Reaction papers are graded on a 25-point scale, and are evaluated based on the following: 1. Does the paper show a clear tie-in to the assigned article? 2. Does the paper present a thoughtful reaction or response to the article, rather than a summary? 3. Is the paper clearly written? ARTICLE LINK: Gender Typicality, Peer Relations, and Mental Health Is there a clear link back to the assigned article? Can the reader assess whether the student has read the assigned article? Does the paper provide a reaction/reflection/discussion of some aspect of the article, rather than a summary? Are the main ideas and thoughts organized into a coherent discussion? Is the writing clear enough to follow without multiple re-readings?
November 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Here's what the actual assignment looked like
Lesson 3.3: Reaction Paper: Gender Typicality, Peer Relations, and Mental Health You must write a 650 words reaction paper demonstrating that you read the assigned article, and includes a thoughtful reaction to the material presented in the article. Possible approaches to reaction papers include: 1. A discussion of why you feel the topic is important and worthy of study (or not) 2. An application of the study or results to your own experiences 3. An application of the study or results to observations about other behaviors 4. Linking the objectives or findings from the assigned article to other domains of development or other findings that we read about or discuss in class 5. A suggestion for further studies or experiments that might help researchers better understand the topic being studied 6. Alternate interpretations of the researchers' findings 7. A discussion of how development in this domain might proceed differently at other developmental stages 8. Your own thoughts about how development proceeds in the domain being researched in the article There are other possibilities as well. The best reaction papers illustrate that students have read the assigned materials and engaged in critical thinking about some aspect of the article. GRADING: Reaction papers are graded on a 25-point scale, and are evaluated based on the following: 1. Does the paper show a clear tie-in to the assigned article? 2. Does the paper present a thoughtful reaction or response to the article, rather than a summary? 3. Is the paper clearly written? ARTICLE LINK: Gender Typicality, Peer Relations, and Mental Health Is there a clear link back to the assigned article? Can the reader assess whether the student has read the assigned article? Does the paper provide a reaction/reflection/discussion of some aspect of the article, rather than a summary? Are the main ideas and thoughts organized into a coherent discussion? Is the writing clear enough to follow without multiple re-readings?
November 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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"a rascal of trans guys" will be my collective noun from now on
the main source for terms of venery is the Book of St. Albans, which also includes some for people, such as: impatience of wives multiplying of husbands superfluity of nuns abominable sight of monks lying of pardoners misbelieving of painters drunkship of cobblers rascal of boys disworship of Scots
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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ahead of the curve on this round of linguistic wank
Clearsky screencap showing the "lists on" for the challahchic Bluesky account. They are on 80 lists, and the top one shows that on 9/28/2025 they were placed on "Americanophobia: Users that misname Americans ("USian, USAmerican") and/or spread bigotry & violent rhetoric against American people, whether by racial takes or nationality, or reposts those that do the above."
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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sorry my slang makes you cringe i don't care
a photo of a happy goat with the text "I am cringe/but I am free"
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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🤷🏽‍♂️
Sadly, a lot of the new lesbian porn (brave as it is) flunks what Dorothy Allison calls "the wet test." When you are writing for free, which most of the contributors to the lesbian-owned sex magazines are, it's difficult to take enough time to transform a rough draft into an effective piece of stimulation. But there's another problem that all the money in the world won't solve, and that's the fact that many les- bian pornographers just aren't brave enough. I suspect that many of us aren't writing about what really gets us wet. We're writing about what we think should get us wet. Or we're writing about what we did last weekend, which might have been very nice then, thank you, but doesn't stretch the imagination. Journal entries make lousy fiction. "Feminist erotica" that presents a simplistic view of lesbian sex as two women in love in a bed who embody all the good things the patriarchy is trying to destroy isn't very sexy. This stuff reads as if it were written by dutiful daughters who are trying to persuade Mom that lesbian sex isn't dirty, and we really are good girls, after all. "Lesbian culture contains few models for it. Many butches who lust after other butches have looked to gay male literature and behavior as sources of imagery and language. The erotic dynamics of butch-butch sex sometimes resemble those of gay men... Many butch-butch couples think of themselves as women doing male homosexual sex with one another." - Gayle Rubin, Of Catamites and Kings: Reflections on Butch, Gender, and Boundaries
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Maki, by the way? This is our maknae
Maki from &TEAM, with short silver hair, throwing up V signs with both hands and looking hot af Same man, but with longer pastel pink hair. He's made up so it looks like there's a scar on his upper lip, he's sliding a leather vest off one shoulder Same man, but from a selfie angle. his hair is platinum , and he's fully made up with soft pink lips and a smoky eye
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Nicholas is Taiwanese, EJ is Korean, and Maki is biracial Japanese-German, but all the rest of them are Japanese.
Nicholas from &TEAM looking swag in a bathroom selfie. He has blond hair, sunglasses perched in his head and is half-wearing a long sleeve shirt with a white tanktop that is riding up to show a sliver of belly EJ from &TEAM holding a makeup compact to his chin and making a thoughtful face. His hair is flopping fashionably in his face Maki from &TEAM in a still from a concert. He's wearing a mesh tanktop and jeans, and enthusiastically shooting a large pump action water gun
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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without downloading any new pics what is it like dating you
A simple black and white illustration of a smiling little person sitting on the ground, their hands clasped. They are in a black dress with a white bowtie, and their hair is in a vertical ponytail. The speech bubble reads "I'm Little My and I bite because I like it!"
November 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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it's two am who up
Taki from kpop group &Team with his hair down and floppy. He is wearing silver fashion glasses and posing with his tongue between his lips The same man as the previous photo. He sits his his legs spread, and the camera looks up from between them. He's made up to look like he's been fighting, with wraps on his arms, and bruises on his face. He looks up from under his bangs with a red lollipop dangling sexily from his lips.
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Everyone needs to look at my fave right now immediately
Cocona from girl group XG. An Asian woman with a shaved head onto which a pair of red lips have been stenciled. She is wearing small round sunglasses, an orange and black leather vest over white tanktop and black shirts. In other words: hot Bust shot of the same woman as previous. Her shoulders are bare, but she is gesturing with a pink sleeve-covered hand. Her face is decorated with tiny red gems like she’s a very decadent vampire splattered with aesthetic blood Same woman as previous images. She is standing contrapposto behind a desk, wearing a black suit and askew brown tie. A pageboy cap is tilted at a rakish angle.
November 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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here are my rent-lowering gunshots
A bingo board with a variety of hard kinks. Several have red hearts or checks over them. The bottom row is fully marked, with a check on "shibari", an ‼️ over "forced masculinization", and hearts over "chastity devices", "hypnosis", and "dehumanization" A different bingo board with a variety of hard kinks. Several have red hearts or checks over them, including "murder", "incest", and "fear play". "Underage" is marked with three hearts.
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Black semi-serif text on peach background: "he is not the love of your life! he is literally just a guy! hit him with your car!" There is a picture of an old model car at the bottom
November 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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been watching the beautifully trashy Order of the Sommelier drama, and Bai Qi has got some transmasc swag
Still from a live action drama. A Chinese man with short golden blonde hair is cleaning a glass behind a bar. He is wearing a white tanktop or binder under a transparent floral button up. Closed caption reads "too much load/东西装得太多"
November 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Screencap from a digitized newspaper: "Women are almost entirely re- sponsible for the success of the immoral sex novel," declared Harry Means Crooks, president of Alma college, speaking before a meet- Ing of the Highland Park Women's club Tuesday afternoon.
November 16, 2025 at 6:11 AM