Doc Impossible
@impossiblephd.bsky.social
Thing explainer and #TeamRhetoric technical writing scholar who loves explaining trans science! ⚢. Opinions mine.
Don't crack eggs. Build nests.
Kindness is a hard choice worth making.
I write Stained Glass Woman!
Stainedglasswoman.substack.com
Don't crack eggs. Build nests.
Kindness is a hard choice worth making.
I write Stained Glass Woman!
Stainedglasswoman.substack.com
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Hi! I'm a technical writing professor with specializations in biomedical communication, page design, and trans stuff, and I do Thing Explainers on all that.
This is a thread of some of my bigger pieces, for anyone stumbling across my profile for the first time!
stainedglasswoman.substack.com
This is a thread of some of my bigger pieces, for anyone stumbling across my profile for the first time!
stainedglasswoman.substack.com
Okay, go for it.
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Okay, go for it.
Ahh, those nights where you can't sleep because you're too pissed off.
Super.
Super.
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Ahh, those nights where you can't sleep because you're too pissed off.
Super.
Super.
Controlled Opposition (noun phrase):
An individual/group which poses as the political opposition to a dominant political group, but which is quietly controlled by that group. By acting as purely symbolic opposition to the dominant group, controlled opposition ensures the success of that group.
An individual/group which poses as the political opposition to a dominant political group, but which is quietly controlled by that group. By acting as purely symbolic opposition to the dominant group, controlled opposition ensures the success of that group.
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Controlled Opposition (noun phrase):
An individual/group which poses as the political opposition to a dominant political group, but which is quietly controlled by that group. By acting as purely symbolic opposition to the dominant group, controlled opposition ensures the success of that group.
An individual/group which poses as the political opposition to a dominant political group, but which is quietly controlled by that group. By acting as purely symbolic opposition to the dominant group, controlled opposition ensures the success of that group.
Good god, I'd forgotten his much I *loathe* Happosai.
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Good god, I'd forgotten his much I *loathe* Happosai.
I never never get tired of Ea-Nasir jokes, and given how much of a troll the man seemed to be in real life, I think he'd absolutely *love* that this is a significant part of his enduring legacy.
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I never never get tired of Ea-Nasir jokes, and given how much of a troll the man seemed to be in real life, I think he'd absolutely *love* that this is a significant part of his enduring legacy.
IT SNOWED LAST NIGHT
kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain on a stage .
ALT: kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain on a stage .
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November 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
IT SNOWED LAST NIGHT
Okay, here's a weird one:
I have *vivid* dreams. But once in a while I'll have a dream that's a direct sequel to a dream I had a long time ago. Like, think highly narrative, directly connected, often with recurring characters. Totally fictional, top to bottom.
Does that happen to anyone else?
I have *vivid* dreams. But once in a while I'll have a dream that's a direct sequel to a dream I had a long time ago. Like, think highly narrative, directly connected, often with recurring characters. Totally fictional, top to bottom.
Does that happen to anyone else?
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Okay, here's a weird one:
I have *vivid* dreams. But once in a while I'll have a dream that's a direct sequel to a dream I had a long time ago. Like, think highly narrative, directly connected, often with recurring characters. Totally fictional, top to bottom.
Does that happen to anyone else?
I have *vivid* dreams. But once in a while I'll have a dream that's a direct sequel to a dream I had a long time ago. Like, think highly narrative, directly connected, often with recurring characters. Totally fictional, top to bottom.
Does that happen to anyone else?
Lol. Lmao, even.
As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Lol. Lmao, even.
Gender is a performance and--
🎶Get outta heeeeere
Get me some money tooooo.
Why don't you do riiiiiiiight
Like some other men dooooo~🎶
🎶Get outta heeeeere
Get me some money tooooo.
Why don't you do riiiiiiiight
Like some other men dooooo~🎶
Gender is a performance and I'm the nochijite in the Noh play "Izutsu"
Gender is a performance and I'm that one scene in THE NICE GUYS where Ryan Gosling is in the toilet stall and fumbles with a lit cigarette
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Gender is a performance and--
🎶Get outta heeeeere
Get me some money tooooo.
Why don't you do riiiiiiiight
Like some other men dooooo~🎶
🎶Get outta heeeeere
Get me some money tooooo.
Why don't you do riiiiiiiight
Like some other men dooooo~🎶
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Me, holding my first HRT dose:
I have GOT to get hotter + crazier
November 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Me, holding my first HRT dose:
Favorite superhero that isn't DC or Marvel.
Dreadnought is just... So good.
Dreadnought is just... So good.
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Favorite superhero that isn't DC or Marvel.
Dreadnought is just... So good.
Dreadnought is just... So good.
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Every single trans writer or artist can see themselves in the story of Isabel Fall. Especially if your writing is subversive or transgressive in either way.
I can't stand the way she was treated, and I can't stand how many otherwise good people were easily tricked into attacking her.
I can't stand the way she was treated, and I can't stand how many otherwise good people were easily tricked into attacking her.
Sitting here thinking about Isabel Fall, author of "Helicopter Story." I truly, genuinely hope she was eventually able to find SOME way to be a version of her genuine trans self. Maybe she's living offline or calling herself a different name... IDK. We failed her and I'm still angry about it.
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Every single trans writer or artist can see themselves in the story of Isabel Fall. Especially if your writing is subversive or transgressive in either way.
I can't stand the way she was treated, and I can't stand how many otherwise good people were easily tricked into attacking her.
I can't stand the way she was treated, and I can't stand how many otherwise good people were easily tricked into attacking her.
I just starred The Outer Worlds 2. I'm a Dumb, Lucky, Suave Roustabout, meaning that I have no idea how I got my job.
She has no idea what she's doing, can't stealth, won't fight in melle because she might break a nail, and has no clue what these complex gizmos do.
I made a bimbo.
10/10 goty. 🤣
She has no idea what she's doing, can't stealth, won't fight in melle because she might break a nail, and has no clue what these complex gizmos do.
I made a bimbo.
10/10 goty. 🤣
November 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I just starred The Outer Worlds 2. I'm a Dumb, Lucky, Suave Roustabout, meaning that I have no idea how I got my job.
She has no idea what she's doing, can't stealth, won't fight in melle because she might break a nail, and has no clue what these complex gizmos do.
I made a bimbo.
10/10 goty. 🤣
She has no idea what she's doing, can't stealth, won't fight in melle because she might break a nail, and has no clue what these complex gizmos do.
I made a bimbo.
10/10 goty. 🤣
Oh shit, my talk got scheduled for the best slot in the entire conference. First day, right after lunch.
That's... really cool.
That's... really cool.
November 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Oh shit, my talk got scheduled for the best slot in the entire conference. First day, right after lunch.
That's... really cool.
That's... really cool.
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I'm the only 'me' that ever was
I see my pre-transition self as something not unlike myself as a child - a phase in life I've outgrown, a series of habits I've unlearned, a few mistakes I've learned from
I'm still me. I was always me. I'm just wiser now, and happier
I see my pre-transition self as something not unlike myself as a child - a phase in life I've outgrown, a series of habits I've unlearned, a few mistakes I've learned from
I'm still me. I was always me. I'm just wiser now, and happier
How do you explain what happened to your past self once you transitioned?
Are they dead? Alive within you? Never alive in the first place? Or something else entirely?
Are they dead? Alive within you? Never alive in the first place? Or something else entirely?
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I'm the only 'me' that ever was
I see my pre-transition self as something not unlike myself as a child - a phase in life I've outgrown, a series of habits I've unlearned, a few mistakes I've learned from
I'm still me. I was always me. I'm just wiser now, and happier
I see my pre-transition self as something not unlike myself as a child - a phase in life I've outgrown, a series of habits I've unlearned, a few mistakes I've learned from
I'm still me. I was always me. I'm just wiser now, and happier
At the beginning of my transition, I stumbled across @valeriehalla.dicot.moe's Goodbye to Halos. It was a lifeline to me, offering me a vision of a life after transition, a world of simple acceptance.
There's something profoundly special about the bits of media that help us see ourselves early on.
There's something profoundly special about the bits of media that help us see ourselves early on.
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
At the beginning of my transition, I stumbled across @valeriehalla.dicot.moe's Goodbye to Halos. It was a lifeline to me, offering me a vision of a life after transition, a world of simple acceptance.
There's something profoundly special about the bits of media that help us see ourselves early on.
There's something profoundly special about the bits of media that help us see ourselves early on.
I've been watching Season 2 of Hazbin Hotel and like...
Ugh, I feel bad even suggesting this but...
But it feels like a real step down, for the most part, from season 1, so far. I've been trying to not be a little disappointed.
Is this a just me thing?
Ugh, I feel bad even suggesting this but...
But it feels like a real step down, for the most part, from season 1, so far. I've been trying to not be a little disappointed.
Is this a just me thing?
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I've been watching Season 2 of Hazbin Hotel and like...
Ugh, I feel bad even suggesting this but...
But it feels like a real step down, for the most part, from season 1, so far. I've been trying to not be a little disappointed.
Is this a just me thing?
Ugh, I feel bad even suggesting this but...
But it feels like a real step down, for the most part, from season 1, so far. I've been trying to not be a little disappointed.
Is this a just me thing?
This. So much this.
I have a lot of fondness for my past self, who made a lot of mistakes and was pretty consistently miserable and not that fun to be around, but who really tried to be good while playing life on hardcore mode.
My past self exists in the past with me as a dream within her. My current self exists in the present, with her as a memory within me.
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This. So much this.
I finally finished the revised ending of Hades 2 and I agree--this was *much* more well-done than the original.
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I finally finished the revised ending of Hades 2 and I agree--this was *much* more well-done than the original.
*Sigh*
Too many of the people I love are too overwhelmed and overworked by a country and a time that cares too much for profits and cruelty and too little for people and kindness.
I wish I could make anything better for them. 😢
Too many of the people I love are too overwhelmed and overworked by a country and a time that cares too much for profits and cruelty and too little for people and kindness.
I wish I could make anything better for them. 😢
November 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
*Sigh*
Too many of the people I love are too overwhelmed and overworked by a country and a time that cares too much for profits and cruelty and too little for people and kindness.
I wish I could make anything better for them. 😢
Too many of the people I love are too overwhelmed and overworked by a country and a time that cares too much for profits and cruelty and too little for people and kindness.
I wish I could make anything better for them. 😢
So I've run into a weird little problem: my optometrist is REALLY good at his job. As a result, my corrected vision is somewhere between 20/10 and 20/15. I generally appreciate the hell out of this, as a design specialist.
BUT
I can also see every damn pore on my face, and it makes me feel old. 🤣
BUT
I can also see every damn pore on my face, and it makes me feel old. 🤣
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
So I've run into a weird little problem: my optometrist is REALLY good at his job. As a result, my corrected vision is somewhere between 20/10 and 20/15. I generally appreciate the hell out of this, as a design specialist.
BUT
I can also see every damn pore on my face, and it makes me feel old. 🤣
BUT
I can also see every damn pore on my face, and it makes me feel old. 🤣
I am me, in an unbroken lone from who I was, to who I am, to who I will someday be. There has been dramaticchange, *but change is fundamental to all life*.
I understand, for sure, the urge to distance yourself from Who You Were. Those times were hard and sad.
But I wouldn't be me without them.
I understand, for sure, the urge to distance yourself from Who You Were. Those times were hard and sad.
But I wouldn't be me without them.
How do you explain what happened to your past self once you transitioned?
Are they dead? Alive within you? Never alive in the first place? Or something else entirely?
Are they dead? Alive within you? Never alive in the first place? Or something else entirely?
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I am me, in an unbroken lone from who I was, to who I am, to who I will someday be. There has been dramaticchange, *but change is fundamental to all life*.
I understand, for sure, the urge to distance yourself from Who You Were. Those times were hard and sad.
But I wouldn't be me without them.
I understand, for sure, the urge to distance yourself from Who You Were. Those times were hard and sad.
But I wouldn't be me without them.
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To all the new dolls and questioning eggs who follow me: this is one of the truest statements I've ever read.
I've become much more aware of my past dysphoria once I accepted that it was worth trying a new gender. Having the freedom to try to be happier gave me space to recontextualize everything.
I've become much more aware of my past dysphoria once I accepted that it was worth trying a new gender. Having the freedom to try to be happier gave me space to recontextualize everything.
the reason you don't need dysphoria to be trans is because dysphoria can be impossible to realize without first accepting your own transness
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
To all the new dolls and questioning eggs who follow me: this is one of the truest statements I've ever read.
I've become much more aware of my past dysphoria once I accepted that it was worth trying a new gender. Having the freedom to try to be happier gave me space to recontextualize everything.
I've become much more aware of my past dysphoria once I accepted that it was worth trying a new gender. Having the freedom to try to be happier gave me space to recontextualize everything.
If you see this, post an anime you love.
It's called Bofuri, and it's so much more ridiculous than this gif makes it seem.
It's called Bofuri, and it's so much more ridiculous than this gif makes it seem.
November 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
If you see this, post an anime you love.
It's called Bofuri, and it's so much more ridiculous than this gif makes it seem.
It's called Bofuri, and it's so much more ridiculous than this gif makes it seem.
This. Good god, this. And it's not just welfare either, though that's what this particular paper studied--it's *all* public programs.
American racism is why we can't have the things that'd make our nation work. It's why we're dealing with the socio-political disaster we're currently dealing with.
American racism is why we can't have the things that'd make our nation work. It's why we're dealing with the socio-political disaster we're currently dealing with.
"Why don't people support welfare programs?"
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
November 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This. Good god, this. And it's not just welfare either, though that's what this particular paper studied--it's *all* public programs.
American racism is why we can't have the things that'd make our nation work. It's why we're dealing with the socio-political disaster we're currently dealing with.
American racism is why we can't have the things that'd make our nation work. It's why we're dealing with the socio-political disaster we're currently dealing with.