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@astrokittycat.bsky.social

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I study galaxy morphology and quiescence. Fan of philosophy, extragalactic astrophysics, feminism, horror, fantasy, video games, TTRPGs, Magic: the Gathering, and cheese 🧀. 🧡🤍🩷 MTG Arena: AstroCat#57934 (Pioneer, Historic, Historic Brawl only)

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · May 21

New pin post:

DMs are fine if they’re Platonic and not to solicit art commissions or anything else. I’m a lesbian and have a life partner, so please respect that.

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 1h

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 1h

ALttP

𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 2h

Now I have an Agahnim tattoo 😅

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 2h

I think I used to think they *were* pigtails. This kind of reminds me of sprite confusion I had with Agahnim (and apparently wasn’t alone). Always thought bro looked dopey

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 4h

Next time I’m giving a presentation I’m going to include this slide and say “So here’s the thing:” and then move on to what I was saying as if nothing ever happened

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 6h

I will never trust anyone but independent journalists again after ALL of their pants came down. I used to trust “mainstream media” on a basic, reasonable level—knew they had corporate interests, sure. But now I don’t trust them at all. They’ve proven they can’t be.

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 14h

Good morning.

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 16h

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 17h

using that when I butt in on many conversations between men about women to just remind them: yo women aren’t some alien species. We’re just people. But the thing that throws me for a loop is having to remind myself of the opposite when I find men strange!

𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 17h

them as just another person and not fundamentally different, the easier it becomes to understand *why* there are some differences. That sounds really banal/mundane I guess? I’m just appreciating, sometimes, how people with different lived experiences are still just people, period. And I find myself

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 17h

issues and cultured history. And I know this sounds like “well duh, is this new to you?” Well, no, but I still think about it a lot. A lot of problems come from “othering” people, and the more we look at someone different for whatever reason—say, gender/sex like this is about—and the more we see

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 17h

you stop thinking of another gender as an “other” and more just “other circumstances,” it’s easier to just see the person beneath, and I personally get this feeling of oneness, of unity, where I can briefly plant myself in someone’s shoes and see that they’re mostly just like me, just with different

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 17h

overly emotional and irrational, often infantilized (and sometimes this is either internalized, embraced, or used ironically, to make things more complex). Women see men as hedonistic, low emotional intelligence, brash, etc. Again these are purposefully vague stereotypes. But my point is that when

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 18h

Drunk ramble incoming. I was thinking about how gendered people see other gendered people and how it’s really easy to “other” one another. Woof, this thought’s really hard to explain. But consider in general (GENERALLY, ya filthy animals, not saying you all do this). Women are seen as dainty, as

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 18h

Me, wiggling at my gf: “I’m wiggling at you. I’ve been practicing wiggles for some time”

Her: “That reminds me, we need to talk about (person we know)”

Me: “what, wiggles?!”

(It was not the wiggles)

(But should have been)

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 21h

👀

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 1d

Basically she thinks that things are too far gone for small performative acts like a single person not eating meat to make a difference, plus some plants eat meat, plus uh…. She might eat somebody

𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 1d

She discusses this in this very graphic novel

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 1d

When I go I’m making everyone read comic sans. One last act of chaos

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 1d

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 1d

Started this due to ordering the costume, and holy shit, Ivy doesn’t fuck around.

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great list

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 1d

I just practically one shotted the first Lucavi with my black mage lol

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𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 1d

October Movies recap
1. Splinter (2008)
2. From Beyond (1986)
3. In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
4. Sea Fever (2019)
5. We Are Still Here (2015)
6. The Void (2016)
7. It Follows (2014)
8. Dagon (2001)
9. Relic (2020)
10. Absentia (2011)

𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 ∘₊✧˚ 🦇👻🎃 @astrokittycat.bsky.social · 1d

Spooky movie rec day 10

I actually just now learned this was Mike Flanagan looking up the cover art, lol. Anyway, Absentia (2011), much like yesterday’s Relic, is a film that wears other themes on its sleeve (loss, in this case) while the horror simmers to a boil in the background. Creature feature

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