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Shannon McKinnion

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Girl with a Rock Hammer. Geologist with a historical bent. Owned by a black cat. She/Her 🏳️‍⚧️ | 2nd Year Masters student in Geology | Looking for PhD schools. Queer girl who loves tea, SCA, cooking, history. costuming, and has WAY too many legos.

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Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 16h

Trying to make though my last quarter of graduate school, after the DoE yanked away my financial aid.

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · Jan 22

It is the stated policy of Magica Riot that Nazis deserve to be punched, so please enjoy one of my trans magical girls, Riot Blue (aka Nova) punching a sad, pathetic Nazi.

Thanks to @beedokfern.bsky.social for this delightful work!

Artwork by @beedokfern.bsky.social of Nova, the transgender magical girl known as Riot Blue, from the queer magical girl novel “Magica Riot,” holding down and punching a Nazi fash jackass on the streets of Portland.

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Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 18d

Finished Chapter 27 of WYFFH, and....I'm not okay. Flashback city.

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Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 18d

It does tend to autoinstall auntbea.exe into the trans girl brain.

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Garden of Even @gardenofeven.bsky.social · 19d

This feels real stupid to admit but like, reading Dorley is making me take better care of myself? Like inspite of late bight binge reading, it's giving me a more critical, but less judgemental eye for myself and I'm not having the easiest time digesting that

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Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 18d

I'm wondering how long before some idiot in the FBI starts claiming "Dorley Hall" is some "transifa" training manual or some such nonsense.

On the other paw, the mental image of a batch of FBI agents reading it and coming to uncomfortable realizations about themselves is kinda funny.

Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 18d

Chapter 27 of "When You Fell From Heaven" dropped.

I don't expect Tabi and I will be good for much when I get back from school and we start reading.

Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 19d

My new rapier doublet, cloak, and skirt. I wanted something I could fight in, remove the protective gear, and wear as regular garb as well.

Just a happy sapphic woman with a sword.

Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 19d

Just a few pictures of me rapier fighting Saturday. Something I'm want to do when I can.

The SCA, it's 12 or more hobbies in a trench coat.

Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 19d

*Smile*. As a sword-fighting trans woman, I tend to agree with you. A woman with a sword is simply <3

Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 19d

*Chuckle* The SCA does have youth combat as well. Just in case....

Why yes, yes I think you might be interested. :)

www.sca.org

Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 19d

Because this happy proud trans woman happens to LOVE playing with swords. :)

Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 19d

My Saturday spent rapier fighting in the SCA. In case you decide that you want to continue to have fun with swords.

And there are more than a few of us here. :)

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Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 21d

Very very very thick eggshell on that one, yes

Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 21d

Not stupid, just clue deficient to the point of being actively clue repellent

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Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 22d

It was a cute read, even if you wanted to bop Alex over the head with a clue-by-four.

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Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 22d

Being a trans woman in the US today means holding your wife of five years as she cries because she's afraid for your safety, that you may have to flee for your life, or that you may simply be disappeared.

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · Aug 9

MAGICA RIOT SAYS

Artwork of the queer magical girls of “Magica Riot” - Riot Red, Riot Purple, Riot Blue, Riot Yellow, and Riot Green - surrounded by a multicolored brush stroke border. At the top, text reads “Magica Riot Says…” and at the bottom, text reads “Billionaires are making your life harder…not trans people!"

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Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 22d

This is the Heritage Foundation. The Project 2025 people. The people who WROTE this administration's policies and have many of their people in high places.

Scared? You fucking SHOULD be.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22d

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them.

They want us all eradicated.

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Flyer from The Heritage Foundation Oversight Project titled “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism (TIVE): Background and FAQs on Need for an FBI Domestic Terrorism Designation.” The page defines “Transgender Ideology” and “TIVE,” outlining beliefs allegedly associated with them. It claims such ideology justifies violence against opponents or frames opposition as violence. The text references the alleged assassination of Charlie Kirk, urging the FBI to classify TIVE as domestic terrorism.

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Continuation of flyer with a section titled “Recent Instances of TIVE-Motivated Acts of Domestic Terrorism.” Lists multiple violent events from 2018 to 2025, attributing them to transgender ideology. Includes mugshots of two alleged attackers. Followed by a “Frequently Asked Questions and Key Terms” section, addressing whether transgender people are terrorists, comparing TIVE with “Nihilistic Violent Extremism,” and discussing FBI designations.

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Section titled “Terminology Used by TIVE.” Defines terms including cisgender, deadnaming, Gillick competence, misgendering, “Right to Exist,” “Trans genocide,” and a phrase “You either have a live boy or dead girl, you choose.” Each is presented as terminology used in or associated with TIVE. Page layout is text-heavy, no additional graphics.

Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 24d

It reads honestly like badly written fan fic.

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Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 25d

YAY! Looking forward to it!!

Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 25d

But accurate

Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 26d

Not surprised that disgusting little kapo is such a sociopath to even his fellow travelers.

Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 26d

Yep. Got mine on thursday!

Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 27d

Six pages + charts and graphs done on my thesis today, up to 28 pages. Preliminary results have been written up, it's only going to grow as I do the remaining work.

I had a sudden idea that worked on how to visualize effective cell ranges that worked as well.

Last steps.....