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Pigeon 🍁 @pigeonmother.bsky.social · 17h

Boyfriend left for work again i can't believe he's making a habit of this

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Pigeon 🍁 @pigeonmother.bsky.social · 17h

Going into the avatar state because the shop didn't have the sweet lil treat i wanted

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RGB @foureyes20.bsky.social · 15h

#kpopdemonhunters

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 1d

Today was pretty rough, but tonight was decent. I’m tired. Told Mom I need to slow down on both the physical and mental activity or I’m gonna burn out. This is the first time in months that I’ve left the house 3 days in a row without collapsing; I don’t wanna push it.

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 1d

“…ocean…where the fuck are we, what ocean?…oh, okay, lemon shark, that’s…warm places mostly…Gulf of Mexico, maybe—FUCK TRUMP IT’S NOT AMERICA’S GULF, OUR ONLY GULF IS THE GULF BETWEEN THE WORKING CLASS AND OUR OPPRESSORS—oh, hey, hi again, lemon shark buddy! …did you know they’re polyandrous?…CUTIE”

✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 1d

I also wanna make a drunk history type show but call it “inebriated experts” and you can consume whatever you want to get intoxicated, and then we play documentary footage of things in your field…on mute…and you have to attempt to narrate over it while never having seen it *and* being off your face

✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 1d

my mom and Joe are maybe slowly talking me into making like…rifftrax but with me doing drunk history but not drunk, just brain damaged anthropologist and author, talking over movies and shows and analyzing them as visual anthropology, literature, and art? 😆🤷🏻‍♀️
is that even a thing? CAN it be? 🤔

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 1d

I also wanna make a drunk history type show but call it “inebriated experts” and you can consume whatever you want to get intoxicated, and then we play documentary footage of things in your field…on mute…and you have to attempt to narrate over it while never having seen it *and* being off your face

✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 1d

my mom and Joe are maybe slowly talking me into making like…rifftrax but with me doing drunk history but not drunk, just brain damaged anthropologist and author, talking over movies and shows and analyzing them as visual anthropology, literature, and art? 😆🤷🏻‍♀️
is that even a thing? CAN it be? 🤔

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 1d

my mom and Joe are maybe slowly talking me into making like…rifftrax but with me doing drunk history but not drunk, just brain damaged anthropologist and author, talking over movies and shows and analyzing them as visual anthropology, literature, and art? 😆🤷🏻‍♀️
is that even a thing? CAN it be? 🤔

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 1d

I get “there are probably some femme ones and some masc ones and otherwise how are they reproducing?” vibes 🤔
Like I feel like femme absol would have longer, more afghan dog fur, while the masc would have more dense, coarse fur? 🤔💖

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 1d

🤣😭🙌🏼

is it, though, redshirt? 🤔

PseudoMortal @pseudomortal.bsky.social · 1d

Still better than retail

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 1d

🤩😍🫠🙌🏼💖

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 2d

“I watched and did many things for *you*, growing up, you know, and I thought this was going to be another one of those, like…Pokémon, Barbies, Sailor Moon over and over. I was happy to watch it with you to see *you* enjoy it—I didn’t expect that *I* was *actually* going to enjoy it! But I did!” 🤣🙌🏼💖

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 2d

#AudreyNuna has been awarded “distant cousin” level status of attachment/pride to my Italian-American mother, solely by dint of them both being from New Jersey 😂🙌🏼😭💖
It makes NO SENSE but it’s SO HUMAN and EXACTLY how sports teams work, so I’m feeding it 🤣

✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 2d

Her: “Can we watch it again tomorrow, now that I know I’m going to like it?”

Me: “Ah, my autism is matrilineal…and yes.” 🤣

Her (from NJ): “And show me which one is from Jersey, again? Tell me her name? And she wore a REAL sleeping bag gown in real life? I need to—oh, it’s DRAPED so NICE?!?”

🤣🙌🏼😭💖

✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 2d

My mom’s reaction to Kpop Demon Hunters: “I really didn’t expect to enjoy it…but I REALLY DID.” 😂
I have CONVERTED ANOTHER ONE WITH MY ANTHROPOLOGY MONOLOGUING! 🤣🙌🏼💖

a woman with pink hair is wearing a teddy bear sweater and making a funny face

Alt: Zoey and Mira (from KPDH) roar like warriors preparing for battle

media.tenor.com

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 2d

I wish I could tell that ex (we parted kindly, but…tense with unspoken things, and fell out of touch,) that I can see it as the ocean now. I often regret not being able to make it feel as seen/understood as it deserved. So I’m glad if I can be useful at all for other it/its peeps to feel seen. 😅🖤

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, my first trans partner use it/its pronouns and I *really* felt like I was being dehumanizing even though it was requested. 😬😅

Eventually, years later, a friend said, “no, it’s like the ocean. Not ‘it’ like an object; ‘it’ like too vast and wild to conceive of,” and that…helped a good bit. 🤷🏻‍♀️🫶🏼✨

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 2d

My mom’s reaction to Kpop Demon Hunters: “I really didn’t expect to enjoy it…but I REALLY DID.” 😂
I have CONVERTED ANOTHER ONE WITH MY ANTHROPOLOGY MONOLOGUING! 🤣🙌🏼💖

a woman with pink hair is wearing a teddy bear sweater and making a funny face

Alt: Zoey and Mira (from KPDH) roar like warriors preparing for battle

media.tenor.com

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Xan He/It @limekidd.bsky.social · 2d

this is 100% the drawing I am most proud of in 2025 btw

Xan He/It @limekidd.bsky.social · 2d

Day 3 is Chastity Plum Blossom :3

aka codename: pastel floral haute couture antique androgyny jester

a middle aged androgynous pink royal jester in a frilly pink gown with ruffles and a large jester hat with dangling blue tear shaped gems.

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 2d

(I’m just trying to get a set of 5 different ones without headbands to repaint into the Saja Boys, so when I got a double of…whoever “Jimin” is…I offered 1:1 swapsies for ones I didn’t have, and a nice lady in Texas took me up on it! 😄
First 2 pics are the one I sent; 3rd is the one I’m to receive.)

A photo of a small (4” or so) plastic Happy Meal toy figure of a kpop idol from the Tiny Tan collection. (Which are BTS members, I think? Eh.) He has light skin, light grey anime eyes, and blond hair. He’s wearing black pants, a black jacket with yellow accents, and a white tee with the McDonald’s smile on it, is standing on a yellow base, and has both his arms lifted into the air. There is a red box behind him, showing that he’s from the “encore edition” of the toys; his name isn’t visible in the photo, but according to the box, his name is “Jimin.”

A photo of a small, red, encore edition Tiny Tan McDonald’s Happy Meal toy box, set inside a slightly larger cardboard box.

A photo of a small (4” or so) plastic Happy Meal toy figure of a kpop idol from the Tiny Tan collection. (Which are BTS members, I think?) He has light skin, grey-brown anime eyes, and grey-blonde hair. He is wearing a black tracksuit, and is standing on a white, circular base. There is a purple box behind him, showing that he’s from the “throwback edition” of the toys, and his name, “Jung Kook,” is printed on it.

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 2d

(don’t worry, these men have consented to being made small and traded)

✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 2d

*trading small Korean men with strangers on the internet*

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 2d

*trading small Korean men with strangers on the internet*

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah; I get bear spray here and carry it in my purse, and if I get questions about it, I carry it because I’m a disabled person who liked walking around in the woods and want to not be helpless against bears just cuz I can’t move very fast. 😆

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 2d

(Also, the mismatched pajamas she’s wearing? 😆
Are MINE, because Air Canada lost her luggage. 😂😭🖤
Luckily, she’s built like me, but like…one matryoshka-doll-size smaller? 🤔😆🤷🏻‍♀️
So I at least have stuff she can wear in the meantime, even if it’s not necessarily things she’d normally wear. 😂🖤)

✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 2d

My mother is here not one full day and already she is spoiling her fuzzy grandchild by letting her lick empty yogurt containers 🙀😻😂

(This photo makes me smile and giggle, yogurt aside, because my mom looks SO much like my grandma in it 😂 the Italian mom *look* she’s giving me, SO much my Gram 🤣🙌🏼💖)

A photo of Astrid’s mom, Donna, a dark olive-skinned Italian-American woman in her 60s, with long, white-silver hair, and dark brown eyes. She is wearing purple pajamas and sitting on a brown couch, holding an empty yogurt container steady so a black and white cat (Sausagecat) snuggled into the crook of her arm can lick the last traces of yogurt from it.

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 2d

My mother is here not one full day and already she is spoiling her fuzzy grandchild by letting her lick empty yogurt containers 🙀😻😂

(This photo makes me smile and giggle, yogurt aside, because my mom looks SO much like my grandma in it 😂 the Italian mom *look* she’s giving me, SO much my Gram 🤣🙌🏼💖)

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 2d

was doing research locally, I asked her for the info to go check it out myself! I went with a couple friends to a local dungeon and then a kink con, and it was all delightfully downhill from there. 😆💖

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 2d

Ahaha, a fair question!
A friend of mine was doing her ethnographic research for her undergrad thesis on the kink community, and one of my godmothers is a proDomme, so I’d already been familiar-ish with the community *existing*, but hadn’t explored it myself outside my own bedroom. Since the friend

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