Future Dryad
@futuredryad.bsky.social
Licensed professional nuclear engineer. Unlicensed amateur tf fiction enjoyer/writer. PNW based. She/her.
Fun fact! Did you know the term for a group of trans women is “polycule?” “Dollhouse” is also widely used. “Brick shithouse” is currently deprecated in the scientific literature.
February 13, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Fun fact! Did you know the term for a group of trans women is “polycule?” “Dollhouse” is also widely used. “Brick shithouse” is currently deprecated in the scientific literature.
You may feel like a useless lesbian, but are you on the “play two hours of chess against the one gay guy in the sapphic bar instead of flirting with cute girls” level of useless lesbian? Because apparently I am.
February 11, 2026 at 11:49 PM
You may feel like a useless lesbian, but are you on the “play two hours of chess against the one gay guy in the sapphic bar instead of flirting with cute girls” level of useless lesbian? Because apparently I am.
I don’t think I’ve established enough of a network here for this to work but may as well ask.
Chat, if I was hypothetically going to a lesbian bar in Sam Francisco after getting my voicebox scoped out, where should I go?
Chat, if I was hypothetically going to a lesbian bar in Sam Francisco after getting my voicebox scoped out, where should I go?
February 10, 2026 at 8:25 PM
I don’t think I’ve established enough of a network here for this to work but may as well ask.
Chat, if I was hypothetically going to a lesbian bar in Sam Francisco after getting my voicebox scoped out, where should I go?
Chat, if I was hypothetically going to a lesbian bar in Sam Francisco after getting my voicebox scoped out, where should I go?
Here, have some bridges, Bluesky.
February 10, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Here, have some bridges, Bluesky.
My 8-year-old: “Oh my god! Look at this bug’s face! It’s so gross.”
Me: “Disgust is a learned response.”
Me: “Disgust is a learned response.”
February 9, 2026 at 9:14 PM
My 8-year-old: “Oh my god! Look at this bug’s face! It’s so gross.”
Me: “Disgust is a learned response.”
Me: “Disgust is a learned response.”
My 5-year-old: “The bus is great, because sometimes Mommy gets tired, and she can rest on the bus.”
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 AM
My 5-year-old: “The bus is great, because sometimes Mommy gets tired, and she can rest on the bus.”
There’s a cemetery not far from my place, and on days that I work from home I like to go there on my walk. It would make me happy, knowing that there are people going about their lives and choosing to share part of their day with me after I’m gone. I hope the ones who came before me feel the same.
February 7, 2026 at 4:35 PM
There’s a cemetery not far from my place, and on days that I work from home I like to go there on my walk. It would make me happy, knowing that there are people going about their lives and choosing to share part of their day with me after I’m gone. I hope the ones who came before me feel the same.
Federal government? More like feral government, amirite?
I am tired of living under fascism.
I am tired of living under fascism.
February 6, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Federal government? More like feral government, amirite?
I am tired of living under fascism.
I am tired of living under fascism.
Breathing a sigh of relief to see that my gender surgeon doesn’t appear in the Epstein files is such a big 2026 mood
February 4, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Breathing a sigh of relief to see that my gender surgeon doesn’t appear in the Epstein files is such a big 2026 mood
Me whenever I see two trans women in the wild: “Well, well. Snip-snip for the scissor sisters…”
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Me whenever I see two trans women in the wild: “Well, well. Snip-snip for the scissor sisters…”
Every time some White House staffer says 47 was “making a joke” when he says some egregiously authoritarian thing, I think to myself “You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.”
January 30, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Every time some White House staffer says 47 was “making a joke” when he says some egregiously authoritarian thing, I think to myself “You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.”
Love when community theatre puts on a production of Urinetown and as a result literally the first thing I hear when I turn on NPR is “Citizens must pay a fee for the privilege to pee.”
January 23, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Love when community theatre puts on a production of Urinetown and as a result literally the first thing I hear when I turn on NPR is “Citizens must pay a fee for the privilege to pee.”
If you’re a trans woman and you ever feel dysphoric because at some point you were pretty sure you were actually a boy, just remember, even Princess Ozma didn’t want to be turned into a girl at first.
January 22, 2026 at 7:33 PM
If you’re a trans woman and you ever feel dysphoric because at some point you were pretty sure you were actually a boy, just remember, even Princess Ozma didn’t want to be turned into a girl at first.
Just once I’d like to see someone reply to the TERF gotcha “Can a man become a woman” by saying “Yes, in fact it’s based as hell. You oughta try it sometime.”
January 22, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Just once I’d like to see someone reply to the TERF gotcha “Can a man become a woman” by saying “Yes, in fact it’s based as hell. You oughta try it sometime.”
Just finished watching Speed Racer (2008), and I gotta say, it might be my new favorite James Bond movie
January 20, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Just finished watching Speed Racer (2008), and I gotta say, it might be my new favorite James Bond movie
I tend to project this persona of a deeply rational, skeptical atheist who rolls her eyes at superstition. But the reality is I’m that person and a deeply superstitious woman superglued together.
All that to say losing the special butterfly necklace I got when I got my vagina feels like a bad omen.
All that to say losing the special butterfly necklace I got when I got my vagina feels like a bad omen.
January 18, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I tend to project this persona of a deeply rational, skeptical atheist who rolls her eyes at superstition. But the reality is I’m that person and a deeply superstitious woman superglued together.
All that to say losing the special butterfly necklace I got when I got my vagina feels like a bad omen.
All that to say losing the special butterfly necklace I got when I got my vagina feels like a bad omen.
An office grows great when engineers brew coffee they know they will never drink
January 14, 2026 at 9:18 PM
An office grows great when engineers brew coffee they know they will never drink
I must study forcefem so that my children may study art and poetry.
January 13, 2026 at 2:21 AM
I must study forcefem so that my children may study art and poetry.
Me modifying a bang-bang controller: “Wake up, dead band.”
January 8, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Me modifying a bang-bang controller: “Wake up, dead band.”
Renee Good was the same age as me. My children are the same age as her child. I’m a queer woman like her. I’ve thought about what I would do if I ever encounter ICE and it’s the same as what she did.
It’s so easy for me to put myself in her shoes it makes me want to vomit.
It’s so easy for me to put myself in her shoes it makes me want to vomit.
January 8, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Renee Good was the same age as me. My children are the same age as her child. I’m a queer woman like her. I’ve thought about what I would do if I ever encounter ICE and it’s the same as what she did.
It’s so easy for me to put myself in her shoes it makes me want to vomit.
It’s so easy for me to put myself in her shoes it makes me want to vomit.
The feeling of absolute dread over where things are going has been rising the last few days and tbh it’s kinda hard to have a normal one rn
January 7, 2026 at 5:51 AM
The feeling of absolute dread over where things are going has been rising the last few days and tbh it’s kinda hard to have a normal one rn
I'm so happy I got to introduce some friends to the beautiful tangled mess that is Primer (2004) at transsexual movie night over the weekend
January 6, 2026 at 6:07 AM
I'm so happy I got to introduce some friends to the beautiful tangled mess that is Primer (2004) at transsexual movie night over the weekend
Me discussing the process of how I picked my bottom surgeon based in eastern Pennsylvania: “…So one thing led to another and now I’m an Eagles fan.”
Go birds.
Go birds.
January 4, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Me discussing the process of how I picked my bottom surgeon based in eastern Pennsylvania: “…So one thing led to another and now I’m an Eagles fan.”
Go birds.
Go birds.
Frustrating that one of the only political norms intact right now is engaging in stupid illegal petrowars.
January 3, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Frustrating that one of the only political norms intact right now is engaging in stupid illegal petrowars.