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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 1d

Photos taken almost six years apart.

Are these the same person? Like, there's a resemblance but increasingly he looks like, I don't know, a secret brother or something.

Anyway. Happy Coming Out Day. It's the best thing I ever did.

A chubby brown-haired white guy in glasses, a blue dress shirt, and silver tie.

A brown-and-purple haired woman in big glasses, a Jet City Roller Derby tee-shirt, and black and grey cardigan.

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 1d

My favorite part was when Ares said “it’s morbin’ tron!” and morbed all over those programs.

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 2d

Fredrik Backman? I LOVE his Turner Overdrive!

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 3d

Welp, yesterday at work I got loudly misgendered by a child, was warned that my stalker will be returning soon, and sent an angry email to my boss that I haven't heard back on yet, so I gotta admit there is a certain allure to calling out sick today.

I won't, because I have my pride. But oof.

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 4d

They weren't even THAT realistic!!

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 4d

This is all very precise and constructed and foreign to my gutterpunk "just deal a hand of cards and read it" approach.

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 4d

Wait, is “Cunning Path variant on Four Powers drop” the proper nouns for the thing you just said, or is it something additional.

If the former, yes. If the latter, sort of?

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 4d

Death must keep silent? An unseen change, or one centered around withdrawing. Are you taking sufficient time for yourself? Is that the tension at play here?

I don’t know, I don’t know nuffin’.

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 4d

See, intimidated because you know more than I do! I don’t know about positions or widdershins, I just reads a hand of cards.

But yeah okay, if 10 is in daring, then maybe you are too daring—maybe you are hemmed by insufficient boundaries. Are people taking advantage?

(Shit, am I?)

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 4d

This feels to me like a call for change, for analysis of habits and the way they’ve been limiting. I see this surrounding a socially-oriented 3C and ask how that fits—what activities or relationships are stabbing you?

(But I am very amateur at this.)

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 4d

I mean, it’s intimidating to respond when you are probably better at this but okay: it’s an interesting tension because 10S is all about “this same damn thing again” cycles but Death indicates a shift, a breaking or new cycle, one accompanied visually by a lightening of the sky, a gloaming.

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 4d

It’s a writer’s duty to report the truth. Truths like “love is more powerful than hate” or “if we genetically engineer snakes to be the size of a metro bus, that would be pretty bad” or “my girlfriend looks like a sexy 80s horror author.”

-Garth Marenghi

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 5d

Fucking love it when I look like an incompetent in front of the public because folks made a sweeping change to my workplace without informing me (or, for that matter, anyone).

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 6d

2020 was a good time for folks to transition, huh?

Robin’s comics are delightful and funny and often painfully accurate; I started just a few months before she did so I almost always saw myself when she talked about her experiences.

So glad to have the collection in a physical form.

Basically How It Happened, a trans comic collection, by Robin Brooks. A cartoon of a brown-haired white woman in a green dress. The cover is autographed.

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 8d

My wife and my girlfriend are off dancing together and they both look very hot and I am stuck at home!

What cosmic punishment is this?!?

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 8d

I’m more likely to worry that a skeet isn’t quite horny ENOUGH for my persona.

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 8d

Yes well.

Thank you.

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 9d

Getting my hair done is always fun, always. But getting my hair done at a Queer As Hell place in Capitol Hill is a delight that I had not realized I was missing.

Lara, selfie. Her hair has purple highlights in front and is auburn all around. She’s smiling big. There’s a mirror behind her so it’s kind of a butt-and-boobs shot.

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 9d

Listen the cover should tell you all you need to know about whether this book is fucked up; it’s fucked up. It’s also a brilliant adaptation/expansion of the Fall of the House of Usher. Deeply creepy. Vile in all the best ways. Big recommend.

What Moves the Dead, by T Kingfisher. A rabbit corpse, riddled with mushrooms.

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 9d

Nothing particularly changes.

But what if you DO?

Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 10d

Once upon a midnight dreary,
As I pondered, weak and weary,
Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

caramida (he/they) @caramida.bsky.social · 10d

Hwaet! We have a story about the Spear-Danes, from the old days
when Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 10d

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 10d

Have fun! I’ll be here, tearfully apologizing to everyone in this Chuck E Cheese’s.

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 10d

You’re not banned. Unless… we’re banned together? Fuck, is THIS the shadow realm?

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 11d

Oh, but you should tell!

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Countess DracuLara @glaiveguisarme.com · 12d

We are very fortunate to have the Swift lines; I am doubly fortunate that they’re limited (but expanding!) coverage can get me to work and other important places.

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