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Toby @ Exchange Madness

@iodhadh.bsky.social

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Fey creature of many names. A machine that makes stories. Relentlessly Songxuexiao. The god of poets has two hands: the dextrous, the sinister. they/them // 🔞 // ao3.org/users/iodhadh // 🪦🕊️ // tchy.ca // art: svetlacreates

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · Dec 6

✨ Jared, Adelaide, Ariel, Victor, October.
✨ I use a lot of names, don’t worry about it.
✨ Problematic bisexual, aggressively nonbinary.
✨ Enabler, menace, international dick curser.
✨ This is my pinned thread to keep promos and important links!

Selfie of bsky user iodhadh, a nonbinary white person with a short reddish beard and long bleached blond hair. They have facial piercings and visible tattoos, and are wearing large round glasses and earrings shaped like lemon slices. Their expression is slightly smug.

A photo of bsky user iodhadh standing on the very large knot at the base of a large tree. The knot is at least as tall as they are. They are wearing sandals, shorts, a teal crop top, and heart-shapes sunglasses.

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1h

Shocking. Astonishing. Who could ever have foreseen.

Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1h

Call me crazy but I think you people just don't want any of us to be trans! 🤔

Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1h

If we come out as kids we're too young to know and are being "steered" by the trans-affirming adults in our lives, if we come out as teens it's "social contagion" and "rapid-onset gender dysphoria," and if we come out as adults we're lying because if we were really trans we'd have known as kids.

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1h

Don't u just love it when someone is like "I'm very pro-trans rights but—" and then goes on to say the most textbook "let kids be kids" bullshit you've ever heard.

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 2h

Hello, we made it safely home.

Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 2h

Still thinking about motorcycle gang Macbeth.

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 3h

According to Alex’s taxonomy of animals she’s currently in the category of “bug” and will achieve creaturehood only when she surpasses Mia in size.

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 4h

Ohhhhhhh my goooood she’s so SMALL!!!

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 4h

God relatable, husband and I are constantly that person everywhere we go. Where are you flying to?

Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t know if I get bagels enough to have a regular order, which I think is inherently disqualifying. 🤔 The most common thing I get might be an everything bagel BLT.

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 12h

It was all soooo good. It’s been ages since we went out somewhere fancy and splurged a little, we had so much fun.

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been here since 2020 and refuse to be silenced. If you’re into more than strictly Xuexiao the Songxuexiao Exchange just opened its signups for the sixth year running! We’ve got a great little discord community too.

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1d

I think if I could bring any person into modern times for three days, Shakespeare would be my pick. I’d spend one day getting him up to speed on modern technology and his legacy, one day watching every wild-ass production I could find of his works on film, and one day at the Stratford Festival.

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1d

It was SO good.

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1d

You know what. Shakespeare WOULD have blown up a gas station and dragged a corpse after a motorcycle if he’d had the technology to do so.

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1d

Sours are THE BEST and I also don’t like IPAs.

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1d

Oh god the 2026 season playbill for Stratford has already been announced and they’re doing The Tempest AND A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the same year, I don’t know how I’m going to cope.

Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1d

Quoth my husband (driving) “I wish her a very get some fucking tips.”

Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1d

They moved us into better seats for free.

My hand holding up the program for the Stratford Festival 2025 production of Macbeth.

A masked selfie of Alex and I leaning out heads together, ready to watch some theatre.

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1d

Dessert and digestif. 🥰

A lemon curd tart with candied orange peel and a layered chocolate and lemon cake with a chocolate ganache. The plate with the tart also has a tiny birthday candle.

Two little digestif glasses being clinked together in a toast. My liqueur is red and Alex’s is brown.

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1d

I am In Love.

Two salads: black kale with a lemon wedge, covered in parmesan and gremolada, and a carrot and chickpea salad on ricotta.

A plate of agnolotti in a beautiful green sauce with peas and pistachios, across from a plate of confit duck with potatoes and zucchini relish.

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1d

Dinner date before the show tonight. ✨

A tall yellow-orangeish cocktail (sangria spritz) next to a short red cocktail with a twist of orange peel (negroni). A small vase with a red rose is beside them.

Bowl full of various colours and sizes of olive beside a small plate of sliced bread and butter.

Plate of several oysters on ice, along with lemon slices, horseradish, mignonette, and mango hot sauce.

Bowl of french onion soup beside a small plate with three salt cod croquettes, lemon slices, and a bowl of fancy tartar sauce.

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Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1d

Something is broken in the Songxuexiao Exchange feed and I might need to dig up an app password and see if I can fix it lmao.

Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1d

I definitely recommend taking vitamin D supplements if that’s a concern—I take 2,000 IU daily (when I remember) and it really helps with my mood and energy levels. I know you deal with depression and fatigue and I definitely would not suggest vitamin D would FIX that but it could help for sure.

Toby @ Exchange Madness @iodhadh.bsky.social · 1d

Can confirm. Including the part where I could easily miss seeing the sun in the winter. I was chronically vitamin D deficient as a result for ages.

Happy to talk about my experience and my current treatment plan if that might help you.

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