Alygatornado
@alygatornado.bsky.social
she/her/hers
AuDHD ♾️🌈
Queer and Here 🏳️🌈
Haphazard poet
Strange nerd, apparently
AuDHD ♾️🌈
Queer and Here 🏳️🌈
Haphazard poet
Strange nerd, apparently
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Alygatornado
@alygatornado.bsky.social
· Oct 12
If anyone wonders why I write long-form essays on a blurb app, sorry, my social media experience is almost exclusively reddit.
Reposted by Alygatornado
Work to build solidarity with your community. As someone who lived through the run-up to Iraq, I can tell you that these things are just too big for any single person to do anything about.
January 3, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Work to build solidarity with your community. As someone who lived through the run-up to Iraq, I can tell you that these things are just too big for any single person to do anything about.
I wake up, check my phone:
"What the hell‽"
Why? WHY‽
"What the hell‽"
Why? WHY‽
January 3, 2026 at 2:29 PM
I wake up, check my phone:
"What the hell‽"
Why? WHY‽
"What the hell‽"
Why? WHY‽
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you.
Hi.
Hi.
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you
Hi, i'm swimming pool,knife, society,my brother
Hi, i'm swimming pool,knife, society,my brother
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you.
Hi, I’m Type 1 Diabetes
Hi, I’m Type 1 Diabetes
January 2, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you.
Hi.
Hi.
That moment you realize one of your most commonly worn articles of clothing makes you low-key dysphoric, and you only wear it because...well, pockets.
January 2, 2026 at 12:45 PM
That moment you realize one of your most commonly worn articles of clothing makes you low-key dysphoric, and you only wear it because...well, pockets.
Sleeping more than 4 hrs at a time would be nice.
January 2, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Sleeping more than 4 hrs at a time would be nice.
Reposted by Alygatornado
check in on your friends today. pick one
A. "love you, miss you, hope 2026 is your year"
B. "happy 2026 you glorious hottie, send pics"
C. "thank god 2025 is dead let's pee on its grave together"
D. "happy new year. or maybe it will be shitty. either way let's get high and take a walk"
A. "love you, miss you, hope 2026 is your year"
B. "happy 2026 you glorious hottie, send pics"
C. "thank god 2025 is dead let's pee on its grave together"
D. "happy new year. or maybe it will be shitty. either way let's get high and take a walk"
January 1, 2026 at 3:08 PM
check in on your friends today. pick one
A. "love you, miss you, hope 2026 is your year"
B. "happy 2026 you glorious hottie, send pics"
C. "thank god 2025 is dead let's pee on its grave together"
D. "happy new year. or maybe it will be shitty. either way let's get high and take a walk"
A. "love you, miss you, hope 2026 is your year"
B. "happy 2026 you glorious hottie, send pics"
C. "thank god 2025 is dead let's pee on its grave together"
D. "happy new year. or maybe it will be shitty. either way let's get high and take a walk"
The last sentence is tongue-in-cheek, btw. Most of the people I interact with here feel very enby and/or "you do you, boo." I'm just very wary of statements that unwittingly align with transmeds via oversimplification/generalization.
Also, I don't know Devon's work and read charitably by default.
Also, I don't know Devon's work and read charitably by default.
Also, as I should have said at the start:
Wtf does T strictly have to do with manhood, or E with womanhood?
I get needing store-bought to function, to feel/be yourself, but do people in the trans community not get T ≠ man and E ≠ woman?
Am I surrounded by transmedicalists?
Wtf does T strictly have to do with manhood, or E with womanhood?
I get needing store-bought to function, to feel/be yourself, but do people in the trans community not get T ≠ man and E ≠ woman?
Am I surrounded by transmedicalists?
In the end, I don't understand equating manhood with masculinity. I don't understand equating womanhood with femininity. But I'm a tomboy lesbian with a sparklegoth wife and a strong liking for gender nonconformity. What do I know?
January 1, 2026 at 9:31 AM
The last sentence is tongue-in-cheek, btw. Most of the people I interact with here feel very enby and/or "you do you, boo." I'm just very wary of statements that unwittingly align with transmeds via oversimplification/generalization.
Also, I don't know Devon's work and read charitably by default.
Also, I don't know Devon's work and read charitably by default.
🎊 Kind New Year! 🎊
(And that's an imperative, dammit!)
(And that's an imperative, dammit!)
January 1, 2026 at 4:24 AM
🎊 Kind New Year! 🎊
(And that's an imperative, dammit!)
(And that's an imperative, dammit!)
Also, as I should have said at the start:
Wtf does T strictly have to do with manhood, or E with womanhood?
I get needing store-bought to function, to feel/be yourself, but do people in the trans community not get T ≠ man and E ≠ woman?
Am I surrounded by transmedicalists?
Wtf does T strictly have to do with manhood, or E with womanhood?
I get needing store-bought to function, to feel/be yourself, but do people in the trans community not get T ≠ man and E ≠ woman?
Am I surrounded by transmedicalists?
In the end, I don't understand equating manhood with masculinity. I don't understand equating womanhood with femininity. But I'm a tomboy lesbian with a sparklegoth wife and a strong liking for gender nonconformity. What do I know?
December 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Also, as I should have said at the start:
Wtf does T strictly have to do with manhood, or E with womanhood?
I get needing store-bought to function, to feel/be yourself, but do people in the trans community not get T ≠ man and E ≠ woman?
Am I surrounded by transmedicalists?
Wtf does T strictly have to do with manhood, or E with womanhood?
I get needing store-bought to function, to feel/be yourself, but do people in the trans community not get T ≠ man and E ≠ woman?
Am I surrounded by transmedicalists?
I've been up for about an hour, thinking I woke up just after sunset. You're telling me it's not even sunrise‽ I thought I fell asleep after sunrise!
I'm going back to bed...
I'm going back to bed...
December 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I've been up for about an hour, thinking I woke up just after sunset. You're telling me it's not even sunrise‽ I thought I fell asleep after sunrise!
I'm going back to bed...
I'm going back to bed...
It's interesting to me how I can look back at an old video of myself pre-transition and run into exactly the same thing I did then: I don't recognize the person I see. I never have. My wife says the same.
But the post pictures, even very early on, I do. It's a strange juxtaposition.
But the post pictures, even very early on, I do. It's a strange juxtaposition.
December 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It's interesting to me how I can look back at an old video of myself pre-transition and run into exactly the same thing I did then: I don't recognize the person I see. I never have. My wife says the same.
But the post pictures, even very early on, I do. It's a strange juxtaposition.
But the post pictures, even very early on, I do. It's a strange juxtaposition.
It's The Most Wonderful Card Of The Year Tuesday! as 2025 comes to a close, share your favorite new (or new to you) magic card!
Gotta go with the Golgari Commander, Hazel of the Rootbloom. She's why I shouldn't be allowed to play paper. So. Many. Tokens! I love it!
Gotta go with the Golgari Commander, Hazel of the Rootbloom. She's why I shouldn't be allowed to play paper. So. Many. Tokens! I love it!
December 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It's The Most Wonderful Card Of The Year Tuesday! as 2025 comes to a close, share your favorite new (or new to you) magic card!
Gotta go with the Golgari Commander, Hazel of the Rootbloom. She's why I shouldn't be allowed to play paper. So. Many. Tokens! I love it!
Gotta go with the Golgari Commander, Hazel of the Rootbloom. She's why I shouldn't be allowed to play paper. So. Many. Tokens! I love it!
I'm glad to finally be reading Engles, but I'm also slightly frustrated that I'm not learning beyond "Engles said this."
/1 in case I have more thoughts while I read.
/1 in case I have more thoughts while I read.
December 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I'm glad to finally be reading Engles, but I'm also slightly frustrated that I'm not learning beyond "Engles said this."
/1 in case I have more thoughts while I read.
/1 in case I have more thoughts while I read.
Reposted by Alygatornado
As someone who hated testosterone, I see too often how people demonize it when all it is is that it just wasn't right for you. I know countless trans men and trans mascs that it has helped, just as estradiol has helped me.
I hated being a man. That doesn't mean being one is inherently evil.
I hated being a man. That doesn't mean being one is inherently evil.
Still can't get over how fucking cruel this is. Fuck off Devon
December 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
As someone who hated testosterone, I see too often how people demonize it when all it is is that it just wasn't right for you. I know countless trans men and trans mascs that it has helped, just as estradiol has helped me.
I hated being a man. That doesn't mean being one is inherently evil.
I hated being a man. That doesn't mean being one is inherently evil.
I guess I don't follow because I don't know how to separate "masculinity" from its patriarchal definition: a position of power maintained by adherence to gendered roles, wherein femininity is a position disempowered except in its assistance/subservience to said power. /1
This. OMG, this.
Manhood and testosterone were an unending nightmare *for me*, but watching my transmasc friends blossom into the fullness of their manhood made me believe in the beauty of masculinity for the first time in my life.
Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to read The Will to Change.
Manhood and testosterone were an unending nightmare *for me*, but watching my transmasc friends blossom into the fullness of their manhood made me believe in the beauty of masculinity for the first time in my life.
Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to read The Will to Change.
As someone who hated testosterone, I see too often how people demonize it when all it is is that it just wasn't right for you. I know countless trans men and trans mascs that it has helped, just as estradiol has helped me.
I hated being a man. That doesn't mean being one is inherently evil.
I hated being a man. That doesn't mean being one is inherently evil.
December 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I guess I don't follow because I don't know how to separate "masculinity" from its patriarchal definition: a position of power maintained by adherence to gendered roles, wherein femininity is a position disempowered except in its assistance/subservience to said power. /1
Interesting how it's an anti-chain-chain-skeet...
You're adorkable?
Yeah, that about sums it up. 😉
You're adorkable?
Yeah, that about sums it up. 😉
December 30, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Interesting how it's an anti-chain-chain-skeet...
You're adorkable?
Yeah, that about sums it up. 😉
You're adorkable?
Yeah, that about sums it up. 😉
My wife and I were talking about how I like to make portmanteaus and was asked for one using portmanteau, and I provided "Portmantopiary".
"That sounds like a shrub in the shape of Natalie Portman."
*pause*
"... I really don't need someone telling me how hot their bush is."
"That sounds like a shrub in the shape of Natalie Portman."
*pause*
"... I really don't need someone telling me how hot their bush is."
December 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
My wife and I were talking about how I like to make portmanteaus and was asked for one using portmanteau, and I provided "Portmantopiary".
"That sounds like a shrub in the shape of Natalie Portman."
*pause*
"... I really don't need someone telling me how hot their bush is."
"That sounds like a shrub in the shape of Natalie Portman."
*pause*
"... I really don't need someone telling me how hot their bush is."
Slowly realizing I get hit on in public more than I realize and I'm just oblivious to it. 😅
December 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Slowly realizing I get hit on in public more than I realize and I'm just oblivious to it. 😅
I feel like womanhood within capitalism is defined by envy.
So I guess I'm succeeding in that regard... 😞
So I guess I'm succeeding in that regard... 😞
December 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I feel like womanhood within capitalism is defined by envy.
So I guess I'm succeeding in that regard... 😞
So I guess I'm succeeding in that regard... 😞
Theft, by Alygatornado (Aly Els)
(gods, that initial shot is awful. Caught myself mid blink 🫠)
#poetry, #poverty, #socialjustice
(gods, that initial shot is awful. Caught myself mid blink 🫠)
#poetry, #poverty, #socialjustice
December 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Theft, by Alygatornado (Aly Els)
(gods, that initial shot is awful. Caught myself mid blink 🫠)
#poetry, #poverty, #socialjustice
(gods, that initial shot is awful. Caught myself mid blink 🫠)
#poetry, #poverty, #socialjustice
How is it I've written an entire draft script for this and I'm still utterly lost writing an academic paper? I've forgotten how to academically mask, y'all!
Looks like I've found another motivation for finishing my video: grad school application requires a sample of academic writing. I haven't done a research paper in over a decade.
Time to gather sources!
Time to gather sources!
December 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
How is it I've written an entire draft script for this and I'm still utterly lost writing an academic paper? I've forgotten how to academically mask, y'all!
Another poem I shared a few years ago. I'll probably upload it to YouTube later.
December 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Love-hate relationship with my roommate the cat.
December 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Love-hate relationship with my roommate the cat.
Make a Bond movie casual
From Mom with Love
From Mom with Love
Make a Bond movie casual
No Time To Fry
No Time To Fry
make a Bond movie casual
Hi, Another Day
Hi, Another Day
December 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Make a Bond movie casual
From Mom with Love
From Mom with Love
Explain your username
I've always loved making up portmanteaus on the fly. Aly (nickname), Aly -> gay (lesbian), alligator, gay tornado (queer disaster child; grew up in Tornado Alley), Aly: Gay Tornado.
I've always loved making up portmanteaus on the fly. Aly (nickname), Aly -> gay (lesbian), alligator, gay tornado (queer disaster child; grew up in Tornado Alley), Aly: Gay Tornado.
explain your username 🎤
I was born in the Autumn season,my name is Autumn, unfortunately Autumnal Equinox with the correct spelling is taken,so I improvised with an intentional typo
I was born in the Autumn season,my name is Autumn, unfortunately Autumnal Equinox with the correct spelling is taken,so I improvised with an intentional typo
explain your username 🎤
💀 we're online
💀 we're online
December 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Explain your username
I've always loved making up portmanteaus on the fly. Aly (nickname), Aly -> gay (lesbian), alligator, gay tornado (queer disaster child; grew up in Tornado Alley), Aly: Gay Tornado.
I've always loved making up portmanteaus on the fly. Aly (nickname), Aly -> gay (lesbian), alligator, gay tornado (queer disaster child; grew up in Tornado Alley), Aly: Gay Tornado.