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aversatrix.bsky.social
@aversatrix.bsky.social
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a maiden of letters, philosophy, and the psyche’s mysteries
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aversatrix.bsky.social
this u?
a plush version of the mandragora creature from Final Fantasy 11, cropped to just the head. it’s got a very round white head, but its face is dark brown, and it has two circular white eyes at the edges of the face, sticking slightly out of the brown border. it’s wearing a lighter brown cowl that covers its face to just below the eyes, which looks like it is laced up (but it’s a plant monster so this is probably actually part of its body, somehow). most importantly for this joke, it has two little green leaves sprouting out of the top of its head.
November 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
aversatrix.bsky.social
an it’s got these teeth to help form the curls, i think for looser ones you would want them to be more widely spaced but i’m not sure if they make a wider one than that
a pink hairbrush, with ridges around the edges to separate curls
October 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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some jackass being totally out of pocket in @hearing-girl.bsky.social’s mentions has got me like
an attached double garage on a shitty McMansion, one of the garage doors is normal sized and one is very wide. someone has spray painted on the smaller door “STOP NOW” (with triple underlining on “stop”), and on the larger door “don’t e-mail MY wife!!!!”
October 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
aversatrix.bsky.social
this is as far as i got
tweet from Naomi Wolf saying “No! No!!” to a quoted tweet with a picture of a stuffed bear in a high-vis vest and early-pandemic style homemade cloth face mask being “standing” outside of what is presumably a vaccination site. i’ve erased all of the text in the quoted tweet because i was going to replace it with “Gorillaz in Fortnite” and replace the bear with a picture of 2D from Gorillaz but i couldn’t figure out how to do it on my phone
August 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
aversatrix.bsky.social
you uhhh might want to look at your stylesheet because this is what it looks like on my phone
part of the blog post linked in the post i’m replying to; the background of the post is dark blue and the body text is white, but the text quoting the poem it’s talking about is a dark grey that is nearly illegible against the background
August 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
aversatrix.bsky.social
our cats are still the biggest babies in the world!
a loafed up dark brown tabby cat, and a mostly white tuxedo cat curled up on his side with his feet and butt pressed against her, laying on a pink comforter
June 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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screenshot of a search for “snaketown” in Apple Maps, showing results for a neighborhood called Snaketown in Pinal County, Arizona, a Snaketown Circle in Maricopa, Arizona, and a west Snaketown Street in Marana, Arizona
June 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
aversatrix.bsky.social
sending you love from (several hours after) the dyke march!!!
me, a light-skinned mixed race girl with curly dark brown hair in a bob, wearing green glasses, a black face mask, and a black t-shirt, and a neon orange safety vest with a Boston Dyke March badge on the chest, reclining in a chair on Boston Commons
June 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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an engraving of a man in a voluminous hooded robe, labeled as “Pythagoras”, looking away from and making a gesture of refusal at a bean plant, labeled “Fabe” (for fava).
June 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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idk i gave literally everything to be a candle, once, and i have never regretted it
screenshot of a journal entry from Fallen London: A candle 07 August, 2016 (Your Lodgings) After the sacrifice, when your neck has been cleanly severed and your blood pooled on the steps, the pithing process begins. The outer integument is peeled away and their bones, organs, muscles removed. This remnant will be given false life with the glyphs, so that it may wait with a bright sword in the chapel until one day, another sacrifice may come. The old executioner will be retired and given to the sea. Your skin is filled with glory. The attendants place it in the mould and pour the wax donated by lesser celebrants. The wick is emplaced, down through the crown of the head to the hollow of the groin. The Priest recites the lessons once more, and replaces your eyes in the skin of the sockets for the living wax to grasp them. The odour of searing fades. The woman from the Second City coaxes the flesh with oils until it resembles life. The glyphs are imparted and the chest heaves with false breath. (Everything is as we planned.) Everything is as you planned. You are St Gawain's Candle. [You have acquired a hat. You must wear it to complete your quest. Never take it off.]
May 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
aversatrix.bsky.social
St Fiacre has entered the chat
screenshot of my inventory in Fallen London, showing that i have 146 Holy Relics of the Thigh of Saint Fiacre. item description: “There are marks at the hip joint where it used to be gilded and studded with diamonds. These can be acquired by studying an Unidentified Thigh Bone in your Laboratory and then choosing not to be wholly honest about the identification.”
May 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
aversatrix.bsky.social
i CAN!!!
a cheeseburger and fries in a takeout container
May 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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@omenhawk.bsky.social
a sticker on a light post that used to say “savor every moment”, but the first and last letters of “moment” have been torn off so it says “savor every omen” instead
April 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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i did, this is what it leads to, you should probably delete that post and make a new one with your actual chuffed link
a link to a page on howhow.cl that appears to be healthy-eating clickbait, and also has a very sketchy looking popup saying to install a VPN app to actually view it
April 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
aversatrix.bsky.social
went to my first ever rugby game and had a great time (it didn’t hurt that the Banshees won 36-10, and also that the Gemini’s two tries were both fucking incredible)! i think i’m a sports dyke now??
a view on two women’s rugby teams lined up facing each other, the Twin Cities Gemini at the 50 meter like and the Boston Banshees at the 30, on an outdoor field
March 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
aversatrix.bsky.social
i did two of my absolute faves on my dominant arm because i am both stubborn and foolish
fairly realistically shaded moon phase tattoos on the knuckles of my right hand a tattoo on my right forearm of a thyrsos (a staff topped by a pinecone, carried by followers of Dionysos) with a lot of detail in the cone and some shading on the shaft
March 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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crying laughing at this, here it is with alt text
PITCHER ON 450AD CHINESE SHARK TANK: see this herb? it's called tea. this is what i want your help to sell NORTHERN WEI MARK CUBAN: you want us to feed people dried grass PITCHER: no. it's supposed to be wet. It's a beverage NORTHERN WEI O'LEARY: market's already pretty saturated. how's your wet grass gonna synergize with the fermented horse milk that normal people drink PITCHER: you could mix them together NORTHERN WEI MARK CUBAN: why would you put wet grass in yogurt. the horses eat that and you milk the horses. why add more grass after the fact. that's crazy. you're just ruining perfectly good yogurt PITCHER: well you don't use yogurt. you just use milk NORTHERN WEI MARK CUBAN: straight milk? straight milk and grass in your mouth like a baby horse??
March 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
aversatrix.bsky.social
here you go!! i use them for almost everything i make these days! like this shawl that i finished a month or two ago :)
a black faux-suede folding case, in the middle section there is a strip od elastic holding down nine sets of interchangeable knitting needle tips (one set of them is not present as it’s in a project). the tips are made of solid copper, aside from the base where they screw onto the cable, which is stainless steel. a close-up of my shoulder, wrapped in a knitted cable and lace shawl with beads. the shawl yarn js a black, blue, and purple fingering weight; the overall effect is sort of like the rainbow shimmer you can see in an oil spill on blacktop. the pattern consists of cables crossing each other to form progressively wider sections, each of which has a leaf motif with the top outer edges beaded. between the different cable sections are clumps of eyelets that sort of look like a lotus seedpod. at the bottom edge, there are more leaves, alternated with longer points made of eyelets with a v-shape made of beads.
February 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
aversatrix.bsky.social
it's my favorite weird Victorian text adventure game. it has a moderately famous questline that it warns you many times, emphatically, not to do, because no good will come of it, the end result of which is your account becoming unusable. anyway, this is not the very end of it, but close to it
A candle 07 August, 1894 (Your Lodgings) After the sacrifice, when your neck has been cleanly severed and your blood pooled on the steps, the pithing process begins. The outer integument is peeled away and their bones, organs, muscles removed. This remnant will be given false life with the glyphs, so that it may wait with a bright sword in the chapel until one day, another sacrifice may come. The old executioner will be retired and given to the sea. Your skin is filled with glory. The attendants place it in the mould and pour the wax donated by lesser celebrants. The wick is emplaced, down through the crown of the head to the hollow of the groin. The Priest recites the lessons once more, and replaces your eyes in the skin of the sockets for the living wax to grasp them. The odour of searing fades. The woman from the Second City coaxes the flesh with oils until it resembles life. The glyphs are imparted and the chest heaves with false breath. (Everything is as we planned.) Everything is as you planned. You are St Gawain's Candle. [You have acquired a hat. You must wear it to complete your quest. Never take it off.]
February 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
aversatrix.bsky.social
here’s Hester (tabby) and Dietrich (tuxedo), who are very cute when they aren’t trying to kill each other
a tuxedo cat sleeping on his side, and a dark brown tabby cat resting her head on his tummy
February 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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haggish and tatties!!(tragically, the grocery store was out of neeps)

happy Burns’ night!
a paper plate full of vegetarian haggish (a brown mess of grains and finely diced veg, nicely browned on top) and mashed potatoes
January 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
aversatrix.bsky.social
yes i remember that one :)
the same cream-colored crochet lace bookmark with a Mercury glyph that Lane posted, on my lap, because i bought it (or i think was given it as a gift for a donation to something maybe?)
January 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
aversatrix.bsky.social
a friend of mine made a button that says “all shall be fucking well or else” so i made this monstrosity
Bernie Sanders standing outside in the winter wearing a coat, a hand holding a gun pointing at the viewer has been photoshopped in (not by me!) with text on the bottom that says “I am no longer asking”. i’ve pasted the head from David Holgate’s 2000 statue of Julian of Norwich, a stone or maybe concrete image of a woman wearing a voluminous head scarf looking into the distance, on top of Bernie’s.
January 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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i didn’t even get close enough to see the prices when i was at the store yesterday
a nearly empty refrigerated display case of eggs at a grocery store, with maybe five or six 18-egg cartons open to show that most of the eggs in them are broken.
January 23, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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emily-coded characters:
Pippin Took, as portrayed by Billy Boyd in the Lord of the Rings movies, a light-skinned hobbit with messy, curly hair, wearing a grey cloak and scarf, and looking slightly concerned. Cassandra, from the Wicked + the Divine, written by Kieron Gillen and illustrated by Jamie McKelvie. a light-skinned mixed race woman wearing rectangular glasses and a black t-shirt, with her hair in a short, sideswept butch haircut, crossing her arms as she talks to Baphomet seen looking back in profile at the edge of the panel; he's a light-skinned guy with hair over his eyes wearing a grey t-shirt with an iconographic representation of a goat skull with crossed swords beneath it. Cass is saying "There's never been a Baphomet in a previous cycle. Baphomet isn't a 'real' god, unless you care what Crowley thinks, and no one should *ever* care what Crowley thinks." Blaise St. John, as portrayed by David Pasquesi in the show Lodge 49, a scrawny light-skinned man with floppy greying hair, wearing glasses, a pink t-shirt, and an open red button-up on top of it, holding his hands in front of his chest, standing behind the counter of his apothecary shop. he looks concerned with whatever is going on in front of him. Y'Shtola Rhul from Final Fantasy XIV, a light-skinned catgirl with her white hair in a bob, smiling and winking at the camera. the picture is captioned "it's... *complicated*."
January 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM