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Kiya Nicoll
@kiyanicoll.bsky.social
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Still trying to write a holy litany despite America's silly mood. Only knows how to do one thing well; would rather be whistling in the dark.

Now accepting all major pronouns (and 'thon'). May contain cats and echolalia. https://linktr.ee/kiyanicoll
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These kids have absolutely got a deathgrip on my brain at the moment so I decided to draw them.

For the record: both of them have absolute "how dare you fuck with my boyfriend" vibe going on in their lives, but somehow they get differential results on that.
A portrait of two beings. One, a young blond man with shaggy hair, a plaid shirt over a t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers, stands with one hand in his pocket and the other resting on the other creature's, for lack of a better word, hip. The other is a rosy-magenta theropod-dinosaurish creature with bright green feathers for hair, sprouting along his forearms, and along his tail. He is fairly literally wrapped around the human, one arm around his stomach, the other twining around his leg, his legs on either side of the human. His long lizard face rests on one of the human's shoulders, and he is licking his cheek.
December 14, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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He be chillin’.

Some people got pandemic puppies, we got a pandemic python. His name is Mo (short for Mahogany), and he is an adult royal python approximately the length of a bathtub.

Oldest is very pleased.
A somewhat blurry photo into a habitat tank. In the foreground, a loosely coiled brown and tan snake with his head resting on a log.
December 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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The one I have on me is super simple because intricate is fussy with tattoos in this style but. (This is my oldest ink so a little faded.)
A picture of my left shin, which is largely covered with a tattoo of a coiled winged snake (royal python) curled around a mostly blue pisanka with a white and yellow starburst on it.
November 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Him roumd.
A black and white patched cat is curled up in a tidy circle on a threadbare red and faded gold armchair.
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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I got some cats right here….
Two mostly black cats sitting at a (speckled granite) kitchen counter. They are on the same stool so their position at a slight diagonal but overlapping gives album cover vibes. (There is a laptop in front of them and a cluttered shelf behind but these are not germane.) A black-and-white (cow pattern) cat is roughly loafed on a blue couch over a human (mostly not in frame). He is angled and tipped such that he appears to be sliding slowly downwards.
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Living exhausted but living.

(No the art is not crooked the phone angle is.)
Photo of me flopped on my bed, lopsided smirk and all. I have scraggly-ass face fur and long hair and a crooked nose but I’m gonna make it through this year, etc.
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Runners up because I find it irresistible:
Handshake meme format: one arm is labeled "trans people", the other arm "confused transphobes", and the clasp labeled "trans men are not women". A screenshot of something that reads "This assignment has no problems." There are two button options, which are "Create problem" and "Find problems". Bugs Bunny 'I wish all' meme format. It reads "I wish all Heathers a very" and ends with Bugs Bunny in a suit as the implied noun; 'Heathers' is done in a font used for the movie by that title in some displays. A Windows XP error message screenshot reading "Task failed successfully." It has an OK button.
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender

(wow I have a lot of gender things saved in my reaction images folder, let's go with ... this one!)
A shot from the Good Omens television show picturing David Tennant as the demon Crowley,slouching towards the camera, one hand in his pocket. A superimposed caption reads: "Are you male or female?" Baby I'm an affront to god
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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A screenshot from the music video for Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire", picturing Billy Joel drumming on a table with his hands while flames surge behind him and a famous photograph of historical violence is displayed behind him. The caption, in standard meme Impact font, is "Everything Happens So Much".
November 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Recently had a memories app pop this photo of me up. From 2017. I was the Mad Hatter for Halloween that year, complete with March Hare and White Rabbit.

This costume was 100% assembled from stuff in my closet.

So: how long have I been "living in" transmasculine nonbinary?

Fuckt if I know.
A photo of me standing in a driveway on an autumn day. I am wearing a grey top hat with some decorative bits on it, a burgundy velvet morning coat, a black waistcoat with gold patterns over a dark shirt, slacks, and white sneakers. One pocket of the coat has a white stuffed animal rabbit in it; the other pocket has a brown stuffed animal rabbit. I am gesturing whimsically. Also that is not eyeliner, wow.
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Had a few minutes between appointments and spotted a bookstore. In said store, this which I think @bitterkarella.bsky.social will like:
A photograph of Moonflow by Bitter Karella on a bookstore shelf, with a staff recommendation from one Sean M reading “Bonkers, bonkers, bonkers, bonkers, bonkers, bonkers, bonkers, bonkers, bonkers, BONKERS. Cannot recommend this enough.”
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Okay too much doom, time for the world’s sloppiest yin/yang. #proofOfCat
Two black cats sharing a red armchair. Each of them is in a half curl that might have made a yin-yang except that: their heads are to the same side, one has a loose curl and the other a tight one, and they are too widely spaced.
October 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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I will say coming to these things late produces profoundly hilarious visuals. You're right! I won't!
A screenshot of the tweet to which I am replying. The text, "You will never guess what this is about", is labeling a response that has been replaced with the "Blocked" error message.
October 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Lilybelle of the One White Whisker greets her kinsman and fellow club member.
A black cat with one white whisker and a small chest patch looks up at the camera with an expression of moderate irritation at being bothered by the cameraman.
October 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Also today’s outfit is “I’m queer as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore.”
I am sitting on the ground under a tree. Outfit is: black sandals. Loud rainbow swishy trousers. Black shirt with a loud rainbow world tree graphic. Loud rainbow headscarf, though only the screaming orange-pink of it is visible. The effect of me wearing a scarf these days, given the terrible goatee, is “vaguely piratical”.
October 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Gonna quote two things from tumblr, one in paraphrase because I didn't rebog it. "'Boy' and 'girl' are different genders than 'man' and 'woman', and sometimes a boy grows up into a woman and vice versa."

And this one, which I did rebagel and thus can screenshot:
A tumblr post by user 'bucatinibucatini': I love cis people cause when I say "when I used to be a girl" they go "mhmmm... but also... you've ALWAYS been a man" okay you're very sweet but actually I was a weird girl in middle school and you need to know that to understand my personality today
October 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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The aftermath shall serve as #proofOfCat
A black cat curled on a wooden barstool, contemplating the middle distance and presumably trying to figure out why his head fell off just now.
September 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Describe your author brand in memes or images (pulled from my reaction images folder):
A screenshot from The Emperor's New Groove: a frantic llama scrambles over a collection of dropped potion bottles. The llama is labeled "my brain when someone asks me a normal question"; the potion bottles are variously labelled "movie quotes", "song lyrics", "childhood trauma", "jokes that don't land", "neurodivergent interests", "weird theories about the world", "random facts", "the answers I wanted to give". A screenshot from the existennialmemes tumblr account, reading: Stop. Please back up. That's not a Manic Pixie Dream Girl. That's a Feral Non Binary Autistic and they're highly aggressive towards outsiders. A classic S. Harris cartoon. Two scientists stand in front of a chalkboard. On one side of the board, a bunch of mathematical scribbles; on the other side, the same. In the middle, the text, "THEN A MIRACLE OCCURS". One scientist points at the middle and says to the other, "I think you should be more explicit here in step two." An inspirobot randomly generated image of a person meditating in a rosy field of abstract swirls. The caption is "Being yourself is devastating".
July 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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I mean. Genuinely. That guy was, as a friend said, at a concert and didn’t get enough sleep but still has great hair.

(I have no idea how to label this much skin honestly, if any. I guess suggestive?)
A me, upper chest and shoulders included. Vaguely floppy forelock goes everywhere, scraggly facial hair, watercolor style chest tattoo and flowers visible on one shoulder, wearing a septagram and the expression of someone who is perhaps too aware of being too old for a serious bender.
July 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Proof of life!
A me, masked and baseball cap, draped in the NASA photography version of the Progress Pride flag, which has the stripes assembled from various astronomical photos. I look like a hunchback because the cape is over my backpack. Backdrop says “touch smell” because we were in that exhibit when I got Youngest to take the photo.
June 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Close up of my eyes with sparkly eyeshadows from Dragonsworn.
June 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I got a lot of compliments on my horns at the March Friday. Also my pants (not pictured), from the vendor I refer to as the gay pants store.

(I had horns because a gentleman does not go out without a hat and I didn’t feel like other headgear.)
A me, in a black T-shirt with plague rats on it, with visible shiny he/they pin and, most importantly, rainbow horns.
June 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Art is finished enough to post; I am still contemplating some tweaks. Imagery inspired by:

1) Twins theology in the celestial/terrestrial pairing
2) Some Geb and Nut mysticism
3) "Balance of Nature" by @ryuuaja.bsky.social
4) My failure to spot auroras

Thoughts to follow in small thread.
Digital artwork. A serpentine black dragon in roughly Asian style, highlighted in green/blue/purple, emerges from a lake. The dragon's horns are antler-shaped and drip with greenery, and greenery and grain runs along its spine; its tailtip is roughly a sheaf of wheat. In the sky above, a phoenix-image sketched in the trailing wisps of pink and yellow-green auroral ribbons, with the Milky Way and the moon. The moon is the phoenix's pearl; the dragon clutches a speckled orange orb. There are parallel structures in some of the shapes. Also I'm kinda proud of how the reflections came out.
June 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Fuckin battle sistrum.
I am holding a sistrum the size of my damn bicep resting on my shoulder. (I am wearing a shirt with a rainbow ombré tiger and the caption “many stripes one pride”.)
June 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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It turns out my “trans but not into pastels” shirt from @edidin.bsky.social goes perfectly with my new extremely loud pants. (Photo by Older!kid.)
A photograph of a white person in sunglasses (me) standing in front of a grey clapboard wall. They are wearing ridiculously loud flannel pants in purple, black, red, blue, and green plaid, a purple shirt with the caption “trans but not into pastels”, and a long blue vest. (And trans pride rings as a pendant fidget, and another necklace.)
June 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM