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Sebastian Crane

@mr-s-crane.bsky.social

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RESISTANCE HISTORIAN by day, ACTOR by night, TRANSEXUAL MENACE every minute. HE/HIM 🏳️‍🌈I’m for the boys.🏳️‍🌈 33Y/O Haunting Salem, MA and sharing queer & erotic history.

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Sebastian Crane @mr-s-crane.bsky.social · Jan 22

Sebastian (he/him) here. I’m a trans historian who likes thick fog, banned books, and gays of yore. More details threaded below.

FOLLOW FOR…
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+ history facts
💋18th century erotica and gender studies
🎃Spooky sights from Salem
⚔️Tales from my DND tables
❤️‍🔥And excessive homoeroticism

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Sebastian Crane @mr-s-crane.bsky.social · 29m

Coffee run in Salem.

#ootd #goth

Mirror selfie of Sebastian - a lanky, white man - from the neck down. He is wearing combat boots, denim cargo pants, a spooky “Hellebore” magazine sweatshirt with occult imagery, and an aviation jacket with white wool at the collar.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 13h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Sebastian Crane @mr-s-crane.bsky.social · 9h

Haul from the $3 book sale at the Salem Athenaeum last month. I’ve been checking out “The Origin of Satan” from our local library for years as a reference and I am so excited to finally have a copy of my own.

And if you want, I’ll show you some of the fine ~figures~ in that drawing book…

Three books arranged on Sebastian’s leather-topped desk. The first,”The Origin Of Satan” by Elaine Pagels, the next “Drawing The Male Figure”, and beneath those a big art history book.

Sebastian Crane @mr-s-crane.bsky.social · 10h

Whoa, hello. I’m back here on Bluesky again after stepping into the center of a curiously perfect ring of mushrooms during one of my brooding wanders across the misty moors.

How long has it been?

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Sebastian Crane @mr-s-crane.bsky.social · Mar 9

I don’t make the rules. Also I have had several shots of tequila*. But, I stand by everything I have said and affirmed.

*It’s Medicinal.

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Sebastian Crane @mr-s-crane.bsky.social · Mar 9

“Abracadabra” is ivy winding around our tree trunks.

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Sebastian Crane @mr-s-crane.bsky.social · Mar 9

It’s visceral. She has CAST something. She has spent a SPELL SLOT.

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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · Mar 7

if you let them decide what trans people can and cannot do with their own bodies, you're giving them permission to decide what you can and cannot do with yours next.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · Mar 7

At @standupforscience.bsky.social and the signs are statistically significantly excellent

A person in a mask holding a painting that says “hands off my transgenic mice”

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Sebastian Crane @mr-s-crane.bsky.social · Mar 8

We brought Bad!Queer!Rep ala Gladiator II to the goth toga party last night.

(He/him all around) @lewdalfred.bsky.social

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早柚Sayu @descendinight.bsky.social · Feb 21

“Dream of me. Only me.” #Nosferatu

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y🏳️‍🌈şenaz @ayseneinart.bsky.social · Feb 20

Gang, at this point I’m too disillusioned to expect all of you to mask always (even though you should), but for the love of GOD, please at least mask at airports and on planes when you travel to events!!!

Screenshot of a Forbes headline, “Over 96% Of Airplane Flights Had Covid-19 Coronavirus In Their Wastewater”, published Jan 08, 2023.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · Feb 18

I didn’t exactly intend to replace academic pursuits with aggressive amounts of D&D but I did just read someone having a BA in History as a Bonus Action in History so I think it’s happening regardless & tbh I welcome the change

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Sam Guay @samguayart.bsky.social · Feb 18

A bunch of little Love Witch themed sticker designs that I made for Valentines day last year. I realize I should have shared them last week! These stickers are all available in my shop.

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Sam Guay @samguayart.bsky.social · Feb 16

if you see this post a knight ⚔️🍄

a painting of a faerie knight made of rotting parts of human, animal and insects. The border is a bunch of purple mushrooms and a close up of the faerie piloting the knight.

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · Feb 16

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist

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Sebastian Crane @mr-s-crane.bsky.social · Feb 14

Happy Valentine’s Day from your local, demon-possessed lounge lizard. Every-so-often, I creep down to Boston to sing. See you tonight at Poetry Brothel! I’ll be crooning again for all you lovers in Cambridge and keeping it extra sleazy.

A promotional photo reading: Baritone of ill-repute, Mr. Crane. Made to look like a late 19th century magician’s poster, featuring rich gold and red tones and a photo of Sebastian - a lanky white guy with black hair - listening to a devil whispering in his ear.

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · Feb 14

Goodnight. I hope you have sweet dreams of hot Dracula

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Sebastian Crane @mr-s-crane.bsky.social · Feb 12

Yessss, jacket!

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Sebastian Crane @mr-s-crane.bsky.social · Feb 12

If you see this, do it!

-NAME: Sebastian
-PRONOUNS: he/him
-HEIGHT: 6’0”
-SEXUALITY: Gay as a bouquet of daffodils.
-SIGN: ☀️Capricorn, 🌙Aquarius, ⬆️ Pisces. And 🔥Sag.🔥 Mars, Venus, Mercury.
-PIERCINGS: 0
-TATTOOS: 0
-FAV COLOR: Black~
-FAV DRINK: Coffee
-FAV ANIMAL: Trembling, bug-eyed, lil dogs.

A rosy-colored photo of Sebastian on a sunset visit to Pony Henge. He is a lanky, black haired white guy dressed in black bell bottoms and a black fringed jacket, elatedly riding a tiny hobby horse.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · Feb 11

as a medievalist, as a church historian, let me say that within the long history of Christianity, I cannot emphasize enough how actually normal this is.

this is Constantine, Charlemagne, Frederick Barbarossa, Louis IX, even Henry VIII!

this is still Christianity, as empire-hungry as it is.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Feb 8

“To say no to President Trump would be to say no to God.”

Meet televangelist Paula White, who Donald Trump just appointed to lead the White House ‘Faith Office.’

This is not normal.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Feb 11

Our turn DC

WE WROTE EN MASSE AND
GAVE YOU A WEEK TO ACT,
NOW WE PROTEST:
NO BAN ON
GENDER
AFFIRMING
CARE FOR
TRANS YOUTH
PROTEST ON THURSDAY FEB 13! 12-2P OUTSIDE OF
THE DC ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE 400 6th STREET
N.W. BRING SIGNS & FRIENDS! *DELAYED BECAUSE OF
HARSH WEATHER CONDITIONS; PLEASE TAKE NOTE**
QUEER LIBE

RANS
TIO

Committee of
"Alled Organizations: Emall
CIR
Interns and
BAWGGMDCDSA.ORG to
Residents
SEIUHealthcare.

coordinate co-sponsoring *
PRIDE AT
METRO Oc DSA
WORK

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · Feb 11

Oops, the link didn't link, here's my lil' shop of Gothy, Steampunky, Vintage, Retro-Fantastic goodies that helps keep the lights on, thank you for your time and consideration!
torchandarrow.etsy.com
(Signed copies of my books also available!)
(Plus a very cool 4th Doctor scarf lanyard!)
🖤

Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · Feb 11

NightSky! I'm drafting/editing spooky stories but ALSO, I put a few more restored vintage things up at Torch & Arrow, clip-on earrings, tie-clips, I made new one-of-a-kind medals/badges & other goodies, I also extended a sale on a bunch of items! 🖤https://torchandarrow.etsy.com
Thanks for looking!

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Sebastian Crane @mr-s-crane.bsky.social · Feb 12

Already haunting your feed, but:

1) “American Wolf” by Nate Blakeslee and “The Passion” by Jeanette Winterson each ruined me very differently.

2) I would Do Things to John Childermass from “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell”.

3) Pain au chocolat every time I hit the bakery for a coffee.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Feb 10

It's cute of Dem congresspeople to tell us that, unlike us, they simply can't afford to get arrested by police

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