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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 08/08/2026

our Dietrich does knead us but he will absolutely get so blissed out that he flops over and kneads the air too, and it’s the cutest thing in the world

a tuxedo cat flopped over the back of a couch that’s right in front of a bookcase, his back half is on a shelf and his front is slumped over the couch, it’s adorable

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 26/07/2026

i stopped by a CVS today and the ENTIRE candy aisle was locked up

a large aisle of bags and boxes of assorted candy, literally all of it except for one narrow shelf of gum, and for some reason the large bulk bags on the top shelf, behind locked plexiglass doors.

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 07/07/2026

i may be stuck in bed with the Bone Agonies™️ but at least i have a pile of new zines from @katieaki.bsky.social and @cattlegoth.bsky.social !!!

me, a light-skinned mixed-race trans woman, with messy, curly dark brown bangs (with a lot of grey showing up surprisingly well in this lighting!) and green glasses with gold accents, lying in bed on a dark grey pillow, the bottom half of my face covered with two 5.5” x 8.5” zines by Rose K Waters, “The Many Myths of the Whipping Girl”, which has a black-and-white collage of roses, crows, strange coins, nipple clamps, and a patch that says “sadist” on the cover, and “Pink Letters”, which has the title in a dark pink on a mostly black background, split vertically by a white cylindrical shape i can’t quite make out, which is emitting a waxy-looking substance with distorted colors at its edges; and Katie Aki’s 4.25” x 5.5” May-June 2026 issue of her Lucky Likes zine, which has a peachy pink cover with her illustration of a woman with long, shiny dark hair, taking a sip of a cocktail in a coupe glass from her raised right arm, holding her left arm at her throat, which when turned upside down her neck and right arm become legs and the hand at her throat becomes a hand with fingers buried in her pussy. also, one of the corners of “The Many Myths of the Whipping Girl” ended up sticking into my nostril, lol.

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 06/07/2026

unrelated to the content of the post, did you know someone is putting weird christian ads on your blog??

screenshot of an ad from the link in the post i’m replying to, an image that said “Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? Acts 19:2”, “holy ghost” is in big white letters that are on fire. smaller text ad copy below reads: “The Final Words Unveiled
What truly changed when Jesus said ‘It is finished’? Discover the weight behind this moment.” then there’s a blue button reading “Explore the Moment”

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 30/06/2026

basically i saw this cover and it was over for me

screenshot of the Peabody-Essex Museum’s web page showing a close-up of a white leather book cover, with creases in it indicating the wrinkles around a whale’s eye, but with an actual glass eye sticking out of the cover.

below, it attributes the artist:

Chaim Ebanks, bookbinder, and Susan Ebanks, designer, of Exeter Bookbinders (Devon, England), Moby Dick; or, The Whale (detail), published 1930.
Custom binding in white Chieftain Goatskin leather with blind tooling, gilt lettering and glass prosthetic eye, 2023. Phillips Library purchase, Library Acquisition Fund, made possible by Arthur and Judi Rubin, 2023. PS2384.M6 E23 1930. Courtesy of Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Rowley,
MA. Photo by Kathy Tarantola/PEM.

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 22/06/2026

he knows i’m finally trying to get out of bed

a tuxedo cat draped over my legs, themselves safely ensconced in a pink duvet

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

i don’t understand how i brush this cat until i get barely anything coming out and then when i start petting her afterwards my hand gets immediately covered with more loose fur!! where are you hiding all of that, ma’am???

Hester, a dark brown tabby cat, sitting in my lap looking bashful with my hand resting on her back

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 08/06/2026

Lesbos had shirts commemorating it for the 30th anniversary :D

close-up of a pink t-shirt stamped with a picture of a bare mattress in roughly isometric perspective, with creases and folds in the middle that are sort of suggestive of body parts, the edge of the mattress is inscribed “BED GATE: 30 YEARS IN BED WITH DYKES”

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 01/06/2026

please enjoy actually useful alt text! screen reader users also get gay sex and gay magic and gay art!

Gilbert Baker’s original 8-stripe pride flag from 1978, with the color listed to the left side of the flag and the meaning to the right. from top to bottom, they are:
hot pink - sex
red - life
orange - healing
yellow - sunlight
green - nature
turquoise - magic/art
indigo - serenity
violet - spirit

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 11/05/2026

after wracking my brain for a few minutes, i realized i was not thinking of another actor: i was thinking of former president of Ireland, Michael D Higgins.

a balding white man, with white hair on the sides and back of his head, short and squat, with a big nose, wearing rimless glasses and a very sharp navy three piece suit. somewhat ironically, i got this picture from his IMDB page; he wrote and narrated an apparently not very good movie in the early oughts.

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 14/04/2026

super tasty!! i wish the noodles had carried more of the broth with them (i haven’t had real pho in ages but iirc it’s generally served with a big spoon so you can get noodles and broth together but that doesn’t work in a small cup, alas!), the broth was spicy but not overwhelming and tasted great!

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 10/02/2026

The Flenser

$three cassettes released by the excellent label The Flenser, lined up on a wooden bench. from left to right we have "Labyrinthine" by Faetooth, featuring an illustrated cover by Julia Jane Martens in muted blues and black of a woman in a flowy, empire-waste gown, standing and holding a scythe in her right hand, with a lamb standing at her feet. there's a giant tombstone behind her and flowers all around; Desolation's Flower by Ragana, which has a black and white photo by Bailey Kobelin of the two light-skinned band members standing back to back and looking up and away, one has long medium-colored hair and the other has dark bangs, everything below their heads is obscured by a giant bouquet of flowers, and their faces are refracted in an arc above them; and finally Ash Souvenir by Ragana & Drowse, which has a square illustration by Cameron Puleo, showing the aftermath of the Mount St Helens eruption with the mountain in a light taupe color, and fields of shattered trees in darker brown, with a pink cloudy background, this has a border of roots and twigs and leaves, and the background of the rest of the tape is the same taupe as the mountain. it's also the only tape to have any writing on the cover, the album title at the top of the illustration and the band names in smaller text just below the illustration, both in a gothic font. they're all great albums and you should check them out on bandcamp!$

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 23/10/2025

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

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 22/10/2025

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!!!!”

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 23/08/2025

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

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 19/06/2025

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

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 14/06/2025

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

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 25/05/2025

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.]

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 02/04/2025

i did, this is what it leads to, you should probably delete that post and make a new one with your actual chuffed link

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 30/03/2025

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

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 11/03/2025

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

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 04/03/2025

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??

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 14/02/2025

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.

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 12/02/2025

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.]

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 11/02/2025

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

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 26/01/2025

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

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 25/01/2025

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.

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 23/01/2025

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.

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 14/01/2025

my bestie @nexusrasp.bsky.social got me the latest pressing of my fave record of 2024 (honestly? probably my fave of the 20s so far) for a late birthday/yule gift and i am so touched 🥹🥹🥹

it’s nominally a selfie, but you can only see my eyes, glasses, and bangs because i’m holding up a copy of Tristwch T Fenywod’s self-titled LP, which is an extremely low-res, two-toned acid green and black picture of three women in flowing gothic dresses standing dramatically in probably the woods or a bog, it’s very difficult to say because the art has been distorted to hell and back

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 14/01/2025

who will be the Proclus of transfeminism studies???

an incredibly complex nesting doll of a diagram from Radek Chlup's book "Proclus" about the philosopher of the same name, showing all the different hypostases of reality, in the form of cascading triangles, each of which are split into levels, one fewer than the one above it. each hypostasis has an empty triangle at the top, corresponding to the One, the purest form of that hypostasis.
at the very top of the first triangle we have the One, followed by the intelligible henads, which are connected the first connection in the second hypostasis, Being. below intelligible henads are intelligible-intellective henads, which are connected to the second level of Being, and the first level of the third hypostasis, Life. after the i-i henads come the intellective henads, connected to the third level of Being, the second level of Life, and the first level of the fourth hypostasis, Intellect. after the intellective henads are the hypercosmic henads, connected to the fourth level of Being, the third of Life, the second of Intellect, and the first level of Soul. next are the hypercosmic-encosmic henads, connected to the fifth level of Being, the fourth of Life, the third of Intellect, tthe second of Soul, and the first of "Soul/Nature (?)". finally, we have the encosmic henads, connected to the lowest level of each hypostasis, and finally, below Soul/Nature, to the Material World, where we are.
each level of each lower hypostases list what type of entities exist there, and can be derived from the level of the top hypostasis it descends from. the top One-equivalent is always "divine unparticipated Being/Life/etc", and the lower levels are divine beings/lives/souls/etc, with the quality of the level they connect to at the top: intelligible, intelligible-intellective, intellective, hypercosmic, hypercosmic-encosmic, encosmic. thus, each level does not contain the highest level of the one before it, and when you get to the material world all that's left are encosmic divine bodies.

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 12/01/2025

the face of a little baby bastard man who has learned that he can stretch real high and turn out the bathroom lights while i’m on the toilet!!

a tuxedo cat sits on a box of cat litter next to a dresser, looking absolutely shocked that anyone could accuse him of such heinous crimes

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 11/01/2025

happy final hours of the south node in my 11th house to me; i had always assumed this was going to be the result of that transit but did not expect it to become so very urgent at the last moment!

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