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Feminist, lawyer, New Yorker, queer—all as in “fuck you.” archiveofourown.org/users/azephirin Profile picture by EJ Chong (ejchong.com). Header photo by me.

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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Of all the things I expected to see in Montréal, a piece of the Berlin Wall in an underground shopping mall was not among them.
An oblong piece of the Berlin Wall, about eight feet high by two feet wide. It’s covered in graffiti, most of which is abstract except for large letters in white reading “EAS.” It’s standing on one of its short ends in a deserted shopping center.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My idea of a wild Friday night
Symphony program: Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons,” Astor Piazzolla’s “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires,” and Francois Dompierre’s “Les Quatre Saisons du Québec.”
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
3] Spanish words now randomly come out when I try to speak French. (The converse has been happening ever since I started trying to learn Spanish.) WTF brain. 4] You know you’re in Canada when. 5] MONTRÉAL BAGELS ARE NOT REAL BAGELS.
A sign reading “Club de Curling le Royal Montréal” on a fancy-looking old-fashioned brick building
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This building in Montréal got a septum piercing.
A large steel metal sculpture that looks like a septum piercing in front of the steps to a generic contemporary office building
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Lol wut? WRONG COUNTRY BLUESKY. Also, I’m not in Texas, thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
A Bluesky app message reading, “Based on your network, we think you're in Texas, United States. This estimate may be inaccurate if you're using a VPN. Tap here to update your location with GPS.”
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Not much of an update on Iona (photo from a couple of months ago). I haven’t seen more of the seizures, but her balance is still bad, she isn’t really eating, and she’s hiding a lot (the latter two are per usual when she doesn’t feel well).
A floofy cream-colored cat asleep in a croissant shape with her peets in the air
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This baby floof (Iona, pictured here doin a biiiiiiiiiiiiiig strrrrrrrrretch) and I are at the emergency vet: she started having seizures this morning, and her balance is really off. (This is a cat who can usually jump to the top shelf of my closet.) Everyone please think your best thoughts for her.
A floofy cream-colored cat lying on her side and stretching luxuriously.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I could not stop myself; I am truly sorry. www.elle.com/life-love/se...
That old Pat Robertson quote, "Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians," with "Heated Rivalry" pasted over "feminism."
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I have questions.
An AO3 tag reading “self-fisting”
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Today in climate change: wearing my flood-watch shoes (waterproof hiking boots) to the office.
A pair of jeans-clad legs above a pair of hiking boot–clad feet on a subway floor.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ħenlo ħumans, įs Më Iona. I àm enjöÿ tő knëäd Màman ŵhile I dő àn pǔřř ànd á bleppe ànd á dřőől. Màman bőőbs įs fávořįt tő bë knëäd, bųt âll şoft pláşe ǎře ğood.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Ħenlo, mÿ nàme Iona. I ám enjôŷ tő bë şlëëp ōn çozë blánketş ōn çouch.
A floofy cream-colored cat sleeps happily on a tan knit throw blanket, which is on top of a blue fleece blanket, on a couch.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Othër àngļe. Mömthër ärm gõōd țō bé şnōōze upőn.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
İ Yoko įs àm màx çosy àn çomfy țuçk béțwéén Mömthër (rıghț) àn ļorge pįļļow (ļefț). Vèry şnug àn şafe, àn çàn pųț ļeggie őn Mömthër, enşure nöț àbşçönd ânywhère. Ħàppy, àm dō a půrr.
An off-angle view of a cuddly orange cat tucked snugly in the valley between her human and large reading pillow. She has one of her front legs resting on her human.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Màman įs ABÀNDON Më Iona fǒř ENȚIŘE DÁÝ ànd ğo țo pļáces ŵheře Më Iona no įs. ĦOW ÀBSOĻUMENT DǍŘETH. I àm dő àn BĮĞ ÀNĞEŘ. Then I ķnëad Màman bőőb.
A floofy cream-colored cat is lying on a shelf and looking disgruntled. Her VERY FLOOFY tail and one of her leggies are dangling in front.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Mÿ nàme Iona. Ám fřequemment dő án bļep ŵhen ħáve ħáppy şnořgļes wįf Máman. Ōften màke án dřooļ aļso.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
At the vet and only attempted a little murder. Bastet bless the inventor of gabapentin.
A chonky orange cat lying on her side on a gray wood floor. Her mouth is slightly askew because she’s stoned on a double dose of gabapentin.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you are using without explanation.
An illustration of two armored hands with their fingers linked together, with white flowers on vines twined throughout. A red banner reading “no love however brief is wasted” is wrapped around the outside.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Î Yoko àm ļove țo bë ļounge őn mány pįļļow.
A rotund orange cat looking very squishy, sleepy, and comfortable as she lounges on and around several pillows and a fleece blanket
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
İ Yoko įz gét màny břushiez anð snǒřglez on Mömthëř pįllow. Náó įz haz çozy nap. Věřy gőőð ðay fǒř bé çat.
A rotund orange cat asleep on a pillow. She’s curled up on her side, with her peets tucked against the couch arm in front of her.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Bro, maybe don’t put your feet all over the plane.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Yoko says, “Ħappy Çaturday aňd Prįde Mőňth. Rëçőmmëňd ćëlebrate ŵif sňooze.”
A fat orange cat asleep on her side in a speedbump-like shape. One of her peets is curled up under her chin.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
İ Yoko àm ħope ťhat ÿour ðay ğet bettër. Reçommenð nàp ŵiťh ştiç leğğie őűt.
A rotund orange cat asleep on an elevated bed with one leg sticking out over the side.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Among the replies roasting me:
A text reading, “[name redacted] and I are just nodding along, vindicated a decade later,” with the reply, “Gotta let the youth make their own mistakes 😆.” (Note: I am the oldest person in this chat.)A text from me reading, “Truly showing up to this fandom a decade later with Starbucks,” with the reply, “‘oh I won't ever do sports RPF.’”A text from me reading, “I WISH I WAS NOT DOING SPORTS RPF,” with the reply, “Saying this like it's an unusual opinion in sports RPF.”
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Me to fannish group text:
Texts reading, “My dudes I have a terrible piece of news: I am starting to give a shit about hockey,” with two laugh reacts.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Today in Sid/Geno-core
A tumblr post by user bennyshadow that reads, “are u gonna let me sit by ur feet and lean against ur leg or do u hateme”
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Yoko says, “Įz jųst àn přopeř fǒř ǒřanj tő bë enjōy şhoe.”
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
WIP Wednesday
Sid kneels in front of her and helps get her blazer off, then starts unbuttoning her dress shirt. At other times, this might be—usually is—sexy, but right now Sid’s hands are just gentle and efficient. He unlaces her shoes, then says, “Do you want to give me your jewelry to put away?”

Right. Zhenya forgot about that. She found perfect earrings for the occasion: a central deep-red ruby surrounded by swirls of black diamonds, to match Harvard’s colors. She can’t decide whether they look like flowers or a space station, but she’s into it either way. She takes off the earrings and hands them to Sid, who tells her, “I still say these look like carnivorous plants.”

“All jewelry should look carnivorous,” Zhenya says, because that would be awesome.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please enjoy this text exchange about SidCros’s basic-bitch cologne preferences; the last one is the best. (This friend isn’t an RPFer, so I just told her “a deeply closeted queer male hockey player.”)
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Oh gods this is terrible news.
A comic panel by Marjane Satrapi. The text reads, “I wanted to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.”
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
As in, y do they even exist, tho
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
WIP Wednesday. (I don’t think Offside News existed in 2016, but their awards are so hilarious that I’m ignoring that.)
2016 Offside Award for Best Soulmateship/Situationship/Whatever the Heck Is Going On There

We usually give an award for Most Homoerotic Tension, but we had to rename it this year in honor of the legendary Evgeniya Malkin and her heterosexual life partner Sidney Crosby. It’s not news that they live in each other’s pockets, but they leveled up after the Pens’ Cup win: holding hands and gazing into each other’s eyes while cradling Lord Stanley’s Mug like their very own child. Which it sort of is. 

Runners-up:
Nicklas Bäckström and Alexander Ovechkin
Jeff Carter and Mike Richards
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
THE FIRST RUNNER-UP THO offsidenewsco.com/news/vesey-a...
From Offside News’ Vesey Awards:

DILF of the Year: Evgeni Malkin

Well, the staff of Offside News Co have learned their lesson — don’t snub a beloved and sexy legend whose pending contract extension is currently making fans gnaw on sheet metal. With 41,570 write-in votes, Evgeni Malkin takes home DILF of the Year. The forward did sign a one-year, $5.5 million contract three days after we published the nominees, but there’s no stopping a movement once it’s started. Big Sexy for Love, Big for Life.

Runners-up:
• Hilary Knight 
• Sidney Crosby
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
MÀMAN, ȚHERE BİRBS
A floofy cream-colored cat crouches intently by a window. She’s staring at a tree just outside, where birds are hanging out.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Thursday Thread: Birds Bein' Tuff (I don’t have any good photos, but this dude is a tuff NYCer. Credit: www.caryncast.com/products/the...) post yours 🪶
Painting of a gray pigeon wearing a baseball cap with the classic “I ❤️ NY” logo, and holding a hot beverage in a cup with the equally classic faux-Greek “we are happy to serve you” design.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
WIP Wednesday, still on my bullshit.
Sid makes a decision, pulls back the covers, and tries to get back in bed without jostling Geno. He seems to succeed: she makes a happier-sounding noise, turns so that she’s mostly lying on him, and throws an arm across his chest. Sid wraps his arm around her shoulders and gently curls the wisps of hair that have escaped from her braid around his fingers.

They lie there together, Geno asleep and Sid marinating in all the inane things he’s stopping himself from whispering at her, until Geno starts fidgeting and then rubs her face against Sid’s shirt. “You awake, G?” he says softly. 

“Нет,” she grumbles, and takes a few more moments to sulk about it.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Hilary Knight looking fiiiiiiiiiiine
Hilary Knight looking fiiiiiiiiiiine while relaxing in a flamingo float in a swimming pool
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Fig. 1
A rotund orange cat dozing on a stack of notebooks and papers
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Theme of this fic
A bumper sticker reading, “I heart my feral wife.”
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
It’s Wednesday again, and these idiots have SO MANY FEELINGS. Including some internalized toxic masculinity.
Geno pulls down the duvet, and they’re apparently doing this. Sid feels— He doesn’t know how he feels. It’s not like a faceoff or even an assist. Maybe it’s not like a game at all. Maybe it’s like skating together across a limitless expanse of ice, passing the puck back and forth, getting where they’re going—or not going anywhere—and enjoying it.

They end up lying on their sides facing each other, and Sid reaches over to run a finger across her hairline and some soft strands that have come loose from her braid. He realizes that he’s smiling again, and she is too, that same unguarded expression. She runs her hand through his hair, and his eyes fall closed. He’s always liked having his hair touched, played with, but it feels weird to ask for it—like it’s perfectly fine for him to do to a woman, but not to enjoy for himself as much as he does. But it feels so good.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Different WIP Wednesday, same story.
Fic excerpt:

He wants nothing more than to kiss her, except they’re parked on a public street. His windows are tinted, but the windshield isn’t, leaving a small but nonzero chance that they’d end up on Deadspin. It would be annoying for him, because he prefers to keep his private life private, but Geno would fucking hate it. He still remembers how angry and embarrassed she was after the Daily Mail printed some shots of her on the beach with her family in Yalta a couple of summers ago. She’d been wearing a bikini the same color as her hair that will haunt Sid until the day he dies, and splashing in the surf with her niece. She clearly hadn’t expected to end up in a tabloid under the headline “Hockey Hottie Flaunts Her Toned Body”—as if Geno has ever flaunted anything except her backhand and ability to check dudes twice her width into the boards. And sometimes her cars. The point is, Sid will commit murder in broad daylight before letting something like that happen again.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
WIP Wednesday is a thing, right? Yes, I’m back on my genderswap bullshit. And it’s hockey. AND it’s an unauthorized sequel to another author’s fic. #OnlyTheFlyingSpaghettiMonsterCanJudgeMe
It’s all fairly matter-of-fact until Geno gets him a t-shirt to sleep in, and Sid has the simultaneous realizations that 1) he needs to get undressed here in the presence of Geno, and 2) Geno will be getting undressed here in the presence of him. Should he turn around? Is it creepy to look? They’d be having sex if they weren’t so damn tired, so maybe not? 

Then, so unhesitatingly that they might have done this a thousand times, Geno strips off her sweater, tosses it on an armchair, and reaches behind herself to unhook her bra. 

Sid’s mouth goes dry. He manages to croak out, “Can I please do that?”
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I sing this every time I hear that song.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using, with no explanation.
A fat orange cat blissfully asleep on her side on a green quilt. Her chumbles, aka primordial pouch, are spilling onto her lower back leggie.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Search your camera roll for “hell.”
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Ğood ňight ħumaňs. I Yoko àm ħope ťhàt yőű ħàs şleepş às çomfe às Miňe.
A chonky orange cat lying sleepily on her human’s backpack, which is on a multicolored rug. Her Highness is sprawled out comfortably, almost hugging the backpack.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Today in home decor. At least no one would have trouble finding your house? And for clarity, this is just a regular three-family in South Brooklyn, not Myrtle Beach. www.facebook.com/share/1av2cG...
A three-story brick row house with a tropical-themed paint job. The topmost level says “Paradise Resort,” and the rest is painted in pinks and yellows, with images of a parrot, a hummingbird, and palm trees.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I need to get up and shower, but Iona (who wasn’t feeling well yesterday) is lying on me and purring, and it would definitely be a felony to disturb her. (Picture from a few days ago for tax.)
A floofy white cat sound asleep on a sofa cushion. Her peets and tail are visible, but not her head. She was definitely assembled incorrectly.
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abi z / azephirin @azephirin.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Yoko says, “Bëhold Mÿ mägnifique bütte änd tàìl. Ğood nǐght.”
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