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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 7h

...I think I may have followed too many people in my effort to maximize the amount of cool content in my feed.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18h

For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 7h

Why sleep in one dog bed when you can sleep between *two* dog beds?

A sable-and-white Shetland sheepdog lies on the floor beside a large white dog bed patterned with dark blue flowers, resting her head sleepily on the raised edge. A smaller plush-lined pet bed sits in the foreground, and part of a couch or chair is visible to the right.

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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 8h

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♠️ghøst🤍 - VGen OPEN @i-am-your-ghost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it is time!

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(reposted to fix typos) Okay, here is my boiling hot take after accidentally stumbling into WARHOUND, mechsploitation, and all the exhausting fucking discourse orbiting this deeply weird little corner of queer fiction: Some of you desperately need to learn the phrase "this is not for me."

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ever finish a chapter, look at the page number, then look at the word count and realize with growing dread that when you circle back, it's going to be an absolute beast to try and edit? Because chapter 6 of my current project is sitting at 39 pages and 8,374 words right now. Heaven help me...

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My wife: [kisses me] Psych service dog: I have detected a change in baseline, time for you to sit down

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Someday I will become the sort of person who owns matching towels but today is not that day

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nobody warned me how much of novel writing would involve deciding what everybody's got going on with their hands...

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Accessibility should not require entering through the loading dock like I’m a shipment of produce

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sometimes my service dog performs a task so beautifully I could cry and then one vest removal later she is back to normal dog business and trips over her own feet while trying to whip her snake toy around

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Occasionally I remember that I can rearrange all my furniture in my house whenever and however I want and experience a dangerous sense of power

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The overlap between “gay accessory collection” and “medical device collection” has gotten surprisingly blurry now that I’m in my 30s

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There is a specific kind of grief in realizing your parents liked you best when you required nothing from them. "You were such an easy kid!" Thanks. You acted like I was committing a crime any time I implied that I needed something from you, so I learned not to need things from you.

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Service dogs are funny because the whole relationship is built on trust and training and then sometimes they just put one paw directly on your kidney and preeeessssssss

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The party boy to homebody pipeline is real and at the end of it is ownership of more blankets than you could have ever possibly imagined

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Nothing beats the feeling of finding your zest again after lowkey abandoning a project for literal weeks. Turns out I am not sick of writing self-indulgent gay vampire yearning. I just needed to dip my toes briefly into a different genre and learn it was Not My Thing At All.

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John Carpenter’s The Alex Nevil @thealexnevil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Grim Reaper has the aim of a stormtrooper.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hi, this is your seasonal reminder to back up your computer, your cell phone, your voice recorder, your memory cards, anything you think is important. Make multiple copies, because hard drives fail and are very expensive right now. Sometimes you drop you phone into a lake. Do it sooner than later.

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ever find a new song and listening to it on full volume isn't enough? Like, fam, I'm gonna need you to schlorp this up into a needle and drive it directly into my central nervous system, aight?

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Couches: beloved friend Armless chairs: trusted ally High bar stools: enemy combatant

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Being trans prepared me unusually well for the revelation that bodies are not static objects and sometimes you have to renegotiate your relationship with yourself

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

One of my least favorite stranger interactions is when someone asks to pet my service dog while already petting my service dog

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have spent an unreasonable amount of my life shaking and crying in workplace bathrooms

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Puking from pain is fun and exciting during the busiest day of the year for my department

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The office is where I go to earn money so I can continue to invent new and interesting flavors of gay yearning after hours

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Why is so much mobility equipment designed in the aesthetic category of “1970s hospital basement”?? Give me mobility aids in jewel tones. Give me engraving. Give me unnecessary brass details. Where is the pageantry? The finesse?

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

At least my service dogs have never once told me I’m inspiring...

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sometimes I remember that houses used to have conversation pits and get angry about what was taken from us

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Being young and disabled in America is basically spending half your life proving you are disabled and the other half proving you are still a person

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Somehow, despite everything, I built a stable adult life without curing any of the weirdness. Which is/was an unexpectedly ieal outcome!

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Having short Achilles tendons and Achillean attraction feels a little too on the nose even for me, upon reflection

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Bro fuck networking and fuck dinners with big wigs...I don't want to listen to someone jack off to the sound of their own voice, I wanna engage in parallel play with my wife Ugh!!

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Deeply funny that I spend my workday navigating institutions and then go home and invent worse fictional institutions recreationally

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👻 L.T. Vargus, undead and still disgraced author 👻 @ltvargus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

he’s a 10 but he’s not a werewolf OR a vampire 😞

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Kellalena @kellalena.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Is it cool if I come over and lay down on your floor

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Cosmic Clau @cosmicclau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

another week another holy fuck somebody make it stop

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Dunno if I'll keep this dedication but it's accurate as hell

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Disability pride but specifically the kind where I decorate my mobility aids like a water bottle girlie who just rolled out a new Owala

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erin @electricdreamt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 23/08/2026

Begging editors around the country to retire the phrase “transgender debate.” That’s not what this is. That’s not what this ever has been!

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Notice how all of the people crying "academic freedom" in response to a Nazi losing a job he was bad at were completely silent about the academic freedom of trans people and Palestinians

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My wife: quietly crocheting beside me while listening to podcasts Me: this is pornographic somehow

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I don't appreciate that my body waits until I am fully committed to the movement before withdrawing structural support but hey at least I ate shit in my living room instead in front of an auditorium of new staff members!

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Unfortunately my best ideas continue to arrive during activities where writing them down would be frowned upon because it's No Technology Listening Time and I have yet to commit to being a notebook user...

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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Second trip home for shit I forgot let's goooooo

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