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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 1h

im kinda built like puddingdraws teto and i think its hot girl behavior of me to think of myself that way

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 1h

saying outloud to the tune of "when i was a young warthog"

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 10h

the 70-90% section drags a bit but the economy of acting and hints of interiority from connery in the earlier parts is really good

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 10h

zardoz is such a good movie god damn

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 21h

byrne is the kind of ignorant but supportive ally who will tell stories like "well 'she' was still 'he' back then" and not be aware of any of the physical realities beyond The Surgery

Album cover of David Byrne's "uh-oh"
Song title "Now I'm Your Mom"

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

what if kill la kill was epic

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

someone at fromsoft was like "what's a good name for a big bulky knight who hangs out at a fortress full of elaborate mechanical traps?" and remembered phantom blood

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

i'm imagining the path was probably elp -> jojo's bizarre adventure -> dark souls

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

i choose to interpret "the musical box" by genesis as a repper grappling with the potential of transition versus the surety of growing old in a boy's body without ever truly feeling like a man

From Genius:

The explanation of this song, from the liner notes of the LP:

THE MUSICAL BOX
While Henry Hamilton-Smythe minor was playing croquet with Cynthia Jane De Blaise-William, sweet-smiling Cynthia raised her mallet high and gracefully removed Henry’s head. Two weeks later, in Henry’s nursery, she discovered his treasured musical box. Eagerly she opened it and as “Old King Cole” began to play a small spirit-figure appeared. Henry had returned – But not for long, for as he stood in the room his body began ageing rapidly, leaving a child’s mind inside. A lifetime’s desires surged through him. Unfortunately the attempt to persuade Cynthia Jane to fulfil his romantic desire led his nurse to the nursery to investigate the noise. Instinctively Nanny hurled the musical box at the bearded child, destroying both.

Lyrics to part of The Musical Box:

But the clock, tick-tock
On the mantlepiece
And I want, and I feel, and I know, and I touch
The walls

She's a lady, she's got time
Brush back your hair and let me get to know your face
She's a lady, she is mine
Oh, brush back your hair and let me get to know your flesh

I've been waiting here for so long
And all this time that passed me by
It doesn't seem to matter now
You stand there with your fixed expression
Casting doubt on all I have to say
Why don't you touch me, touch me
Why don't you touch me, touch me
Touch me now, now, now, now, now
Now, now, now, now, now
Now, now, now, now, now
Now, now, now, now
Now, now, now, now

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

on further reflection more of a "stillfleck"

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

i'm seeing triple: nine ben stillers

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

damn it is this too close to celeste?

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

girl who starts to notice that whenever she expresses that "part of me" feels or wants something, it's non-diegetically highlighted in a different text color

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

many such cases... i just mean that if there's anything appealing sometimes in the idea of being a bit small, you don't have to intellectualize yourself away from that appeal. your ability and wisdom will still be there for you.

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

vyria, this feels like a similar vein to "i'm jealous of trans women because i wish *i* could transition"

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

trying to workshop a gag where pinhead is looking at a principal component analysis graph where "hardcore painsluts" and "puzzle fans" overlap perfectly but it's along the axis for component 8, which explains like 0.063% of the variation between groups

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

thinking about it more, this was probably a "grace" (compared to the role of "adultified predator") primarily afforded to the friends and family of opinion pundits and Important People

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

dream about tracking a stand user serial killer from a hotel into train tunnels with fraw bow

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

there was a brief window where the transfemme child was a Confused Little Faggot, queeny and theatric, who would have been accepted if only "he" had assumed that role (see: Vivian Wilson), but as the conservative ranks once again closed against gays that one fell by the wayside.

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

it's really nice not to be fighting the Currents of Being anymore. we might change quite a bit as a person over the next five years, but that's liberating, exciting instead of scary. because we're not afraid of becoming ourselves 💚

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas is not the story of Omelas. It is the story of being told the story of Omelas.

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Now do you believe in them? Are they not more credible?" ... "The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist."

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting." ... "Do you believe? Do you accept the festival, the city, the joy? No? Then let me describe one more thing."

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

the other reply is just as much of a "take."

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

another take on the story is "can't you imagine a utopia where no one is being tortured?"

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

hey you try finding someone who knows Heavenly Script

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

maybe there's more of them in the side quests. anyway i find myself liking emet-selch quite a bit so far even though i assumed i'd be immune to his charms. i realize he feels a bit like Garak, which helps.

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

il mheg was fun. i'm getting tired of being chased around by eulmorans, though the adjutant was starting to get interesting right before he got chucked in a bottomless pit (that i assume ranjit got out of no problem). a lot of the area antagonists (evil nu mou, evil blessed) don't seem fleshed out.

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

continued shadowbringers thoughts:

the "white girl save me" meme but it's:
feo ul... save me..
feo ul
grant me succor feo ul

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

(okay to be clear the actual lyrical intent is that she's being feminine but not *ladylike*)

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

in the song "man! i feel like a woman" shania twain expresses that she "forgets [she's] a lady" so which is it, shania?

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

see also though how requiring medical teams and specialties can be weaponized though - the state of trans care in the UK where general practitioners refuse to even try and interpret hormone panels for trans people "go wait a billion years and see an endocrinologist, in the meantime fuck off"

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

i could see a repressed girl taking the out of "no i'd need to be physically strong to escape the island so keeping a testosterone-dominant body is actually a matter of survival"

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

with these kinds i just wrap it around twice. three times would be an actual firm hold.

Four beige fabric hair scrunchies in varying shades

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

tie loosely at top of head with cloth/silk scrunchie

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

shit they signed me up for missingno surgery

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i didn't need to Elevate other women to the position of Real People, i needed to "lower" them to it

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i think we saw the same thread. before and early into my transition i was terrified of, like, psychically contaminating women with my desires. i think i'm respecting other women's personhood a lot more now that i can let myself feel lust *without* being guilty and christian about it!

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connie @connieflagration.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

dragons at sleepovers: argonauts at sleepovers:

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