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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 39m

Pay close attention to this image from Skydance. Look at how prominent "Harry Potter" is in that org chart. They'll throw a *lot* of money at that property, to keep it profitable. Bear that in mind every time you decide to engage with that fandom.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 03/10/2026

Looks like a couple bingos in there.

A filled out version of the "Teenage Dysphoria Bingo - Girl card, featuring options like "hates getting their hair cut" and "often physically uncoordinated and weak, clumsy." This also shows two diagonal bingos.

A blank version of the "Teenage Dysphoria Bingo - Girl card, featuring options like "doesn't really act or think they act 'gay,' but others suspect they are" and "hates mirrors and being photographed."

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 28/09/2026

Finding beauty in an ugly world.

Two bright magenta wildflowers in Sutro Park.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 24/09/2026

Not even kidding. Here’s three of them, sitting in front of me.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 20/09/2026

...and, of course, Chemical X

A screen capture from the opening credits of the Power Puff Girls. A horrified Professor looks at a broken vial of a black chemical, dripping into a pot.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 20/09/2026

Welcome! Have a bonus Ferry Building photo.

A long grey building with a rectangular clocktower spire. This is the San Francisco Ferry Building.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 20/09/2026

One of them out today was a Melbourne tram. That's the close-up off the wooden ceiling. Here it is from the outside:

A green and cream tram. The head sign reads "Nowhere in particular.: It is numbered 496. This is a Melbourne, Australia tram (streetcar).

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 20/09/2026

Photos from my day going back and forth on the Embarcadero with @bonkina.bsky.social

A grey streetcar with a red roof and red lining the windows. This is San Francisco Municipal Railway No. 1, the first publicly-owned big city streetcar in the United States. It was built in 1912.

A close up of an aged, wooden streetcar ceiling, with a lone antique lightbulb in the center, giving off a warm, amber glow. This is a close-up of the ceiling of a Melbourne, Australia (SW6 Class) streetcar, built in 1946.

The front of an old streetcar, numbered 163, in cream and green. This is 1914-built San Francisco Municipal Railway streetcar. This streetcar represents the last days of Muni’s original streetcar fleet. Streetcar 162 joined Muni’s fleet when automobiles were still a novelty, and was retired n 1958 This event marks its return to service for the first time in many years.

passengers board a small, old yellow and brown trolley. This is Market Street Railway Company No. 578, otherwise known as "Dinkie." It was built in 1896, and survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
It is America’s oldest passenger streetcar still on the active roster of an urban transit agency, and one of the oldest operating electric streetcars in the world.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 18/09/2026

No alt text on these, apologies. It’s people being dumb about trans people.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 15/09/2026

I actually made this weeks ago...

The "Somehow Palpatine Returned" meme, but with "McConnell" as the subject.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 07/09/2026

This wasn't much by choice. It was one of the few films my school system had, so I saw this one in several elementary school classes over my youth. (some of the others: Angel and Big Joe, Winter of the Witch, and at least one Ludwig Von Drake educational short)

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 02/09/2026

Don't let the door hit ya, Seth

NBCs results of the Massachusetts primary, with 1.8% in, and projecting Edward Markey winning over Seth Moulton. The current as of this moment percentage is 72.7% (11538 votes) for Markey, and 27.3% (4338 votes) for Moulton.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 23/08/2026

This is for JewelrySky. This is a deeply sentimental piece I own, which belonged to my godmother. It's some form of rhinestone. CA. 1960s. I bring it up every so often, because I would love to find earrings or other pieces with this stone color, but have never found anything like it. What is this?

A brooch made up of rhinestones in a loosely floral shape.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 22/08/2026

Hear, hear. Tomorrow, my dad would be 87. If he were still here. So, I feel ya.

A man standing in from of Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. He is wearing a Main Street Vehicles cast member uniform, and standing next to the Main Street Fire Truck. His cast member badge declares him "Vernon."

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 21/08/2026

I am often reminded that, when automobiles were in their infancy, a lot of the public complained about fast drivers who were making it hard for people to use the streets as they were intended: for pedestrians and wagons. The onus was on cars to follow the rules of the road.

A page from the San Francisco Examiner, Sunday December 27, 1925. An illustration of a baby wearing a sash that reads "1926" is holding up a sheet of paper that reads, "I RESOLVE
To remember that there are others in the world beside myself, both motorists and pedestrians, and that the essence of being a good motorist is to realize that these others have rights that I should respect and I will remember to respect these rights at all times, leaning a little toward unnecessary courtesy and consideration to others, if l lean at all." The baby's reaction is fearful, as if he is trying to shield themselves with the paper. A car is barreling towards the baby with a driver labeled as "Motoring Public." Also, a fearful cartoon bunny is also trying to get out of the way of the car.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 18/08/2026

Whats a movie everyone fucking loves that you despise?

The cast of "The Breakfast Club." A movie that, like the decade that spawned it, people are way too nostalgic over.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 13/08/2026

Starting to break in this SketchBoard Pro, and enjoying how it works with my iPad. Makes drawing just a bit easier for me. More “space” for these old hands to breathe.

An iPad showing a procreate drawing of a transgender “tribe” in the colors of the trans pride flag colors. The tribe is distorted I. Shape, making it seem like it is in motion or some such. The iPad is nestled in a skateboard pro surround in black. It has several stickers on it, including a “please hold on: suddenly stops are often necessary” sticker, an IMP “gud job” stickers California flag with trans pride colors, and others.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 09/08/2026

Spotted on a gas pump in California

A sticker on a gas pump. It reads, “I VOTED TRUMP TO GET REVENGE ON THE TRANSGENDERS FOR MAKING ME FEEL INSECURE ABOUT MY BONER, NOT TO MAKE EVERYTHING MORE EXPENSIVE!”

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 07/08/2026

My mom's first birthday after her passing. Miss you, mom.

A black and white snapshot of a young woman holding her baby. They're both looking at the camera.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 06/08/2026

I apologize for this, but it had to happen.

A woman who is an podcaster, sitting in such a way as to expose her nether regions. It says over her genital region "you just lost the game." which you just did.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 06/08/2026

Finding beauty in an ugly world.

The blossom of a night-bloming cereus. A large flower with several greenish-yellow stamen surrounded by a dozen or so large white petals, further surrounded by reddish-purple outer petals.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 01/08/2026

Is it bad that I’ve made not on me, but two trips to see that thing?

A front view of a constitution class starship model in Riverside, Iowa. It is labeled as NCC-1818

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 29/07/2026

A birthday gift rolled in today. Got a SketchBoard Pro 2 for my iPad. Only barely tinkered with it yet, but I think this’ll come in handy.

And iPad within a SketchBoard Pro 2, which is a bezel that fits the iPad in it, to make it more comfortable for drawing. A hand is holding an Apple Pencil near the screen, and a crude drawing on the iPad screen reads “Hi!”

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 28/07/2026

Update on Unique Vintage's Harry Potter partnership:

the text of an email from the owner of Unique Vintage. It reads as follows:

Amanda Wahl
Re: Harry Potter
To: Gwendolyn Ann Smith
3:19 PM

Unique Vintage has always been a welcoming and inclusive place for people who don't fit a mold.

We've listened to your feedback and have decided to move on from the Harry Potter partnership.

As a small business, we plan to sell through our remaining pieces but will focus on promoting other collections.

We're grateful you trust us and we will keep showing up for our community the way you've always shown up for us.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 27/07/2026

So I did #thehyderide this Friday. Was fun, and was fortunate to ride the cable car I wanted. I question their marketing that this is for locals, beings you still have to queue in the long line at aquatic park (which is how I got this bad sunburn) with all the tourists.