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A spirit, a spirit: he says his name's poor Tom. Gay folkie & poet.

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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 20h
i understand that these guys are doing an ownvoices thing and that the nature of humor is to deal in stereotype but i do get pissed off sometimes. Going to start doing the thing again where i post all the time about how nobody respects the complex positionality of The Autistic Extrovert
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
never bought an actual print but the one I printed out myself and somehow I still have the same printout tacked on my bulletin board like five moves later is this one btw
asofterworld strip with text "You are never so low that you deserve to be lower."
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
printing zines and thinking about this completely inscrutable meme i made a few years ago. Yeagh
the "I understand that a very popular personality to perform rn is like 'glamorous philosopher' but some of you are stupid" tweet edited to replace "glamorous philosopher" with "early modern pamphleteer" and "stupid" with "postmodern"
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
literary criticism too powerful for this website
the other thing about rereading Tam Lin as an adult is like. Look every person who has ever loved this book has loved it because Janet is #representation. And i am one of them and so are you and let's all praise the Lord. What I'd forgotten is that for the last third or so of the story Tina absents herself totally from the action so that she can instead go and hang out at the contra dance, where they are nice to her. Which means that in fact Tina is, if not the character I find most relatable, i mean that might be enough to make her that too but even if not she is unambiguously the person i'd be most likely to befriend in real life. And let's all praise the Lord
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
confident that ive tweeted this one before bc it's a longstanding favorite of mine but this literally is what it feels like to have a crush on the same person for more than about a week and id like to once again express my thanks to sir john suckling, who also invented cribbage
Out upon it, I have loved
  Three whole days together!
And am like to love three more,
  If it prove fair weather.
 
Time shall moult away his wings
  Ere he shall discover
In the whole wide world again
  Such a constant lover.
 
But the spite on 't is, no praise
  Is due at all to me: 
Love with me had made no stays,
  Had it any been but she.
 
Had it any been but she,
  And that very face,
There had been at least ere this
  A dozen dozen in her place.
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
i understand that it's very wrong of me to make fun of this french reddit gay for posting on gay reddit in french but for some reason this kinda took me out. Not sure im ever gonna be able to receive a dick pic again w/out thinking solemnly La dick pic n'a pas vraiment d'intérêt,
reddit comment "Shirtless pics are hotter than dick pics" with reply "La dick pic n'a pas vraiment d'intérêt. La vraie bite est mieux car il y a l'odeur avec 😅"
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
agreeing w post via my second-favorite moment in the whole once and future king btw
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then—to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn—pure science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six. And then, after you have exhausted a milliard lifetimes in biology and medicine and theo-criticism and geography and history and economics—why, you can start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate wood, or spend fifty years learning to begin to learn to beat your adversary at fencing. After that you can start again on mathematics, until it is time to learn to plough."
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
girl absolutely!!!!!
colin farrell with a copy of dubliners in the year 2005
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
having an awesome time on duckduckgo
duckduckgo search for the phrase "if our fathers want to go why don't they come along"; there are four results for various pages on hymnary dot org (it's a line from a hymn) and then, right at the very bottom, cosmopolitan dot com Why So Many Young People Are Cutting Off Their Parents
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
this one's pretty good
wiktionary list of the things the abbreviation MS is short for: manuscript, mint state, motor ship, morphine sulfate, mitral stenosis, multiple sclerosis, Master of Science, middle school, mini-sheet, murder-suicide, medium shot, member of Senedd
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
i have another question which is when people say things like this do they just mean "it's important that people can go to the library where the books are" (agree) or are they talking about people getting individual recommendations from librarians (a thing that has literally never happened to me)
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
sometimes pride shout-outs really are like. I Hope You Have A Nice Month Too But Please Don't Speak To Me That Way :)
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
silenced again
one of the funniest examples of discworld not holding up for me as an adult (people get mad at me when i say this) was rereading the sweet polly oliver one and realizing that re passing everyone talks about packing constantly and there are i would even say no references to binding. i get where this is coming from (not-unreasonable instinct that dick jokes are funnier than boob jokes) but baby when considered in terms of any kind of a relationship to reality? well absolutely not
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
IA w op's actual point wc is why this is a screenshot and not a qrt but also. Imagine there's no fanart... it's easy if you try.....
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
they're saying this guy is crazy good at using that famous app of Shuttle Music Player
Most Played: Your favorite albums; albums are Adam & the Beasts, Bright Phoebus, and How Can I Sleep?
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Censored again
hate therapy and it's expensive and also I'm worried if I invest too much in therapeutic concepts they'll wind up showing up in my poems so instead of that I've been fixing my personality with—well, as usual, with that old-time religion, which is good enough for me, but also with a private collection of borrowed or homebrewed concepts / metaphors / echolalic catchphrases, which are all insanely embarrassing, and maybe my best stupidest one is that for several months now the way I've been convincing myself to go out to shows / protests / parish events / etc is saying to myself "I am going to show up; I am going to become the Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up." Which is more effective than you'd think but also insane because I'm not at all sure thats what the film was about (I really love the film)
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
learning some stuff on wikiquote
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
sorry, found a ton of screenshots of posts from my old twitter accounts and I think a lot of them are really REALLY funny and i am WRONG ABOUT THAT
more screenshots from grungle @e_hapax: got established at the new gender clinic today (SO chill. OH my god) and the informed consent form they made me sign described bottom growth as "increase in the size of the clitoris/phallus" which I feel like is language I haven't seen before and it instantly made me insane. in the gendered clinic. straight up "jorking it". and by "it", haha, well, let's justr say. My clitoris/phallus
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
thinking about him (the geoffrey tennant of association football)
screenshot from old twitter account grungle @e_hapax: was at work thinking again about how much it sucks that ted lasso destigmatized Men's Mental Health by experiencing like the least stigmatized Mental Health a Man on tv can have and my brain produced the beautiful phrase "we need the geoffrey tennant of association football"
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
would not say I considered the TEC household diversity survey to be "good" "well-designed" etc but would say, from the bottom of my heart, that this screenshot is set to see a LOT of use in the bash' groupchat going forward
I do not feel emotionally connected or intimate with anyone in my household
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
are y'all getting a load of this followup btw. Mpreg jokes don't usually get to me but sometimes it is like Oh I should be allowed to kill
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
got my ears pierced today btw; kind of obsessed with terrible immediately-after-biking-home photo I took to send Silas
tom selfie showing off new ear piercing. he's extremely windblown
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
when I was reading the first Miles book i remember posting like Okay I'm having a great time rn but is this kid not like sixteen years old how are all these people swearing fealty to him i simply would explain to him that I am not going to swear fealty to a teen and one of y'all in my replies was like "buddy you're walking out of that conversation a bound armsman of house vorkosigan" and the more i thought about it the more it was like. You know, I, in particular, really really am
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
god i mean tell me you don't want to read this man's roman à clef
archival hapax tweet, may 2021: "want to kill myself. don't want to eat dinner with the bishop, want to kill myself. total bullshit. with american bishops you don't even get to be like, 'good evening your grace'"
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
okay this looks weird bc of how twitter archives work but that was in november and this is april of the *next* year btw. jesus christ
grungle @e_hapax tweeting on 21 avr 2022 "it's literally so insane for me to be like 'I want to hang out with trans people' lmfao. like i'm not even fucking trans. why would i imagine trans people would be at all inclined to want me to hang out with them" and then "interestingly, I have just begun to cry"
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
on the other hand and as always nothing compared to maxine's bangers
in november 2021 @e_hapax, now with the display name "short rude king," is tweeting "it's like god well there's SOMETHING terribly wrong and SOMETHING has absolutely got to change but fuck if i know what it actually is! guessing trans shit might be even related to anything wrong is just throwing darts at a wall lmao"; @gr8fulfruit, display name "leopold boom," says "sure but the wall in question is covered by a bullseye the exact same size of the wall" and "short rude king" replies "WOW"
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
am in old photos/screenshots bc of a thing i'm writing and i gotta say that "self-aware about being an egg" is the worst gender to have just on the "if i could bottle this feeling people would pay me not to drink it" axis but also? i was getting off bangers the whole time
three tweets from twitter user @e_hapax display name "wes hill (they/them version)" in august of 2021, reading "the thing about, am i a butterfly dreaming i'm a philosopher or a philosopher who dreamed i was a butterfly, but it's, am i a vulnerable autistic youth who's convinced myself i'm trans or am i a vulnerable trans youth who's convinced myself i'm autistic" "envy me in my twofold security etc" "unwell and riffing"
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
["owl stretching time" voice] noodle stretching time
silas hand-pulling noodles at our big table
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
its not that i dont believe you but this is u rn
dril 
(saying to group. of 7 girls) the lore surrounding the Addams family is actually quite a bit darker than you might think..and fairly Leftist
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
this poster, specifically, is getting force transitioned to the fullest extent of the law, happy goddamn pride
Katelyn Burns
mandatory sex changes for everyome

blesmank3.bsky.social
Can I just say I am bi? Not a big fan of scalpels.
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
👍
tom lounging wearing an outfit that combines elements of drapiness with elements of his whole stomach being out. little dog in background
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
spring 2020 me and Silas and Max were all still living together in the vicarage & wound up with a routine where in the mornings we worked the feeding ministry Silas was running out of the parish & in the afternoons Silas made iced coffee and we watched Buffy & gradually all became crazier & crazier anyway I have this one very vivid memory of Maxine saying "David Boreanaz" to me, literally just his name, I don't think she even bothered to do a silly voice, over and over again until I was laughing so hard I physically couldn't breathe. So that
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Rich Mullins s/t is nobody's favorite Rich Mullins album but I do love the cover; I think all the time about how much I wish I had the RICH MULLINS shirt
the cover of Rich Mullins s/t, which is a photo of Rich Mullins wearing a black shirt with RICH MULLINS printed on it in white letters
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
still not the post i was looking for but i miss twitter SO much
the thing you gotta understand about my twt experience is that i'll be like scrolling some homophobic teenage femboy's account and the algorithmic "Accounts you might like" thing is like "Dog why are you not following Matthew Gunter btw"
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
god i miss having a locked twitter account i used to post just the MOST out of pocket shit. What did xe MEAN by this!!!!
everyone w pre-op chest smaller than mine is privileged. everyone with pre-op chest bigger than mine is toxic. everyone with pre-op chest equal to me is cool
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
still can't get over this one from earlier in the week what did they mean by this
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
it's a throwaway line and it's just everybody's bad luck that it happens to be about my diva but "Kempe was an exception: Women who stepped out of place could expect to be punished" is seeeeeending me. Like yeah famously everybody loved Margery's whole deal and she never got in trouble ever
Margery Kempe, the English mystic, said that she would rather "have eaten and drunk the ooze and muck in the gutter" than have sex with her husband. She suffered through 14 pregnancies before he agreed to a celibate marriage, which allowed her to roam medieval Europe on pilgrimage. But Kempe was an exception: Women who stepped out of place could expect to be punished.
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
on the other hand, trans day of i literally cannot wear my "gas station dick pills gave me powers" tshirt (h/t @vaporlight.bsky.social!!) out of the house without getting compliments from gay people
selfie of tom, rather windblown, wearing a tshirt that says "gas station dick pills gave me powers" and a big grey cardigan
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
transfag
bsky compose tweet window. Tweet draft reads "It's like this. Used to I would see men's chests, even in shirts, you know, they didn't even have to be shirtless, the men, I'd see them & I'd experience gender dysphoria to the point of suicidal ideation. Then I got my chest done. But still I see men's chests (even in shirts!) & experience great emotion & even a feeling of profound longing & I say to myself no dude wtf it's okay you already got your chest done. And then I realize that the emotion I'm experiencing is not gender dysphoria it's a different emotion than that"
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
sorry to everybody for Saturday Posting. but also check out my Saturday Sweater i am vibing as hell
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
have read a lot of bad essays over the past little while & sent some screenshots to the groupchat but for some reason the thing that's driven me to Posting is this--"happening" "getting" do u know how long people have been complaining about this is the Tough Guide to Fantasyland a JOKE to you!!!!
There’s a naming phenomenon happening in sci-fi and fantasy. Authors are getting so free and loose with the X, Y, Z keys, I’m starting to think Frank Herbert was being subversive when he named his Dune protagonists Paul and Jessica.
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
on another note obsessed with my lboxd diary for the past few week looking like this. sorry to the brutalist
letterboxd screenshot showing that I've hit the like button on all but one of the last eight movies I've seen
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
most annoying person at this or any coffeeshop etc etc
pile of books: the NEB new testament, the collected GM Hopkins, and Torture Works by Porpentine
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
bringing this one back for bsky and for 2025
two tweets posted in october 2024 on my old twitter account (tom @hapax_hell). "think my new thing is when the computer shows me discourse that i want very badly to not get drawn into carying about i'll just say, very calmly and out loud, 'Lictor, drive them hence with rods; I care for none of these things.' I think this strategy will fix everything. / had a really fun thought about a transgender discourse post i saw. Fortunately i remembered just in time to have my lictor drive everybody hence with rods"
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
basically the trans community will have finally solved gender when we can get one of our cooler they/thems to write "On Being Indifferent to Nonbinary People"
Andrea Long Chu "On Liking Women"Noah Zazanis "On Hating Men (And Becoming One Anyway)"
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
feel like the groupchat moved on from this way too quickly. As fucking usual
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
my own lboxd review, from this past June, of CUBE 1997, which I have also hearted. "The Beauty of the Cube is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite."
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
bought some socks online
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Naomi Wolf "No! No!!" tweet
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
yes... ha ha ha... YES!
Fourthly, and perhaps most difficult of all, I have
attempted to demonstrate the value—so misunderstood and
unpopular—of ascetical, as opposed to devotional and
mystical, interpretations of English spiritual classics
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