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Hazel Clive

@hauntedhazel.bsky.social
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Writer, poet, and singer (you haven’t heard of me). I should have died at least 90 years ago, probably longer. I am far too splendid for my identity to be reduced to labels.

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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
After spending a few months on BlueSky, I’ve come to believe my time would mostly be better spent talking to tombstones. I believe I’ll go do that for a bit. I may see you again, or I may not.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Who am I kidding, I’m trans in the time of trial, I’m not going to a care home.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh my! Sarcasm is risky in a place where so many are so earnest and take themselves so seriously (I’ve learned this the hard way: Reddit is bad, Bsky worse, IMO). I am trying to train myself to think of it as dealing with spoiled eight-year old Marats who watched a Wishbone episode on Socrates.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bluesky is terrible for this. So many people burning for the chance to play Dzerzhinsky. I hope you feel better soon.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My care home had better be playing Enrico Caruso, John McCormack, and Florrie Ford, or I’ll scowl and gripe about it!
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don’t come to social media to be social. I come to social media to masturbate!
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can go days at a time without thinking of men at all. It’s low-stress and lovely. Frees me up to stress about other things.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I feel this pain. 😭
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is why, in my collection of persona poems, men are almost entirely absent, even though all the women speaking are straight. Only Cleopatra speaks of her lovers, because she can’t disentangle herself from them. It really doesn’t have to be about the men all the time.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All books are equal, but some are more equal than others.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The best evidence for the existence of the soul is that some people so obviously don’t have one.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They are idiot children.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I believe this too. This is our fin de siècle and it’s a lot cheaper, uglier, and stupider than the last one. Almost everyone senses the global system is coming apart at the seams. We are feeling the contractions before the bloody emergence of the new world that is preparing to be born.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here’s your daily Ottoline.
Lady Ottoline Morrell, looking regal and sublime in an Edwardian dress with a magnificent lace collar. She is wearing the strings of pearls which seem ever-present in these photos. A studio portrait.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Did Kassandra feel a twinge of satisfaction when the walls came down in flame?
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I should’ve had the surgeon hand mine back so I could hurl them through somebody’s doorway. I could have gotten some sweet raiment out of it. Ha! Who am I kidding. They would’ve given me jeans and a t-shirt, or sweatpants, like the whole unfashionable world wears. No wonder the gods are silent.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You who would serve the Mighty Mother, Come; Consecrate with crimson rain Her hungry earth.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another day ending in Y, another Lady Ottoline Morrell appreciation post. I’ll run out of these soon, the pity of it.
Lady Ottoline Morrell, looking very stately in a black and white photo. Once again she is wearing a pearl necklace (two of them actually). She has her head tilted back and is looking imperiously down at the camera.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’ve enjoyed the chips and bedtime cereal and junk food for far too long. It’s time to enter the lean days now. Bonus: it prepares me for losing my job, being out on the street, and, eventually, the camps.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m not supposed to offer commentary, but I feel we transies torpedoed ourselves when we surrendered our innate gift of channeling the divine. No one wants to mess with you when your outraged patroness could let the city starve to death.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Millions of people have gone through it, and we will too. There’s nothing special about it, or us.
An artistic depiction of the fall of the city of Carthage in North Africa. Buildings are on fire and soldiers are killing people.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think Anicula is going to have to come to terms with the fact that Iuvenis is an idiot and is going to wreck everything and there’s nothing Anicula can do about it.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Kalends of October are on their way! What are you doing for Iuno, Queen of the Roman Sky? Nothing, I know. You bums.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At some point, we, as a society, are going to have to accept the cold hard truth that Publius Vergilius Maro is full of sh*t.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Born too late to make out with Lady Ottoline Morrell, alas. Is there no end to the cruelties of destiny.
Photograph of Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938). She had dark hair cropped in a thick bob. She is wearing a pearl necklace and a white peasant blouse, and is looking down and to her right. She is seated outside in a forest of thin trees. From the National Portrait Gallery (UK).
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You can hate the sin and hate me too. What are you to me.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have been thinking a lot today about the fall of Carthage. It was pretty horrific. But it’s been over and done for a long, long time. Nobody cries for the victims now, except me. Much sooner than we think, we will all be done with this, unwritten characters in a history nobody reads.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Congratulations!
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the first time. I’ve attended several progressive groups where the response was hostile stares (other groups have been tons better). These groups are almost entirely composed of older (70-ish) white women. I wonder if they’re all old-school terfy feminists or something. Get used to me, ladies!
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
in brief interactions, and my voice isn’t THAT bad. Anyway, I clearly failed with her, but the fact that an older progressive woman in a fairly blue area had absolutely no idea how to respond to an obvious trans woman did not make me feel super hopeful for the future. And this is not (cont.)
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Until she got to me. She seemed confused. The pen in her hand started twitching. There was only one Clive, and it was Hazel. I had to look at it and say “that’s me” to break her paralysis. I was standing there femmed out from top to toe. I can’t be stealth, but I do sometimes pass
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Went to a big progressive thing Sunday. The deal where you sign up online ahead of time, then at the gate they check your name against what they have on their roster. The staffer on the line I was in was asking each of us for our last name, then would read back to us our first name on the sheet.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Or “ma’am”, “girl / girlfriend”, “lady”, or even “b*tch” (though I wouldn’t prefer that last one). All female-coded. If one absolutely insists on being truly gender neutral: “bestie”. It isn’t hard.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My sentiments exactly! If you don’t have “the pass”, don’t do it! “But ‘dude’ is gender neutral, my guy! Why are you policing my speech, man? I use it for everybody, fella!”
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rules for online engagement with Hazel: fawn on me.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anyone who calls me ‘dude’ or ‘bro’ insults me. And trans women should know better.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I use ‘hon’ for everyone. Always have. But I offended my partner (another trans woman) the first time I called her this. Had to train myself not to do it with her.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Okay, sorry for expressing my opinion!
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The reader who dog-ears his pages for a bookmark is a blasphemer.” I don’t think we need to be giving increased justification for people to misgender us under the guise of being “gender neutral”. Why not use something like “lady” or “ma’am” instead? Let these be the new “all-inclusive” terms.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m not picking on you two personally, but I really do not like this idea that male words like ‘dude’ and ‘bro’ are ‘all inclusive’. It smacks of privileging men over women in the same way that the ‘correct’ style for writers was always to use ‘he/him/his’ when the gender was unknown; for example:
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is it! I have seen a number of cigar smoking selfies come across my feed!
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I admit to being absolutely fascinated by the disappearance of Dr. George Parkman. I’m rather nervous around folks who get turned on by true crime - I mean being excited by it and discussing it like entertainment. But I wonder, what is it that makes a particular case latch onto someone?
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I understand what you’re saying, but as someone who was a fully aware adult in 1989 when the French celebrated their Revolutionary bicentennial, I feel obliged to point out that severing the head from the body is, in fact, about as definitive a final result as you can get. (Team Max!)
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Overall, it is a rather middling series. But when it descends into the cheese mines it always strikes the mother lode!
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sitting here watching a seventies detective show (“Cannon”). The excitement is peeling the wallpaper!
William Conrad as Bon-vivant tough guy PI Frank Cannon!
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
😡 (Just kidding! Luv ya 💕)
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Horrifying. I’ve got a few pix on Facebook, which I only joined because groups I’m in insisted on using it to communicate. God knows what transmogrifications AI will make from photos of my horrifying transsexual horse face. I’ll probably show up in a “Republicans versus Trans” political ad.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ah, rural Ohio! The crisp clean smell of cow poop and neighbors burning plastic. I love country life 😍
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In a world that will soon be entirely online and under the domination of AI, the unensouled are going to have a massive advantage.
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Hazel Clive @hauntedhazel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Boss: “I think you had better apologize.” Me: “YOU’RE A FUCKING IDIOT! I REFUSE TO GROVEL!” So he canned me! Outrageous. I’m trying to find a lawyer, but they’re all bigots too. It’s clear the whole world is against me. At least I can say I kept my ego intact.
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