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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Huge kudos for taking up a new skill! I hope you have so much fun playing with the tools, and the skills will come!

St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

(To clarify, the loneliness isn’t the thing I don’t relate to, it’s being treated differently by ambient men and women in public since transitioning lol.)

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I honest to god have no idea what this post (o.o.p) is talking about. Definitely not whatever the fuck Dumb Bastard Brain is, but not even the loneliness part to be honest. That might be because I register less as a cis man and more as an Inscrutable Fag but nonetheless, can’t relate. :/

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Ethan I’d love to chat with you about this subject 🥲 Specifically based on what your experience has been, what kind of an approach you think suits a tortoise best. ASKING FOR NO ONE IN PARTICULAR………… 😅

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Not to get deep about the cat girl war criminals but do they really think the first sentence is like…… a gotcha “You like bad things that DIDNT happen, but would you like a bad thing if it DID happen??? >:}” “no” “DAMN IT… YOU HAVE FOILED MY TRAP……”

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The shot chaser is going woefully underappreciated in these comments so far. I see you, Ron. I see you.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Last week was the first time I’ve ever been disappointed in a severance episode. The current-moment plot advancements were fine, and the whole thing was pretty to look at, I just wish it had been such a gorgeous depiction of a story I haven’t seen fifty bazillion times. Straight marrieds want babyyy

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I thought this ep fucking rocked. Full stop, but especially compared to last week’s. If they were going to devote 60% of an episode to backstory it should at least have been a less hacky story. I thought this week’s crushed it in every department.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

???????? are you claiming Catholics are not modernly considered Christians????

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Had this exact thought. The end goal ISN’T an illusion that men and women are assaulted equally — very much the opposite. It’s that white women are fragile victims who thus belong in the home where they can be protected by white men.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

People are taking actions. Walking around in the streets with signs so that we can get either ignored or beaten/arrested just isn’t proving to be an action with our energy. Our actions are getting more local and more private.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The protests in 2016 accomplished literally nothing. Subsequent protests, like in 2020 about police brutality and in 2023 about the genocide in Gaza, also did… wait for it… literally nothing. Our current govt does not respond to protests.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

He sought revenge on the wrong Superb Owl…

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I bet the principal who had previously banned anime shed a single tear and declared a school-wide assembly to watch fruits basket 😔✊

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

You telling me a real human being somewhere drew this and she didn’t just spring forth fully formed from my burgeoning preteen libido?!

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Back in my day I used to scroll through miles of those babies on photobucket dot com. I wasn’t gay tho. Don’t know why you would think that.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

My use of bsky has been spotty at best and will likely continue to be. It’s definitely not a reliable place to get updates from me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and it’ll likely never be.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Sorry for extremely unsolicited advice but when I started mailing upwards of 100 postcard deliveries monthly for Patreon (now up to 700! 🥳 but quarterly lol) I started hiring local college kids to help me pack them! HUGELY worth it lmao, saved so much time.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

My latest sewing project is this vest! I’ve never done patchwork before so I’m sticking with simple diamonds. UwU What’s it giving?

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Why the fuck would you say this to me?

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I think that’s super fair. I am all about meeting people where they are at.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Omg pad stitching scary 😭😭😭 Yours looks great!!!

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

So this stuff might be true, and it’s interesting and neat if it is, and I’m glad if it opens folks up to hearing us who were not open before. But at the end of the day, I do also want to be listened to about who I am just because I deserve that dignity, not just because of my brain waves haha.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I’m really glad this works for some people! I don’t LOVE to hinge our validity on the biological; I fear this leads to testing to find the “real” trans people versus “fake” ones, or to physically “correcting” trans neurology — most importantly to me it de-emphasizes autonomy and self-determination.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

— will have qualities that bind her with commonality to this coalition, that make it a meaningful category to find belonging in. I don’t say that because I think it’s verbatim what you should tell your loved one, but hopefully, in your own words, you can find a way to introduce this idea to them.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

— it’s a loosely organized coalition of concepts that is formed through mass social understanding. It has social elements, political elements, aesthetic elements, physical elements, experiential elements… No woman on earth will check every single box of things associated with womanhood, but she —

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

— we know a game when we see one because it has so much in common with other things we call games. A self-defining category! That’s scary and weird, but it’s a real and normal part of our world and our language. Gender is the same. —

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

— be clear limits that say “if it has XYZ, it falls inside this category”. But there’s actually LOTS of things that this doesn’t work for. Wittgenstein’s famous example is “games”. How do we know what does and doesn’t count as a game? We could squabble endlessly. But the true, practical reality is—

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Sorry to get esoteric for a second but Wittgenstein’s “family resemblance” concept blew this one open for me. I recommend reading just the first paragraph and then skipping to “examples and quotes”: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_... Basically, when we think of a “definition”, we want there to —

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

That’s kind of standard operating procedure for cis people too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Genders are associated with specific ways of being and presenting. AND, those aren’t mandatory for being that gender. Those things don’t conflict!

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

— you can do for THEM is stick around with patience and kindness until they arrive at that place. But that is not necessarily the best thing for YOU, and you are not obligated to offer them patience OR kindness. You get to make that choice.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I’m so sorry, that’s incredibly difficult. :/ Unfortunately, when people are angry, they are not in a place to change their mind. Some people with these opinions do come around, but they have to do so on their own terms, at their own pace, when they are in a headspace of curiosity. The best thing —

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Eventually the distress caused by my failure to pass as a boy came to a boiling point. I had a trans boyfriend, and I learned a lot from him. It opened up a new world for me. I started using they/them pronouns when I was 19, and ten years later my life as a transmasc person is perfect. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

— and became increasingly distressed when I failed to do so. I began crossdressing full time in college, but would still occasionally wear a dress, and whenever I did, I received SO much praise that it was incredibly unnerving. —

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Every trans person will tell a different story — I can only tell mine, and a simple version at that. Throughout my adolescence I became increasingly interested in “crossdressing”; it was fascinating and alluring, for reasons I couldn’t express. I became fixated on passing as a boy when I did this —

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Just like cis people, trans people can run the entire gamut! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And there’s an enormous emphasis in the trans community on defending the right to not conform, despite the pressure on us from society that we must.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Moreover, trans people, like cis people, can vary widely in how gender-conforming it matters to them to be. There are butch t-girls and femme t-guys. Some don’t even want to take HRT or have surgeries, and defend their bodies as non-conforming but valid examples of their gender.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Such a common misconception! Cis people express their gender in all kinds of different ways — and so do trans people! If a cis woman feels beautiful in feminine dresses and would be devastated to lose her breasts, nobody would claim that she was limiting other women by feeling that way.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

As a cis ally, your ability to be a loving, friendly delegate to that person — to get to them actively, before they have the opportunity to be convinced by mainstream transphobia — is CRITICAL. It is so simple and could change so much.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Also, I didn’t even write this about evangelizing to transphobes. I wrote it about the 98% of people in your life who just kinda don’t know what’s going on and don’t know any trans people but think it sounds a little weird. That demographic is enormous, and an enormous opportunity.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Incredible fucking rudeness of your tone aside — Though I have never heard of a trans trump supporter outside of Caitlyn Jenner, I imagine the ones that inevitably exist voted for reasons similar to hers — self-interest. As with all groups, some members believe that assimilation will spare them.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

— is enough. And that most people with complex or unique genders do not need or ask for strangers to have a complex, intimate understanding of their relationship to society, but rather are willing to offer a version that’s appropriate for simple connections.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

— and that for most people, it feels accurate and communicative to describe that relationship in the big broad stroke of being part of an established group, and that for others, it doesn’t. So the “how many” is not important, but being open to learning how other people relate differently than you —

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

BUT, if you’re engaging with someone who IS in that space and they’re feeling like “well if there’s more than two genders then where does it end????” I think one of the helpful/accurate ways to respond is that gender is a way of describing our relationship to society, which can vary wildly —

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Genuine unsatisfying answer? Don’t respond to bad faith questions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Dunking on cynics doesn’t help trans people. Folks who are in a place to be receptive to new information — even if that place is a little threatened, a little skeptical —are worth your thoughtful responses. Assholes aren’t.

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St. Marlowe Lune 🌙 @marlowelune.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

You can ask here, or you can come have a chat in my DMs, or you can even ask anonymously and I’ll answer in this thread! ngl.link/marlowelune Disinformation about trans people is so fucking rampant and frankly I’d rather answer your questions, however silly or provocative, than let Google do it.

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Anonymous messages!

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