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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸

@realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy
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Writer exiled in Eastern Washington state. Over-opinionated and often wrong. Trying to survive lupus. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ wandering.shop/@realtegan, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025
[Eye Contact - dilated eyes] I have full-on anime eyes after seeing the eye doctor today.
It's an extreme close-up photo of me, a white woman with short brown hair, wearing a face mask that looks like a Halloween pumpkin. I'm opening my eyes wide to show how they are dilated and look like anime eyes. The pupils are very large, and the gray iris is a thin circle around them.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025
My friends greet me every morning and help me smile to start my day.
Three toys are posed underneath a monitor. To the left is a meditating squid wearing a Taylor Swift friendship bracelet that reads "Shake it off". In the middle and behind the other two is Badgey from Star Trek: Lower Decks, smiling and with its arms out. On the right is a glow-in-the-dark 3d printed fuck-off-topus, which has five tentacles ending in middle fingers while three more tentacles flow out behind it. They are sitting on a small-sized black clipboard, and Badgey is leaning against the monitor's stand.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025
Can anyone identify the artist of this cartoon? The signature is a squiggle.
A cartoon of a couple with an open door with a child in an inflatable frog costume outside. The woman is holding a bowl of candy and looks terrified at the child. The man is turned away, shouting into a phone - also with a look of terror on his face - and the caption is "Yes, 911, we have antifa at our door, repeat: A-N-T-I-F-A is at our door!" Beside the man - mounted on the wall - is a coat hanger with ICE gear hanging on it. The signature is some sort of squiggle with possibly a "y" at the end followed by "25".
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025
@GhostOnTheHalfShell Ooh, you made me go look it up. Maybe one of these?
An image of a community gathering with a pinata dressed in an ICE "uniform" being battered by a little girl whose face has been blurred out. The adults' faces are visible, but all the children's faces are blurred. Every visible face is smiling.Image of two pinatas for sell at a booth. The first one is an ICE agent, complete with mask. Next to it is a pinata of the current occupant of the White House.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025
Oooh, look what arrived today!
A box with an inflatable axolotl costume in it - in blue and adult sized.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025
A sick individual interrupted a class at the University of Washington, and learned the hard way that Huskies don't like Nazis. thenerdstash.com/disgusting-washing…
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2025
Ah. A sequel? Okay. @ericgjovaag
HOMER'S COMING BACK FOR SECONDS.
IN THEATERS 07.23.2027

Image has Homer's hand grabbing a donut with pink frosting and sprinkles in the shape of the number 2.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025
[US Shooting - Image of truck] The image of the shooter's truck gives a few possible clues as to his political leanings. apnews.com/article/mormon-church-sh…
An image of the truck the shooter apparently drove into the LDS church - it has two US flags attached to the bed of the truck and the license plate indicates that it is registered to an Iraq war veteran.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025
Huh. Honestly? I'm not disappointed.
You have been blocked from The New York
Times because we suspect that you're a robot.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025
I'm officially a fan of Bernd das Brot now. Mist!
Screencap from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver from Sunday, 21 September 2025 showing John standing in the Void - from his time broadcasting during COVID - with the Void animated face next to him. The Void is looking down with hearts in its eyes at a depressed loaf of bread puppet from Germany. The puppet, Bernd das Brot, is looking uncertainly up at the Void and John.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025
If you know, you know.
A photo of a statue of a puppet of a depressed loaf of bread named Bernd das Brot.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025
Hey, this is a good question, actually.
"How can a man be lauded as a national civil rights hero and free speech champion worthy of a presidential medal of freedom, flags at half staff and a congressional moment of silence, when quoting him is a firing offense?!"
- Joy Reid
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025
This is a very timely video clip of Jon Stewart accepting the 2022 Mark Twain Prize. Other people have posted it, I added alt text - including a full transcript of the comments in the video - for the visually impaired... otherwise I would have just boosted it […] [Original post on wandering.shop]
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025
Well, good news. If he dies, he's absolutely fine with it: www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-says-…
Screencap of headline from Newsweek:

Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment

PUBLISHED APR 06, 2023 AT 05:39 PM EDT

UrDATED APR 07, 2023 AT 08:44 AM EDT
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2025
Watching the #HugoAwards
This year's Hugo Award in the display area, showing off the blown glass base.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025
My new button on my lanyard. #WorldCon2025
A small button with a hungry caterpillar with the words "eat the rich"
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025
Torvald is helping us attract attention. #WorldCon2025
An image of Torvalds the Troll sitting on the aisle side of the Oz Club table with a name placard.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025
The view from our table bright and early. #WorldCon2025
View of our table with brochures and magazines on it. In the background is a sign for the Edmonton Worldcon bid for 2030.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025
I got a photo of the stamp when there isn't a crowd around it! #WorldCon2025
Photo of a green stamp with a placard sitting on a table.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025
We only have one more copy of the Ultimate Oz promo comic book. #WorldCon2025
The cover of a promotional comic book from Awa called Ultimate Oz
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
Cosplay at #WorldCon2025
A man and a woman dressed in extremely detailed green and gold Oz inspired outifts.A young man dressed as a soldier of the emerald city
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
Here I am!
Me sitting at the International Wizard of Oz club table at #worldcon2025
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
I'm in the Murderbot lounge. Resting. #WorldCon2025
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2025
The bright sunlight was intense coming through those windows. Hopefully it will be cloudy later in the week. #WorldCon2025
A view of windows above a conference area
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025
@ai6yr Yes. My chair has cupholders. I needed a lift chair, and my sister bought me one with USB ports, side pockets and cupholders. I was amused. Something like this (but not quite identical):
A recliner/lift chair in the lifted position. It has a remote on the seat of the chair, cupholders on each side, and a pocket along the visible side.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025
Jon Stewart's Elmo impersonation continues to be on-point.
A screencap from The Daily Show (with Jon Stewart) that shows "Elmo" talking to the camera with a room in the background that looks like somebody's idea of a male computer den, only cleaner. There's a caption that reads "But Elmo was radicalized by the manosphere." There's a "live" banner in the upper right corner, and the lower left corner has the Daily Show logo.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2025
Worth sharing (shared with permission) from @Lana
A poem by Lana "not yet begun to fight" @Lana@beige.party

The women, the brown folk, the black folks, the gays,
The natives, the transplants who live in LA,
The leftists, the liberals, the hippies, the Jews, 
The Muslims, the Hindus, and atheists too 

The ones who write movies, the ones who write laws 
The ones who write songs to thunderous applause
Kids brought here by parents, or left on our shore 
Seekers, or DREAMers, or fleeing a war

The teachers, the students, the construction crews,
The media guys who tell us the news, 
The guys who pipe up, the guys who back down, 
The guy who took a knee on the green grassy ground

The folks in big cities, the folks in the field,
The folks in the capitol wearing the shield,
The unmarried mothers, the kids with two dads, 
Moms with blue hair, and the kids who are trans

You say you're a patriot
What a way to spin it
For someone who "loves America"
You sure hate everyone in it

And who's left, after you take them away 
To die in the dark on a bright Florida day
Who's left to Lord over, after you've won? 
Nothing, no person, nobody, no one.

Originally posted Jun 22, 2025, last edited Jul 13.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2025
@HumanServitor Oh... so very close. Just a little further and you'll finally understand...
A snippet from the OP's screencap of a post by a MAGAt: 
"want that promise fulfilled and call Pam out every time she lies? What else has she lied to us about?"
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2025
The Detroit Tigers mascot has some opinions on Seattle (photographers unknown, taken yesterday and today):
The Detroit Tigers mascot in the stands behind home plate holding a sign that says "Bring back the Super Sonics".The Detroit Tigers mascot in the stands behind home plate holding a sign that says "Should've given the ball to Marshawn"
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025
This is my pain scale now.
Improved Pain Scale chart, with silhouette figures acting out the pain levels
1 - it might be an itch (figure waving to people)
2 - I just need a bandaid (figure has bandaid on foot)
3 - It's kind of annoying (figure is swearing: "?#$!")
4 - This is concerning but I can still work (figure with arms up and exclamation point)
5 - Bees? (figure has a couple of spots "radiating" pain)
6 - Bees! (figure running from bee that's circling it)
7 - I can't stop crying (figure on knees with puddle in front of it)
8 - I can't move it hurts so bad (figure trying to crawl)
9 - Mauled by a bear of ninjas (figure is hiking with bear behind it)
10 - Unconscious (figure is in bed with hospital monitor behind it)
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2025
I always just called it "Hobo Max", even when the name changed.
It's the Spider-Man pointing at duplicate Spider-Man meme, only with Superman instead. The main Superman is labeled HBOmax and is pointing at a Superman labeled HBONOW and another Superman labeled max. In the background is a white van labeled Warner Bros Discovery and in the opposite corner background is a pile of boxes with a Superman head sticking up labeled HBO Go.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2025
@corbden Reminds me of a meme.
A photo of a newspaper page with the "Deaths" section just saying "DEATHS ARE COMING" captioned "When the newspaper becomes disturbingly vague..."
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2025
[Spoilers for Arcane Season 2 Act III] @ericgjovaag Here's the reaction video I told you about. I don't think you'll watch it, it's more than eleven minutes long, but it is 11 and a half minutes of pure joy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFS_zErh2fY
An image  of a spear stuck upright, wrapped in a red streamer, in front of some sort of strange architecture. Two guards stand some distance away in the background. If you know what this image means, I know what you've been watching.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2025
I thought the Onion was supposed to be satire? theonion.com/trump-says-he-wont-rul…
A photo of a sculpture. One part of the sculpture is on a rock and the other is on the bricked walk in front of it. The two part are looking at each other, and seem to be vaguely human figures with round caps. The photo was taken from above and behind the figure on the rock.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2025
I'm not really optimistic about this upcoming fire season, which will start real soon here if the last few fire seasons are any indication of how the future will be going.
An image of Smokey the Bear looking at the reader with his yellow hat that says "SMOKEY", holding what looks like a shovel, wearing blue pants with a brown belt and a yellow belt buckle that also says "SMOKEY" in case we missed the hat. The caption next to his head is "Only YOU can prevent forest fires" but down by his legs in slightly smaller font is another caption: "Seriously. We've been defunded. It's just you now."
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2025
We got a little snow coming down. Yay.
An image from a security camera of a driveway and part of a street. The entire area is covered with a light dusting of snow. The grass can just be seen - it's not completely covered yet. The road is covered, but some spots have been driven on and the asphalt shows through. If you look very closely you might be able to see that it's still snowing as there are flakes in the air.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2025
My husband: "Shouldn't that be yolk?"
A screencap from the game Stardew Valley. A player character is standing next to a chicken in an idyllic farm landscape. There is a caption at the bottom that says, "This chicken if free from society's yoke." (The chicken is part of the Ridgeside Village mod)
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2024
Huh. Found this in my archives.
A screen capture of a complaint form: Select the best category to describe your complaint: Bias

What is the subject of your complaint?
Not Enough Trans Characters 

Please enter your complaint:
I found Rose to be a lovely addition to the Doctor Who universe, but she shouldn't be the only (human) trans person around. There are trans people all over, living perfectly normal lives. We could use more representation of them in our television programs.

I admit, this isn't a complaint so much as a wish that people would start accepting others. Complaining about people who exist and are just trying to live their lives is bigoted and pathetic. I'm sorry you folks have to read such nonsense.

In any case, consider adding a trans person to every one of your shows. I think the quality overall would skyrocket if you do.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2024
[Arcane Season 2 Act III possible spoilers] So... wow. I can't honestly say I think they nailed the ending, but they came fairly close, in my opinion. There are some bits I'm still a little uncertain about, so I'm waiting for the uber-fans to post their […] [Original post on wandering.shop]
A meme titled "i cant save her.." with four images. First image is young Vi from Arcane labeled "See your parents die". Second image is teenage Vi from Arcane labeled "Leading a criminal gang". Third image is adult Vi from Arcane labeled "7 years in prison". Fourth image is completely messed up Vi from season 2 with black hair and makeup, looking hungover and generally unsavory, labeled "1 month in a lesbian relationship".
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2024
Chupacabra ate my sandwich while I wasn't looking.
User: turing-tested

name your cats after cryptids so you can say things like “mothman got hair all over my favorite sweater again” or “the way bigfoot comes running after me when | open a can of tuna is really cute” 

User: the-last-hair-bender

The Jersey Devil keeps putting his butt in my face.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2024
A thought on history (and the myth of America)
Twitter screencap:
User Ken HoHoHoman
@KenHomanSJ 

Historian Eric Foner spoke to my class with @arothmanhistory this past semester and one sentence really stuck out to me: "This history we were taught could not have produced the present we were living in." That's been on a note on my wall since and informs how I approach history.

07:57 - 1/3/21 - Twitter Web App
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 @realtegan.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2024
[Spoilers for Arcane Season 2 Act II] Even fictional characters get it. #LessonsFromMassMedia
Screencap from Arcane Season 2 showing Caitlyn talking to Ambessa. Caitlyn is saying "Why is peace always the justification for violence?"
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