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annette 🌸

@to-apollonis.bsky.social
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writer, critic, neurotic 🌸 transgender woman 🌸 iranian-american 🌸 29 she/her

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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 10h
is it still grifting if you’re truly blind to your own motivations? i feel like there’s an entire class of what i would call opportunists who genuinely don’t know that they’re mistaking greed for truth
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Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reading about Russian history
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
step 1: make some shit up step 2: “you can’t make this shit up”
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i’m just gonna think about the doors of stone every day for the rest of my life i think - it’s been long enough that it surpasses every temporary fixation i’ve ever had
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
please don’t tell the newspaper that i was felled by king morgott, last of all kings please don’t have it writ upon my meagre grave
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
L + ratio + writ upon thy meagre grave + felled by king morgott + last of all kings
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Still one of the greatest contributions that homestar runner ever made to culture at large is this image
The good graphics!!!! Still from homestar runner
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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 24/09/2026
I haven't seen the movie but "Oceans are now battlefields" is such a kickass line that I can't imagine how the rest of the film follows up from it
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When that wicked king was slain, the dogs, did they not lick his blood?
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
watching battle of algiers before umbrellas of cherbourg turned out an accidentally tasteless double feature about french colonialism. the indignity and inhumanity of life and death in the casbah kind of renders the tragic story of young love lost as nothing more than saccharine bourgeoise nonsense.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
stayed up too late but i watched les parapluies de cherbourg and it broke my heart. i’ll be cranky in the morning but at least it gave me the opportunity to bear witness to youthful optimism thwarted. to a love that ages into a world antagonistic to love. professional development tomorrow.
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Gale Na @poisonjr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I love you trans people
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
spending my study break diary-factory posting but at least it’s here and not there
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it makes me sad to see my parents scrolling reels. my father had never sent an email before 2020, the pandemic served as an internet mass onboarding event and now he’s frying his attention span the same as me. i thought they were immune to the thing that got me when i was too young to know better
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
re-transitioning (un-detransitioning?) starting today, wish me luck 🌸
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i did it again - why am i so addicted to reading opinions of those who despise me? why is my mind so weak that i comport myself to their worldview? i wish i never found the internet, i’ve wasted so much of my life believing untrue things about myself. i’ve made no friends and a thousand enemies.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
i will build up a week’s worth of poison in my brain only to call my sister for 20 minutes and feel extremely Normal by the end of it
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
journal factory exploded i guess
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
changed “romantic” to “neurotic” in my bio because i’m both but who am i kidding i actually do feel a lot better now
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
it actually does feel good to write and post this rapidly. i imagine if i’d been doing this for the past ten years i’d be good at it by now.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
i do this thing where i’ll have an idea i really like and then l resolve to save it and really dedicate myself to it at some point in the indeterminate future when i’m more capable of doing it “properly” so then i dedicate my time to the ideas that seem more “reasonable” but less inspiring
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
“I’m afraid of looking like ___” is really the core of it, isn’t it? I have effectively no control over how I’m perceived, so why not enjoy writing for itself? Sharing it should be a bonus to enjoying the craft, maybe an opportunity to meet and work with new people.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A dear friend once casually referred to my writing as “pseudo-intellectual” and I just don’t think I ever recovered. I’m afraid of looking stupid but I’m way more afraid of looking like I think I’m smart.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I should just post all my bad writing as exposure therapy instead of giving up on them or editing them to the point where each sentence is its own overwrought word salad.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I need to just write. I don’t write as frequently as I want to, and everything I create comes across stilted and over-edited. If I were more comfortable just spitting out ideas, I can’t help but feel like I would’ve been much better at the whole craft by now.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Just watched En Kongelig Affære for the first time. I cannot speak to its merits as an accurate period piece, but it is electric as a romance and devastating as a tragedy. This film is inspiring me to learn more about Danish history. I am, above all, a sucker for doomed lovers and downer endings.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
definitely a hot take! angella’s sacrifice is, to me, the standout moment of the series. i would love to see her saved in a new movie (i would love more she-ra content, period), but i’m very happy with her arc as it stands. i can’t help but feel like a reversal would diminish the moment for me.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
i just reactivated my account here. i’ve been using the Bad App, telling myself i was doing so to avoid an echo chamber. that i owed it to myself and others to engage with my political enemies on their terms. i didn’t notice until today the consequences of engendering a sickness in my own heart.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I did it!! First Chronos clear on my 21st run.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Started Hades II, and I made it all the way to Chronos on only my 9th run! I feel pretty good about my ability to beat him soon.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Going with cartoons I watched as an adult (embarrassing) here because it would take too much introspection see which of my fav childhood cartoon characters I grew into. Bubblegum - Ambition, Independence, Ego Catra - Adaptability, Cruelty, Envy Pearl - Perfectionism, Self-Deprecation, Neurosis
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I’m gonna do it again. Here are some of my interests, if you would like to be pals. I’m mostly throwing out media/art opinions, but I might actually start posting my rancid political agenda if that’s where the juice is. -Criterion -High Fantasy -Classic Lit -FromSoftware -Philosophy #promosky
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Adam Driver is only 6’2” which is kinda tall but not if you consider that he only plays characters who are canonically >8ft
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I keep trying to look at trending topics to come up with witty observations but I don’t know what half of these terms mean.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
So wild that Carter had an entire career that predates being The Oldest Man Ever for my entire life. I saw him speak live and I thought “Wow this is such an honor, I’ll never get this opportunity again,” and then it happened three more times. Props to a man who defied death for that long.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
When I was a small child, I was constantly overwhelmed by the thought that there was at least one mind-reader near me at all times. The majority that resonate with this when I bring it up are 1. People with OCD and 2. Anxious people raised in the church (replace “mindreader” with “omniscient God”).
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I feel like American Beauty is a complicated film to which I haven’t really given deeper thought. When I first saw it, I was too young to really *get* it. Now, I’ve been too offended by the superficial premise (and the meta-context re: Spacey) to revisit it. I imagine it has a lot to say besides.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Just downloaded Moonstone Island (among other games) instead of doing something productive - but it’s so so cute!! I love the combat and life sim mechanics so far and I’m obsessed with all the little townspeople.
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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
WONK: Well a splinter cell of Antifa Teens are clearly plotting to kill the Pfizer CEO with 3D printed halberds and then go 'Full Jokerfied Gooner Mode' by leaving his corresponding Luigi Mangione playing card on his corpse TAPPER: [nodding] as a warning to hardworking family men WONK: exactly
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
🧵 Some stuff I noticed just now checking out the validity of Libs of TikTok and Elon Musk’s “Woke Wikipedia” claims. I’m interested in what the context is here, I’ll look into it more in the morning. My words are messy, read about Wikimedia’s actual budget here: meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimed...
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I think Americans make fun of beans on toast just to fit in. Like you saw that making fun of British food got a lot of clicks and stopped thinking critically about it. Some of the grub is grotesque and worthy of your scorn, most of it is normal food. Beans go well on toast.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Warriors-Lakers tonight was so exciting!!
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Updating my challenge to 3 new books, 6 new movies every month.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I grew up in an age almost completely under the thumb of social media. Classmates of mine had MySpace, Facebook became ubiquitous while I was a teenager. I’ve been on Twitter, Reddit and Tumblr pretty much since their inceptions. I never got used to posting. I haven’t practiced enough to get good.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Only bots follow me, I should just post like a journal. I have nothing to lose.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I need to constantly remind myself that I am not a big deal. I am not particularly bad or particularly good. People seldom think about me; few people even remember the things that I regret. I need to be forgiving of others, because they are just as helpless and adrift as me.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I need to quit drinking. I only do it socially (and I’m not very social), but whenever I do I spend the entire next day engaging in my most toxic thought patterns. It’s Christmas Day and I’m sitting in my parents’ home internally reevaluating arguments that I lost over a decade ago.
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
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annette 🌸 @to-apollonis.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Stealing valor in the War on Christmas.
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