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Tom Brinton

@tombrinton.bsky.social

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Transmasc writer, historian, educator. Civil War nerd. Tenured. Work in progress.

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Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Florida is in play.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

O IS HE.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Without downloading new pics, describe your gender.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trier, Germany

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When the rain showed no signs of abating, Jim sighed and said, “Well, we won’t melt,” and shoved his feet into his boots.
Mike headed for the stairs. They’d been hearing giggles and the occasional bounce of bedsprings most of the morning. “If we’re working outside in this mess, so is he. Let him earn his keep before that little gal drains him dry.”
“She’s going to sap him of his precious bodily fluids,” Jim agreed.
“What’s that line from? I know I heard it somewhere, but—”
Jim blanked momentarily. Then it came to him, and he snapped the fingers of his left hand. “Old movie called Dr. Strangelove. About the atomic war anxieties of the sixties.”
“I don’t think I saw that.” Mike paused. “Man, I miss movies.”

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Do it for Dolly.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is going to be fun.

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Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Microfic featured by Last Girls' Club.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

THE CLICHE IS REAL.

An angry wet hen glares at the viewer.

An angry wet hen glares at the viewer.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Full (Professor) before 50.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Perfect weather just before the semester begins feels like a gift from one of the minor gods.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Sometimes students can be very gracious.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Dusty in here.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I wanted to like these.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Nope!

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's orb weaver season! Please ignore the high pitched shriek and spilled coffee.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Wiregrass Museum of Art.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Slut-shaming from the archives. Border Star, 20 May 1859.

Miscellaneous Thingambobs.
The Cloverport (Ky.) Journal boasts that a woman in that neighborhood who has been married less than a year has a fine pair of babies. That is doing pretty well for a beginning, but a woman just over the border of Kansas has a twelve pound baby, and she has only been married seven weeks! What she will be able to accomplish in a year remains to be seen.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

THE ADMINISTRATION—Hon R. J. Ryan, of Indiana, who was recently appointed minister to Bogota, was honored with a complimentary dinner at Indianapolis on the 29th ultimo. He acknowledged the compliment in a handsome speech, concluding with the following peroration:
I give, in conclusion, as a sentiment, said Mr. Ryan, the bright and spotless Administration of James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania. When thrones are crumbled and dynasties forgotten, it will stand the landmark of our country’s history, rearing itself amid regal ruins and nations’ dissolution, a political pyramid in the solitude of time, beneath whose shade kings shall molder, and around whose summit eternity must play.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Oh. [from the Westport Border Star, 13 May 1859]

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Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

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Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Shnoozin.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Lol

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Overheard at Ponce de Leon State Park: "I never swam through a forest before! I feel like a mermaid!"

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

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Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Meerkat is not supposed to be in the chicken coop.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

If you see this, post your blue art.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Storm over Pensacola Beach

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Short story in this new anthology.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Snagged a copy of this in a local second-hand shop. Just in the nick of time, apparently.

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 09/05/2026