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Amber

@risettemd.bsky.social

She/Her Apple Fritter Princess Minors DNI

created May 18, 2023

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Born into a very conservative family. But I had it easy, I was straight. And a guy. Everything they wanted. Except I had these thoughts, ones I knew I couldn't talk about. They came up more and more frequently as I got older, until they burst out into me. Then I no longer belonged.

3/9/2025, 5:09:45 AM | 42 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kind of feels like being a replicant in Blade Runner. Where they look, feel, think and act like humans. What makes them any different from real humans? If I look, feel, act, live like any other woman, why am I not one? Do I not need safe spaces? The world doesn't make a lot of sense.

3/9/2025, 5:07:48 AM | 45 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have no idea what causes all of this. No idea how to manage and get through life this way. It's just kind of trial and error. I take the HRT, I become more and more woman on the outside. Just trying to live. Most people don't know I'm trans, and see me as valid. If they knew, they wouldn't.

3/9/2025, 5:06:19 AM | 46 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had no one to look up to because they all died in the AIDS crisis. Our generation had to start over. Piece together what our history was. How ancient our thoughts and feelings are. Gaslit into thinking we're a new ideology. Dehumanized daily by people who don't understand. Don't believe us.

3/9/2025, 5:02:13 AM | 175 19 | View on Bluesky | view

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So the best way to counter that sort of rhetoric is to flat out say that non-binary people exist. In the same way that men and women exist.

3/9/2025, 2:54:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think the issue cisgender people have with understanding non-binary is that they do fundamentally understand the concept of being a woman or a man, at least on paper. Whether they think trans men and trans women are valid, different story. Enbyphobes believe non-binary doesn't exist.

3/9/2025, 2:54:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, with a systolic BP of 200, I wouldn't be surprised if he's already got vascular dementia.

3/9/2025, 2:52:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I should get around to voice feminization training, but it seems like my voice is easily androgynous enough that it doesn't really matter.

3/9/2025, 2:43:38 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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On the contrary, I put on glasses!

3/9/2025, 2:26:11 AM | 30 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel attacked

3/9/2025, 2:25:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now that is the truth

3/9/2025, 2:18:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You're in the part of transition where things start to accelerate rapidly. Year two for me was way more significant than year one. Hell, year three has actually sped up even more, mostly because of SRS. I guess not making any testosterone helps the estrogen work better.

3/9/2025, 1:57:31 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Be the waifu you want to see in this world

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2/9/2025, 12:11:23 AM | 105 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Oh wow is that your boyfriend's hoodie?" "It's complicated"

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2/9/2025, 6:02:04 PM | 83 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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My ultimate transition goal was to just be an ordinary girl. I missed that goal by a huge margin, because I'm an extraordinary girl 🥰

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2/9/2025, 10:24:37 PM | 109 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Geez you had such a rapid and powerful glow up

3/9/2025, 1:27:47 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Is a game that I personally think is woefully underappreciated and misunderstood. Once you realize that the story and presentation is a deliberate parody of Final Fantasy tropes and themes, and how deep that parody goes, it becomes really quite brilliant.

3/9/2025, 1:18:14 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Willing to bet which version they are going to mandate...

2/9/2025, 11:02:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Reminder that not even some Protestants use the Lord's Prayer.

2/9/2025, 10:34:21 PM | 29 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oops 😁

2/9/2025, 10:31:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My ultimate transition goal was to just be an ordinary girl. I missed that goal by a huge margin, because I'm an extraordinary girl 🥰

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2/9/2025, 10:24:37 PM | 109 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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ARE YOU SAYING MR HYDE WAS JUST DR JEKYLL'S REPRESSED DESIRES AND THAT THE POTION WAS JUST AN EXCUSE?

2/9/2025, 9:33:12 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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YOU MEAN HIS JOHN ISN'T LONG OR SILVER?

2/9/2025, 9:27:59 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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CAPTAIN NEMO IS A BAD GUY?!

2/9/2025, 9:26:14 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 9:17:25 PM | 92 12 | View on Bluesky | view

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"We shouldn't charge him for Jan 6, he won't be president in a few days anyway!"

2/9/2025, 8:15:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You look incredible

2/9/2025, 7:50:15 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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apnews.com/article/trum... "I'll fuckin' do it again"

2/9/2025, 7:49:46 PM | 26 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 7:36:27 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes I thought about this a lot at 7 years old when I told my dad I wanted to be like the girl on the trapeze.

2/9/2025, 6:59:02 PM | 30 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA(breathes)HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA thehill.com/homenews/cam...

2/9/2025, 6:54:04 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Michelle: I'm stealing that next time

2/9/2025, 6:05:21 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Oh wow is that your boyfriend's hoodie?" "It's complicated"

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2/9/2025, 6:02:04 PM | 83 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, and jealousy hurts everyone, including the person you're jealous of.

2/9/2025, 5:17:30 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is absolutely true.

2/9/2025, 5:14:45 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you want to be a girl, you can just be a girl (37-40yo)

Pre-transition Amber, age 37 Amber, age 40
1/9/2025, 5:47:51 PM | 383 15 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's okay, she apologized. I just feel for her, because I know that pain. I felt it just 3 years ago. Better ways to handle it than to emotionally dump in someone's joy thread, but I do get it. I hope the best for her. bsky.app/profile/evil...

2/9/2025, 5:12:41 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I sent almost 40 years feeling so ugly that I wouldn't even look into mirrors. So I understand what it feels like. It's awful.

2/9/2025, 5:08:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah she was talking about looking in the mirror and only seeing a man. And I know that feeling all too well.

2/9/2025, 5:07:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's okay, I feel your pain because I was absolutely 100% convinced I would never pass or anything and I hated everything about it. You don't deserve to suffer from dysphoria like that.

2/9/2025, 5:06:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I didn't look so great pre-transition for what it's worth. Some of it is just luck based on how our bodies respond to estrogen.

Pre-transition Amber
2/9/2025, 5:05:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm sorry you're going through this and I wish HRT had been more effective for you. Yes some of us get lucky and it's not fair. I hope you can find peace in who you are.

2/9/2025, 5:04:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah my gf is very pretty.

2/9/2025, 4:22:37 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A messy sub who just pees in the sink

2/9/2025, 4:13:52 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/H2OWC5Hosv8?... Sega Genesis owners know

2/9/2025, 4:12:18 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Remembering a video game called Wargasm

2/9/2025, 3:27:52 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yep turned 40 in June

2/9/2025, 2:46:55 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's cool how the POTUS can just do something illegal and keep doing it until the courts declare it illegal, and then there's just no punishment other than "you can't do that again probably." apnews.com/live/donald-...

2/9/2025, 2:12:57 PM | 57 8 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 12:53:43 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Paint it red

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2/9/2025, 12:48:31 PM | 42 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Me: Mom can I Boymode Mom: We have Boymode at home The boymode :

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2/9/2025, 2:25:02 AM | 55 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Most sane people want to be segregated in a toilet" has some of that Jim Crow energy.

2/9/2025, 12:27:05 AM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 12:19:13 AM | 42 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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Be the waifu you want to see in this world

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2/9/2025, 12:11:23 AM | 105 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah I got a little bit younger lol

1/9/2025, 10:28:07 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's cool, everyone only has Planet Earth anyway.

1/9/2025, 6:13:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kinda cool how Blu-Ray is 20 years old

1/9/2025, 6:11:34 PM | 74 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Ok I have a vagina in pants" Transphobes:

1/9/2025, 6:04:46 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I choose to believe that no man has ever masturbated thinking about me and I am satisfied with that reality.

1/9/2025, 6:01:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you want to be a girl, you can just be a girl (37-40yo)

Pre-transition Amber, age 37 Amber, age 40
1/9/2025, 5:47:51 PM | 383 15 | View on Bluesky | view

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Anti-cuneiform bias

1/9/2025, 5:30:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If I didn't know any better I'd say that he's been taxidermied.

A pale and gaunt Donald Trump
1/9/2025, 4:57:47 PM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Eh wot wot or somethink'

1/9/2025, 4:40:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's still alive

1/9/2025, 4:39:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm tired and hormonal and grumpy

1/9/2025, 4:39:07 PM | 30 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sure we can literally get your entire family killed with misinformation, but you better not tell our kids that gay people exist.

1/9/2025, 4:20:58 PM | 27 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sure we can literally get your entire family killed with misinformation, but you better not tell our kids that gay people exist.

1/9/2025, 4:20:58 PM | 27 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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FOX News in particular should've been shut down for the degree to which it spread grossly unethical pseudoscience (and flat out misinformation) designed to degrade trust in actual experts.

1/9/2025, 4:18:34 PM | 22 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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FOX News in particular should've been shut down for the degree to which it spread grossly unethical pseudoscience (and flat out misinformation) designed to degrade trust in actual experts.

1/9/2025, 4:18:34 PM | 22 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nothing they did was backed by science, but because it was directly oppositional to CDC guidance, that meant the experts were wrong and the CDC should be punished. And here we are, exactly what's going on now.

1/9/2025, 4:15:49 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There was absolutely nothing good faith about the messaging Republicans used in 2020. It was grossly irresponsible behavior posing as rugged libertarianism. It was deliberately contrarian, destroyed faith in public health and killed people.

Herman Cain boasting about masks not being mandatory at the Tulsa rally, the one that ultimately killed him.
1/9/2025, 4:13:11 PM | 77 10 | View on Bluesky | view

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This idea that one of the most motivating forces for an entire political party is joyfully hurting everyone else is just... fucked up beyond belief.

1/9/2025, 3:28:40 PM | 81 9 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had biceps once

Weak ass Amber
1/9/2025, 2:21:09 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To be fair, when you're a mime, anything you say will be used against you

1/9/2025, 2:00:15 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The problem with "wedge issues" (like anything trans-related) is that they are designed to take advantage of the fact that most politicians know nothing about them and aren't interested enough to find out more. They pay lip service to it and then the bad actors dig deeper when given the green light.

1/9/2025, 1:55:46 PM | 33 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cassidy is probably the worst kind of politician because not only does he KNOW better, he clearly DEMONSTRATES that he does and -STILL- votes the wrong way. I get the feeling the man does legitimately feel shame about voting for RFK Jr but he needs to own up to it directly.

1/9/2025, 1:49:22 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A mime-based terrorist group sent to prison for unspeakable crimes.

1/9/2025, 1:38:50 PM | 153 17 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 1:06:39 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dysphoria is a dick.

1/9/2025, 12:47:16 PM | 89 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Perhaps today IS a good day for dysphoria!" Thanks, Worf-in-my-Brain

1/9/2025, 12:21:49 PM | 31 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes but I'm sure they'll come up with some term like "socialized penis" to avoid that.

1/9/2025, 12:15:18 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm too young and innocent for these discussions

1/9/2025, 3:01:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I didn't get a nice front door installed just to use the backdoor.

1/9/2025, 2:56:40 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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😐

1/9/2025, 2:55:37 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, I'm lesbian, but I understand what you mean.

1/9/2025, 2:54:32 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It really is weird. Of course you and I are in medicine, so the signs of severe decompensated CHF over the past few months have become increasingly obvious. Makes me wonder if he's having a arrhythmias now, which is why he's on anticoagulation?

1/9/2025, 2:42:17 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can we all just acknowledge that everything surrounding him in the past few days has been exceptionally weird even by his standards?

1/9/2025, 2:33:28 AM | 31 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've completely given up on fashion, just tank tops and shorts like some kind of '90s chick

1/9/2025, 2:32:26 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just you wait

1/9/2025, 2:25:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

1/9/2025, 2:25:22 AM | 17 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pink night

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1/9/2025, 2:23:02 AM | 98 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't live in grief of my identity, but I absolutely would not have chosen any of this.

1/9/2025, 12:43:37 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's actually just the same voice I've used my whole life, even before transition. But I used to do a lot of voice mimicry as a kid, which probably helps.

1/9/2025, 12:42:35 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think HRT is neat

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I didn't want to be trans I didn't want to be gay I didn't want to be queer And guess what? My brain doesn't give a damn what I want.

1/9/2025, 12:25:26 AM | 66 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Seeing you post is always one of the highlights of my time on BSKY

1/9/2025, 12:23:31 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes, technically mine was sliced up and inverted.

31/8/2025, 11:54:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's a good comeback I think 😁

31/8/2025, 11:50:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, I worked all weekend so it wasn't all that different for me

31/8/2025, 10:38:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's been a long-ass week

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31/8/2025, 10:31:08 PM | 50 0 | View on Bluesky | view