Amanda

I was reminded of this tweet today. And yet, against my better judgment ...

@tynie626 Looks like Woodman's! And, no, this is just the frozen food *section*, believe it or not. The entire store is enormous!

@Scott_Heim Get rid of "anything that is smart", you say?

@PoppieMae “Taylor Swift is the best actor of the last century” 🤷🏻

taylor swift is the only person that has been in my office since the day of my surgery ???????????

MY BODY “Let’s have a look at his penis,” said one of the doctors to the other. Both were young and elegant, and obviously clever. “Is that okay?” she said to me. “Sure, go ahead, feel free,” I said. I almost added, “This is something I’ve waited a long time to hear.” The doctor fumbled in the front of my Paul Smith pyjamas, opened them up, and reached into the mass of overgrown, grey pubic hair. At last, she found the mushroom and bent over to take a closer gander. “No,” she said, after a momentous wait, “There is no discharge. It’s fine.” What a relief, I thought; at last, one part of my body that isn’t either broken or malfunctioning. Still, I had no idea why she thought there might be a discharge from my penis, and I didn’t want to ask. Before my accident, nobody ever touched me; of course, Isabella, from time to time, but otherwise no one. Now, I am turned, rolled, prodded and poked constantly, and when I say constantly, I mean constantly – every day and every night. I have had more strangers touch my body in the past month, then ever before in my life. I have become used to it. Instruments in my ears, fingers up my arse, wash pads around my genitals, under my arms and over my back, lights in my eyes. Everything everywhere, all the time. How did I go from being a private man to a public piece of meat? Naturally, as I’ve said before, the nurses are kind; I am their work, I am their responsibility, and this is their vocation, one they have chosen to do, and one they are proud of doing. I see it in their faces and hear it in their voices; I am their patient and they want to do a good job. It would be even more difficult to live this life if one were shy about being manhandled, if one had too much dignity, or fear being humiliated. I am already humiliated. It began a long time ago. There isn’t much further to fall. And I have to collaborate with the nurses, as they push and pull and roll me here and there. After all they are not humiliated as they insert a suppository and then watch me do a shit and say proudly, “My, that’s a big one” or “Today, it was only a moderate one, maybe tomorrow we’ll have more luck.” I have to continue to be amused about this; there is nothing else for it, I am not stoical nor brave, I do nothing out of the ordinary, I am a victim of fate.

@bong_sewer Did you watch The OA? There’s a character named Homer on that!

if there's one thing I'm gonna do, it's drag bitches for their baby name choices while simultaneously adding silly ass names like "Homer" to my own list no it's not a family name yes as in a home run

@Scott_Heim "Does Jeff know?"

@millerhilife I’ve gotten so many positive comments on these frames, but got a new prescription and have to decide whether to re-up with the “old faithfuls”!

@MarkHarrisNYC A friend gifted me a ticket to the Guthrie production at a time when I had two very young children and could not have managed, financially, to see it without her kindness. It remains one of my favorite theater memories and I still trot out the the t-shirt on “special occasions”

@DECfromOH Channeling my fears in your dreams again, I see

Had a dream that I booked a massage but they didn't want to do it because I was too annoying 😔

@Scott_Heim Can’t believe I’m the first in with …

@RPMirabella Outlook also likes to remind me that a meeting I had back in February (to write an abstract for a workshop proposal, which was ultimately rejected) is "28 weeks overdue"

@Scott_Heim Thinking about you and wishing you all the comfort and support you might need. And? Finding out if there’s an existing “brown noise with cicada” sound machine for sleep …

@patricknathan Brundleburger

Had to repost this because I had three New Order songs.

@Scott_Heim No hate! This is the kind of thing that makes me pause at the idea of writing off social media entirely!

@Scott_Heim Ooh these are so good!

A neon salesman's sample case, circa 1935.

Read the thread, and then this article that scratches the surface of why Marsy’s Law, and some of its insidious, obfuscated implications, have been a thorn in the side of non-systems-aligned, community-based advocates: dispatch.com/story/news/loc…

Queer language historically shifts very quickly, as can the ways people identify or describe themselves over the course of their lives (or in specific circumstances). These continued attempts to delegitimize MPJ as a trans icon just show how ignorant these people are

@hecubian_devil Once I understood this as a iteration of “How are you?”, I could shift my mindset out of that knee jerk response (“I must be acting weird or doing something inappropriate” — all fueled by miserable past experiences), and feel more confident navigating conversation. [8/8]

@hecubian_devil I will say, as an example from the opposite side of the equation, when I went to university in northwestern England (I’m American), I was initially put off by everyone asking “Are you alright?” as an entrée to conversation. What? Does it look like something is WRONG? [7/]