thesingingsea [she/her]

thank

french trans

🇨🇵allons-y! et puis, je suis lesbienne!🏳️‍⚧️

for a liminal space, this looks really cozy and friendly

it’s like relaxing after being overstimulated

I just finished Whalefall by Daniel Kraus.
Oof what a ride. I went in blind so all I knew was “diver trapped in a fight between a giant squid and a whale”.
I was not prepared for the

I’m also halfway thru The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin.
Le Guin’s stories are like the opposite of page turners for me but in the best possible way. I just want to sit with each page, there’s so much to chew on. (Even tho I have bounced off this and some of her other books because the begginings are rough for me for some reason. Too much to chew I guess haha)

this has to be a bit
it’s literally vaporware

The Martian (2015, colorized)

image transcript: tumblr

j-train13

Astronauts are so funny man. Here’s just a couple of things I’ve found hilarious from this past week of space
• It’s probably already been spread around here enough already, but in case anyone’s missed it; 7 hours after launch, commander Reid Wiseman, dealing with tech issues, uttered the generational quote “I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working.”
• After fixing the issues that were afflicting the onboard toilet, mission specialist Christina Koch (who has quickly become my favourite of the four) laughingly said “I’m the space plumber, I’m proud to call myself the space plumber.”
• On Easter Sunday, the Artemis II crew hosted a makeshift egg hunt, by hiding packets of dehydrated scrambled eggs around their Orion capsule.
•The way the crew always makes sure to make it very clear they’re in space when doing interviews. From stuff like Wiseman just hanging out floating sideways on screen or Koch letting her hair loose so it can freely span out flowing around her. • While in transit, the crew decided to record a parody of those bad 80s sitcom intros where everyone turns and smiles at the camera.
• When the crew reached the furthest point from Earth in the mission, they jokingly clambored over each other in an effort to get to the far side of the capsule, so that they could individually claim to be the furthest person from earth.
• At the same time, on the ISS which was at the time on the other side of earth, the 7 astronauts onboard had a light-hearted race to the far side of the station, making jokes about being the furthest humans from Artemis.
• On the way back to earth, NASA actually managed to establish an audio call between the crews of the ISS and Artemis II (where they shared the above info), and Koch called one member of the ISS crew, Jessica Meir, her “astro-sister” as the two of them previously spacewalker together in 2019. Meir then responded I’m so happy that we are back in space together, even if we are a few miles apart" (a few here being 230,000).
• While Jeremy Hansen was doing an interview, Wiseman and Koch were just in the background swatting the mission mascot (a little moon plush toy named Rise) back and forth between each other.

#space #nasa #artemis ii #artemis 2 #astronaut #I think great sense of humour is a required part of NASAs selection criteria

Oh! nyaa~

hard disagree

i just think he’s adorable
i love how earnest he is

I don’t want to be toxically positive but
Girl you are an icon! I love your fashion posts

fuck that lady

Etymonline entry for ground

Seems like it was used for pilots in the 1930s and extended to “deny privileges” in the 40s

Dickens used room-ridden

A dream. I was at some sort of event and ended up wearing a dress as a “joke” which then escalated to me being assigned to do like street interviews at a sci-fi convention which transitioned into me just attending the con as a fully out trans woman (no HRT or surgery, can’t ever have anything too nice in my dreams 🙄). But then my dream took a really dark turn.

I woke up shaking and in a sweat and my mind was racing as i drifted in and out of sleep for the rest of the night. I was a mess the next day, I felt dizzy, I probably shouldn’t have been driving.

I was replaying my entire life in my head and just laughing at how oblivious I was. Some were smaller, coincedental things like always being closest friends with girls growing up or one time when I was a kid I kicked my leg up during a hug (a totally normal memory to be locked in as a core memory). Some were pretty huge clues like how much I was wrecked by I Saw the TV Glow (I’m just a really empathetic ally!) or using a character creator to make a version of myself as the final stage of the trans-pipeline meme 🤦‍♀️

Looking back, I think the thought did pass thru my mind but I’ve just always taken a long time to realize things.

I slowly had been distancing myself from masculinity, trying on demi-boy or agender identities in my head (I know those can fall under the trans umbrella but they didn’t feel like they “counted” lol, they were safer to my egg shell). I felt like I wasn’t worthy of being a woman, I could only approach it sideways or by degrees.

I’ve been hanging around queer and especially trans spaces on the internet for a long time so I had as much exposure and knowledge as you can from that. So once the pressure had finally built my brain just had to shake me by the shoulders to snap me out of it.

I’ve been struggling with realizing I’m a woman in a trans-unfriendly community within a trans-friendly US state.
I feel guilty because I’m probably more safe than most trans people but it’s painful to be so close yet so far away. Knowing and seeing people get to live their true selves while that’s out of reach for me.

Luckily I have an amazing and supportive wife. We went out to karaoke the other night and I dressed the most femme I’ve ever been outside my house. Which was just a cute choker and my wife’s jacket on top of my masc clothes lol. I was feeling too self conscious about my legs to try wearing a dress 😖

I sang Bjork’s It’s Oh So Quiet and I felt like I was glowing. I know everyone else saw a guy on stage but internally I was really me for a few minutes.