Laura Foster
@lauramfoster.bsky.social
Tired middle-aged woman, likes cats. Has strong opinions, may or may not share them. Transitioned in the long-ago years of the early 00s, not that it's any of your business.
"Gender is a performance and mine is The Gong Show."
"Gender is a performance and mine is The Gong Show."
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene IV
Frank Mills - Music Box Dancer
Jessica Harper - Special To Me
Frank Mills - Music Box Dancer
Jessica Harper - Special To Me
Name 3 1970s songs.
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene IV
Frank Mills - Music Box Dancer
Jessica Harper - Special To Me
Frank Mills - Music Box Dancer
Jessica Harper - Special To Me
Oh hey, it's elementary school me. Little Laura: her academic skills are great... when she can concentrate on what she's doing. But she struggles emotionally w/ making & keeping friendships, and spends most of the time off in fantasy la la land.
Parents: "Nope, no problem here. We're the same way."
Parents: "Nope, no problem here. We're the same way."
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Oh hey, it's elementary school me. Little Laura: her academic skills are great... when she can concentrate on what she's doing. But she struggles emotionally w/ making & keeping friendships, and spends most of the time off in fantasy la la land.
Parents: "Nope, no problem here. We're the same way."
Parents: "Nope, no problem here. We're the same way."
Rereading old webcomics in an attempt to distract myself from overwhelming loneliness and the utter dumpster fire that is the current political situation.
Not all that successfully.
Not all that successfully.
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Rereading old webcomics in an attempt to distract myself from overwhelming loneliness and the utter dumpster fire that is the current political situation.
Not all that successfully.
Not all that successfully.
Delightedly reading through @imstillalex.com 's autobiographical webcomic, and got to the one about changing drivers licenses, and flashed back to my own legal name change, over twenty years ago. I got caught in a torrential rainstorm in the three blocks between the bus stop and the DMV.
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Delightedly reading through @imstillalex.com 's autobiographical webcomic, and got to the one about changing drivers licenses, and flashed back to my own legal name change, over twenty years ago. I got caught in a torrential rainstorm in the three blocks between the bus stop and the DMV.
It me - equal parts zero-effort-given trans femme and bog witch bridge troll.
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
It me - equal parts zero-effort-given trans femme and bog witch bridge troll.
"You never once paid for the Goop, Boss. Not ONCE."
the dewey cox “GODDAMN IT, THIS IS A DARK FUCKIN’ PERIOD” montage scene in the new springsteen biopic but it’s just bruce ravenously wolfin the Goop
![According to a new biography, Bruce Springsteen never did drugs, but instead maintained an alarming diet of nothing but horrible food, including Velveeta-and-mayonnaise sandwiches in the early days, and an unending succession of candy bars.
His favorite dessert "was a big bowl of strawberry-flavored goop," it turns out, until the late seventies when his assistant forced him to eat more nutritious food. But that's bunk: We all know the Boss has always sustained himself on nothing more than the energy and love of concert crowds around the world. [LAWeekly]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5fiblhkguo6dy2lfju47d7kh/bafkreidj7qqvc6okq6oisjstpzalzlvgdyfoz7h74g7gn2bbsqreaveupe@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
"You never once paid for the Goop, Boss. Not ONCE."
A question for my friends: using these guidelines - www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/co... - how would you roll yourself as a D&D character? Trans friends - how have your stats changed pre- versus post-transition?
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
A question for my friends: using these guidelines - www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/co... - how would you roll yourself as a D&D character? Trans friends - how have your stats changed pre- versus post-transition?
My past self was a shoddily made but also nearly impenetrable armoured box I was ordered to construct around myself by the adults in my life once the gender stuff started to become an issue as puberty crept up on me, in order to survive my teen years. I was curled up inside in a fetal position.
How do you explain what happened to your past self once you transitioned?
Are they dead? Alive within you? Never alive in the first place? Or something else entirely?
Are they dead? Alive within you? Never alive in the first place? Or something else entirely?
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
My past self was a shoddily made but also nearly impenetrable armoured box I was ordered to construct around myself by the adults in my life once the gender stuff started to become an issue as puberty crept up on me, in order to survive my teen years. I was curled up inside in a fetal position.
Reposted by Laura Foster
Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
The Roman soldiers couldn't kill Jesus. Of course Jesus couldn't kill them either, but then they turned their heads away. Then they blinked. And oh yes he could.
November 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The Roman soldiers couldn't kill Jesus. Of course Jesus couldn't kill them either, but then they turned their heads away. Then they blinked. And oh yes he could.
A goth is for life, not just for Halloween. She may only be part of your life, but you're all of hers.
Don't rehome your goth gfs after Halloween is over 💀
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
A goth is for life, not just for Halloween. She may only be part of your life, but you're all of hers.
"Every trans suicide is a murder."
That includes trans women repeatedly bullied, ostracized, gaslit and mentally abused into nervous breakdowns by The Trans Community™. Society is an utter garbage fire, yes. But if you look at the past fifteen years, the call is often coming from inside the house.
That includes trans women repeatedly bullied, ostracized, gaslit and mentally abused into nervous breakdowns by The Trans Community™. Society is an utter garbage fire, yes. But if you look at the past fifteen years, the call is often coming from inside the house.
October 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"Every trans suicide is a murder."
That includes trans women repeatedly bullied, ostracized, gaslit and mentally abused into nervous breakdowns by The Trans Community™. Society is an utter garbage fire, yes. But if you look at the past fifteen years, the call is often coming from inside the house.
That includes trans women repeatedly bullied, ostracized, gaslit and mentally abused into nervous breakdowns by The Trans Community™. Society is an utter garbage fire, yes. But if you look at the past fifteen years, the call is often coming from inside the house.
"I need language to describe and define my experiences with dysphoria and having had to fight most of my life to get medical care to alleviate that dysphoria, and how the views of society towards access to that care have changed from hostility to indifference & back to hostility again... Oh no."
October 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
"I need language to describe and define my experiences with dysphoria and having had to fight most of my life to get medical care to alleviate that dysphoria, and how the views of society towards access to that care have changed from hostility to indifference & back to hostility again... Oh no."
Reposted by Laura Foster
do you condemn | patreon.com/lubchansky
October 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
do you condemn | patreon.com/lubchansky
Social media needs more of this.
I want to go back in time and pet all of them.
I want to go back in time and pet all of them.
October 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Social media needs more of this.
I want to go back in time and pet all of them.
I want to go back in time and pet all of them.
TV Tropes now has a "you're not allowed to view this unless you turn off your adblocker" redirect page if you attempt to load anything on their site. "Adblocker" meaning any browser setting that blocks tracking cookies.
Yeah, no. Their site is notorious for malware infected ads. Adblocker stays on.
Yeah, no. Their site is notorious for malware infected ads. Adblocker stays on.
October 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
TV Tropes now has a "you're not allowed to view this unless you turn off your adblocker" redirect page if you attempt to load anything on their site. "Adblocker" meaning any browser setting that blocks tracking cookies.
Yeah, no. Their site is notorious for malware infected ads. Adblocker stays on.
Yeah, no. Their site is notorious for malware infected ads. Adblocker stays on.
I don't care who you are, what culture you're from or what time of year it is: setting off fireworks CONSTANTLY in a dense residental area for hours on end till well past midnight on multiple consecutive weekdays is selfish and inconsiderate "the entire world exists to revolve around me" behaviour.
October 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I don't care who you are, what culture you're from or what time of year it is: setting off fireworks CONSTANTLY in a dense residental area for hours on end till well past midnight on multiple consecutive weekdays is selfish and inconsiderate "the entire world exists to revolve around me" behaviour.
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
October 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
Reposted by Laura Foster
women don't like the vehicle
October 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
women don't like the vehicle
Can I just say that finding out there's a Father Dowling in Chicago standing up for justice and truth made me do a double take? I wonder if Sister Steve was there too? IYKYK. My grandparents used to watch that show all the time.
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Can I just say that finding out there's a Father Dowling in Chicago standing up for justice and truth made me do a double take? I wonder if Sister Steve was there too? IYKYK. My grandparents used to watch that show all the time.
Painfully accurate in my experience. At least it goes a little ways towards balancing out the hip dips from hell / wide shoulders upside-down-triangle shape I was stuck with for years when I was starving due to poverty.
October 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Painfully accurate in my experience. At least it goes a little ways towards balancing out the hip dips from hell / wide shoulders upside-down-triangle shape I was stuck with for years when I was starving due to poverty.
This randomly showed up in my Bluesky feed just now and I'm here for this kind of adorableness.
October 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM
This randomly showed up in my Bluesky feed just now and I'm here for this kind of adorableness.
CoV "apologized" for putting on a for-profit several-month-long event centered around the godforsaken anti-trans wizard franchise & said it "won't happen again".
Which is to say they're still putting it on & not changing anything but they paid lip service to their LGBTQ+ employees who complained.
Which is to say they're still putting it on & not changing anything but they paid lip service to their LGBTQ+ employees who complained.
October 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
CoV "apologized" for putting on a for-profit several-month-long event centered around the godforsaken anti-trans wizard franchise & said it "won't happen again".
Which is to say they're still putting it on & not changing anything but they paid lip service to their LGBTQ+ employees who complained.
Which is to say they're still putting it on & not changing anything but they paid lip service to their LGBTQ+ employees who complained.
If you are afraid, we will look together.
"go look at the moon" people are my favorite kind of people
October 8, 2025 at 7:23 AM
If you are afraid, we will look together.