Kestrel M
@liminalraptor.bsky.social
LGBTQ+ Nerd, Writer, Musician, Archer, Cook, and getter of things down from high shelves. I blog about trans issues and music and movies etc. I'd say I'm an aspiring fiction writer too, but that would be overstating things.
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Keep the two distinct in your head.
August 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Keep the two distinct in your head.
I think anyone trans in the USA right now is probably going through some shit. I know I am.
I'm having a rough go of it lately, and have been thinking: everyone is going through something, and you have no idea what it is, or how it's affecting them.
Quote post this is if you're going through something, and maybe we'll all realize that we aren't as alone as we feel right now.
Quote post this is if you're going through something, and maybe we'll all realize that we aren't as alone as we feel right now.
August 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I think anyone trans in the USA right now is probably going through some shit. I know I am.
To sum up life in Central #oregon in one encounter: stopped in the shopping center parking lot to let the openly pistol-carrying dude in full tactical gear cross the street in front of me. He flashed me a peace sign before continuing on into the local organic food store.
July 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
To sum up life in Central #oregon in one encounter: stopped in the shopping center parking lot to let the openly pistol-carrying dude in full tactical gear cross the street in front of me. He flashed me a peace sign before continuing on into the local organic food store.
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We must wage a Protracted Call-in War on the Payment Processors
The Itch/Steam thing dropped off the trending tab.
Therefore it's time to remind you again to swamp the payment processors with more calls.
If the call volume dies down in under a week they aren't going to learn their lesson. Make them regret it.
Therefore it's time to remind you again to swamp the payment processors with more calls.
If the call volume dies down in under a week they aren't going to learn their lesson. Make them regret it.
July 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
We must wage a Protracted Call-in War on the Payment Processors
Editing for consistency a first draft of a gaming book that was written by 2 authors over 15 years spread across 10 discrete files. If that's not a labor of love, I don't know what is. #writing
July 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Editing for consistency a first draft of a gaming book that was written by 2 authors over 15 years spread across 10 discrete files. If that's not a labor of love, I don't know what is. #writing
New blog post is live! Is it mostly just Kestrel being a squeeing fangirl about the Portland show that @sarahrose.lol and her band just played with Streetwalker Barbie and Everybody's Worried About Owen? Signs point to "probably". #music #lgbt #SarahAndTheSafeWord
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Back From the Big City
And time for a (live) music post!
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July 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
New blog post is live! Is it mostly just Kestrel being a squeeing fangirl about the Portland show that @sarahrose.lol and her band just played with Streetwalker Barbie and Everybody's Worried About Owen? Signs point to "probably". #music #lgbt #SarahAndTheSafeWord
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Just got back from seeing @sarahrose.lol and her AMAZING band here in PDX. I'll probably be too stiff to move tomorrow but good God damn, that set SLAPPED.
July 20, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Just got back from seeing @sarahrose.lol and her AMAZING band here in PDX. I'll probably be too stiff to move tomorrow but good God damn, that set SLAPPED.
Okay, so queer gamer nerds are just the best...
July 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Okay, so queer gamer nerds are just the best...
I haven't blogged much lately about #trans stuff because, frankly, the state of politics in the US is dismal and depressing.
But today, I finished a post that has at least a smidgen of #hope-punk.
But today, I finished a post that has at least a smidgen of #hope-punk.
Hard Times Call for Defiant Joy
Save the misery for the pricks who deserve it, eh?
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July 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I haven't blogged much lately about #trans stuff because, frankly, the state of politics in the US is dismal and depressing.
But today, I finished a post that has at least a smidgen of #hope-punk.
But today, I finished a post that has at least a smidgen of #hope-punk.
Omg. This.
And to the many, many, many people who went, "But even a Dem who is bad on trans rights would be better than a Republican!" I want you to talk to some trans people in the UK to ask them how things are going under the current Labour government.
July 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Omg. This.
Rewinding a cassette with a bic pen because you didn't want to waste the batteries in your walkman.
Hovering over the "play" and "record" buttons on the cassette player, waiting for the DJ stop talking so you could tape a song off the radio
What’s a real thing from your childhood that kids these days would find completely foreign?
Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.
Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.
Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
July 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Rewinding a cassette with a bic pen because you didn't want to waste the batteries in your walkman.
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a reminder for creative people that art is one of the most powerful tools we have during times of struggle and you should never feel guilty for making art even if it’s not explicitly political ❤️
July 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
a reminder for creative people that art is one of the most powerful tools we have during times of struggle and you should never feel guilty for making art even if it’s not explicitly political ❤️
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since I see ppl posting pictures from a pseudoscience convention this morn, I will re-up this. Blanchard's theory of autogynephilia (read: his taxonomy & etiology) have been disproved by multiple research studies (see my reviews here):
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience
plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic
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July 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
since I see ppl posting pictures from a pseudoscience convention this morn, I will re-up this. Blanchard's theory of autogynephilia (read: his taxonomy & etiology) have been disproved by multiple research studies (see my reviews here):
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
Happy Wrath Month, my lovely #lgbt folks. A new #trans blog post is now live, as I try to coerce myself back into writing regularly.
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Pride in the Name of Love
Belated for sure, but I'm reliably informed it's the thought that counts.
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July 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Happy Wrath Month, my lovely #lgbt folks. A new #trans blog post is now live, as I try to coerce myself back into writing regularly.
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YES. YES IT IS.
is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,
June 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
YES. YES IT IS.
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Are you a cis woman who doesn't want the very real issues we face to be used as a stick to beat our trans sisters? Sign here.
Sign the Petition
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
chng.it
June 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Are you a cis woman who doesn't want the very real issues we face to be used as a stick to beat our trans sisters? Sign here.
Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Trek, or LotR.
June 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Trek, or LotR.
Seriously, San Francisco. Get your shit together.
Do you want gangs of queer Sense8 fans outside your door singing What's Up?
THAT'S how you get gangs of queer Sense8 fans outside your door singing What's Up!
Starting with Lana W, I would guess.
THAT'S how you get gangs of queer Sense8 fans outside your door singing What's Up!
Starting with Lana W, I would guess.
June 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Seriously, San Francisco. Get your shit together.
My shampoo bottle said "no harsh stripping" and now all I want in life is to open a queer burlesque club where dancers get sexy and take off their clothes to an exclusively heavy metal soundtrack.
Is that so wrong, Pantene?
Is that so wrong, Pantene?
June 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
My shampoo bottle said "no harsh stripping" and now all I want in life is to open a queer burlesque club where dancers get sexy and take off their clothes to an exclusively heavy metal soundtrack.
Is that so wrong, Pantene?
Is that so wrong, Pantene?
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Vance is here to grab content he can post on X, using your replies. Starve the beast.
This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
June 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Vance is here to grab content he can post on X, using your replies. Starve the beast.
All right, all you freaks and weirdos, it's been 30 years since I lived in #PDX, but I'm heading there next week to see a show. Where are all the freaks, queers, and cool kids hanging these days? Is Oasis pizza on Hawethorne still a thing? Where's the good Thai food? Inquiring minds want to know.
June 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
All right, all you freaks and weirdos, it's been 30 years since I lived in #PDX, but I'm heading there next week to see a show. Where are all the freaks, queers, and cool kids hanging these days? Is Oasis pizza on Hawethorne still a thing? Where's the good Thai food? Inquiring minds want to know.
I spent a month not blogging because my brain apparently wouldn't do anything vaguely constructive. But then I stopped doing that and did another blog post. #trans #resistance #porn #culture #blog
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Strange Bedfellows
(Content Warning: This post will discuss sex, and sexual harassment, and pornography.
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June 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I spent a month not blogging because my brain apparently wouldn't do anything vaguely constructive. But then I stopped doing that and did another blog post. #trans #resistance #porn #culture #blog
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Something Wicked This Way Comes. I think I read it when I was about 12. I was a pretty precocious reader, but that one messed with my head.
Screw your favorite book, which was the first that upset you?
A Wrinkle in Time was mine. The possessed baby scared the everloving shit out of me. My babysitter had to call my mom to come home early because I was hysterical.
A Wrinkle in Time was mine. The possessed baby scared the everloving shit out of me. My babysitter had to call my mom to come home early because I was hysterical.
May 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Something Wicked This Way Comes. I think I read it when I was about 12. I was a pretty precocious reader, but that one messed with my head.