April Maria Ortiz
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April Maria Ortiz
@aprilcicada.bsky.social
Trans Texan gadfly | math lady | UT Austin PhD | writer/artist | mutant/demon | wife/mother | she/her | ✊🏼🍾🔥🧱🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
I have complex feelings about my fantasy fiction because I used it as a way to cope with my suppressed transness and some things probably don't hold up too well.

Anyway, maybe a lore drop / bibliography is coming.
February 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Same. I've been doing a speedrun for that reason.
February 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Cute picture of both of you.
January 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I was getting read the way I try to be read.

* Something I can’t really share abt here but life is strange and sometimes I wish I cd tell 12yo me how things are turning out, she’d never believe me it’s so surprising, fitting, and good, like a beautiful story someone else wrote.
January 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
longer & longer, it started when I had to grow my stache out for electro but now they’re out of control, someone is going to have to do something about it.

* I went to 9yo’s bball game the morning after electro and I was more or less au naturel but someone said g’mornin’ in a way that told me
January 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I think practically *all* the dark hairs are gone. The ones that remain are red & soft. My skin is so smooth. Fuck those little hairs, I hope they burn in hell.

* Coworkers complimented how my outfit, earrings, kerchief, and nails matched the other day.

* The wings on my eyeliner are getting
January 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
God I’d love this. I spent so many hours on the first one, making little cartoons.
January 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
After I came out to myself as trans, my interior life changed so dramatically, practically overnight, that I wrote in my diary that, in my heart, I’d gone from Dennis Hopper to Laura Dern, and that the robins had come. ❤️
January 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I love Akira. I love the manga too — such amazing art.
January 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM