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beneathhergaze.bsky.social
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@beneathhergaze.bsky.social
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Witch, wordsmith, midwife of emotions. Terminally online, vehemently anti-AI. DCTID. Always follows the #1 Rule of the Casual Criminalist.

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"If you don't want to be in a poem, don't fuck a poet."
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That is pretty wild and careless; I was told to taper while slowly tapering back up to my old BP medication dosage, like a "two ships passing in the night" sort of setup. It's even in the med professional apps not to abruptly withdraw.
Screenshot of epocrates entry for guanfacine with a long list of contraindications. The second one in the list, which is highlighted in yellow, states that "abrupt withdrawal" is contraindicated. Screenshot of epocrates entry for guanfacine detailing dosage for different conditions. Both listed conditions (hypertension, Tourette's) display "Info: taper dose over 4 to 7 days to discontinue", which is highlighted in yellow.
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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She's at it again, folks!!!
Photo of an elderly dilute tortie cat sitting in the middle of a living room with cranberry-colored carpet. She is looking with disdain over her left shoulder at a massive pile of fabric strips. Photo of an elderly dilute tortie cat sitting in the middle of a living room with cranberry-colored carpet. She is now sitting directly in the massive pile of fabric strips perilously close to a pair of scissors. Photo of an elderly dilute tortie cat sitting in a living room with cranberry-colored carpet. She is now walking disrespectfully over the grippy mat being used to create the rag rug for which OP is cutting fabric strips.
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
beneathhergaze.bsky.social
Proof: he made fun of me for looking like a "cheerleader calendar" when I emerged from my room in this outfit today
Photo of OP taking a selfie in a full-length mirror while wearing a black Detroit Lions t-shirt, a Detroit Lions hairscarf, a pair of dark blue French-cut briefs, and a pair of black and white striped knee-high socks. Photo of OP in the same outfit, but curled up on a couch looking very leggy. OP's upper torso in the same Detroit Lions shirt.
November 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Also my many large husbands did very well this basho too?? I am so proud
Photo of sumo rikishi Ichiyamamoto. He's wearing a grey t-shirt, smiling softly, and ostensibly making a heart sign against his chest with his hands although the angle of the camera looks more like he's miming holding a large sandwich or a baked potato. Photo of sumo rikishi Hoshoryo and Ura taking a photo together in kesho mawashi. Hoshoryu is holding the camera in outstretched arms to angle it back at both men and is making a squinty silly face. Ura is smiling cutely.
November 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
beneathhergaze.bsky.social
Nope. No. Nope, nope, no, no way, uh-uh, absolutely not, not on your life, you are all reprobates, get thee hence, depart directly to your timeshare in hell where you belong and stay there
Screenshot of the "add muted words and tags" section of Bluesky. It shows the word "Lizza" being added under "mute text and tags" and "forever".
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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I made a variant of this delightful recipe, which I cannot recommend highly enough. I fry up Spam instead of eggs (and add garlic powder & red pepper flakes) bc I eat a ton of eggs a day so I don't need more lol
Recipe for "Cozy Bowl", which is a rice bowl with ginger, eggs, cucumber, and sesame. Recipe for "Cozy Bowl", which is a rice bowl with ginger, eggs, cucumber, and sesame. Recipe for "Cozy Bowl", which is a rice bowl with ginger, eggs, cucumber, and sesame.
November 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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A kestrel showed up outside my window while I was busy having a meltdown about work, and uh
Photo of a book about the omens of birds. This segment reads: "Omens and divinatory meaning: The eyelike spots on the kestrel's nape bring to mind the saying 'eyes in the back of one's head', and this bird may alert you to watch your back. The kestrel's habit of sitting in high places to survey activity below can also be a signal to step back and take the long view of events or situations. The hovering behavior can signal you to exercise patience and judge your time of action carefully for maximum success and effect." The same book, continued: "The kestrel is a small bird but still a predator. Don't discount your own power if you consider yourself smaller in stature or position in some way, be it physical or in an area such as career. Associated energies: Watchfulness, power in small packages Associated seasons: Summer, fall Element association: Air Color association: Black, buff, blue-grey, white, rust, brown"
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
beneathhergaze.bsky.social
He's at it again!!
Photo of sumo rikishi Onosato after a loss. He's looking downward, flexing his jaw forward and licking his upper lip aggressively as though if he doesn't keep his mouth occupied, he's gonna curse or run his mouth to say something unbecoming of his elevated rank and title.
November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Seriously, no one does it like this man lmao, I am in stitches every time he loses
Another photo of Onosato losing, this time with him rolling his eyes to the side in embarrassment. Another photo of Onosato losing, this time with him wincing and squinting one eye as he appears to relive his match. Another photo of Onosato losing, this time with him sticking his tongue into his cheek. Another photo of Onosato losing, this time with him looking like he's sighing in disappointment.
November 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
beneathhergaze.bsky.social
I've softened slightly on Onosato though I still don't prefer him (his sumo is just so boring!), but I gotta say, there is absolutely nothing on this earth he does better than make the most amazingly relatable faces as he walks back to his dressing room reliving his failures after a loss
Photo of sumo rikishi Onosato walking back to his dressing room after his first loss of the November basho. He is a large shirtless Japanese man in the center of the frame, and he is clenching his jaw in a grimace with wide eyes in a thousand-yard stare as if he's dissociating.
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
beneathhergaze.bsky.social
This, by the way, is what intimidated him.

He said he was pondering the meaning of love and life.

I responded with my thoughts and never heard from him again until now.

If you can't stand the heat...
Screenshot of an old Hinge conversation between OP and Doofus. OP is soliloquizing as follows: "Since the day you tumbled out of the womb, you have borne witness to thousands upon thousands of quiet moments of love and softness between both friend and stranger alike, perhaps without even noticing if, and if you are blessed with longevity and a kind spirit, you will be the midwife to thousands and thousands more before you are through. When you recognize that you are but one note in a global symphony that the universe has been humming for millennia, one tiny organelle within a eukaryote, an entity both impossibly powerful and cosmically infinitesimal, it is so much easier to know love, to be love, and to do your best to move in this world with as much love as you can hold now pouring forth from your outstretched hands. And that, dearest, is the meaning of life as well."
November 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
beneathhergaze.bsky.social
Jesus fucking Christ, he used the bottom eyes emoji. I bet my instincts were right all along; he's in this for goth dommy mommy fetish reasons. Fuckin broccoli-head loser behavior.
Screenshot of a Hinge conversation between OP and some doofus. The conversation reads as follows: Doofus: "You're so hot 🥵" OP: "You sure about that? You ghosted me last year, kid. I assume you don't remember." Doofus: "I do remember 😭 Hit me with the kid lol I'm sorry 😞" OP: "Why'd you do that?" Doofus: "Honestly nervous, intimidated lol I'll make it up to you 🥺 However you'd like"
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
beneathhergaze.bsky.social
I just can't leave well enough alone lmao
Screenshot of a Hinge conversation between OP and some doofus. The conversation reads as follows: Doofus: "You're so hot 🥵" OP: "You sure about that? You ghosted me last year, kid."
November 18, 2025 at 3:28 AM
beneathhergaze.bsky.social
Probably these ones, I imagine
One of two screenshots of Bsky posts from OP. This one reads: "Me in the middle of PMDD: 'I will never be horny again, the concept of Horn is completely foreign to me, my fantasies have vanished, if anyone touches me I will simply scream and kick down a wall' Me at the beginning of a new cycle, hormones anew: 'Young Ronald Hutton could fucking get it'" There is a photo enclosed of occult historian Ronald Hutton somewhere in his late 40s or so, looking like a weird longhaired anachronism, and everyone who's ever dated nerd dudes knows that means he's either some sort of asexual entity beyond the pleasures of the flesh or else he's going to fuck you so hard you fall into a trance and forget how language works for a solid hour afterwards. Second of two sreenshots of Bsky posts from OP. This one reads: "Me a few days further into Hormone Madness: 'I am so Hornt that I am hallucinating the physical sensation of a dick inside me and if I don't make it a reality soon, I'm going to start shrieking and growling like a feral cat until the situation improves'"
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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There are two doves borbin' on a branch outside my window bc it's cold and windy, and I love this for them.

(I'd say "me and who" but we already know the answer is "no one" so I'll just not bother with that)
A very blurry zoomed-in photo of two mourning doves sitting on a branch together while puffing up their feathers against the cold, making them look very round. The doves are facing slightly away from each other so their tails are almost touching.
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
beneathhergaze.bsky.social
It's giving
Photo of Matt Gaetz at the RNC where his entire eye region -- lids, lashes, brows and all -- was somehow hiked up a solid inch above where it sits normally.
November 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
beneathhergaze.bsky.social
Y'all, if this woman didn't go to a strip mall plastic surgeon for a discount bleph, I will eat my hat
Another closeup of Senator Slotkin's eyes. This time her eyes are bloodshot and glassy and her eyelids look like there are small bits of fishing wire holding them up in the corners, because the line of her eye crease is now crooked, resembling strands of wet hair stuck to the wall of a shower. She looks like Matt Gaetz after he panicked and got fillers/Botox/etc. during the RNC.
November 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
beneathhergaze.bsky.social
Wait a minute I think she DID have a bleph?? Like for real??
Official portrait of Senator Slotkin, who is a middle-aged white woman in an ugly blocky dark blue suit that makes her look like a high school football player. Most notably, her eyelids are profoundly hooded. A closeup of Senator Slotkin's eyes, highlighting her hooded eyelids.
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
beneathhergaze.bsky.social
MADAM

CAN I FUCKING HELP YOU
Photo of an elderly dilute tortie cat sitting in the middle of a living room with cranberry-colored carpet. This time it is daylight and she is clearly sitting directly in the middle of a project that OP is working on as there is an open photo frame and a small pile of trash nearby. Another photo of the same elderly dilute tortie cat sitting in the middle of the project, this time from a side angle. She looks determined and unrepentant.
November 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
beneathhergaze.bsky.social
Infuriating update on Ruperto
One of two screenshots of a text message between OP and their friend. The conversation reads as follows: "Friend: Well Ruperto remains jailed OP: What the fuck, why Friend: So he had his hearing yesterday And the reason they picked him up was he only has ONE ID on him OP: ... Friend: They said 'okay yeah he can go that's OK' (somehow this took a month) But then the ICE guys did the paperwork slow so it'd tick after 5 OP: ... Friend: And then 'oops you'll have to wait til next week'" The second of two screenshots of a text message between OP and their friend. The conversation reads as follows: "Friend: Oh and all that money raised? That was just to get seen. Haven't even gotten lawyers for the fight once he's out Sure is expensive to do nothing wrong OP: Christ alive Friend: I believe debt exists to allow violence We all pretend we're against it But then we agree that once you haven't paid your debts all bets are off Right now if I was grabbed and just to be allowed to fight I needed several YEARS of pay Then I am not free, only unnoticed"
November 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Father has acquiesced to a sufficient amount of cuddles (i.e. being in her proximity on the bed) so now it's nap time
Photo of the same elderly dilute tortie cat sitting on a bed with a blue and white checkered blanket, but this time she is curled up sleeping contently by herself.
November 16, 2025 at 2:37 AM
beneathhergaze.bsky.social
She is so spoiled, I stg
Photo of the same elderly dilute tortie cat, who is now sitting on a bed with a blue and white checkered blanket. Her dad is lying nearby in the background and OP's left hand is petting her back.
November 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Someone has filed a complaint with management (me) due to her absentee father (@deamonsinfloors.bsky.social wants to do other things besides lie in bed all day while she dozes next to him and she is offended at his lapse in judgment).
An elderly dilute tortie cat sits in the middle of a living room that has cranberry-colored carpet. She is glaring resentfully at OP with her one good eye because she wants her father to come snuggle and she thinks OP can fix this problem for her.
November 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
beneathhergaze.bsky.social
Hokay so

Checked out a few books on fermentation from the library and it turns the fuck out that the recipe that came WITH the crock, directly from Ohio Stoneware, called for a 6% brine when the standard is apparently more like 3%.

Mama didn't raise no quitter, tho, so we ride again
Photo of the inside of a grocery bag. There is a bunch of spinach in the foreground, but more prominently, there is large plastic bag full of fresh pickling cucumbers and a huge bunch of fresh dill weed at the bottom of the bag.
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I don't even bother to put Disability Intimacy or Disability Visibility back on the shelf; it just lives next to my bed so I can reach for it anytime I need to feed my soul. I didn't know her personally, but her work has shaped my life forever and I owe her an immeasurable debt for that.
Photo of a large stack of books on a nightstand, most of which are social justice-oriented, particularly around disability. Some of the titles include: - "Care Work" & "Beyond Survival", both by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - "Madness and the Demand for Recognition" by Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed - "Disability Visibility" and "Disability Intimacy", both by Alice Wong (@sfdirewolf.bsky.social). At the edge of the frame, there are assorted miscellany like pens, lotion bottles, etc., but also a small pot of Tiger Balm, the life force of many folks with chronic pain.
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM