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criticalkit.bsky.social
Kit (is unpacking)
@criticalkit.bsky.social
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they/them. Scholar at the intersection of children's literature and video games. Incorrigible nerd. My footnotes have footnotes.
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don't be fooled by how cute he is; this bugger figured out how to find and chew through treat bags
a long orange cat is stretched out on a rug.
November 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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thirty, hurty, and dressing like our teenage selves would want us to at the MCR concert.
Kit and their wife Hannah sweaty and red-faced at the My Chemical Romance concert. Both are dressed in black outfits with fun jewelry and black KN-95s.
September 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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A dimly lit picture of a quarter on a windowsill.
August 31, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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For added context, here are the other pokemon characters I have been Not Normal about over the last two decades.
Elite 4 member Will from Pokemon. He wears a black domino mask with a black and magenta vampire/magician outfit. His hair is purple. Steven Stone from Pokemon. He has pale blue hair in a sharp anime cut, a dark gray suit accented by jagged purple, and metal detailing around his cuffs and elsewhere on his suit. Cyllene from Pokemon Legends Arceus. She has pale blue hair, a stern expression, and a well-fitted but professional outfit on. Rika from Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. She is willowy thin with long turquoise hair pulled back in a low ponytail with a few long bangs escaping. Her well-fitted outfit is dapper and a bit insouciant.
July 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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I can already tell I am not going to be normal about this character.
Official art of Corbeau, a character from the upcoming Pokemon Legends ZA game. He wears a loose black suit/tuxedo with rounded magenta, orange, and purple accents that suggest acid and poison. He wears a purple shirt with a striking white tie, two-toned purple dress shoes, and round black glasses that have magenta charms that hang from their sides. His purple hair is part undercut, part swoop, and all swag.
July 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Shout out today to all the big titty enbies! There's nothing wrong with rocking big ol' nonbinary knockers.
Kit, a person with messy gold-brown hair and ample cleavage, looks at the camera with a crooked smile. If you look closely, you can see cat hair on their black clothing.
July 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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🎵 When you try your best but you don't succeed 🎵
July 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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It is july 11th
A Halloween themed display at CVS.
July 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Scent swapping is going well.
July 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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7/4/25 - 7/7/25

S - self-care

Adopted a kitten!! The world sucks right now, but not for this little guy!! And not for me when I'm with him!

He is very smart and alarmingly adroit at using his front paws to bring things to his mouth.
A 3 month old orange kitten with white paws doses in a cat bed. His face is very pointy. A small orange kitten sits with his front legs in a brown moccasin. His long skinny tail has darker stripes towards its end. A lanky, gently striped kitten is in an active stance atop a mushroom shaped cat scratcher. He has a felt ribbon captured beneath his paws. An orange kitten is laying on his back on an ottoman. His head stretches back over the edge, displaying his long white neck.
July 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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The hand of fate as it moves me into "interesting times."
A small orange kitten is being held by one firm hand in the air, in the middle of being picked up or placed down. The kitten has a certain air of "I guess this is happening now" about him. In the background are a few other kittens being fostered.
June 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Screenshot of part of an email from Harvard president Alan Garber that says "Separately and together, the task force reports reveal aspects of a charged period in our recent history, offering searing personal accounts as they hold up a mirror to our interactions with one another. During the listening sessions that took place last spring, Jewish, Israeli, and Zionist community members reported experiencing our campus climate as unwelcoming. In some cases, they hid overt markers of their identities to avoid confrontation."
May 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Handed out over 150 masks at our local protest today! When we ran out of the ones we brought, a kind soul handed us 30 more surgicals to hand out. There were also a fair amount of people who showed up masked too!
Two people taking a selfie together while wearing hats that say "Masking is Community Care." One person is wearing a black KN-95 and the other is wearing a white aura mask.
April 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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The raw "data"
A screenshot of a notes app page that says the following: Sober Madagascar: bright and sweet. Could eat forever. 4.5/5 Peru: layered. Bitter and sweet. 4/5 Ecuador: loamy. A bit one note (but a strong one). 3.5/5 Grenada: strong with a subtle warmth. 3/5 Bolivia: buttery and floral. Light and delicate. 4/5 or 4.5/5 Venezuela: delightful but a little one note. Nutty Sweetness 3.5/5 Brazil: nostalgic. Perhaps too acidic. 3.5/5 High Madagascar: sweet and bright like a blackberry. 4.5/5 Peru: 3/5 sour and one note. Ecuador: dry and earthy. Dirt-y in a good way. 4/5 Grenada: muddled and unwieldy. 2.5/5 or 2 Bolivia: sunshine by way of butter and cool grass. 5/5 Venezuela : dark and nutty in a pleasant (but sometimes unpleasant) way 3.5 or 3/5 Brazil: a bit nutty, a bit fruity, but all delicious 4.5/5
March 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Currently Lila is staring down imperiously at us.
Lila, a blue point Siamese cat, sits up right on the top of a tall black cat tower. Her blue-gray face looks solemn and perhaps a little self-righteous as she gazes downward. A close up of Lila, a bluepoint Siamese cat, sitting upright on her tall black cat tower. Her short fur is very fluffy. There is something owl-like about the way her blue-gray face is slightly tilted as she stares dispassionately downward.
February 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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me and my canon pokemon team
A person wearing green is seated at an outdoor table. They are wearing a black sun hat with a ridiculously large and floppy rim. They have glasses on and are smiling. The pokemon Noibat. She has lilac colored wings, big ears that look like speakers, and fluffy black fur on her body. The pokemon Crobat. He has a round purple body and four wings in an x shape. The upper wings are half teal. The pokemon Chandelure. She looks like a spooky black wrought iron chandelier with purple flames and yellow eyes.
January 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Post your favorite #DoctorWho, wrong answers only
Dirk Gently and Todd from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Service stand next to each other in a mirrored room full of round lights.
January 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Words are false idols. I know this because our local divinity comes to sit on them whenever I try to get work done.
A Siamese cat sits on top of a printed out academic article. Her face, slightly obscured by the angle, appears to be a mix of pout and glare.
January 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Did you know as an adult you can just buy yourself a big dragon plushie?? And name him Mahogany (Mago for short)??
A blue stuffed dragon with red wings, ears, and horns. Its fake fur is very luscious.
November 24, 2024 at 1:36 AM
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@alluringskull.bsky.social and I just achieved a very important ✨couple milestone✨

We finished off our first living room ibuprofen bottle.
A hand holding an empty Target brand 500 tablet ibuprofen bottle
August 29, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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I like the rain gear analogy! I've been using Swiss Cheese too.
August 18, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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August 14, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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Started making some infographics re:Covid that you can share to get information out there. Sources (in a rough doc I hope to clean up soon) here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Feel free to save and share the images!
August 14, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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3/19/24. Choices... choices...
A image showing Judith Butler's new book "Who's Afraid of Gender?" with a release date of March 19th. An announcement from Concerned Ape that the Stardew Valley 1.6 update will be released on March 19th.
March 13, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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The Holdovers (2023)
In a blue snowy scene, a boy walks down a dock to throw his mitten in the river. The Pokemon Lugia erupts forth from the river.
March 10, 2024 at 3:22 AM