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Marlaina
@lionsroar.bsky.social
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31; they/them; queer & fat & full of love
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Did a little photo shoot with the bees and the fairy duster plant! I got the pillbox hat at a vintage shop the other week and this is its debut.
Me, a white, fat person with long blonde hair and blue eyes. I’m looking at the camera and smiling. I am wearing a black vintage pillbox hat with a veil, glasses, red lipstick, and a blue glass bolo tie. Behind me is green foliage with little red flowers. Me, a white, fat person with long blonde hair and blue eyes. I’m wearing a conspiratorial expression with my head tilted downward. In front of me is a sprig of fairy duster plant. Me and Jules, two fat, white people smiling at the camera looking like goobers. We’d definitely pass as your friend’s parents who go to the dispensary in their minivan.
November 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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I’m adjusting my washing machine today in your honor, Dinky Donk!
The top of a washing machine with writing on it. It says “happy birthday, Dinky Donk! You’re the best bonus NMJ player, and that’s without exception.”
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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When I came home with this shirt from the thrift store, Jules said, “oh, you got a new little-boy shirt!” And she was so right for that. I’ve simply GOT to dress like a 10 year old in 1997.
A picture of me, a fat white person, wearing a striped tee shirt and a baseball cap, smiling at the camera.
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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And I made chili for me and my friends! It was tasty but I need to cook the beans longer next time. I’m not used to making things with dry beans.
A teal Dutch oven filled with chili on a stovetop
November 1, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Jules requested that I make the face Tim does in No More Jockeys in the corner of the zoom screen. How could I deny them? Plus bonus pics.
Me dressed as Tim key, too close to the camera lens, mouth in a frog like smile and eyes looking up and away. Me dressed as Tim key with my hand in my pocket Me dressed as Tim key pretending to flick a playing card away Me dressed as Tim key looking at the camera
November 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Happy Halloween, ya twerps.
Me dressed as comedian and poet Tim Key, holding a plastic grocery bag. I’m wearing a grey suit, button down, and tie. I have faux stubble on my face. Me dressed as Tim Key, holding a playing card and glaring at the camera. Me dressed as Tim Key, gesturing with a playing card in my hand. Playing cards splayed on a glass tabletop. On the backs are printed Tim Key poems.
November 1, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Also, here’s a little poem I wrote while standing in the frozen fish aisle.
Notes October 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM I dressed as a witch to collect smiles at the supermarket And it worked, too I was rolling in the things Molars pressing into my ribs A canine stuck to my cheek
October 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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The pre-fest gallery night for Phoenix Zine Fest was such a balm. My friends keep me alive with their art and their care. I love everyone so much.
A gallery wall with framed collages and a cyanotype print. A gallery wall with tshirts and posters from past zine fests hung on the wall. A DJ booth with records and a sign in a gilded frame reading DJ CRY BABY. A person in orange overalls stands behind the booth table. A gallery space with a wooden zine display cart. On the wall are posters, a tapestry, and a shirt from past zine fests as well as an art piece of two large illuminated circles with eyes on them.
October 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you at, mentally?
Tim key with a subtitle reading “it’s pretty depressing stuff” A still from series one of taskmaster. Tim key is on a grassy field while it’s raining. He’s soaking wet in a red tracksuit. There’s a cluster of balloons and a broken umbrella on the ground behind him. The subtitles read “it’s very bad conditions for art [applause]”
October 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I’ve taken to writing poems in the style of Tim Key to shake myself out if my fear around creating imperfectly. It’s going well, I’d say.
9:24 am Notes app screenshot: A news anchor wormed his way onto the patio at my cafe His camera boy (late fifties) set up his tripod thing He swing the monocular beast to and fro Looking to get some juicy b-roll of people toddling along the paving stones or gnawing on their cinnamon buns But this damn dog kept barking Ruining their takes and generally causing annoyance Now their segment on how pleasant the weather has gotten risked being ruined The anchor slithered between the tables full of Christians fresh from services next door He'd nicked a cable from the camera boy's monstrous setup He made quick work of choking the life from the offending creature and walked back to his mark, satisfied by the cessation of barking and the initiative he'd shown "Let's do that take again" he told the camera boy, straightening his collar.
October 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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It’s so exciting to find a new podcast that makes me giddy with how funny it is. I can’t wait to listen to more episodes but the Tim Key one is absolute gold. Lucy’s mom, Gill, is an absolute riot. I could listen to Tim talk to interlocutors his senior for hours. It’s something to behold.
A screenshot of Overcast, the podcast app, playing Lucy & Sam’s Perfect Brains. The episode is Spin the Bottle with Tim Key and Gill Adams.
October 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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I enjoy discovering new facts about this big ol world of ours.
Wikipedia Subheader reading Animal Consumption The body of the section reads: The gorillas at London Zoo are given both squash and cold fruit tea to drink. When a silverback called Kumbuka escaped from his enclosure in 2016, he drank five litres (8.8 imperial pints) of undiluted blackcurrant squash that was in the keepers' area.
October 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Sometimes we take cute lil photos at the zine distro just to feel something
A green and orange light cast over a bookshelf filled with zines in cardboard holders. My hand is reaching out to pull one zine which has thin horizontal lines in the background, some barcodes, and some geometric shapes layered over each other. The title of the zine is My Burning Eyes.
October 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Just watched the new Taskmaster ep. Paused right after they read the task about asking only four letter words to the person on the phone, and here’s what Jules and I spat out. Please Alex Horne let me play your word games and lateral thinking puzzles. I’m going to start my comedy career for this
What will make folk gasp when look upon your face? Aged? Year born? Hair hues? Hair long? Hair curl? Male? What size body? What wear upon body? Skin hues? Eyes good?
October 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Crying over how sweet this little doggy matchbox holder is.

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A brass box with a compartment for a matchbox. On top of the box is a dog, sitting and bowing its head a bit.
September 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Thanks for touching on the big topics, YouGov.
A screenshot of a YouGov survey page. The question is “If the Rapture were to occur tonight, do you think you would be more likely to ascend to heaven or to be left behind?” With the answer options: Ascend to heaven, Be left behind, and Not sure.
September 24, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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New ink!!! New ink! I love my lil cyberlichen. Thank you @hobgoblin-ink.bsky.social !!!!
A closeup of my thigh with a tattoo of two early 2000’s style computer windows that have black ink line work of a variety of lichens, some of which extend very slightly beyond the border of the windows. A picture of my leg and new tattoo from farther away. I’m lifting my dress to show my upper thigh.
September 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Yes!!! I saw this in the wild last month and took a pic because I loved it so much!! I’m so happy you reached out about it and shared the origin. 💗💗💗
A mud flap with a logo of a muscled man with his arms crossed.
August 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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And just like that, I’ve fallen head over heels in love with Tim Key. (His fringe show was absolutely incredible and I got several callouts and even got lightly bullied and winked at 🥰🥰🥰)
Me and Tim Key standing next to each other and smiling at the camera Tim Key on stage holding a playing card with lights behind him
August 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Very kind of @watsoncomedian.bsky.social to stop to take a quick picture and not hate me for being dreadfully awkward while speaking to him. Also, mark, if you see this, please get Tim to make a Bluesky account.
A picture of me and mark Watson, my mouth is open because I physically cannot stop talking apparently
August 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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When you’re a @techconnectify.bsky.social fan, you must stop to enjoy the wall of lava lamps at the comedy venue in a 500 year old building.
A selfie of me with lava lamps behind a metal grate A double layer of shelves with lava lamps of various colors on them
August 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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I’m obsessed with the way Nish posed for the picture we took with him. We chatted for a bit, too, and he was an absolute sweetheart.
A friend, me, and Nish Kumar standing on a sidewalk together, smiling. Nish is clutching his hands together over his heart.
August 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Please please donate. This is a local mutual aid effort. We’ve had heat warnings in Phoenix this week. People die in this heat often.

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August 8, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Friends who like taskmaster, please go back and watch No More Jockeys. It’s been Jules’ and my bedtime wind-down routine and it’s changed the way we speak. Also, this happens eventually:
An off-kilter picture of a computer screen showing a YouTube video with the title Set 4, Game 10 [25.05.21] - No More Jockeys with Alex Horne, Tim Key + Mark Watson. On screen is a zoom call showing Mark, Tim, and Alex. Alex is in a full bathtub wearing a suit and colorful shirt with unidentified green slime oozing out of his mouth.
August 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM