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mercurygirl.bsky.social
Tehanu
@mercurygirl.bsky.social
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settler Canadian / neuroqueer / gender-improvised (she/him)

pfp: photo of stoat standing on a rock
banner: two eyes staring from a sad, blue void, from Dan Sneberger’s cover for The Left Hand of Darkness
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Promotional photo of the band Gang of Youths
August 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Photo of an otter indoors somewhere, peering around the corner of a wall or something, it’s right paw extended around it as if to flip a light switch. It stares at the camera, kind of side-is side-eyeing us a little, expectant or curious, maybe. To me, the otter evokes a person standing in a doorway, poking their head in for a moment to say something to us. Text reads “Hey how’s it going in here? Can I get you anything?”
June 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Gaaah I need to see Eddington. Hereditary was a movie that altered my consciousness when I saw it. I’d never seen true, unsparing empathy embodied like that through film. Pure expressionism. I think Aster really grasps/is obsessed with the effects of neoliberalism at the scale of human psyches.
May 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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GIF of Nintendo character Kirby dancing up and down and rapidly turning all the colours of the rainbow as he presents, in bold white text, the word “TOAST”
May 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Hippopotamus papam
#pope
Photo of a a hippopotamus looking straight at the camera. A clip art pope hat is poorly edited into the image, so that the hippo appears to be wearing it.
May 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Limmy in one of his recent Mr Beast style YouTube thumbnails. He bares his teeth in a ghoulish pantomime of a smile, his eyes staring blankly.
April 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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KIRBYKIRBYKIRBYKIRBY
Kirby standing in the street of the City Trial city, in the game Kirby Air Ride for Nintendo GameCube. He is doing a kind of T-pose.
April 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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March 26, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Not my home, but I know my way around
The City Trial level from the 2003 game Kirby Air Ride. A bird's-eye view of a 3D downtown district made up of cutesy, blocky, low-poly buildings and cartoony cobblestone. The sunlight suggests late-afternoon.
March 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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A still from the 2018 horror movie "Hereditary," showing a group therapy session held in a school gym as a conduit for something far more sinister. Sixteen people sit in a circle in the center of the gym. They're using wooden folding chairs. At the middle of the frame is Annie, the film's main character, who is trying to convey the weight of familial trauma to a bunch of strangers. It is an eerily symmetrical shot, intentionally cold, clinical, and artificial, as is typical of director Ari Aster's work.
February 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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An animated gif image from the Disney movie The Emperor’s New Groove, depicting a scene in which the villain Yzma and her henchman Kronk, both dressed in the attire of Yzma’s secret and evil science lab, anticipate dinner, at which they plan to assassinate the emperor. Yzma throws her hands into the air and cries, in tones most evil, “It’s dinner time!”
January 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Name a game with a 10/10 soundtrack.

The music in this game changed my brain.
Poster for the game “Machinarium,” developed by Amanita Design and released in 2009.
January 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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(mine is a woman)
A photo of author Ursula K. Le Guin.
December 24, 2024 at 5:55 AM
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~ introduce yourself with four video games ~
Poster for the game Outer Wilds Poster for the game Night In The Woods Box art for the game The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Poster for the game Hyper Light Drifter
December 5, 2024 at 9:07 PM
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It is me! Gender-improvised, lipstick-clad, snowed-in.
A selfie of me, Petrichor’s Witness, taken in a room filled with bright natural light. I’m white-skinned (settler-born on Turtle Island). I am gender-improvised, and hopefully come off more effeminate than not. I have brown, sort of wispy hair, which hangs at a length just below my ears, a few errant strands falling in front of my face and over my large-rimmed and grey glasses. I’m wearing a long sleeve plaid shirt, dark blue, and have on black lipstick. In my opinion I’m quite attractive in this picture, which is not always how I feel about myself, so that’s pretty cool!
November 24, 2024 at 10:09 PM