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Tess
@orphicfiddler.bsky.social
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she/any || Health services researcher. Professional dilettante. Weasel under the cocktail cabinet.
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Damiano David last night at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle. 🎶
Damiano David performing in gray high-waisted trousers with suspenders and a white striped button-up shirt with the sleeves rolled. Damiano David singing into a mic wearing gray high-waisted trousers and a metallic gold top opened at the front to show his tattoos. Damiano David singing to the audience in gray high-waisted trousers with suspenders and a white striped button-up shirt with the sleeves rolled. Damiano David singing into a mic wearing gray high-waisted trousers and a brown diamond-patterned sweater vest over a white button-up shirt and black tie.
November 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Nope! Ellen Hutter from the Egger's version of Nosferatu. Though I certainly intend to make an Ophelia look at some point as well.
Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter in Nosferatu (2024).
October 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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The pieces are coming together . . .
Image of a pale blue 1840s dress with a lilac pattern against a black backdrop. The arms of the dress are bent to hold a bouquet of lilacs, and above the dress rests a silver heart locket and a pair of silver and pearl earrings.
October 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Headed to the Knight Club!
Mirror selfie of a red-headed person wearing a pink peasant dress, corset belt with pink roses, pink flower crown, and silver sword necklace and earrings.
August 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Chappell Roan in The Subway video:
Photo of OP with butt-length wavy red hair before a donation haircut. Red sunglasses are perched on the back of OP's head to give the appearance of a stylish Cousin It.
August 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Further proof that men should only ever have long hair.
Black and white photo of Sam Reid with short hair. He is attractive in a normal way. Photo of Sam Reid as Lestat in full rockstar mode with long blonde hair. He is attractive in a supernaturally hot way.
July 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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S'mores sundae, baybee (anything to escape my 82° home office).
Picture of a red-haired person in a teal sleeveless dress and round gold sunglasses holding a large s'mores sundae. They are seated at a blue table along a street and next to a pink window planter filled with petunias.
July 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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BABYMETAL, Jinjer, and Bloodywood last night - first metal show in a while! I have been missing the slow-roasted thrill of good concert pyrotechnics. They should stage academic conferences like this.
Image of BABYMETAL performing. Image of BABYMETAL performing (now with flames). Image of Jinjer performing. Image of Bloodywood performing.
July 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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The Conformist (1970)
Screenshot from The Conformist. A man in a 1930s suit and hat stands with his back to the viewer. He is facing a plain greige wall and a stone bench in a large greige room. A wooden double door is to his right. Above, another man descends an austere dark gray marble staircase.
July 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Just realized I misspelled Malenia.
Cartoon figure dabbing toward a darkened corner of the meme with the text DABBING INTO THE ABYSS.
July 2, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I dunno, it's pretty small? Maybe I need to leave it in a lake or something.
July 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Finally committing to growing The Hair back out to its prior 3-foot length [so I can cosplay Malena and because it would be fun to donate another 24 inches or so to Wigs for Kids before I turn 40].
Selfie of a person with wavy red hair just past shoulder length.
July 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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More signs from the No Kings protest in Seattle.
Person wearing a watermelon hat and neck pillow sitting next to a sign that reads Free Palestine written over a beautifully painted picture of a Palestinian person. Signs that read I LIKE MY AMERICA LIKE I LIKE MY WINE NO ICE! Sign that reads WHAT SIDE WILL YOU BE ON WHEN THIS REGIME ENDS? Sign that reads THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISM. The sign also has a picture of a guitar and a keyboard.
June 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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A sampling of signs from the No Kings protest in Seattle.
Man with long brown hair and cool sunglasses holding a sign that reads WHEN MEGALOMANIA MEETS INSECURITY, YOU GET A TYRANT. Upside down American flag billowing in the wind. Sign that reads NO PARADE FOR DRAFT DODGERS. Several signs including one that says T.A.C.O. and another that has the words NO KINGS stamped over a picture of Donald Trump wearing a crown.
June 15, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Bonus photo of my new pal Jakob Two Trees.
Photo of a friendly troll sculpture made of wooden slats with a necklace of bird houses and short twig hair. He stand upright with each hand wrapped around an evergreen tree for support.
May 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Surprisingly few otters at this so-called "Otter" Falls.
A red-haired person wearing an all-black hiking outfit and sunglasses stands with hands on hips in front of Otter Falls, a 1200 foot waterfall with a gradual flow down slick gray granite. Picture of Otter Falls and Lipsy Lake. Otter Falls is a 1200 foot waterfall (though only 500 feet is visible from the lake) with a gradual flow down a smooth granite rockface. Evergreen trees grow abundantly along the edges of the rockface. Photo of the Mt Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. Bright green moss and ferns grow over crisscrossing fallen logs amidst tall young evergreen trees while warm sunlight filters between the branches. Photo of a very small waterfall along Marten Creek. White water flows down several feet between moss-covered rocks. A large fallen branch forms a precarious bridge over the creek, while sunlight filters through evergreen trees lining the creeks banks.
May 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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One of my favorite places in WA. Always fun to catch a glimpse of the Meatball.
Black and white image of the Ape Cave feature known as the "Meatball," an egg-shaped mass of cooled lava which fell from the lava tube ceiling and was carried via lava flow until becoming wedged in a narrow portion of the tube.
May 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Saw Suzy Eddie Izzard's solo version of Hamlet last week and am now itching to check out Sarah Snook’s one-woman Dorian Gray and Cynthia Erivo’s upcoming one-woman Dracula.
Playbill reading "IZZARD HAMLET SEATTLE" held in front of a beige minimalist stage. Picture of Suzy Eddie Izzard wearing a black peplum jacket and black leather pants, thanking the audience after a Hamlet performance.
May 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Having a wedding officiant friend is the best, because of course I will always say yes to being an impromptu witness for the elopement of two of the sweetest strangers I’ve ever met at their secret wedding atop the bluffs of a beautiful island.
A red-haired person wearing a loose black dress with rose-embroidered sleeves and combat boots sits on a small fence in a lush Pacific Northwest forest. A close-up of Saskatoon serviceberry in its floral form - small white many-petaled flowers with profuse yellow stamens. A close-up of both the floral and early berry forms of the salmonberry. The flower has five magenta petals and the two half-formed berries are still green and surrounded by stamens. A view of the Puget Sound from Barnum Point. A silvery gray-blue expanse of calm waters with distant strips of land, cloudy skies, and several verdant bushes in the foreground.
April 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Throwback to that time I found a two-year-old wasp memorial in one of the interview rooms at the VA. I’m gonna miss this place.
Photo of a deceased wasp on a windowsill in front of a paper tombstone with "R.I.P - 2019" written on it.
April 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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There is much pain in the world, but not at this Tamino show.
Black and white photo of Tamino singing into a mic at the Moore Theatre. He wears loose-fitting clothes and plays an oud. Behind him is a cellist.
April 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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My writing method:
March 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! [The red hair is deceitful, I am not actually any meaningful amount of Irish.]
Selfie of a smiling red-haired person in a green velvet cap-sleeved shirt and rosary-style necklace with black beads and bronze findings. In the background is a waterfront scene with trees, a grassy path, wild rosemary, and distant houses.
March 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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what if we kissed under the FULL WORM BLOOD MOON
Announcement from ABC news regarding the FULL WORM BLOOD MOON lunar eclipse on Friday, March 14th, from 2:26 AM to 3:31 AM with totality at 2:56 AM.
March 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Chappell Roan is slowly convincing me to grow my hair out again so I can copy some of these looks.
Mirror selfie of a person with an abundance of waist-length wavy red hair.
March 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM