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Shrub Dryad
@shrubdryad.bsky.social
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Enthusiast, writer/artist/musician, mom, occasional YouTuber and streamer. she/her
Wellbeing for all!
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Here's a poem my friend wrote about masculinizing hormones.
Andar Wärje New Home Testosterone has made me softer than I was before. Those days of holding in-- stopped breath, stuck voice, choked bone-stick, brittle-thin, my reach an ever-tightening wingspan, ribs locked, a dim self-hating prison, and a Bluebeard's cave of murdered selves within. Those nights, my racing heart like rats would spin inside my hollow chest walls--how it ran! Yet quiet now, its frantic claws gone still as shafts of sunlight beat into its cage. My breast unfurls like crocus buds part chill soil after finger; soft, thick fur like sage- brush pelts down hills to wide wet lakes that fill with snow-melt. Old ice flows to a new age.
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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This poem by Akwaeke Emezi.
SELF-PORTRAIT AS AN ANGEL Akwaeke Emezi i will most certainly have wings of roaring flame eleven of them, seven unstable faces, your worst shame as my eyes, your darkest desire as my sword, bloody and oh so beautiful and i will finally look like the terrible thing i have always been haven't you always wanted power beyond sense, haven't you asked for it in your most sinful nights, sworn to pay whatever the cost? i am not here to answer or lend grace, perhaps you do not understand how this actually works. i think you should be very afraid.
October 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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If you see this QRP with a game that released the year you were born. Or don't, because that's personally identifiable information and maybe you're in a weird mood. Or maybe you're a thousand-year-old shrub vampire. Who's to say.
Reputedly mediocre Middle High German poet Diethelm Göli plays an early form of backgammon with a buddy in the Codex Manesse (14th c.) His coat of arms appears to be "Gules, a lion checky sable and argent crowned Or." His crest is a demi-lion, the same.
October 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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It's time.
Frame one: A blonde teenager with long '90s hair and a leather jacket says, "This is Ice." Next to him, his buddy in a dumb hat makes a tough-guy face. Frame two: Buddy has turned around, revealing the word "ICE" shaved into the back of his head. Blond kid is aggressively pointing at it.
October 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Smash two movies together:
A movie theater marquee with "There Will Be Blood" on one side and "Definitely Maybe" on the other. The effect is as follows: THERE WILL DEFINITELY BE BLOOD MAYBE
September 18, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.

This movie is so bad and so awesome.
A screenshot of the Rotten Tomatoes page for The Core, released 2003. It has a 39% Tomatometer score and a 34% Popcornmeter score. It also features this summary: "Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of the world's most gifted scientists, travel into the earth's core. Their mission: detonate a device that will reactivate the core."
September 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September
Altered screenshot of a Craigslist post. The photo is of a big TV, unplugged, with a silly image of Serj Tankian faintly visible, grinning and shrugging. The post header says, "Samsung 50 inches 4k w chop suy guy burnt in". Below that it says "$150".
September 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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This is my friend Benjamin Sisko. My other friend Rob, a teacher and a hilarious weirdo whom I adore, needs help paying for Ben's healthcare (and his own). If you can contribute a couple bucks and/or share this link around, that would be so awesome. gofund.me/a485878e
A selfie. I'm a bespectacled redhead and I'm very happy about the tabby cat lazing on the sofa over my shoulder. He is showing Leg.
August 13, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Convenient downloads, too.
A screenshot of a post by Jason (@nickmotown.bsky.social) from June 4, 2025, reading "Kudos to the bird that managed to shit an image of itself onto this bloke's car." Attached is a photo of a bird poop splatter on a car window, almost exactly shaped like a perching songbird.
July 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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The "toxic environment" meme from Glee, but the text has been altered, so now it's a woman looking sinister and saying, "I am going to create a feeling that is so okay"
June 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Exploring my own house.
"Video games cause violence." Based on the last game you played, what are you getting arrested for?
June 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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June 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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I just clicked into Bluesky and I don't know what's going on yet but it looks like this and you are a gift.
A screenshot from Bluesky. It shows the top post of this thread, where Alexandra is talking about songs and poems. Then it has a "view full thread" link suggesting she talked for a while. Then it has a post from 40 minutes later where she's talking about sci fi, fantasy, and robots.
June 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Take the openpsychometrics quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

Apparently I answered these questions in a state of Sidekick Energy.

(Valentine Wiggin was below Beth and above Willow, but I don't associate her with the movie and probably neither do you.)
Beth March (Little Women), arranging flowers and wearing a flower crown and generally being pure and doomed. Willow from Buffy, being Willow from Buffy. Elliot Page in elaborate drag as Ariadne in Inception. Eliza Hamilton as played by Phillipa Soo, looking very earnest.
May 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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*kicks over a table*
After Years Ted Kooser Today, from a distance, I saw you walking away, and without a sound the glittering face of a glacier slid into the sea. An ancient oak fell in the Cumberlands, holding only a handful of leaves, and an old woman scattering corn to her chickens looked up for an instant. At the other side of the galaxy, a star thirty-five times the size of our own sun exploded and vanished, leaving a small green spot on the astronomer’s retina as he stood on the great open dome of my heart with no one to tell.
May 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Lotta negativity on the app today.
A screenshot from my timeline, where directly below Maggie's post is a post from Indivisible.org that says "No crowns. No thrones. No kings."
May 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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If you see this, post a sword! ⚔️
A Paladin from the Nintendo game Ultima III: Exodus. It's a cute and heavily pixelated rendering of a pink-haired character with pink armor and a pink heart-shaped shield (both with white highlights), carrying a sword.
May 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Post a meme made by you.
Frodo Baggins, filthy and exhausted on the slopes of Mount Doom, lies in Sam Gamgee's arms and rasps, "I can't recall the taste of hype"
May 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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The average American has three friends.
A panel from Bobwhite, the best webcomic, by Magnolia Porter. Cleo, with curly blonde hair and gritted teeth, says, "Brain trust! Meet up!" and violently drags her three best friends together. They go "FUH" and "WHUH" in surprise. (They are a hot black dude with a crooked nose, a scrawny white dude with red-brown hair, and a short, curvy white woman with short, curvy black hair and yellow-tinted glasses.)
May 2, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Your decision here has reproduced for me the exact emotional arc of this Abby Howard comic.
Two comic strips by Abby Howard. The first is titled "I feel deeply compelled." A woman looks up at the ceiling, where a leak has made the paint bulge down in a big wet lump. A bucket catches the drips. She says, "It stopped raining hours ago. There must be a whole puddle up there." Then we zoom in on the dripping as she accurately describes it as, "Like a... big ol' zit..." Then we see her face, looking sort of mesmerized as she mutters, "I wanna drain it" The second comic is titled "So Satisfying." A man labeled "Landlord" is here too now. He says, "Ah, dang. Buncha water up there, hah? In the next panel, he has a gleaming knife and a big grin as he says, "Let's stab this sucker and let it drain." In the last panel, the woman is drawn low and shadowy with a look of utter depravity on her face, eyebrows low, nostrils flared, mouth hanging slack in ravenous glee. It rules.
April 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Lou Wilson. I really like his earrings.
Lou Wilson is a casually handsome black dude who sometimes wears dreads in an updo and earrings and a beard and a collared shirt all at the same time, and to that I say: hubba hubba.
April 1, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Trans Day of Whatever This Is

(Akwaeke Emezi)
SELF-PORTRAIT AS AN ANGEL Akwaeke Emezi i will most certainly have wings of roaring flame eleven of them, seven unstable faces, your worst shame as my eyes, your darkest desire as my sword, bloody and oh so beautiful and i will finally look like the terrible thing i have always been haven't you always wanted power beyond sense, haven't you asked for it in your most sinful nights, sworn to pay whatever the cost? i am not here to answer or lend grace, perhaps you do not understand how this actually works. i think you should be very afraid.
March 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Me when my alarm wakes me up: Screenshot from a recipe that shows a photo of a seasoned potato and the words, "8. Let the potato rest for five minutes."
March 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Found it! She didn't name the phenomenon, but it's fun to see again anyway.
A tweet from Jenny Nicholson (@JennyENicholson) on August 24, 2020: "You know that thing where you disagree with a guy online and suddenly his vocab switches from completely normal to 'writing missives from the revolutionary war in a quill pen' as though that's going to give him some kind of intellectual high ground" In this screenshot she has 130 comments, 2.8k retweets, and 19k likes. A followup tweet from Jenny Nicholson, about an hour after the previous one: "In the replies you'll find a lot of women knowing exactly what I'm talking about and a lot of men going 'I do not see why one should not be precise in his manner of expression, I merely desire to clarify my intent lest my intentions be misjudged by hostile adversaries'"
March 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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[me] [also me] [also me] [etc] [etc]
A painting by Rien Poortvliet of two gnomes, a man and a woman, feeding some hungry frogs on a snowy day. The gnomes are about the same size as the frogs and are dressed warmly, with tall pointed hats. The frogs look very cold and needy and grateful. One of them is clasping its little froggy hands. The man gnome (it might be Wartje, I haven't read this book for a long time) is throwing some kind of seed or powder on the frogs, and the woman is ladling hot soup into their mouths? I just noticed the frog is literally frozen into the icy pond?? There's a whole story here, I guess. *Gnomes* is a good and weird book, y'all.
March 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM