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Tristan Willis
@tristanbwillis.bsky.social
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I make plays, distanced/digital theatre & performances, and games (they/he)
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my beautiful child
I’m standing in front of bushes, wearing sunglasses, a mask, hoodie, and plaid jacket. I am cradling a GIANT butternut squash that’s the size of a large baby.
October 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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I am so incredibly proud of these silly hats
Tristan and Pete stand in front of a wooden gate with creepy Halloween signs. They both wear white shirts and darker slacks. Tristan wears a long black coat and a large round hat styled like a black mushroom with white spots (somewhat inky cap). Pete wears a large round hat styled like a red mushroom with white spots (somewhat like a fly agaric). Tristan stands on a sidewalk near a white picket fence. They wear a white button up, a long black coat, and a large round hat styled like a black mushroom with white spots (somewhat inky cap). The hat has black fringe around the edge.
October 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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i got some kickass portraits taken last week
A black and white photo of me sitting in front of a mottled backdrop, my elbow on a table, and my hand playing with my hair. I'm wearing suit trousers and a suit vest with no shirt under it. I'm looking to the side pensively. A black and white photo of me sitting in front of a mottled backdrop, on a wooden box, with my feet spread out, my elbow on a table, and my head in my hand. I'm wearing suit trousers and a suit vest with no shirt under it.
September 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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also my cake was a beaut 🥹
A very fancy, vintage heart cake with white, light blue, and light pink icing. Trans flag vibes. On the top is written “Happy Birthday Tristan” in the pink and blue icing.
July 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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thanks to @petevolk.bsky.social for a whole bday photoshoot 💙
I’m wearing the blue floral Romeo button up from Romeo+Juliet, blue slacks, and black boots. I lean against a closed and locked shop security door, looking up. I’m wearing the blue floral Romeo button up from Romeo+Juliet, blue slacks, and black boots. I’m standing in front of a closed shop security gate, a hand in my pocket and a hand fiddling with my hair. I’m smiling a little. I have sleepy eyes. I’m wearing the blue floral Romeo button up from Romeo+Juliet, mirror sunglasses, blue slacks, and black boots. I’m holding flowers on one shoulder and looking to the side. Behind me is a door with the word BRAT in graffiti. I’m wearing the blue floral Romeo button up from Romeo+Juliet, mirror sunglasses, blue slacks, and black boots. I’m holding flowers and leaning against a door with the word BRAT in graffiti on it.
July 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Screenshot from First Reformed. A priest (Ethan Hawke) walks away from the First Reformed Church sign. He has put “WILL GOD FORGIVE US?” as the featured text.
July 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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@halvorsen.bsky.social in today’s Nothing For The Group 🔥🔥🔥 nothingforthegroup.substack.com/p/the-week-o...
Little Bear Ridge Road will move into the Booth Theatre, currently home to John Proctor is the Villain. Kimberly Belflower's play is a primal scream of teenage ferocity and tenderness, examining how systems of power perpetuate themselves and ultimately asserting that we must take care of each other because institutions exist primarily to protect themselves. The irony of this succession is not lost on me, nor on anyone else paying attention. It's simply irrelevant to an industry that has mastered the performance of accountability, moving seamlessly from critiquing abusive power to rehabilitating its most prominent practitioners, all while congratulating itself on its commitment to progress.
July 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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that isn't what that means
Screenshot from an email subject line that says "Don't gate keep. Leave a review."
July 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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What, drawn, and talk of peace!
I’m standing in front of a brick building and some bushes, kinda posing. I’m wearing small sunglasses, a brilliant red vest with sacred heart style embroidery, black shorts, yellow socks, and black boots. My hair is pretty short cropped right now and all my arm and thigh tattoos are showing. My facial expression is kind of sour. I look like I’m cosplaying John Leguizamo’s Tybalt.
June 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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happy pride from the pink opaque (and my vanity)
I’m standing in front of my mirror holding my phone in front of my face and my other arm up so my hand is behind my neck. I’m wearing calf high socks with two stripes, pink shorts, and a Pink Opaque tshirt with Tara holding an axe on it.
June 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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using film (even just an old polaroid) is a great exercise in reducing the difference between what I see and what the camera sees. I find it difficult but it’s a fun puzzle
nine Polaroid photos on a faux wood surface. The pictures feature a Big Boy burgers statue, seats in a 3000 series WMATA train, a hand on a hand statue, and boats and birds on the Potomac River.
May 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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big boy big boy BIG BOY BIG BOY
I’m posing next to a Big Boy Burgers statue with my hand on my hip and my other hand out as if holding a big burger. I’m wearing jeans, a Carlos Sainz shirt, a jacket and sunglasses. My smile is cheesy but genuine, my hair a disaster.
May 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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🌞
It’s me, leaning on a red brick wall. I’m wearing small sunglasses, jeans, a red tee, black jacket, and white sneakers. I’m carrying a crossbody bag, mask, and cold brew.
May 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Rizzo the Rat in a letterman jacket and backwards baseball cap pointing to the side and holding a slice of pizza.
May 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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has anyone done this yet
The D.W. meme. She stands at Arthur's door, which here has a sign that says "That you for submitting your play. Unfortunately," with her hands on her hips and says "That sign can't stop me because I can't read!"
April 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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if you donate to our tenants association’s legal fundraiser and dm me your mailing address, I’ll send you this sticker
A photo of many rooms in a dollhouse that might be from the 1950s or 60s with large title text over it that says “NO GODS NO LANDLORDS”
April 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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🫠
From The Studio: Catherine O’Hara talks to Seth Rogen on a studio lot. She says “They put themselves into things. They… They project meaning into their work,” Catherine O’Hara continues “even if it’s imperceivable to anyone else other than them.”
April 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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😇
It me posing with my head tilted against the back of my hand. My eyes are closed and I’m clearly going for an Angel expression. I’m wearing glasses, a tank top, and a baseball cap that says “I’m not like other boys (I’m worse)”
April 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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I still exist!
A screenshot from Revolutionary Girl Utena. Utena, a pink-haired girl wearing shorts and a school uniform blazer with epaulets, lays on the ground, almost broken. Her fist is pounded against the ground, the arm ready to lift her back up. The captions say “I still exist!”
February 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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crop all tops
it me, taking a mirror selfie. I’m wearing a cropped greyscale tie dye hoodie and grey jeans with a Calvin Klein waistband showing. One hand is in my pocket and the other holds up my phone, covering half my face. my bed is unmade and I am not ashamed. there’s a parlor palm peaking into the picture on one side.
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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my first play premiered eleven years ago today

truly never would've guessed then that I'd still be doing this a decade+ later and I'm so grateful for the incredible artists who believed in me 💙
Actors Lindsey Hall and Jerome Beck performing "paper backs." Lindsey sits on the ground, staring out blankly, surrounded by bottles of paint and covered in paint. Jerome kneels beside her, watching her closely and gently cleaning her arm with a cloth.
January 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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i just think they’re neat 🥰
Me in the green wool outfit seated in the floor in front of Pete, who is wearing a white sweater and great slacks and holding me. We both smile and there’s a Christmas tree behind us.
December 25, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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pete was a very thorough christmas outfit photographer ty pete
It me in the matching green wool vest and trousers, in front of the sparkly Christmas tree. I’m posing with a leg out and my hands in my pockets. The photo angle is from the ground so I look Tall.
December 25, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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😌
It me, a short white person with arm tattoos and short hair, standing in front of a sparkly Christmas tree. I’m wearing a green wool vest and matching trousers, a silk scarf, loafers, and a frankly angelic smile with my eyes closed.
December 25, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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good dog caught me trying to take a selfie
A selfie of me, a white masculine person with short, dark hair and large round glasses in a soft mint hoodie. I’m slightly smiling and my eyes look sleepy. The tips of two of my fingers are just in frame. It me, seconds later, fallen back on the bed, wincing, with a black and white dog over me licking my hand. A hallway is in the background.
December 14, 2024 at 12:49 AM