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variablestar.bsky.social
one of those gays
@variablestar.bsky.social
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Made of books, earrings, crayons, and a weird brain. Pronouns: she/her; adjectives: fanciful, queer, neurodivergent, self-conscious, colorful; nouns: mom, lesbian, fangirl, dork; verbs: coruscating, procrastinating; prepositions: amid, within.
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My wife gave me the best necklace for my birthday and my birthday is in two weeks so I don't want to premiere it officially but I want to brag about it so I will post a sneak peek here where three people read my posts
A head-and-shoulders shot of a fat blue-eyed white woman with freckles wearing a black-and-red cherry-patterned dress, cherry earrings, a wide red headband, and an elaborate beaded statement necklace featuring lots of little red flowers with black centers and little green leaves, strung on a beaded black cord.
July 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Hey, my kid made this video for Mark Rober's #CampCrunchLabsContest to learn about forced perspective! Enjoy
June 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Wow. Got these earrings in the mail today and I think they're the biggest ones I've ever owned. Too big? (Honest) opinions?
January 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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This is the logo
December 22, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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October 7, 2024 at 1:15 AM
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It's so satisfying when you get a new article of clothing that you really like and can just go, "I'm gonna make earrings to match that. Exactly." The earrings are nothing special but can you have coördineuphoria?
A middle-aged woman in a black hoodie with silver stud decorations and an image of a pinky-peachy rose with leaves. She is also wearing clay earrings that match the shirt's pink-and-peach, green, and silver. Closeup of an earlobe with three piercings, featuring a tiny black stud, a larger silver star stud, and a short dangly earring in which an irregular green disk is layered over an irregular peach disk, with a silver heart in the center of the green.
September 22, 2024 at 3:15 AM
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Ugh. Got a new piercing, one I've been wanting for months, but the placement is wrong -- under the curl of the upper earlobe, so you can only see a tiny edge of earring sticking out. She showed me the dot where she was putting it but she was pushing the ear forward a bit so it looked different. Bah.
Image of an ear with multiple piercings. The newest one is in the upper cartilage of the ear and would show a heart-shaped stud if the piercing were placed right, but it's too close to the edge of the ear, so all you can see is an ambiguous white-gold dot.
September 21, 2024 at 2:14 AM
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A woman's ear with three lobe piercings sporting three earrings: a tiny rainbow stud, a larger stud that says VOTE, and a dangly coconut tree.
September 9, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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Quote skeet with the fictional character you are in your head
Dory from Finding Nemo, looking quizzical.
September 4, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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Back on my bullshit and enjoying my ears
A person's ear with three lobe piercings. The top one sports a yellow fish stud, the middle one a blue dolphin stud, and the bottom one a large dangly ring with five brightly colored wooden parrots on it.
August 27, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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I wasn't sure about getting a helix piercing and then I came across this on Etsy (the rainbow curve in the upper cartilage) and I am all in now. I wonder if there are any places locally that would let me have that as my starter piercing.
August 2, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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Very weird. This is what I see. (Certainly not disputing that it's there for everyone else, just wanted to be clear that I'm not trying to run interference for the Trump campaign!)
An excerpt from a Rolling Stone article reading "Yet, reached for comment by the Independent, a Trump campaign spokesman maintained that there was a perfectly rational, non-embarrassing reason that Trump won't drop the Lever stuff. "President Trump is an inspiring and gifted storyteller and referencing pop culture is one of the many reasons why he can successfully connect with the audience and voters," they said. Perhaps it's not so surprising that Trump and his followers identify more with the murderous doctor than the FBI agents who locked him up. After all, Lecter didn't raid Mar-a-Lago."
July 30, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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Hey, lesbians, I have a question for you. I accidentally made these lesbian earrings upside down. Do they land as sapphic earrings anyway? I probably need to remake them if I want to post them to Etsy or Facebook as part of a pride collection, right?
Earrings with clay violets against a backdrop featuring a color gradient in the colors of the lesbian flag, from dark purple to light pink to white to orange to dark orange, except that the lesbian flag has orange on the top and purple on the bottom and these are reversed.
May 9, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Being able to custom-mix clay to color-match my clothing is the most delightful sensation when I have favorite shirts that need matching earrings but disastrous for my ability to achieve anything else with my time/life
A photo of a woman wearing a charcoal/dark blue T-shirt that says "Peace, Love, and the Oxford Comma" in light green, with white flowers decorating them. From her ears dangle earrings consisting of light green flowers with white-and-dark-blue polka-dotted hearts hanging from them. The colors match very closely.
February 6, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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I started making clay earrings for myself a week or two ago and today I wore a pair out of the house and got a compliment from a stranger on them and I consider this my achievement of the decade.
A fat white middle-aged woman wearing a bright pink shirt, light pink headband, and light pink clay earrings shaped like hearts with a design of daisies and butterflies on them.
November 19, 2023 at 2:52 AM
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All be-earringed for Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes movie opening, and yes, I will persist in behaving like this is something anybody cares about. (<--the latter sentence could refer either to the BoSaS opening or my posts about my earrings)
Side view of a dangly earring featuring a gold spiral shape about three inches in length and a gold chain of equal length; about halfway down an iridescent bird made of resin hangs. There is also a stud earring shaped like a white rose in a second piercing and a tiny black ball in a third. Side view of a dangly earring about three inches in length. At the top is a silver crecent-moon shape facing points-down, below which is a large gold hoop with a stylized metal snake within it. At the bottom there's a silver blade shape. In this ear there are likewise a white rose stud and a tiny black ball stud. Front-facing view of me, a fat white middle-aged blonde-haired woman wearing a red shirt and a rainbow headband, wearing one gold dangly earring featuring an iridescent white bird and one gold, black, and silver dangly earring featuring a snake.
November 17, 2023 at 8:02 PM
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I ordered a pair of snake-themed earrings to wear to the movie opening of Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (I also bought a songbird pair and will be wearing one of each) and they came today and are honestly one of the coolest pairs of earrings I've ever had
Shot of the side of a head with blonde hair pulled back in a black patterned headband, with an earring in central focus. The earring is about 3 inches in length and features a large gold hoop with a stylized black snake inside it. At the top there's a points-down black crescent moon and at the bottom a silver blade dangles.)
October 2, 2023 at 5:14 PM
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These are so cute but are they giving "piano and eighth note" or "piano and sperm" to you?
A hand holding a small pair of clay earring studs, one of which is a tiny piano keyboard and one of which is a somewhat amorphous blob with a cute kawaii-style face which is meant to be an eighth note but which looks kind of like a sperm.
September 22, 2023 at 1:04 AM
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It has come to my attention that, one, my ears are really too small for three lobe piercings, and two, the middle one isn't healing properly, so I can't change it out yet. Nevertheless we persist. #apples
A smallish ear with three earrings in its lobe: a dangly one that looks like half an apple, a small silver heart, and a slightly larger green apple made of clay.
September 14, 2023 at 6:43 PM
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First thought on this: oh nooooooo

Second thought on this: I SHOULD BE WRITING/SATIRIZING THESE, I COULD BE MAKING BANK. I COULD TITLE ONE "A MODEST PROPOSAL" AND PEOPLE WOULD BE LIKE "OH I LOVE A NICE ROMANCE ABOUT A MODEST GIRL ACCEPTING A PROPOSAL" AND THEY WOULD PAY ME $$$
[IMG: A book titled LADIES FIRST, purportedly by "Liberty Adams". Alarmingly, it is labeled "Book 1". The summary of the book reads: "When patriot Mike rescues feminist Ricki from a post-Trump rally riot, the clash of opposites sets off sparks between them. But the gentleman giant refuses to leave the side of the spunky half-pint until he and his pickup truck deliver her home, safe and sound. Ricki attends the rally to scoop the racism of the Trump crowd in a blog post. But she's forced to spin a false narrative when her mistaken assumptions fail to materialize. When Ricki's lies get Mike doxxed, and his construction worksite becomes the target of anti-fascist thugs, his righteous anger forces her to reckon with the truth. Ricki wants to fix the damage and regain Mike's trust. But that means facing the wrath of the liberal mobs. Will Ricki find the courage to leave the left for a lifetime of old-fashioned true love?"]
September 9, 2023 at 1:20 AM
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I need more tattoos. I'm thinking a goddessy figure with fire for hair and maybe a footnote on my foot sourcing the Sappho one, or else a small bean labeled LEZ. But for now this is it. IME literary lesbians get it and everyone else stares at me blankly.
A tattoo with a picture of violets and text saying "the one with violets in her lap".
September 2, 2023 at 11:22 PM
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JENN I HAVE TOADSTOOLS NOW
Fat white boho-bandeaued 40-something-year-old wearing large silver dangly earrings showing several toadstools under a crescent moon, with a clear quartz point hanging below. An ear with a large silver dangly earring showing several toadstools under a crescent moon, with a clear quartz point hanging below. Above the dangly earring is a heart-shaped silver stud and a black ball stud.
August 30, 2023 at 5:52 PM
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Look, as long as these memes (skeemes?) keep coming up when I'm wearing new earrings, I'm gonna keep doing them
Headshot photo of me, a largely unremarkable fat white blue-eyed woman with blonde hair pulled back in a boho bandeau, wearing silver lesbian linked-woman-symbol earrings.
August 28, 2023 at 11:39 PM
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I'm on page one and already I'm delighted to find that even in 1960whatever lesbians couldn't sit straight
A sentence from the book Satan Was a Lesbian: "The ride had started conventionally enough, with the petite blonde leaning loosely against the door on her side of the car, her face turned toward Charlene, one foot drawn up under her, a happy smile on her face." The phrase "one foot drawn up under her" is underlined.
August 25, 2023 at 10:27 PM
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Mine, all mine
A lesbian pulp novel called SATAN IS A LESBIAN. The cover shows an image of a conventional horned Satan and, below it, a woman in black leather wielding a whip, her attention focused on a scantily-clad woman in the corner. Between the two of them a thoroughly pointless man stands in a posture that could be defensive, aggressive, or in the process of checking his watch.
August 25, 2023 at 9:39 PM