Mothma'am

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🏳️‍⚧️ Sylvia Carol Woo (she / her) 🎮 Senior Software Engineer at NetherRealm Studios 🚨 Opinions are my own, neither representative of my employers' nor my colleagues'

A still from a cell phone video of a crowd at an anti-ICE demonstration in Chicago. I'm in the center of the frame, facing away from the camera, wearing a white coat and tan winter hat.
A large mural depicting Prince holding his Love Symbol guitar adorns the side of a parking garage
Sounds of the Wurlitzer Organ at Music Box Theatre in Chicago, IL
Selfie with a Gyruss arcade cabinet in the frame
An LGBTQ pride image: rainbow colored words read "I see you. I accept you. I support you. I admire you. I love you."
Nine Inch Nails performing at the United Center in Chicago
Amy Adams in a scene from the film Arrival. She's wearing a hazmat suit and holding a whiteboard with a "cool S" drawn on it
The cover of Talia Bhatt's book "Trans Rad Fem." I'm holding a copy in my hand (gloved to protect a fresh tattoo) against the background of my beach
A black and white desert landscape photographed from a tour bus window: the cover of R.E.M.'s album New Adventures in Hi-Fi
"The Fragile" by Nine Inch Nails
A waning gibbous moon shines bright just above the nighttime horizon. Her glow is reflected in a golden band that stretches from the breakerwall to the shoreline. The reflection dances on the gentle waves of Lake Michigan, a child showing off for mama.
V.I.N.Cent from the 1979 cult classic film "The Black Hole"
A panel from a comic book adaptation of the 1979 Disney film The Black Hole. A wild haired mad scientist, Dr. Reinhart, calls out to his red hench-robot, Maximilian. A speech bubble above him reads, "MAXIMILIAN! PREPARE THE PROBE SHIP!"
POV image from the Lake Michigan shore. The surface is unusually calm, and the horizon line between blue water and blue sky is nearly imperceptible
Me, Sylvia, posing for a selfie with the Lakeside Pride support van in the background
A scene from Bee Movie plays on a tiny color television
An illustration of Pope Leo holding a bottle of Malort
A sign that reads "This fixture is flushed with harvested rainwater. Not safe for drinking"
A post from the 50501 official account: "Here's what we know so far- an individual brandishing an AR-15 style rifle was seen heading towards a crowd of protesters. A local volunteer who saw this fired 3 rounds from a handgun."
An Atari 800XL home computer. The system is mostly white with a black keyboard and silver buttons in a vertical row just to the right of the keys. A cartridge slot with a spring loaded cover sits on top just above the number keys, and two small joystick ports are visible on the right side of the housing
Two photos stacked side to side. On the left is a man in a white Thou hoodie holding a drink, on the right a woman in a Napalm Death baseball tee. Both are photographs of me, but not photographs of the same person
Selfie wearing a white sleeve on black baseball style T-shirt with the artwork from the Napalm Death album "Scum"
"A Crude Rendering of Mothman", crayon on disposable napkin, 2025
Selfie with a significantly larger than life size cicada tied to a tree
An illustration from my friend on the difference between Pepper bras and others
Selfie with Lakeside Pride Marching Band as they set up on Wacker in advance of Chicago's Memorial Day parade
A picture of a projector screen on stage at the Combo Breaker fighting game tournament in Schaumburg, IL. The words "MKX Top 8 - Up Next!" are on the display
The text "Malort & Cats" displayed in the "Law & Order" typeface
A selfie taken by me, Sylvia. I'm standing in a grassy field at a park in Bridgeport, Chicago, on a bright early evening. I'm wearing sunglasses and an army surplus jacket with a Mothman patch on the sleeve. Two groups of people sit on the ground behind me. A few small buildings from the neighborhood stand in the distance behind my left shoulder. Over my right shoulder the faraway skyscrapers of downtown define the boundary between earth and sky.
POV image from a beach chair facing Lake Michigan from the perspective of South Boulevard Beach, Evanston, Illinois. White clouds stand out against a bright blue sky as the gentlest of waves wash up on the sand
Demon's Souls style "Hamper Destroyed" message overlaid on a picture of a white and brindle spotted cat laying on an overturned felt laundry hamper. The little shit has the most "what, did I do something wrong" expression on his face.
A triangular diagram, with vertices labeled "Juggalo," "Parrothead," and "Deadhead." I've put a dot with my own name at roughly the midpoint of the Parrothead/Deadhead axis, and around 80% towards Juggalo on the remaining axes
Selfie of me after fixing up my eyeliner in my (safely parked!) car
Spiritbox performing on stage at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago
It's a real long nonsense screed from Trump on that dumb social media site he owns. I'll spare you the details, but somehow the guy manages to turn a simple Easter Sunday message into a pity party for how much he has suffered. As opposed to, y'know, Christ's resurrection or something.
A small cardboard box lies open. Inside is a full size brick painted like the Trans Pride Flag, with stripes of pink, white, and blue.
A plush, slightly anthropomorphic Guardian Building
That "big thumbs up" meme but the dork on the outside is saying "I don't want to talk to you because you're not tradwife enough"
A cardboard sign painted in the pink, blue, and white stripes of the transgender pride flag. The words "We will not go away" are written on it in black marker.
Screenshot of a Discord message. It reads, "you know when I suspected you were trans I wasn't thinking you'd be such a smoke show holy shit."
A woman wearing a pink headset with LED kitty ears in an office setting
A screenshot from my feed, displaying a like count of 69. You know, the sex number.
A cat on top of a washing machine, hiding behind detergent containers
A kid drawing that "fancy S" shape we all made in grade school. The one where the top and bottom are super pointy. That one.
A video of a an actor in costume posing in front of a TV playing Mortal Kombat 11. He mimics the costumes and on-screen character select animations of different Mortal Kombat characters: Mileena, Sonya Blade, Kano, Raiden, Erron Black, and Johnny Cage
Selfie of a woman wearing a black blazer with matching lipstick and eyeliner
Muderbot, the protagonist of Martha Wells' Muderbot Diaries series of sci fi stories, as depicted on the cover of All Systems Red
The high score screen from Gyruss, a 1983 arcade shoot em up from Konami
A cat resting comfortably atop a stack of T-shirts in a dresser drawer. His facial expression suggests that he has no intention of moving
A poster for the 1985 film Santa Claus: The Movie, starring Dudley Moore and John Lithgow
A ticket receipt for a Patti Smith concert at the Chicago Theatre
The most majestic cat you've ever met
A placard attached to a backpack with binder clips. There are words written by hand in black marker: "A history of repeated Injuries & Usurpations. July 4 1776"
A human sized mushroom with squinting eyes and arms with hands. From Dark Souls I think? Anyway, mushroom guy looks like the edibles are hitting him like a truck