Fin Turner [zie/zir]

@firinel.bsky.social

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queer/trans, polyam, AuDHD, spoonie; parent of same artist, educator, & instigator vegan-ish, Burner 𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘸𝘳 𝘤𝘺𝘮𝘳𝘢𝘦𝘨 𝘢𝘤 𝘺𝘯 𝘣𝘺𝘸 𝘺𝘯 𝘋𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢; 𝘳𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘳 𝘶𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘩

A building in a traditional Japanese style architecture, with a railing around it at which one adult leans, and one small child squats and peers through, out into a very large koi pond. You can see two very large koi, one gold, one silver, swimming.
He’s a drag king performing the most grotesque caricature of masculinity, like a male bird desperately trying to get other male birds to like & subscribe. (I’m a mixed media artist; that includes metaphors.)
A screenshot of a phone showing the “games” tab, which displays a colouring ‘game’, a game called Cats & Soup, Cash Sort, Zen Word, Twisted Rope, Word Master, Water Match, 2248, and Meowdoku.
A friend was asking me (teasingly) about how often I get use my Welsh living in the states (my household aside). It reminded me of something of great amusement. Near where we lived just outside of Philly is a township named Bryn Mawr. Bryn Mawr in Welsh translates to Big Hill. On the highway, the sign for Bryn Mawr abbreviated the word 'township' as Twp. It just so happens that ’twp’ is also a word in Welsh.
 
Bryn Mawr Twp translates into “Big Stupid Hill”.
An American Girl doll (retired #15) is standing on a dresser top, wearing the rainbow woven bag.
A text chat where Fin realises that they’re a day off in meeting a friend for brunch
A hand holding a piece of plastic canvas which has a repeating chevron pattern in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple woven into it
A baking sheet containing five assembled hand pies, to the left is a red bowl full of the hand pie filling, and to the right are rectangles of dough waiting to be filled and crimped before being put on the baking sheet.
An elderly orange cat is sleeping gracefully.
The earlier “what kind of queer” thought process has progressed from orientation and gender expression, to include invoking neurodivergence, as FOR ME they are instrinsically related, as well as, say my relationship formatting and a whole host of other identities. 

The NYT article focused a lot on choice, and awhile I try to be sympathetic to the concerns of eroding marriage rights, I struggle some with the lack of creative vision. (I’ve no interest in pruning myself to fit within the judeo-cristo cult views as an acceptable union, in celebration of love.) My multitudenous identities aren’t “a choice” just like his, I think? but additionally, they are— in the same way that if you love someone, you also make a choice to wake each day and engage in the doing part of that love. 

I certainly do not think of myself as “other” in any natural sense. I’m not LOOKING to be adversarial at all, as he seems to think, I simply want to exist as I authentically am and it is society that is adversarial toward me and my natural state of being. It is society - and by that I mean specifically the hegemonic homogenisation of white colonialism - which puts me in the “other” box as if I were NOT natural. Which is absurd as nature is queer, in every aspect which the author of the NYT article intends. 

These thoughts are not fully formed, it is early yet and I woke with this in my head.
These two first graders are fighting over being the “rubbish collector” (I asked E, M also wants to help) after a cut & paste activity. E is trying to politely ignore him and just do the job, but M keeps interjecting, yelling “look! I found trash you missed!” and slam-dunking it into the bin in a way that nearly knocks it out of E's arms, multiple times. Finally, E grasps M’s wrist limply, and looking him square in the face, with utter flat effect says “look, I’ve found trash”. I managed to not snicker, and redirect M back to his unfinished work, which he was using trash collecting to avoid