Mandy Mitchell

@mandymitchell.me

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Software engineer & raconteuse. Probably autistic? My dog thinks I write cool code. https://mandymusings.com/ for my tech blog

A light brown dog with white markings lays in a white chair with dog-patterned upholstery, resting her head on the left arm, with her face towards the camera. Her eyes are closed.
Minorin from the Gatchaman reboot shouting, “Bird, go!” to begin her transformation
The “so hot right now” meme from Zoolander with the caption “ISO 8601 / so hot right now”
A left hand, palm up, with fingers curled. The edges of the pinky and ring finger are smeared with pencil graphite
Data asks Troi—who is in labor—“Are you able to access his thought process?”
A hand holds a copy of The Criterion Collection’s UHD edition of Citizen Kane
Two shots of Bilbo holding the one ring. The first is captioned, “After all…why not?” The second is captioned, “Why shouldn’t I pronounce it the way it’s spelled?”
An awning in front of a restaurant with the label “Virgil’s BBQ & Bar”
A view from the front row of the second mezzanine of the Dolby Theater in LA, looking down on the performers preparing for the Evangelion Wind Symphony
A hand grips a 3mL syringe halfway full of a light, yellow liquid and a vial labeled “estradiol valerate”
A silver MacBook sits on a wooden surface next to its charger and cable. The laptop has several stickers on it, including four My Little Ponies, four foxes, a drawing of an overflowing bowl of ramen, a drawing of a taiyaki with ice cream and pocky spilling out of its mouth, a “handcrafted by tyrannosaurs” logo, a “protect trans kids” design featuring a pink and blue tyrannosaur with a child next to it, and a Skookum Kids logo. In a gap between the stickers sits a badge with a photo of Mandy against a white backdrop. Below the photo is a section with a “guava” colored background and the text “Amanda M”.
The Anakin/Padme four panel meme with captions Anakin: Now we can watch the movies Padme: Which are mostly about Cassian, and everyone who shows up in the memes are side characters, right? Anakin: [no text] Padme: They’re side characters, right?
Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting: A man stands among a crowd of seated people and appears to be addressing an unseen interlocutor. The man is wearing a worn, brown jacket and a blue flannel shirt; the individuals seated closest to him are wearing suits and are looking up at him.
Freeza from Dragonball Z in his second or third form stares haughtily ahead. A caption reads, “This isn’t even my calendar’s final form”
The cover art for Skillet’s album “Invincible”
Ken from the Barbie movie (Ryan Gosling version) wears a pink t-shirt while gesturing with thumb, index, and middle fingers pressed together. A caption reads “My job is just…email”
The Anakin/padme four panel meme: In the first panel, Anakin has the caption “I’m going to vote no” In the second panel, Padme has the caption “on cloture, right?” In the third panel, Anakin stares with no caption In the fourth panel, Padme repeats, “on cloture, right?”
Kermit the frog, in profile, sips from a clear mug with a Lipton Tea bag label hanging over the edge.
A cat in a suit reads a newspaper. Above is the caption, “maybe I should run for public office”
A small shopping cart jammed full of fabric bolts that have been positioned vertically so that they take to less space. Eleven bolts in different colors, patterns, and textures are shown, including plain grey, black & white houndstooth, white on black polka dots, purple with unicorn prints, and blue with fox prints.
A pink Godzilla figurine sitting on a desk in a hotel room
A bathroom sign hanging from a ceiling. Three blocky figures are depicted: - a square head with a blue rectangle for a body and two lines for legs - a aquare head with a pink trapezoid for a body and two shorter lines for legs - a square head with an unfilled rectangle for a body overlapping a circle with a single leg depicted in a sitting position
A train platform at Shin Hakodate Hokuto. There is snow on the ground, and the sky is hazy from even more snow
A window display for a store called “closet child”. The display has four exceptionally frilly dresses in front of a curtain
A glass of melon-flavored Fanta with a white, compostable straw sticking out of it
A round, gold colored coin purse with an embroidered hamburger on the front. The top bun has a simple face consisting of two dots for eyes and a straight line for the mouth. Above the hamburger, the word “Beautiful” is embroidered with white thread in a cursive script
A (bronze? copper?) statue of a giraffe next to a spiral staircase in front of a building
Two plates of donuts, a coffee, and a cafe au lait from Mister Donut are arranged on a small table. The plate farther from the camera is smaller and holds a double chocolate Pon de Ring resting on a honey dip. The larger plate has a cream filled, chocolate dipped cruller, a double chocolate Pon de ring, a strawberry donut, and a honey dip.
The older version of Rose from Titanic looks downward while saying (captioned), “It’s been 84 years…”
A stack of books on a striped couch with stuffed animals behind it. Top-to-bottom: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Articulating Design Decisions Enterprise Integration Patterns Working Effectively with Legacy Code Staff Engineer The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn The Unix Philosophy Code Is for Humans Thinking in Systems
Six volumes of manga are arranged in two rows of three on a blue rug. Left-to-right, top-to-bottom: How Do I Turn My Best Friend Into My Girlfriend volume 2, Throw Away the Suit Together volume 2, Futari Eacape volume 3, Monologue Woven for You volume 3, Monthly in the Garden With My Landlord volume 2, The Two of Them Are Pretty Much Like This volume 3
An unopened box for a Hallmark Keepsake ornament shaped like the Enterprise B from Star Trek Generations
The Tamarian captain from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Darmok” holds two knives in front of him with their points downward. A voice bubble extends from his chest towards the bottom of the image, implying that the content of the quoted post is to be read with his voice.
A tan and white dog looks upward into the camera while sitting on a white rug between a green sofa and a striped chair
A 10ish foot Christmas tree with white lights, silver garland, and 40+ Hallmark Star Trek ornaments from 1993–2023
A magnet with a slider to indicate whether the contents of the dishwasher are clean or dirty. The slider is positioned in the middle, so that “C” is visible on the left, and “RTY” is visible on the right.
A copy of Journey to Terezor, by Frank Asch. The cover depicts a boy falling backwards out of an opening in a cylindrical, flying craft. A large body of water is below the boy, and a shoreline with a forest and mountains is in the distance.
The first two volumes of Monologue Woven for You by Syu Yasaka
Volume 1 of How Do I Turn My Best Friend Into My Girlfriend by Syu Yasaka
Volume 1 of Throw Away the Suit Together by Kenyans
Volumes 1, 2, and 4 of The Two of Them Are Pretty Much Like This by Takashi Ikeda
The Girl I Want Is So Handsome by Yuama
The first 8 volumes of Whisper Me a Love Song by Eku Takashima
All three volumes of Days of Love at Seagull Villa by Kodama Naoko
I Married My Female Friend by Kodama Naoko
The first five volumes of Assorted Entanglements by Mikanuji
Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord by Yodokawa
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi
Volumes 1, 2, and 4 of Futari Escape, by Shouichi Taguchi
Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl by Mocchi-au-lait and majoccoid
Volumes 2–6 of Failed Princesses by Ajiichi
The first five volumes of The Moon On a Rainy Night by Kuzushiro
The first five volumes of “The Summer You Were There” by Yuama
A tan dog with white markings is curled up with her eyes closed against a pillow on a bed with grey sheets.
The four volumes of Dougnuts Under a Crescent Moon by Shio Usui
The first four volumes of Cheerful Amnesia by Tamamushi Oku
The Mean Girls “stop trying to make fetch happen” meme template with the caption “Stop trying to make private affirmation happen; it’s not happening”
The four volumes of Catch These Hands by murata
The first ten volumes of How Do We Relationship? by Tamifull
The single volume graphic novel If You’ll Have Me by Eunnie