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Just another twentysomething trans woman trying to survive upon this hellish Earth. She/Her.

A Ulefone Armor Mini 20T Pro phone with the back cover removed. There is a bright red water ingress indicator next to the USB port
two hot dogs with their ends impaled on opposing rows of metal spikes set in a plastic tray with a two-prong electrical cord coming out of it
A stack of tapes labeled Imaginary Baseball League / Amigo the Devil Protomen Act II - The Father of Death Hans Condor / URIZEN Protomen Act I - Hope Rides Alone + Encore Tim Capello / Diarrhea Planet Protomen Act III - This City Made Us
The Protomen performing The Will of One live, with a helmet-wearing Raul Panther III singing "through the glass twenty stories high, I have watched your city burn. If everything that you said is true, there's no hope someday they will learn," as the crowd roars along to the song
a game sprite depicting a short blue-haired woman wearing heavy gray-green armor and holding a sniper rifle longer than she is tall
a selfie of a woman with sunglasses proudly holding up an electric chainsaw
a plastic model of the Gundam Aerial armed with an Armored Core VI pile bunker
seven four-leaf clovers in my hand
A Canon AE-1 program with a syringe with a bent needle being inserted into a screw hole near the lens mount. A bottle of Kluber Isoflex oil and a vial of estradiol valerate are out-of-focus in the background
a bottle of clear nail polish next to a disassembled WM-D3 Walkman
A Canon AE-1 Program SLR camera
a single cypress tree on a rocky outcrop
Evangelion test results 55% Asuka 60% Rei 65% Ritsuko 50% Genso 90% Shinji 50% Misato 50% Kaworu
What I built for a first attempt was extremely crude. I connected the needle to a potentiometer, which was used for approximate current limiting, and then to a car battery. I also inserted a current meter into the circuit so I could monitor things. For the other electrode I used a pop can. Grabbing the can would complete the circuit and start the flow of electricity. One side effect of this is that I could loosely tune the current by how hard I squeezed the can. Squeezing harder would lower the resistance slightly and allow more current to flow. This is what the result of my efforts looked like: [photo of a bunch of wires connecting a multimeter, soda can, and car battery] I'll admit that it doesn't look like the safest contraption in the world. I would watch the current meter and time it by counting seconds to work out roughly the amount of lye generated. Once I got to the target, I'd let go of the can. As janky as this was, I was able to successfully use it to remove some hair from my arm! This was a euphoric moment where I realized this project was going to work. The follicle that came out was enormous - it reminded me of epilation, except it came out with absolutely no resistance.
a giant robot with an equally giant fishing rod
a low-poly 3D map showing a tall vertical shaft full of floating cubes. the player's location is at the very bottom of the shaft
a sci-fi cityscape, including one tower with a detail that resembles an inverted depiction of a rising sun
a rear 3/4 view of the gundam lfrith, showing its bunny ear-like head fins and tail-like butt armor
a small child wearing a costume based on toa nuju from bionicle, consisting of white plastic armor pieces worn over a black bodysuit
me wearning a CRT monitor shell on my head
A panel from Achewood: "Téodor, we hoped you would shine during the cooking event, but you folded with a focus and intensity normally seen only in successes."
a star wars the phantom menace-branded pepsi vending machine sitting on the sidewalk in front of an antique store
a walkman wm-d3 with a pair of truthwar hexa in-ear monitors. the IEMs have had lavalier mic capsules taped to them
art for Armor Hunter Mellowlink / Leecher Army Merowlink, showing a person with an oversized antitank rifle standing over the wreckage of a downed mech
The Y11-LATONA, a bipedal Armored Core with thick thighs and slender calves and feet
A Sony Walkman WM-D3, a sleek black device with numerous buttons, dials, switches, and jacks
A screenshot of Revolutionary Girl Utena episode 14, showing Kanae looking dismayed as Mamiya holds a black rose in front of her
a thinkpad, with my little, ring, and middle fingers over the ESDF cluster and my index finger on the trackpoint
a disassembled kenwood kx-94w tape deck on my desk, with one of the transport mechanisms removed and loaded with a 3150Hz test tape two monitors in the background display electronic circuit schematics
an abandoned, broken lighthouse tower
a vinyl sleeve for the doctor zhivago original soundtrack album
the ending cutscene of Armored Core, showing a computer consisting of red and black hexagonal columns
A crop of Beany Tuesday's comic "2018 political rising stars to keep an eye on" depicting a person wearing a hat with a hammer and sickle on it, captioned: Dresden Norris (I) Washington -Spends 5 hours a day on twitter -Vows to have the rest of congress executed if elected -Encyclopedic knowledge of foreign policy but doesn't know what a filibuster is
an animated gif depicting a lightweight mech running circles around and taking potshots at a heavyweight mech, with the heavyweight stuck turning in place, its targeting reticle always lagging behind the lightweight
Panels from the webcomic Unsounded Lemuel, a child soldier, is about to stab a man in the face with a sword
a swollen lithium polymer battery in front of a disassembled laptop
my hand, holding a replica of the behelit, a small red ovoid with misplaced facial features, from berserk
a disassembled walkman wm-3 on my desk, surrounded by parts and tools
a dog wearing bright orange plastic earmuffs
A Walkman WM-10 slotted into a cassette storage rack, next two a bunch of cassettes in their cases.
A Walkman WM-10 next to a cassette case, showing that the Walkman has the same dimensions.
A Maxell XLII 90 minute tape with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon recorded on the A-side. The tape is solid black plastic, with a gold foil label that practically glows where the light catches it
An achewood panel reading "Téodor, we hoped you would shine during the cooking event, but you folded with a focus and intensity normally seen only in successes."
a Walkman WM-D3 sitting on the keyboard of a Thinkpad T43 laptop. Both are black devices with white text and red and green accents
A Neumann VMS-70 record cutting lathe, a CNC machine designed to make the masters from which vinyl records are pressed
the brass flywheels of a WM-3 walkman, coated in some sort of corrosion
a WM-FX321, WM-3, and WM-D3 Walkman next to a bunch of plastic baggies of replacement parts
Vash the Stampede from Trigun holding a large silver revolver with a rectangular slab-sided barrel
a diagram showing the dimensions of the ulefone armor mini 20t pro. 4.7 inch screen, 63.3mm x 133.5mm x 24.9mm body
an etherkiller-derivative consisting of a three-prong 120V plug wired to a DA-15 serial connector
An Achewood panel: "Téodor, we hoped you would shine during the cooking event, but you folded with a focus and intensity normally seen only in successes."
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A screenshot of Vision of Escaflowne, showing a heavily bandaged young man being held down on a cot while sparks fly from a mech undergoing repairs in the background
"Your Result: Iino Abbav" beneath a picture of Iino Abbav from ZZ Gundam
UNBEATABLE screenshot featuring Beat running across a mirrorlike ocean, the setting sun visible behind her.
A Kenwood KX-94W tape deck in the middle of recording a tape
A walkman, pair of headphones, and bootleg UNBEATABLE ALBUM. tape
A video of me displaying a copy of the UNBEATABLE soundtrack album copied onto a blank cassette, putting the tape in a Walkman, and playing "Worn Out Tapes" with heavy wow and flutter.
A manga panel showing two girls crying over damaged mecha
A Sony Walkman WM-D3, showing the brushed aluminum plate around the playback control buttons, as well as the I/O on one end of the device