nonbinary birb @variance@chitter.xyz

trans rights!

a bird, a nerd, and a friend!
it’s me! hello!

belated #introductions post

hi, I’m aster! pronouns: they or he, neutral neopronouns like ey/em/eir are also cool!

I’ve been on the fediverse for > 1 year, but I recently decided to rebrand/switch instances, so here I am

I’m a physics grad student doing research related to climate science; I rant about this and related topics sometimes

mostly, though, I make jokes which occasionally manage to be somewhat funny, and I sometimes post sketches. also, birds. I’m lowkey a bird!

anyway, hello!

love 2 zone out while applying my hormone gel and forget how many pumps of it I’ve applied

none brain with left jorts

assigned cardassian at bajor

okay I’ll post it

just thought of a ds9 joke that’s awful on multiple levels, oof

now... do I post it

at the end of network effect, murderbot (a sentient agender cyborg robot) basically ends up in a queerplatonic partnership with art (a sentient agender spaceship) and it’s just... so beautiful

I wonder if the people who invented the internet had an inkling of a clue of just how bad some of the takes people would post on it are

current mood: having An Emotion about gay robots

when published authors are on livejournal or ao3 or similar places like that, I instantly trust them a lot more for some reason

sleep? who’s that?

jort me to outer space

went for a brief walk outside. the temperature was tolerable, thankfully

I’ve been told that wearing oversized cargo shorts that go below the knees is a crime against fashion

I’ve also been told “be gay, do crimes”

fuck it, I’ll go outside I guess

debating going outside

on one hand: I need to walk and getting my daily steps in by pacing my apartment back and forth is a drag

on the other hand: it is late at night and still hot as hell

on the third hand: fresh air

I need to talk to more people so that my characters aren’t all just basically me

I used to have ideas for characters

getting back into writing is tricky, as it turns out. guess I could always do the old “flip a coin for mbti types” as a starting point (mbti is kinda bs but it’s useful as a starting point for characterization)

unfortunately I don’t enjoy writing urban fantasy type stuff very much, as it turns out

alright apparently now I’ve got a half-formed gratuitously self-indulgent short story about hrt giving a person the ability to transform into a bird at will lol