Aeslin | 🏳️‍⚧

LGBTQ fiction writer | trans pansexual | industry professional | 100% dumbass | they/them | I love cilantro

[Aeslin | 🏳️‍⚧ @lynnafred]

@CalpicoUsa who are your US distributors?

[🜏 BiffMcSkylark (Dave) 🕹️🏳️‍🌈💍🏳️‍⚧️ @BiffMcSkylark]

It took awhile but we're finally going to be open today!

Wish us luck.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is a beautiful letter from Fiona Apple explaining to her fans why she must postpone a concert date.

I am impressed at the way she was instantly able to make the decision to choose love over her career. Indeed, the world needs more of this.

Enjoy the story...

“It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I'm writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.

Here's the thing.

I have a dog, Janet, and she's been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.

She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.

She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.

She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.

Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We've lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it's always really been just the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.

She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.

The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.

She has Addison's Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.

Despite all this, she's effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.

I can't come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.

I know that she's not sad about aging or dying.

Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That's why they are so much more present than people.

But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.

I just can't leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.

But this decision is instant.

These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.

I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable and comforted and safe and important.

I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.

Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.

When she dies.

So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.
I'll be seeing you.

Love,
Fiona”

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Paul Reubens wrote a message before he passed away last night.

[50cards @50cardsshop]

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[Aeslin | 🏳️‍⚧ @lynnafred]

@CocaCola Ultimate is just rebranded OK Cola and I'm fine with that

[Chris Tregenza @tregenza]

I'm a 3rd year fine art student and my final show has been censored by @NottmCollege.

Not because of nudity, offensive language, hate-speech or anything similar.

But because it contained criticism of the College.

1/17

[Aeslin | 🏳️‍⚧ @lynnafred]

$1, sharing the fundraiser, it all adds up. It all helps. I hate even having to ask, but we're in a dire spot and could use the assist.

[Aeslin | 🏳️‍⚧ @lynnafred]

Dave and I are in trouble. I'm managing a business full-time, working a part-time job, and I can't stretch myself any thinner. Dave's unemployment has run out and there's no safety nets or programs for those suffering from LC to help us out.
https://t.co/FMxtRGHm3a

[FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud]

I would say no

[Swim Jeans 👖 @ShortSleeveSuit]

An extravaganza is just having more vaganza than you need

[Aeslin | 🏳️‍⚧ @lynnafred]

damn lol I still lose my mind over this whole bit, Lloyd's wanted poster will always be a favorite

[Pandy Fackler ❄️ @ThatBrenna]

Me whenever I make a life decision.

[Aeslin | 🏳️‍⚧ @lynnafred]

@FloydDink I hope it gets a pc release so you can play it! I just thought of you instantly and needed to show you that lol

[Aeslin | 🏳️‍⚧ @lynnafred]

@FloydDink this is so up your alley lmao <3

[Bandai Namco US @BandaiNamcoUS]

Mark your calendars and get ready for time on the ranch with your Ultra Kaiju when Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher launches on October 20, 2022!

[Aeslin | 🏳️‍⚧ @lynnafred]

@BiffMcSkylark Tales of Hearts CG version

[XBOX @XBOX]

It's a Pac-Man World and we're just living in it.

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Ages 18+. Ends 9/19/22. Rules: https://t.co/6ZjynYOgsR

[Aeslin | 🏳️‍⚧ @lynnafred]

This is fucking incredible! 😍

[Sasha Torres @JustinSadur]

The Round House. Mixed media. Mostly gouache over marker.

#art #painting #gouache

[Aeslin | 🏳️‍⚧ @lynnafred]

@PokemonTCG @Pokemon @McDonalds Yeah which is why I got fucking scooby doo'd today. Better chat with your buddies at @McDonalds on why they dropped the ball so hard