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thene@thene· 27d

I love the smell of Canada in the morning

treetops and rooves with an orange-tinged smoky sky above

thene@thene· 28d

oh and remember when USFS put out a handwringing statement on their capitulation to transphobia and then added at the end that ot was all OK because trans people can compete in synchro? Remember that??

Farrell ended the email by re-emphasizing USFS commitment to inclusion: “We remain deeply committed to providing meaningful opportunities for every member to participate. This includes gender-neutral disciplines and programs such as synchronized skating, Theatre on Ice, showcase, solo dance and team maneuver events.”

thene@thene· Jul 5

this is classic Walden; dark, soft edges, bones of fear and mourning, and queer, whimsical magic.

a soft pink sky. A woman's face; another woman knees beside her. Dialogue bubbles:

Of course. Everyone, everything has potential for magic. You just gotta be standing somewhere in the world and in the body that lets you see it.

thene@thene· Jul 5

this is a story about a runaway, the acquaintance who gives her a ride, and a lost cat. And the strange men from the Office of Road Inquiry who want to take away the cat.

Two women talking in the front seat of a car. Dialogue bubbles:

I am, too.

yeah?

Yeah.

You have a girlfriend?

what? No! God. No.

I guess it would've been weird if you'd skipped town with one.

I don't even know how I would...

It's all about dropping the right clues.

LOU! like, how I would even know if they were... like me...

Or just go up, Say hi, my name is so and so... I fuck women. What's your name?

LOU! but, like, How?

very deliberate, very gay eye contact.

you're crazy.

Come on, Bea, I'm kidding. You just have to get to know someone.

UGHHH

I may be crazy, but I've had three girlfriends. Which for rural Texas is a miracle.

Ok, that's fair.

Two women lean on the hood of a red car. One of them is holding a grey cat. It is snowing. Dialogue bubbles:

She has a tag.

I tried to read it.

I can make it out... "D... 43 Glenwood Road... West, West Texas."

do you know where that is?

No...

The background is dark and lit with small flashes, like bright falling leaves. Two men loom over two frightened women, one of whom is holding a cat. Dialogue bubbles:

Lou-

Bea, get in the car

What are...

Shit! Don't let them see-

Why, that is one fine kitty you've got there. Sure is.

thene@thene· Jul 5

new day new #TillieWalden appreciation post: Are You Listening welcome to Tillie Walden's weird, weird, queer rural Texas.

A hand-drawn map of Texas with strange topography. Central text: "The guidebooks play deception; oceans are a property of mind. All maps are fiction, All travelers come to separate frontiers." Adrienne Rich, Itinerary.

A car, diven by a butch woman with glasses, through a strange landscape of pink-toned earth and sky. Below, her passenger rests her face on one hand, in a dark inner landscape with pockets of light.

A person squeezes through a thin crack of light in the darkness

thene@thene· Jul 4

The deck is themed around sleeping and dreaming, and has two extra cards: the Night and the Morning, depicting the slumberer as they enter and depart from Walden's dreamlike landscapes

The Night and the Morning. Both cards show the head of a sleeping figure, wrapped in the card's landscape as if using it as a blanket. Both also show a figure exploring the world beyond. In The Night, it is night and the sleeper has just cracked their eyes open to the dreamscape; in The Morning, the sun has risen and the sleeper is sound asleep.

thene@thene· Jul 4

second #TillieWalden appreciation post of the day is one for #WitchSky / #TarotSky: the Cosmic Slumber Tarot. I'm very fussy about decks at this point and Walden's is one of the 3 I regularly use. It's full of detail and wonder, soft without sacrificing depth.

5 cards: the Hierophant, Ace of Pentacles, Princess of Pentacles, the Devil and the Four of Pentacles. The cards are mostly lush and bright.

The Ace of Torches, the Moon and the Three of Cups. Lots of purple and yellow tones here, flowing dreamlike backgrounds

thene@thene· Jul 4

look i have had this exact gender nonconforming synchro teen experience, how could i not love this

6 panel comic, while one girl applies makeup to another. Text:
Close your eyes
Kay
nnooOOOh STOP
Come on
IT'S IN MY EYES
Ok, calm down
*exhale*
Hold still
HGHHH NO STOP PLEASE STOPPPP
We still have to do your mascara

thene@thene· Jul 4

it's a beautiful book about the way a child's life can vanish into the incredible pressure of child sports. but it's also very personal, uniquely Walden, full of vast silences on empty ice. You can feel her unfolding these uncomfortable memories on the page.

A blonde skater wearing glasses. She poses in the first 3 panels, then is shown in a sit spin position. Text: Every move I made would determine how well I would do. A mistake would make my nerves flare. But a success would give me a burst of new energy. My programs were only ever about three minutes long

A blonde girl beside the bleachers in an ice rink, skate bag over her shoulder. She kicks a can off the ground. Text bubble: FUCK YOU.

Two skaters standing off ice at the side of the rink. One clutches her arms and shivers, staring down at the ground.

thene@thene· Jul 4

OK I'm going to do some #TillieWalden appreciation posts this weekend. The first of her books that I picked up was, ofc, her #FigureSkating book, Spinning. It's a memoir about Walden's childhood as a skater in Texas, slowly realising she was gay, and didn't want to skate all her life

Book cover of Spinning. A row of synchro ice skaters with arms extended. One looks off to the side, uncertain.

2 comic panels with text between.
Upper panel: A young blonde girl chases a young brunette girl across a sunlit ice rink.
Text: I missed Molly and I didn't understand why. We were constantly bickering and driving each other crazy. But I missed it. I missed being in that beautiful rink with her.
Lower panel: the blonde girl eats a doughnut. The brunette has 3 doughnuts. "Molly, that's too many." "Whatever"

thene@thene· Jul 2

stunning line from the prologue of The Second Mark

The cost of producing this final, of training these six skaters for twenty years apiece, keeping them in skates and costumes, buying their ice time and their lessons, is somewhere around three million dollars. The bulk of the tab was paid by the Chinese government, the government of the former Soviet Union-and the parents of Jamie Salé and David Pelletier, who are here tonight, almost too nervous to watch.

thene@thene· Jun 30

@thistleburr.bsky.social had to swing by to say hi to her while I was waiting for the bus

The masts of the USS Constitution above a red brick wall on a cloudy day

USS Constitution in her dock, partly obscured by a chainlink fence

thene@thene· Jun 30

I had 7W show up in a reading the other day; this take from the Turning Terrestrial Tides deck is interesting

7 of Passions

MARS IN LEO

Here's the thing about hierarchy: In order for someone to be at the top, someone else must be at the bottom. When hierarchy pits us against one another for perceived finite resources, our survival instincts become activated. When hierarchy becomes the very fabric that our society is crafted from, we become chronically exhausted. We live in a constant state of paranoia, consumed by our own survival needs and socioeconomic standing. We forget that pursuing the things required for our basic sense of security means that we're inherently upholding a system that pushes others to be without. When we're acting from this place of fear and scarcity, we're never at our best. But, we need only to remember that hierarchies are a construct, and the ideology they perpetuate around the perceived value of individuals and finite nature of resources are myths. We are always at our strongest when we're united with one another rather than in competition with one another. Remember that we have the collective power to dismantle these systems, and it starts with our individual egos.

7 of Passions (Wands); a mouth screaming, bright lines radiating from it. Text: When you're at the top, the only place to go is down.

thene@thene· Jun 25

Buckingham Palace: a long grey stone building situated in a flat brown area with a fence surrounding it.

thene@thene· Jun 22

floor beast

thene@thene· Jun 18

catching up on @rodger.bsky.social 's Sports! newsletter. whew. sports.beehiiv.com/p/world-cup-...

I know some readers prefer I keep politics out of my writing. In this case, I’ve gotta ask: HOW???? The government is intentionally putting politics into sports! It is directly interfering in the event it is hosting! This meddling has been an issue since Trump’s inauguration in 2025. Most of the time, governments use major international sporting events to show how welcoming and benevolent they can be — even the really evil ones! This administration has chosen to use big events to showcase its steadfast commitment to exclusion and vindictiveness.

When I watch that clip of the Haitian-American crowd going nuts for Haiti, I see and hear what an American World Cup could have been: a celebration of our big, beautiful country that has become a home-away-from-home for people from every corner of the planet. A place that took in my family, and probably yours, too.

thene@thene· Jun 15

also, Jeremy Abbott, incredible footwork in his own performance, but he also choreographed an ensemble that slammed on the "holy shit I didn't know you could do that" button so hard [text by Dessa, I don't think I've posted this to bsky before]

And looking through your own paradigm is like looking through plate glass: you don't even know it's there until you walk into it, or through it.
In the pertorming arts, the nasterful execution of a familiar idea can be deeply moving -- a great pertormance of a favorite song, for example. But the art that really blows my mind usually violates an assumption I didn't even realize I'd made, eliciting some variation of "Holy shit, I didn't know you could do that." When David Foster Wallace endnoted the endnotes; when I first heard a backward snare hit; when I first saw a violist play with her bow belly-up, the wooden side tapping on the strings; when Jeff Buckley held that last note of
"Hallelujah" for an hour; when I discovered that Sigur Rós wrote lyrics in a language with words but no meaning.

thene@thene· Jun 11

I tried twice and got Cloud the first timw, Yuna the second one. I changed some answers second time for questions where I was 50/50, and I like the Yuna result

thene@thene· Jun 10

from Friendly City by Sofia Samatar #BookSky All your houses, neighbour.

Dear Neighbor

DEAR NEIGHBOR,

I wonder if you know how much I like walking by your house. Your house on the corner, so low, iust one story, beneath enormous leaning trees, with your worn porch furniture and the lumpy bed for the dog to lie on. Your house midway up the street, the arched windows filled in with concrete and fronted with iron spikes like a medieval cloister. Your house in he elegant neighborhood where you've allowed your yard to run riot and dust t darken your impressive old windows. Your house in the modest neighborhood where you've painted your front door orange and bordered
the sidewalk with sunflowers. All your houses, neighbor.

thene@thene· Jun 10

Cassie agrees (she was sick last week but is feeling better now)

small black dog stretched out in bed. it would be tempting to rub her belly

thene@thene· Jun 7

Boston's MBTA Pride In Transit train

thene@thene· Jun 7

a bonus pic

a person wearing a massive fan-shaped wire frame, about 3 times his own height, from which hangs 16 huge pink-purple-blue bi pride flags. Their clothes are made from smaller bi pride flags.

thene@thene· Jun 7

best photo I got at #BostonPride today

Happy young queer person holding a sign that says @ MASSDOT WE HAVE BIG DIG ENEGRY

thene@thene· Jun 6

I will! she is going to the parade today!

Dog on bus seat!! looking very serious today. I am beside her, in a moon phases shirt

thene@thene· Jun 5

she agree

Small white dog sniffing a wildflower patch

thene@thene· May 28

My skates. Not just as objects/equipment, but a connection to a community, an art medium and a history

a pair of Jackson Freestyle skates in a box, with a towel rag from Cooke's Skate Supply

thene@thene· May 27

@weatherishappening.com make NIGHT COFFEE at night: save it for morning: ICED NIGHT COFFEE

a glass of ICED NIGHT COFFEE on an aging tabletop

thene@thene· May 25

-the grad's camera buddy, who brought a homemade ice camera rig, which she says is very stable & safe -...and me doing babybabystep single lutzes. a kid gave me a cool supportive nod the first time i got air 👀

Skater holding a white plastic duct frame with a phone camera mount inside

thene@thene· May 22

It's a long term trend that's due to economic development. We have fewer manual jobs now, and more jobs that require college-level skills. P much every developed nation has this trend.

Graph showing the gradual increase of educational attainment, showing high school and college

thene@thene· May 22

That's due to a combo of aging boomers and young people staying in school longer. Core age labor participation (age 25-54) is pretty high. There's just fewer people in that age range than in the past, and fewer workers in the age 16-24 group