I go by they/she and I guess my mother had the bright idea to remember to use they more often by literally seeing me hold this mug that says THEY [super smash bros announcer voice] on both sides.
Visual association style.
Seems to have worked lol. Plus it's a pretty good mug!
(I think pic is me showing a friend on discord??) (Face reveal 😳)
Mar 21, 2025
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a kid I knew in college randomly started calling me this one day and it caught on to the point people who never met me were referring to me as Bidgii. Added bonus is it’s pretty much universally available as a username. Part of its advent as solidified in my lore is this post it I just discovered in the campus coffee shop that the friend had put up for me to notice (pictured below)
Apr 5, 2024
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My first kind of girlfriend when I was 14 told the girl she was cheating on me with that I kissed like a mouse because I was timid (my dude that’ll happen when you’re 18 and dating a child). But then the other girl became my teenage best friend and she reclaimed Mouse as an affectionate term for me cause I was quiet. It became my username for stuff, with the addition of Teeth when Mouse alone was taken (I have two front teeth not large enough to be rabbit but prominent enough to be mouse), and then Mouse Teeth became my stage name because I didn’t wanna change my insta handle lmao. Mouse just sorta stuck.
Apr 4, 2024
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Its always been "thewarblerette" lmao on everything I have!!
I started out on Tumblr as a gleek, but now the username just sticks and it's super cute so I use it with everything I have
Jun 3, 2024
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Lately I've been spending too much time scouring every corner of eBay I can for the cheapest and most delightful soviet era porcelain figurines available
I didn't even realize it until diving head first into this rabbit hole, but I have had soviet era porcelain figurines my whole life (a bunny and a bull for those curious), so I guess I was always destined to develop a fondness for the form, and eventually dig a little deeper into it.
There is something so incredibly charming and also incredibly interesting about these porcelain pieces! These little guys!
There's a lot of history to dig into that I've barely scratched the surface of AT ALL, but I'm fascinated by how porcelain reflected the common sentiments* of the times, the economic conditions, the artistic movements and ideas of the day, and also the ability (or lack thereof) of people to stay in one place and hold onto something so "useless" and easily broken.
I have very, very few things from any of my ancestors. Figurines like these make me think about the way history and art are passed down to us, forgotten, broken, left behind, sold in thrift stores and online, if they survive at all.
Figurine collections are kind of a barometer of safety and stability, or at least how dedicated to the illusion of it you might be.
They also make me think about how useful "useless" things can be. How even art that is purely decorative can be thought-provoking (by for example valorizing "folks"), or just make you happy (via being very cute! Or expert use of color and form!).
Grannies collect this shit for many good reasons and I'm starting to catch on.
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* Notably the $$$ collectors type ones are the ethnographic figurines, something I NEED to read an academic paper about.
Especially, because Ive noticed some of these figurines depicting "ethnic types" are inaccurate copies of earlier prints, which themselves should be placed under immense scrutiny! This is all extra interesting in the context of the porcelain industry transitioning from imperial rule to the soviet era. The ways of talking about ethnicity changed, (in addition obviously to y'know, everything!) but the products produced largely remained the same. Lots to think about!!!
Jan 31, 2025