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Sophie, Credentialed Librarian

sophiesometimes@anarres.family

<p>What does life look like after your world ends? This is a story that I’m living out right now. And to be honest? The apocalypse is pretty wonderful.</p><p>I’m a USian emigrant who is currently living in Ireland and studying to get my PhD in Information and Communications Studies after completing my Master’s in Library and Information Studies last summer. This may mean that I am destined for a career as a librarian or as a social science researcher. Or maybe both? I’m still figuring that part out.</p><p>So expect to see a fair amount of shitposting on this account interspersed with nerdy information behaviour infodumps. I think my trauma posting era is mostly over, but perhaps the odd one will reappear?</p><p>I’m equal parts basic bitch, Librariancore, and dark academia depending on the

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    It’s funny how recovery feels so different based on context. In Thailand, I felt VERY far along in my recovery. That I could pretty much do all of the things I needed to do. But here I am, two weeks further recovered, and everything seems so much harder now that I’m back home. I’m getting there, but it just takes so much longer than I would like.

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    Woohoo it’s my one month Pussyversary! Fanny Friday was one month ago today! I am celebrating by… dilating, of course.

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    Gender is such a strange thing. On the one hand, I’m completely a binary woman. It’s where I feel at home. But on the other? What the fuck is a binary woman? Am I a binary woman because I like dressing femme and arranging flowers and chatting for hours with other women? Am I a binary woman because I like women’s sports? Does it make me non-binary because I don’t want to have a traditional heteronormative relationship with a man? Or stay quiet and submissive and perform my gender role? I don’t...

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    It looks like I get a full day in Munich now with an early morning flight tomorrow. Anyone know of anything gay to do here? 🤭

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    Hey, whoever thought it was a good idea to be finishing up a Master&#39;s thesis two days before traveling half way around the world for life-changing surgery and then immediately returning to start a PhD course was a really shit planner. #itMe

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    So I alluded to this a few months back, but I just received word this morning that I have received PhD funding for the next four years! I never imagined that this would be the direction my life would take when I first came to Ireland to study, but I’m really excited about the opportunity!

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    15 days… 🇹🇭🌮

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    I have no idea if I answered the questions honestly but date-able but not quite marriage material sounds about right so I’m going with it

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    Should I be concerned that climate change has turned Dublin into San Diego this summer?

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    It&#39;s funny how in my lifetime I&#39;ve gone from: “you need to memorise everything and use offline sources if you want to navigate the world,&quot; to: “just bring your magic phone thingy and it will have all the answers for you,&quot; back to: “you need to memorise everything and use offline sources if you want to navigate the world&quot; again.

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    Pretty sure that if we manage to survive the AI apocalypse, it will be because the librarians saved us

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    Healthcare data collection in Ireland is consistently transphobic and needs to stop asking for shit that is irrelevant for the procedure being done

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    19ish days… 🇹🇭🌮

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    Me from three years ago would have thought that me from today was full of shit when I told her that: She would be working a patron-facing job in a libraryShe would LOVE the social interactionShe would always be gendered correctly by everyone At the time, I thought I was basically introverted (I was, because masking took a lot of cognitive energy). I thought that computer touching was the best career because I didn&#39;t have to interact with people very often. And I thought there was no way that...

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    Less than 24 days! 🇹🇭🌮

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    Okay, the countdown to surgery is getting serious. Less than 30 days, less than 25 until I get on a plane to 🇹🇭

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    You know how you spend your whole life hating yourself so you don’t set proper boundaries because you don’t matter anyway? And then you start to love yourself and decide that you deserve boundaries after all? I have a LOT of cleanup still to do from that first era of my life, and one of those poorly defined boundaries just blew up in my face. 😡

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    I find it hilarious that I ever thought I was straight

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    I think I’ve realised that in spite of the fact that I wish I had had a girl goth phase earlier in life, my aesthetic of choice is not, even soft, goth. I am okay with this. #basicBitch4Ever

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    I have officially librarianed in an actual library 📚 (and I really love it)

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    My body decided that 4:30 AM was a good time to wake up and not fall back asleep. So, here I am, I guess

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    Happy Birthday, @sashag@anarres.family! 💐🎂🎈

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    @Tattie@eldritch.cafe I’m sorry, that’s a lot :people_hugging_purple:

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    FYI, subtoots suck :subtoot:

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    Oh, so I just had my first transmisogyny done to me and my itchy middle finger was instinctively deployed. Maybe it wasn’t the smartest thing to do, but it felt SOOOO good.

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    Mother’s Day reminds me yet again that I never had a parent who saw me and never will

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    Muna tickets for Dublin on 11/11 gotten!

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    Oh hey, it’s discourse day on trans fedi, looks like I should take a day or two off

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    I think something is shifting with my gender. Not so much in how I identify (woman), or how I want to present (basic bitch, usually). But today, for some reason, people either emphatically gendered me female or misgendered me in about equal numbers. And I didn&#39;t really mind? It used to bother me so much to be misgendered, but today I kind of enjoyed the confusion. I think I’m just getting less self-conscious about my identity. I&#39;m a woman, and I dress the way many women dress, which...

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    Chat, how many sapphic romance novels is too many to buy during a short holiday trip?