Sophie

sophiesometimes@anarres.family

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.I’m a USian emigrant who is currently living in Ireland and studying to get my Master’s in Library and Information Studies. 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.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?I’m equal parts basic bitch, Librariancore, and dark academia depending on the day. I may also be the queer girl cosplaying the straight girls cosplaying the

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Post #4396089
Hey, whoever thought it was a good idea to be finishing up a Master'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
Post #4275612
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!
Post #4204464
15 days… 🇹🇭🌮
Post #4185093
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
Post #4184871
Should I be concerned that climate change has turned Dublin into San Diego this summer?
Post #4110072
It's funny how in my lifetime I've gone from: “you need to memorise everything and use offline sources if you want to navigate the world," to: “just bring your magic phone thingy and it will have all the answers for you," back to: “you need to memorise everything and use offline sources if you want to navigate the world" again.
Post #4110033
Pretty sure that if we manage to survive the AI apocalypse, it will be because the librarians saved us
Post #4088137
Healthcare data collection in Ireland is consistently transphobic and needs to stop asking for shit that is irrelevant for the procedure being done
Post #4084027
19ish days… 🇹🇭🌮
Post #4076010
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't have to interact with people very often. And I thought there was no way that...
Post #3979339
Less than 24 days! 🇹🇭🌮
Post #3831893
Okay, the countdown to surgery is getting serious. Less than 30 days, less than 25 until I get on a plane to 🇹🇭
Post #3803149
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. 😡
Post #3790603
I find it hilarious that I ever thought I was straight
Post #3722486
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
Post #3561949
I have officially librarianed in an actual library 📚 (and I really love it)
Post #3549632
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
Post #2780456
Happy Birthday, @sashag@anarres.family! 💐🎂🎈
Post #2645973
@Tattie@eldritch.cafe I’m sorry, that’s a lot :people_hugging_purple:
Post #2613284
FYI, subtoots suck :subtoot:
Post #2480662
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.
Post #2480661
Mother’s Day reminds me yet again that I never had a parent who saw me and never will
Post #2480660
Muna tickets for Dublin on 11/11 gotten!
Post #2085660
Oh hey, it’s discourse day on trans fedi, looks like I should take a day or two off
Post #2011082
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'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'm a woman, and I dress the way many women dress, which...
Post #2011081
Chat, how many sapphic romance novels is too many to buy during a short holiday trip?
Post #2011080
Fun fact: my apartment is smaller than the last hotel room I stayed at in London 😂
Post #2005795
I'm happy with my life now, and intend to enjoy the rest of it, but losing my 20s and 30s is still a pretty bitter pill to swallow
Post #1738467
Queer all the things
Post #1707303
One of the most sinister things that cisheteronormative society has done to trans communities is to weaponise our own experience of information marginalisation and epistemic injustice against us in order to undo the small amount of progress we have made toward inclusion in society. Because from birth, trans people are confronted with a foundational epistemic injustice. Society is set up to allow for only two options, "boy," and "girl," and our opinion on the matter is not as...