The Comment Awards Are a Nonbinary Bonbon

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Hi there, birds and beasties! I’m trying once again to get used to using my mechanical keyboard, and I feel for all the world like Melanie Griffith in Working Girl. I think my hair is getting taller as we speak!

This week, Analyssa had the scoop on the new characters from Clue, all of whom will ruin our lives.

Heather knows which Pokémon defines your gender!

Valerie Anne thinks you just might like season two of Ginny & Georgia, which brings the drama AND the rainbows!

This was perfect: New Year, New Who.

Stef reviewed Alex D. Ketchum’s Ingredients for a Revolution, a history of America’s feminist cafes and eateries. This was fascinating!

Nico played Stardew Valley for a year with their new name before announcing it publicly. Video games! They’re important!

A.Tony hung out with M3GAN, and lived to tell the tale.

Carly S. brought us a guide to shopping for accessible sex toys while living with chronic pain.

And then there were your comments!

On Alice Pieszecki Is a Woman In STEM:

The Hackers Award to whitney and alexwho314:

Alice obviously knows about Dyke-stra’s Algorithm

On Every Character in the New Clue Board Game Could Ruin Your Life:

The Cause of Death: Stepped on my Neck Award to thatottergirl:

Omg, “The Clueer Cast/In The Press Release/With Their Hotness

And the RIP Me Award to msanon:

mrs peacock with the tuxedo jacket in the bedroom is how i die.

On Fox News Calls Green M&M “Opportunistic Little Bitch” on All-Women Packaging:

The Eat Me Award to Whovian13 and M.:

I will henceforth be introducing myself to everyone as a nonbinary bon bon.

On New Year, New Who:

The Courage Award to hihello:

this is so tender and lovely. it made me think of how vulnerable real wanting is, and how scary it is to put yourself and your longings right up next to the possibility that, having admitted what you want, you might not get to have it. acting in the direction of those longings anyway is courageous and loving. so is putting all of this on the page for the world to see- thank you for sharing it.

On Word Search: Lesbian Potlucks, According to AI:

The Tag Yourself Award to M, cleo, Deli Twotone, Caitlin, Laneia and Serena (whew!):

Tag yourself I’m “sapphic snack”.

gal pals chow sun, sammie social rising

And on I Played Stardew Valley With My New Name for a Year Before Announcing It Publicly:

The Women for Me! Award to Melody:

Oh I had a similar experience with SDV!! I bought it right when I was starting to suspect I might be a lesbian so I dated all of the romanceable characters and was like… “it’s women for me, boss

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Darcy

Darcy, a.k.a. Queer Girl, is your number one fan. They're a fat feminist from California who doodles hearts in the corners of their Gay Agenda. They're living through a pandemic, they're on Twitter, and they think you should drink more water! They also wanna make you laugh.

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