Ulysses, better known as Bluesprucedude or bluesprucedude, is a Tumblr blogger and Wikipedia and wiki editor.
Since February 2017, he has created and shared blog posts on language, landscape photography, and transmasculine art and writing.[1]
In April 2021, he created a Wikipedia account and began contributing to pages related to rhetoric studies and queer discourse.[2] In May 2021, he began contributing to the LGBTA Wiki hosted on FANDOM.
Edits
On average, Ulysses adds sources or internal links ("Added sources and info") and proofreads ("Proofread," "Edited language for clarity," or "Edited language for conciseness") the entries that he chooses to edit. Occasionally he rewrites entire sections and pages. His preferred interface for editing is the Source Editor.
His most substantial edits in bytes, from first to fifth, are
- Sexual Orientation (+9,849)
- Bear (+3,505)
- Kinsey Scale (+3,382)
- Mathgender (+3,108)
- Femmesexual (+2,871)
From May 1 to May 2, 2021, Ulysses made over 200 edits to the LGBTA Wiki.
Pages Created
Ulysses has added multiple pages for existing but previously missing terms to the wiki, including:
- Bambi Lesbian
- Beysgender
- Cosmicboy
- Demifluxromantic
- Fairesolean
- Imagigender
- Preterbinary
- Trigonometry genders secgender, sinegender, and tangender.
He also renamed the closeted page, split the orangegender gastrogender and colorgender pages, and merged numerous duplicate pages.
Bambi-Sexuality
On May 2, 2021, after the creation of the bambi lesbian page, multiple bambi-sexuality-related pages emerged, including bambi gay, bambi fluid, bambi non-human, and multi bambi. Ulysses updated the history and references sections of every page as they emerged.
Womasexual/Femmesexual Controversy
On May 6, 2021, Ulysses and Chaoticcylinder, the creator of the LGBTA Wiki, entered into a dispute over the relationship between the terms womasexual and femmesexual that turned into edit warring on those pages as well as on the mascusexual page. This dispute resulted in the removal of any mention of "womasexual" or "womansexual" and its flags from the femmesexual page and a compromised version of the mascusexual page.
Terms and Flags Created
Ulysses created the imagigender flag on May 3, 2021, coined the term kayfabic and created a flag for it on May 4, 2021, and created an alternate numbergender flag on May 16, 2021.
Posts
Ulysses makes blog posts on queer and trans history, from his personal history to reading and research lists. His posts are always long-form essays, at least 1000 words each. He responds to posts rarely, usually making comments around wiki maintenance.
"Dude's Guide to Research"
On May 5, 2021, Ulysses made a post to his blog space on the LGBTA Wiki entitled "Dude's Guide to Research."[3] Over 3,000 words long and 21,000 bytes, the post covers how to do effective research with the wiki and outside of it as well as how to format references effectively on the wiki's pages.
The post influenced the style and structure of subsequent how-to posts made by other users, such as “Reign’s Coining Guide” by Reign of the breadsticcs.[4]
Personal Life
On his Tumblr blog, Ulysses has disclosed that he is a gay, non-cis man who prefers no labels except Bear.[5] He has identified as a Bear even before starting HRT due in part to his unspecified hyperandrogenism. He has also shared that he was born in 1998, lives in Minnesota, and is married.[6]
In an LGBTA Wiki blog post, Ulysses shared that he came out as bisexual in 2005 and trans in 2010 and identified as femmesexual before June 2016.[7]
References
- ↑ "i'd rather be camping" Tumblr blog archive.
- ↑ Wikipedia user page for Bluesprucedude.
- ↑ LGBTA Wiki post "Dude's Guide to Research."
- ↑ LGBTA Wiki post "Reign's Coining Guide."
- ↑ Tumblr post by bluesprucedude on his transition timeline.
- ↑ "i'd rather be camping" Tumblr blog landing page.
- ↑ LGBTA Wiki blog post "My Own Queer History (and Announcing a Short Break)."