Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

*grasps mike*
sometimes it rains inside my head
till the words run dry
the walls are breathing, hands are reaching up
to touch my thighs
no, they don't have to take you away
no, they don't have to take you away

The 13th Warrior Rejected Score - Praying https://youtu.be/Gr_oW1xEgtE via @YouTube

suddenly I realized where Graeme Revell sounded familiar.

"But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right."

there's something very freeing in typing up a huge rant (in this case, yep, about antisemitism) then deleting it

(because you feel like it, not because you feel that you're not permitted to say it, that is)

there are literally two TTRPG player attitudes about sports;

1. "I grew up bullied and considered worthless because I wasn't a jock like what my schools wanted, so now I fucking hate sportsball, I hate how everything gets upended for it, I hate the fucking fans who don't get that they are doing absolutely fucking nothing while other people are playing the game."

2. "Oooh, fiddly rules and stats!"

Sometimes I think the most Jewish thing about me is how antisemitism is this deep wound I want to scream incoherently about, horrifyingly often.

My grandpa was pretty open minded and compassionate. I’m sure he was one of the “good ones” but I know what the NYPD is like now and (oddly as a jazz fan) about some terrible things the NYPD did then. If one good cop in Brooklyn can’t affect (probably didn’t know about) police in Manhattan, then a similar great guy can’t really change things much now. Assuming there are “good ones” out there they’ll need outside help.

[incoming Dumas joke] did you know Sanrio based Badtz-Maru on a historical figure? It’s true, Comte Marou de Batz was a musketeer who served Louis XIV and his descendants are important penguins in France to this day.

"the archaeologists will be able to tell your gender" but archaeology is not merely a dry study of skeletal remains.

examples; https://www.sciencealert.com/new-dna-analysis-reveals-an-ancient-scythian-warrior-was-a-13-year-old-girl

https://www.history.com/news/viking-warrior-female-gender-identity

Were these individuals regarded as male within their lifetimes? Answer is basically "we don't know enough about Scythians and early medieval Scandinavians to say."

Archaeological record validates historical transness AND/OR other societies not having our hangups about carefully defining gender by how your crotch looks.

the tone of your game?

Only a little longer.

It’s just like growing up. Hypervigilance.

Gyatei gyatei haragyatei harasogyatei boji sowaka.

I agreed to stay for dinner. It’s going as well as expected, but I probably won’t see my parents for the next month so.

Also I realized what a certain window decal is all about while seeing it the second or third time up in Anacortes, and frankly I lived through the 80s and coded genocidal homophobia is *not* cute to me.

A metaphor writing coach? What’s that like?

last night was emotionally rough, and as usual I don't actually want to see my parents today.

perhaps listening to even more music will give me emotional fortitude to deal with my folks while feeling like the worst crap in the world.

so listening to Eternal Champion and Dungeon Weed got me looking for Against the Giants.

The copy I had must've gone missing in a move, I wouldn't have willingly sold Giants or Ghost Tower of Inverness, but I still have stuff like Dwellers in the Forbidden City and White Plume Mountain and stuff.

it's ironic that I think of some specific music I like as "What're you trying to do to my new record, I just bought it" when, afaik, "Earache My Eye" is not itself stoner rock/stoner metal.

The Magnificent Seven https://youtu.be/T1OVpzRXFBc via @YouTube

GOT BEEF?

BEEF. IT'S WHAT'S FOR BEEF.

I'd suggest the furry fixation on being heat-driven pets, hypnotized bimbos, and brain-drained sluts is a direct response not to immediate conditions, but having been required to be The Smart Person Who Immediately Figures It Out during grade/high school.