brooke @brooke@awoo.space
He/him. I teach academic Hebrew-Bible studies in grad school, and like Korean martial arts & interactive fiction.
I am also @anummabrooke
Joined Apr 2017
@megfault @cypnk @charlag@birb.site I'd love to read more on this. Just as people often think "civ" starts w writing, when beginning of writing actually reflects a complex, urban, hierarchical society. So earlier with (settled urban) civ itself: it's not the beginning of complexity, but reflects it.
@Gargron Nearsighted from birth, I first wore corrective lenses at 14. Toooootal mind job! I had had no idea what people were seeing.
long
@badwrongfun "As Teucer with his powerful bow destroyed ranks of the Trojans, Agamemnon went and stood beside him and said, 'Teucer, dear man, son of Telamon, leader of men, strike just so, if you would be a shining light to the Danaans and to your father Telamon, who raised you when you were little and, illegitimate though you were, cared for you in his own house. You will transport him to glory, although he is far away. And I will say outright to you, and thus it will be...'"
@noelle I'm reminded of the related-but-not-identical category "the numinous/numena" (I'm betting you know of this already). A tiger in the next room: scary. A god in the next room: numinous.
weird eating habits
@Triplefox @InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space I did the same as a pre-teen. Kind of felt like traveling food somehow? I liked it.
@cypnk "Know what'd be tasty in this goat milk? Some friggen date juice, that's wha-- HOLY HELL"
Tired: software engineer
Wired: software ingénue
yelling, nothing
@sireebob@cybre.space *fidgets in office chair* WHO DARES DISTURB MY LUMBAR?
brooke
boosted
Here’s me talking about how games can tell stories, why Twitter was bad for my creative process, and my hopes for the future https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qkLkZaYSSYU
@Trev@icosahedron.website Imagine the super powers that could have been yours if the fridge had then shorted out and given you an electric shock.
@inurashii Yay! Will do.
@bunnylyn They’re like a child holding a finger an inch from me and saying “What? I’m not touching you!” Except they’re adults and it’s a two-ton finger.
light dog-poop jesting
@eris Yay! (Poop-healthy) treats for Miso!
A friend from long ago met an author I really like, and was thoughtful to get me a signed copy of a book and surprise-mail it to me. Verdict: people are good.
@Efi Yeah the ancient world is super interesting but decidedly bad.
@Efi I remember a Sumerian poem hanging at the University of Pennsylvania museum that would be almost 5000 years old. It would be at least among the oldest. It was romantic and mostly cute tho its surprise-ending punchline depended on the casual misogyny of its time.
He/him. I teach academic Hebrew-Bible studies in grad school, and like Korean martial arts & interactive fiction.
I am also @anummabrooke
Joined Apr 2017
