green except too damn hot @green@awoo.space

I have just put dinosaur stickers on my laptop and I am extremely happy with my life choices right at this moment

ooooohhhhh... this pings several of my interests. http://longnow.org/

QUANTUM MECHANICS ARE FUCKING WEIRD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain (thanks to @zebratron2084 for sending me on this particular Wikidive)

@Oneironott I actually had a very similar question for @literorrery a couple days ago. the answer, for me, is that I want to recover the abilities I used to have and lost (Because Reasons), and I want to recover and use them because 1. I want to connect to my deity better 2. I want to reconnect to my past in a way I can't currently 3. life was just more fun and exciting when I was able to do that stuff.

it's okay to just want more. that's an okay thing to want. :)

messing with the new computer is basically a long process of "NO STOP DOING THAT, WHY WOULD I EVER WANT YOU TO DO THAT, STOPITSTOPIT how do I make it stop doing this oh. okay. let's try another thing wait no no DON'T DO THAT EITHER ARRRGH"

@Jacel yay! :D

@Jacel aaaaaaaa!! I immediately ran for my bird ID tools and it's a gray jay! they're known for friendly, inquisitive behavior. yay feather fren! I am jealous! and also aaaa that is awesome! :D (seriously I'm sitting here grinning like a loon, heeee)

@Jacel ooh, yes! high! :D nice view! and the scenery is pretty too. ;)

@kara_dreamer@witches.town I vaguely remember a very nice deck that I saw once decades ago, that was--the concepts of the Rider-Waite deck pared down to extremely basic symbols, but very elegantly done; the best description I could give it now is "a graphic designer/typesetter's ideal Tarot." and yeah, that one seemed *very* suited towards reversed-meanings.

and yeah, Silicon Dawn is complicated enough without "reversed" cards! XD

@mawr fantastic! oh wow, so exciting! :D

@guerrillarain@witches.town the Ancillary Justice series sort of counts, in that the default pronoun for everybody is female, and it isn't "clarified" for like 80% of the characters, so there's a lot of relationships that parse as queer women. XD

I just finished reading the Fifth Season trilogy, and there's an explicitly queer female couple in that, as well as abundant bi/queer relationships and casual trans people.

@kara_dreamer@witches.town one person I did readings for with a R-W deck complained that her readings were always weird and incomprehensible. after I laid out the cards, I suddenly realized the problem was that they were ALL upside-down. I swapped places with her, and was able to do a perfectly comprehensible, useful reading! this happened three times with this same person!

@kara_dreamer@witches.town for me it absolutely depends on the deck. decks that adhere closely to Rider-Waite are usually good with reversed meanings; the deck I use now, Silicon Dawn, seems to laugh at orientation. I could *not* figure out why I had two 6 of pentacles the other day until I realized I had one 6 and one 9 and the 9 is deliberately orientation-skewed!