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location: Seattle
phenotype: dracosaur
alignment: chaotic well-intentioned
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aka Sprackraptor, Rasha, elynne, Yahvahzensil, & etc.
40-something ace/aro
an identity under construction in a badly-fitting human suit.
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Joined Jun 2017
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Since I've been quiet for ages, here's another little thing (also for my game The Collage Atlas) #inktober https://mastodon.social/media/JfpAbt2kDCTiZFw0zgA
know me in 5: novels
1. Watership Down
2. Book of the New Sun (yes I know it's actually five books, but it's all one story, stfu Neil Gaiman said it all counts as one novel)
3. What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies (about art, forgery, self-discovery, and the narrative structure of a life)
4. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (for the dragon parts obviously)
5. Call of the Wild/White Fang (which I originally read as a two-part book so it's one novel dammit)
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@mawr yayhicute! :D
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This is a time when people seem to feel at their most helpless. Being told there is a reason and a convenient way to "fix things" makes them feel empowered and able to take charge of their lives again.
This is what is being exploited by the alt-reich.
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If someone could only form a first impression of you by reading five novels, what would they be?
Work vent
@mawr *sends much empathy and gentle hugpets to get you through the hellacious torture*
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US Politics, Video Essays
OMG Innuendo Studios is doing a series on the Alt-Right called the "Alt-Right Playbook" and it's already FANTASTIC.
I cannot recommend this channel highly enough. Everything is so well written and presented; with complex concepts spelled out masterfully. I always learn so much from every video posted to this channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xGawJIseNY
"The Alt-Right Playbook: Introduction" [7:48]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaPgDQkmqqM
"The Alt-Right Playbook: Control the Conversation" [10:46]
music earworm, Catholic saints
@bleak basically that the things people have done to each other over stuff like religion could be--imaginatively horrible. I also learned about a religion called "Manichaeism," which Wikipedia says "at its height was one of the most widespread religions in the world" and which I had never heard of before.
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An excellent explanation of privilege. http://time.com/4948371/white-privilege-metaphor/
music earworm, Catholic saints
I'm finally having some success dealing with the "Saint Elmo's Fire" earworm by making the lyrics about "Saint Vitus Dance" instead, which prompted me to go down the Wikipedia research hole about "Where Do Catholic Saints Come From," and yeeesh, humans are seriously fucked up. o______o
@kara_dreamer@witches.town @kel@witches.town I like both of you, honestly. :)
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@djsundog one of Nuremberg's longest-lasting independent movie theaters screened Blues Brothers as its 8pm showing on its main screen for *eleven years consecutively*
@Kistaro I KNOW RIGHT.
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California fires
So, uh. The two fires closest to where I live have consumed nearly 9,500 acres of land together.
If you can spare any cash and want to help, I urge you to donate to charities in the affected areas: Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino counties. I personally can vouch for the Redwood Credit Union Community Fund, as it's run by the credit union I've been a member of since I was a teenager and they have never once tried skeezy banker bullshit on me. https://rcu-community-fund.squarespace.com/donate/
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North Bay fires
I repeat, if you are in the Bay Area at all, PLEASE STAY INSIDE as you are able. "Unhealthy" air quality almost everywhere now. https://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_city&zipcode=94115&submit=Go
Venting about work (3)
@mawr @literorrery *sending you huge piles of empathy and soft hugpets*
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uhhh coming out day or something
i came out in 2013 but the only coming out you do once is to yourself. beyond that, you come out all the time, because "coming out" is about defying the defaults that cis/hets presume. if not for cissupremacy, if not for the kyriarchy, no one would ever need to come out.
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Birdsite link, ongoing natural disaster
So, hey. Lots of folks are way worse off than I am thanks to the wine country fires. If you've got any cash to spare, my credit union's started a fund.
https://twitter.com/CountyofSonoma/status/918092179322544129
@sydneyfalk @chr@cybre.space I would absolutely heckin' read it, though.
@noelle oooohhhh welp I know what I'm doing this morning...
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pronouns: they/them
location: Seattle
phenotype: dracosaur
alignment: chaotic well-intentioned
...
aka Sprackraptor, Rasha, elynne, Yahvahzensil, & etc.
40-something ace/aro
an identity under construction in a badly-fitting human suit.
~follows welcome; followbacks not guaranteed~
Joined Jun 2017
