woooo had good time and good food with @Jssra and came home and fed cats and had more food and am now sleeeeeepy. but can't go sleep yet, need to stay up to feed cats again in an hour. o____o then sleep and tomorrow volunteering!
(seriously, check out this portrait of the General) https://elekk.xyz/media/aQV49ltycTOrKjIBL58
Bonus Did You Know?: Alexandre Dumas was a black man! His father, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, was a hero of the French Revolution and, until 1975, shared the title of highest-ranked military officer of sub-Saharan descent in the Western world, as general-in-chief of the Army of the Alps.
Pharmacology, hrt, steroids
Those taking steroid hormones be it HRT or anti-inflammatory therapy should make sure to intake more sulfur in their diet, sulfate is required to produce Adenosyl-sulfate diphosphate which is used for elimination of many steroids through sulfation, but low sulfur means less taurine, glutathione, and sulfated proteins essentially for the gel structure near cells (eg. Chondroitin-sulfate) so not getting enough sulfur can fuck your body up.
If you've watched YouTube videos in the last couple days, you may have noticed the phrase "ad blitz" in the upper-left hand corner of your screen.
Ad blitz is a marketing term. It entered the English lexicon by the WWII German tactic of 'Blitzkrieg' or 'lightning war' in which an enemy would be met with a sudden and overwhelming force.
Advertisers literally think they are attacking you. They think of you as an enemy, as a military target.
Act in kind.
** Hugo nominations are now open. Here is my eligibility post: https://t.co/CwBOI0whrj and as usual, "fan writer" is probably the best category for what I do. **
I'm pretty sure she (or another hawk) has been hanging around quite a bit in the last week or so, too--I've caught glimpses of hawks several times, and heard them, and heard the crows mobbing them; they could all be the same hawk, and could all be her. I'm probably being overly optimistic, but--fingers crossed! :D
oooh, no, I'm completely wrong here--*female* red-tail hawks are up to 25% larger than males, and can be larger than crows! so that was almost certainly a female, possibly scouting for nesting territory! :D that would be *so awesome* eeeeee
hmm... looking at pictures, I'm now pretty sure it *wasn't* a Cooper's; it didn't have stripes on the tail, it had a more or less solid rusty red tail. and no, it wasn't a redtail hawk, it was *far* too large... I think! lemme check.
Just a headsup that *the* Calvin and Hobbes story is starting its rerun.
heard the crows going off, looked out the window, and saw a largish hawk in the tree branches just outside my office! I want to say it was a Cooper's, because I know they were nesting here last summer, but it seemed a little big for a Cooper's. it moved to another branch farther down the row of apartments, then to a branch in an evergreen where it had cover from the mob--and where I also couldn't see it any more.
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pronouns: they/them
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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