Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

Okay so really

I've been disabled my whole life and I still don't know what "accessing the community" actually means, let alone "being independent"

I just kinda

Glaze over and go "Oh. Meaningless words.." when they come up.

And then when I have to actually interact with them, use them, I kinda.. Uhhh.. Get overwhelmed really fast.

Because they're super-important to various institutions? And my understanding and agreement is just kinda.. Assumed.

Also found another good historical fashion book (Historical Fashion in Details: the 17th to 18th Centuries).

I think we forgot how lovely books of clear diagrams of historical pieces paired with hi-resolution photography of the details & construction are.

That kinda professional-and-assuming-decent-reader-knowledge pragmatism of the diagrams & descriptions, paired with all involved still getting to coo at ridiculously embroidered cuffs.

That "Civ Dude's: At The Gates" 4X game was advertising itself with

"Will you take the place of the crumbling Roman Empire.. Or will you be forgotten forever!?"

And yet The Byzantines managed to do both in a single playthrough

Pop/general-appeal western history has a weird trend of going

1. Ancient Greeks!
2. Romans!

~Europe hits the Snooze Button for 1000yrs~

3. The Middle Ages!

Brb putting "lionizing Ancient Sparta" as a hard limit on dating site profiles

oh jeez I only just realised that "- + !?" must read as really confusing on those posts this morning

Meaning was "negative and wtf"

Am sleep deprived, not making intentionally-useless CWs..

I suppose when you get this far into in "Hideo Kojima Boss Monologue" territory, the only way out is through, huh..?

I'm done. I'm gonna go.. Eat, then try to chase up the NHS on (happily, unrelated) things.

I.. Words have failed me by this point

(To be fair, no one even told me "Go be a zebra" was an option, so I'm still reeling from losing out)

As always, Talking Heads have my back on this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3oiIdZyq_8 (shouted verses, lyrics at: https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/141078/)

So, Evolutionary Psychology: Still about as firmly grounded in actual science as you'd expect.

Page 2 lands us in Pooptoot Plaza, buuuut..

I keep my cool! Some people are bad at Powerpoint. Like. Really, really bad. Maybe it's just tha-

..Oh. Evopsych. ..That always bodes well.

And we plunge headlong down the rabbit-hole at about this point.

Holy hell

I'm trying, really, really hard to read up on the local NHS's uh, favourite therapy, without immediately slipping into snark mode, as I tend to quite easily.

Around here this brand is a super common recommendation from NHS psychs. It's got some serious funding pull (local bloke, so no mystery).

But.. Outside of the immediate region, I just get blank looks from people when I ask about it. So. Why not see for myself?

I was a fool. I have regrets.

There's only so much snark one bat can contain, we're in full-on "Pepsi Gravitational Field" country.

And if you think that's hyperbole then buckle the heck in, friendo, cuz it's 8:30am and I got nothing better to do

*hears about the seige of Aquillea, where Atilla noticed some nesting storks leaving and took it as an omen to attack*

"Jeez, just how much of Roman history is down to people making important decisions based on 'What I saw birds do today'.."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augury

"..Ah."

An awful lot of bizarre stories make much more sense now that I have a rather vital nugget of cultural context.

-T

It does mean that scrolling through it kinda goes

"Possum nomming fruit"
"Aardwolves chilling in a pile"
"Men's Coats of 17th Century France"
"X Ray of a Viper Eel"
"Possum peeking out of someone's pocket"
"Various flintlock muskets"
"Tiny bat"

My "art ref" folder is also my "cute animal pictures" folder

Not deliberately but just.. The amount of overlap lead to this organically just happening

I still haven't brought myself to the point of masochism where I'll watch the Blame! animation or the live-action version of Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

..I have not heard good things, but that draws my morbid curiosity all the further