nicole @nicole@myna.social

@danirabbit @rooster Like, generally, I’m fairly forgiving on this front, being that you can’t see gender and all, … except of course when you bleeping CAN. 👁️

@danirabbit @rooster where the him now? 👀

@fritzt @tillybridges 🏆 And it’s only Tuesday!!

@fritzt @tillybridges Thank you, both. 😂

Though, now a weekend of epic poetry consumption and a lifetime of too much anime has me imagining Grendel and his mother keeping themselves busy in their underwater hall with giant games of jan ken pon (🪨📄✂️).

Sigh. I didn’t know where to turn next.

The Samurai series?

Zatoichi?

The Criterion Channel is an embarrassment or riches.

So, naturally, I had to pivot: #WhoRulesTheWorld on Netflix. Twenty-eight hours of will-they-won’t-they #wuxia dramatics, complete with proto-ninjas and questionable child actors. Also, roast duck.

I’ve been reading Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry by Brad Leithauser.

It’s my mid-life attempt to compensate for having dropped out of my freshman #poetry course (and thereby aborted my English degree). I dropped out because I couldn’t “hear” syllable stress the way the other students could; scansion might as well have been foreign magic for how much difficulty it caused me.

This is a fun book. I’ve consumed it slowly, and I’ve learned a lot. Unfortunately, one of the things I’ve learned is that I really don’t seem to hear these things the same way that others do. Oh well. At least I now know why the only volume of poetry I own was a gift. 🤷‍♀️📚

Oh my, a whole list of #bakeneko (demon/ghost cat) films.

https://letterboxd.com/threepenny/list/bakeneko-or-ghost-cat-viewing-list/

This is why I love #Letterboxd so much: every #film is a gateway to hand-curated lists of conceptually-related films—genealogies along every imaginable vector.