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In my dreams, it’s a little more elaborate. But dream manifestations tend to be truthful, like that.

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Today’s read is @mjohnharrison ‘s Nova Swing.

Its predecessor, Light, gently gutted me a few years ago. I had come to identify with aspects of the furious intelligence, Seria Mau, once human, now a space ship, who is cut free from her physical form in the final pages.

“In the micro-cameras she saw herself for the first time in fifteen years. She was this small, broken, yellowish thing, its limbs all at odd angles, curling and uncurling itself feebly against the pain of the open air.”

At that exact moment in my life, this was a allegory, and the resolution had me sobbing quietly in the dark.

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@nicole Yes it’s my little Friday night ritual! 😁🎞️🍶 I love Japanese movies and sake (I’m training to be a sake sommelier rn) so it’s fun to do. I usually post them on here or on Instagram, if you ever want to see more! 😃

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Today’s read is @mjohnharrison ‘s Nova Swing.

Its predecessor, Light, gently gutted me a few years ago. I had come to identify with aspects of the furious intelligence, Seria Mau, once human, now a space ship, who is cut free from her physical form in the final pages.

“In the micro-cameras she saw herself for the first time in fifteen years. She was this small, broken, yellowish thing, its limbs all at odd angles, curling and uncurling itself feebly against the pain of the open air.”

At that exact moment in my life, this was a allegory, and the resolution had me sobbing quietly in the dark.

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I have tracked anti-trans legislation for 3 years. Every day, people have asked me where to move or how at risk they are in their state.

So I created the anti-trans legislative risk map.

This is my final map of 2022.

Please subscribe, support my work.

erininthemorn.substack.com/p/t

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La Jetée 1962
Directed by Chris Marker

#Timetravel, still images, a past, present and future and the aftermath of World War III. The tale of a man, a slave, sent back and forth, in and out of time, to find a solution to the world’s fate. #French #Cinema #Shortfilm #Movies

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been seeing many trans siblings (and some cis friends too) with family who don't respect you, who intentionally hurt you with their words and actions, and I just want to say:

YOU DO NOT NEED TO KEEP SOMEONE WHO HURTS YOU IN YOUR LIFE

YOU DESERVE BETTER

YOU DESERVE TO BE LOVED

Oh darn, it’s raining again. And—gasp—the weather app says it’s going to rain all day!

No choice but to brew a pot of coffee, pile some dried figs into a bowl, and stay in bed reading books all day. 🙄

At some nondeterministic point, I will translate the coffee pot into a wine bottle.

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@rooster like I’ve been living in this scarcity mode of “I started transitioning at 50, I don’t get a choice of wear I land.” But then seeing girls like you out there saying “fuck this I’m going to be…” makes me have hope and makes me actually think “what DO I want to embody.” It’s not funny, it’s fucking Marvel Universe.

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@rooster it’s not funny, it’s fucking badass and makes me happy. Like thinking that you can literally be in hell cosplaying a man and not only become the woman you are, but get to say “what kind of feminine aesthetic do I want to embody?”

This is something I that most people don’t ever get to do. Most people fall into who they are by accident without ever thinking “what aspect do I want to embody?” That’s why it’s amazing and is a superpower. Watching you is just so grand for that. 💕💕

I watched A Touch of Zen (1971) last night. boxd.it/SFm 🥰

Oh, mad 💞 for the lordly women of this film, who fling knives and soup, arrange marriages and ambushes; for the loyal retainers who dramatize royally; for the humble bookworm whose learnings actualize gruesomely; and, of course, for the goon-flicking buddhists who stand taller than all the rest.

Originally, two films, here stitched together, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was three or more: it includes its own prequel, sequel and prologue within it. Lovely, lovely photography, with some delightful nature intercutting during later fight scenes that would be difficult or impossible to articulate with today’s hyper-realistic language.

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Ah. Lovely . Sleepy coastal Californian town with gentle sloping wooden boardwalks, and, snuggled just behind, a 19th century Chinese temple dedicated to Kwan Tai, the God of War.

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Lurid 1970’s Samurai Cinema 

I finished up the sixth, and final, Lone Wolf and Cub film last night. I am in awe of these films. They are somehow adjacent to both El Topo and Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetary Man), but also Sanjuro, Once Upon a Time in the West, and … Troma? 🤷‍♀️

Extremely difficult to describe without spoiling, they build on one another in ways both subtle and overt, such that I have to recommend the series as a whole as one art object. (Though, the structure of the fifth film should be called out as particularly interesting).

I watched one a week for six weeks, and that ended up feeling just right: close enough in time to one another to catch the visual and narrative rhymes, but not so close as to wear the repetitions bare .

Best Film Series ever?

Well, certainly my favorite yet!

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Non-trans folks: trans women who underwent testosterone puberty don’t have any voice changes from HRT.

Some do many hours of mentally exhausting voice therapy to find a new voice. Some do not.

I am not asking but demanding that you respect both choices. :heart_trans:

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My kids are watching this classic scene from Sesame Street and are just as confused as the Yip Yips. They have absolutely no conception of what this thing is. The humor of the scene has truly come full circle.

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I recently discovered that if we add an image name to the Localizable.strings file in a #SwiftUI project, SwiftUI will automatically use the localized string as the image accessibility label. We don't even have to apply the accessibilityLabel() modifier to the Image view.

I also added a quick tip on my blog about this: nilcoalescing.com/blog/ImageAc

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Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: 1) separation: avoid crowding neighbours (short range repulsion); 2) alignment: steer towards average heading of neighbors; 3) cohesion: steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction). With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way.