nicole @nicole@myna.social

Ars Technica’s best video games of 2022. We're in good company.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/12/ars-technicas-best-video-games-of-2022/

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!

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.

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.

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: https://nilcoalescing.com/blog/ImageAccessibilityLabelsFroLocalizableStringsFiles/

More #Films about #Japanese #Ghost and #Horror Stories of Edo Period at https://boxd.it/jQyZy

Remember, if you want to be a girl you can just be a girl. If you want to be a boy you can just be a boy. If you want to be a time traveling space elf, well, you can do it, but you might want to look into an engineering degree and/or sewing classes.

Me and the girls summoning big boob energy for 2023

Three. A left ear. A right ear.

And a final front ear.

do you read one book at a time or multiple?

Forgotten Gods

Aralezs
The oldest gods in the Armenian pantheon, Aralezs were gods in the form of dogs with wings, whose powers included the ability to resurrect the dead by licking wounds clean.

#Folklore #Mythology #Legends #Stories #Storytelling #Folktale #lostgods

Trans rights are incredibly important, and everyone should care about them just for themselves.

But this definition of woman thing is a RED ALERT for cis women who don't want a legal regime based on two sexes having different roles.

This is about reorganizing society around the idea that cis women's purpose in life is to get pregnant. Restrictions on cis women's behavior, in the name of "protection" of either the woman or her unborn child, will grow harsher and harsher down this road.

Antifascist poster in #Miami, #Florida. VIA @/MIAagainstFash

Binary trans folks will be like, "I'm in a couple with 10 people."

Non-binary trans folks will be like, "I'm in a couple with 2 people."

Trans girls will say shit like "no thoughts head empty I'm a total bimbo" then proceed to infodump about type theory.

PSA to all the eggs and baby trans girls: AGP is not real and it’s okay to be allosexual and trans. It’s normal to want to feel sexy. It’s not weird or fetishy to want to feel comfortable having sex. Developing secondary sex characteristics (aka boobs) is a part of transition and it’s okay to be excited about that. Sexuality is a normal part of humanity and womanhood and it’s okay for you to want to experience it 💕