@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.
@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. https://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 #cinema language.
Ah. Lovely #Mendocino. 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.
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/
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!
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
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.
🏳️⚧️ Proudly Trans
🌉 Bay Area
Product-Engineering Manager for a software product portfolio; former iOS dev; attorney (CA/IL); large-format photographer; marriage ministress; cinema nut; weeb; lifelong weird girl.
Lover of myths, legends, fairy tales, fantasies, and folklore; 6502 assembly aspirer; book hoarder; gaming nostalgist; gore-adverse, torture-adverse feminist horror film fan; food worshipper; Slack poet; ace-demi-recipro-crier; a total and complete mess.
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