progress of pauline @pauline@myna.social

@sifutweety @zunguzungu It's been illegal since the Peace of Westphalia to put kids in a theorbo

I was googling for a pic of the Antikythera mechanism and it came out of my brain as "Ankylotheria device," which you don't need to try yourself because it's a big nada. No corroded gears, no crooked beasts! Pleistocene on the brain I guess.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pleistocene/comments/xcf5iz/an_ancylotherium_picking_some_ripe_and_juicy/

@zumhagenyekple Tout merdé.

@lexipenia "Mind, Value and Reality" -> "B-sides and Rarities"

@mjohnharrison I'm thinking of Julien Sorel keeping a picture of Napoleon under his mattress. Adult Henri Beyle wouldn't do that. But I can't believe even of a complete egotist that he could just replace a picture of Napoleon with a picture of himself.

To tie it all together, I also haven't found any discussion anywhere of The Story of the Stone as a trans novel, which is bizarre to me and must mean a) I'm being too forward with my labels; b) East Asian studies/Redology is in a certain place; c) I'm still bad at searching JSTOR; d) any or all.

#litodons #queerlit #redology #infrastructuredisasterasheterosocialparadigm

It's a bit like Jane Austen in that material underpinnings are acknowledged but offstage - but also, instead of just sitting around owning land and collecting interest on bonds, the Jia patriarchs periodically get saddled with a ton of administrative work. This is a great opportunity for graft but no life of leisure.

tl;dr Infrastructure disasters matter to Bao-yu because they keep Bao-yu's dad out of the house for months on end, making proper space for poetry contests with girls in the garden.

#election adjacent?: yesterday I told a couple people how my day job now feels like staffing the dying Austro-Hungarian bureaucracy, and then thought about the bizarre role of the giant corrupt imperial bureaucracy in Dream of the Red Chamber/Story of the Stone. Which I love so much.

I keep doing things for the last time with my current face. Last night I took it over to the Zen center for a final stint as Monday night monitor, then folded it up like a rakusu and put it aside.

Started pre-op probiotics this morning. The blueberry flavor is like eighties yogurt and the bacterial content makes me think of the sake fermented from shrine maidens' saliva.

#trans #ffs #zen #kuchikamizake #blueberries #shapeshiftingnarrativewithblueberries

@simkern Paleogender claimed!

@zunguzungu I think we flubbed our window for that, consistent with us generally being bad at systems and now having an eleven-year-old as head of household. Sleep after deprivation is so magical, enjoy!

@nicole https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/144638