progress of pauline @pauline@myna.social

@nicole Yes to the Valium, and the Xanax, and that weird alpha agonist transdermal patch they’re prescribing. Anything to bring our resonance frequencies down to the point where our faces don’t end up anti-aliased?

@kiplet @sifutweety @zunguzungu "This living space features warm wooden tones, an abundance of natural light, and proximity to arts and culture"

@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!