progress of pauline @pauline@myna.social

@nicole “…bad at textiles…” -Sassy magazine, 1995

@terrafiedkestrel To boldly go where no one has gone before / I use gender neutral pronouns cause I know the score

@nicole Also, to stop hammering on a particular phrase, the way sex in MJH is always such a lonely missed connection is just one of the most poignant things all round.

@nicole Oh, or if “transsexual brothel” is not “standard old brothel with trans workers” but “brothel that (temporarily?) transes you”? There would be takers for that!

If I remember right the Culture novels posit this sort of generational cycle with body modification: there are decades where everyone does everything they can, and then decades where they mostly get tired of it and go au naturel again, which also seems right.

I’m not any kind of posthumanist but it’s always disappointing to meet one who can’t go big or go home!

@nicole You probably noticed, as I just did, the mention of "transsexual brothels" as Saudade local color.

You have to wonder, in this world of cultivars where body modification is a matter of course, what would transsexuality as such even look like? And would it still carry anything like the erotic charge it does in our world? I have suspicions!

@vance_maverick You should read! It’s a good novel and I would believe my reaction is more a fact about me than a fact about the book.

@AngryTransLady Good luck with the appointment and getting back your money!

I enjoyed reading Am Fluß, but why, a few chapters in, did I start responding to it with the kind of aspirational envy one associates with social media?

The book is about a woman who spends her life walking around the margins of cities and having complex thoughts. Family is alluded to; in one chapter she looks for a job, though it ends up being more an allegory than anything else. She has some happenstance meetings. Otherwise it's pretty much all elective solitude.

The depth of the prose, and the implicit relation it bears to all this idle time, is what makes it seem like walking around and having thoughts is now a luxury good.

#books #bookstodon

@glossydinosaur The Icelandic-Korean axis is a good one! What are those pickups, do you think?

@siege My kid is 11, Clue is her favorite movie, the jiggling boobs and other innuendo are completely beside the point. Sounds like Oscar is a recommend?!

I'm never going to _enjoy_ sticking a long-ass needle in my thigh and my native squeamishness always drags the process out too long; still, each Saturday morning right after making the date with my endocrine system is when it most feels like accounts are settled, briefly, with the world and it might be possible to move on.

For most of the pandemic a bright green kite was stuck 100 feet up in the crown of a pine tree next door. Seeing it always bummed me out, it was a wrong state of affairs nobody could fix.

The atmospheric river finally just shook it loose into our yard. Turns out the bright green quality was owing to it being either a dragon or maybe a T. Rex (because arms).

We hung it on a gate where it flapped in the wind and freaked out the neighborhood cats. Next day it was gone. Could be the original owner has it back now; could be they’ve learned something about pine trees.