progress of pauline @pauline@myna.social

@nicole I'm now so used to the group texts that the lack of a one-click laugh tapback is throwing me.

@Gargron Origin story! I do like elephants but maybe our server will merge in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/18583 a bit early.

@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.