woman-shaped person, she/her/hers are fine, terfs/swerfs/exclusionsts will be blocked. i simply do not care about shipping discourse and purity culture wars bc i have other things to worry about and assimilation is not my goal.
a common throughline in shit i like is understanding how and why systems work and fail. i do my best to have unique and blockable tags per fandom. popular tags include:
#tuesday again no problem- a weekly roundup where i talk about what i’ve been reading/watching/playing/making/listening to
#evil lair llc - shit i do to my apartment/various non-textile hacky nonsense
#mackintosh my little black cat. mack for short.
#phil short for philip marlowe, my little tabby cat. not a thought in her beautiful empty head.
#maps charts and graphs/ #and lists and flags - bureaucratic & simplified representations of information
#technology and you - dumb hardware mostly
#better living through the scientific method- science communication (mostly astronomy hoax debunking), shit i think is neat, early- to mid-century physical sciences lab aesthetics
#my one true love is the sky - astronomy shit
#cowboyblogging general western stuff/#ain’t that a kick in the head - stuff tangential to a Fallout: New Vegas/The Good The Bad and the Ugly crossover you can read on ao3 here
#textile crimes - i was a textile lead at a makerspace and i’ve never really grown out of playing with string
#good lines - art i think is neat
#answered - ask memes mostly if u wanna go ahead and block that
#capitalism and you the stupidest tech finance shit imaginable from when i used to do market research for video games
elsewhere:
ao3: sictransitgloriamundi
discord: girlfriendsofthegalaxy#5949 (mutuals only pls)
Marxists understand that the way to abolish class is not by ignoring it; rather, the goal is to render everybody a proletarian, a class that has in its interests only the final abolition of class; or, to paraphrase cinema's most correct villain, 'When everybody is a prole, nobody will be!' Similarly, family abolitionists must understand that the only way forward is not to restrict the family; we can abolish it only by putting everybody in such a position that it is in their interests to do so; or, in other words, the goal of socialism is to turn everybody into a daughter.
“Chewbacca is… a Maoist. Hera Syndulla? A Trotskyist. Ahsoka Tano? A Social Democrat. Ezra Bridger? A Posadist. Lost! All of them, lost. I am the only one with clarity of purpose.”
i did not set out to mention american imperialism twice during this big stupid birthday week but it happened anyway
listening: you can't run from yourself, aurora
reading (article): are you enjoying our linguini? by francesco pacifico
reading (book): lethal affairs, an adventure from the elite operatives series by kim baldwin and xenia alexiou.
watching: where do hills come from?
playing: brief genshin update
making: bisexual history, q2 retrospective
listening
is this an anime opening? yes. do i have any intention of watching the anime? no. i simply like this artist who does a lot of nerd shit collabs, including a lot of vocals for genshin. i like a song that sound like a large winged creature is taking off.
-
reading (article)
How American tourists took over everything.
part of my tragic backstory is that i spent too many of my formative years growing up on the jersey shore, where tourists are so important to the local economy the school year does not start until AFTER labor day. bc u need all hands on deck to squeeze that last hurrah out of tourists.
i frequently wanted to murder tourists. i cannot imagine being in hospitality in a nicer country and having to deal with floods of american tourists. the gelato worker in this article deserves a fucking medal. there's a bunch of tourism and empire thoughts rattling around in my brain
So when the American family slows down time to reflect on gianduia, or pistacchio, or arachidi salate, it feels as though they are not reflecting on flavors with us, they are talking to us as if we were curiosities of history, oddities, eccentricities, exotic pralines with the gift of speech. They love to hear us talk, explain our gelato flavors. We are the funny-talking people who explain flavors. They are the protagonists of history; we are not. They are slow because they are the main characters; they own their time. They own time.
Other tourists are also slow, as slowness is the main aspect of not knowing where you’re going — a relative slowness compared with the people around you, busy with the tasks that make up their life. An American family’s slowness is something else altogether. They don’t feel rushed. They have the kairos that you get from being at the center of an empire. Their time is blessed, and their thirst for knowledge is something everyone must submit to.
-
reading (book)
i must preface this with: it's kind of endearing that lesbians have their own poorly-aged action spy thriller series. straight men have SO many of them. but this one is lesbians!
Elite operative Domino is no stranger to peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, she is proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and believes the cause sanctifies the means. But her latest assignment to investigate journalist Hayley Ward will test more than her skills, ingenuity, and courage, because this time she faces the ultimate dilemma: a choice between loyalty and love.
i think i am pretty easy on this book bc of the reading experience: my bestie hung out at my house for nine hours on saturday bc her husband and children were watching soccer with her inlaws. what WE did was read and constantly interrupt each other about our books. she's reading city of brass, which is second on my list after a library book, and i read another one of kim baldwin's insane lesbian thrillers. i had a lot of fun demanding she guess what song they danced to at an AIDS gala in DC in 2008 (Michael Buble's cover of Crazy Little Thing Called Love), or what fucked up lowrise jeans everyone was wearing with what bizarre business casual top. we were SCREAMING with laughter bc on a tuesday in june from five PM to eight PM this bitch drove her little blue convertible mustang from BALTIMORE!!!! to BROOKLYN!!!!!!!!! in THREE HOURS!!!!! you would be lucky to be past atlantic city in three hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this book does suffer from (what seems like) all three editors and two writers are white women who do not live on the east coast or have a lot of contact with non-white, non-english-speaking people. our heroine walks into a bar in miami past "a young Asian couple speaking Japanese". hm???? hello?????? the spanish-speaking detective in this book is sprinkling one random individual word of spanish in his paragraphs.
published in the beautiful far distant year of 2008, it is about the level of a post-9/11 action flick. the opinions about international relations are not very good. the authors' opinions seem mostly to be that their leads' enemies are imperial america's enemies. she kills a guy from kuwait in a cafe in a bazaar, a guy from cuba as he's doing a business deal in a hotel in miami, an american sex trafficker hiding out in the jungles. the big bad is a corrupt senator who's trying for a presidential run.
however! kim and xenia do have the juice. this was a genuinely tense and fast-paced, fun read that went balls to the wall until the literal last page. i have all the books in this series except the fifth one so they will be slowly returning. wish i owned these during the lesbian romance novel project.
-
watching
they're the men. and here's the map.
absolutely no idea how i stumbled across these gentlemen. i think i watched the correct sequence of autistic special interest videos to unlock a good rec from youtube.
very dry british humor, a persistent commitment to the handmade and costumed bit. there's claymation in this one.
-
playing
genshin: running around prefarming for a new waifu dropping this week (along with a new map area. we are going back to the moon. yes the moon in the fucking sky). finding little odds and ends just cheerfully out in the open. do i even have EYES!!!
-
making
got bored with the suggested files in the national archives transcription project, decided to simply search the word "bisexual" and see what happened. the most interesting and useful result, which i have now fully transcribed, is a folder full of photocopied early nineties press mentions of bisexuality.
CRUCIALLY, the article from this bonkers cover is included.
it is both heartening and disheartening to read these and discover we have essentially the same discourse and the same problems, with the exception of AIDS no longer being a death sentence. everyone has a personal and specific definition of bisexuality. everyone feels very alone and rejected by the larger gay community. lesbians continue to be mean as shit to bi girls. everyone is convinced we only want to cheat, have threesomes, eat hot chips, and lie. however (among people who could safely speak to national magazines without fear of losing their jobs or retribution) it is very nice to read about bi4bi couples just like. living their lives.
and now for a q2 retrospective. in no particular order
joined a credit union
poked at my student loans
had people over to my house twice for dedicated hangouts
had my bestie over approximately once a month as i make my house a nicer hangout space for her specifically (generally i go to her place)
vet visit for da gorls (we survived)
flew home :(
baby brother graduated college and is off to law school :)
8x overtime weekends :(
BIG raise :)
relationship upheaval :|
national archives transcriptions really keeping me from going insane at work
flooded my downstairs neighbors twice :(
landlord selling the apartment in the near future :(
medical stuff that would have been longer than the above list if i broke it out by itself. again, pro life tip, do NOT be unemployed for fourteen months without health insurance.
i did not set out to mention american imperialism twice during this big stupid birthday week but it happened anyway
listening: you can't run from yourself, aurora
reading (article): are you enjoying our linguini? by francesco pacifico
reading (book): lethal affairs, an adventure from the elite operatives series by kim baldwin and xenia alexiou.
watching: where do hills come from?
playing: brief genshin update
making: bisexual history, q2 retrospective
listening
is this an anime opening? yes. do i have any intention of watching the anime? no. i simply like this artist who does a lot of nerd shit collabs, including a lot of vocals for genshin. i like a song that sound like a large winged creature is taking off.
-
reading (article)
How American tourists took over everything.
part of my tragic backstory is that i spent too many of my formative years growing up on the jersey shore, where tourists are so important to the local economy the school year does not start until AFTER labor day. bc u need all hands on deck to squeeze that last hurrah out of tourists.
i frequently wanted to murder tourists. i cannot imagine being in hospitality in a nicer country and having to deal with floods of american tourists. the gelato worker in this article deserves a fucking medal. there's a bunch of tourism and empire thoughts rattling around in my brain
So when the American family slows down time to reflect on gianduia, or pistacchio, or arachidi salate, it feels as though they are not reflecting on flavors with us, they are talking to us as if we were curiosities of history, oddities, eccentricities, exotic pralines with the gift of speech. They love to hear us talk, explain our gelato flavors. We are the funny-talking people who explain flavors. They are the protagonists of history; we are not. They are slow because they are the main characters; they own their time. They own time.
Other tourists are also slow, as slowness is the main aspect of not knowing where you’re going — a relative slowness compared with the people around you, busy with the tasks that make up their life. An American family’s slowness is something else altogether. They don’t feel rushed. They have the kairos that you get from being at the center of an empire. Their time is blessed, and their thirst for knowledge is something everyone must submit to.
-
reading (book)
i must preface this with: it's kind of endearing that lesbians have their own poorly-aged action spy thriller series. straight men have SO many of them. but this one is lesbians!
Elite operative Domino is no stranger to peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, she is proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and believes the cause sanctifies the means. But her latest assignment to investigate journalist Hayley Ward will test more than her skills, ingenuity, and courage, because this time she faces the ultimate dilemma: a choice between loyalty and love.
i think i am pretty easy on this book bc of the reading experience: my bestie hung out at my house for nine hours on saturday bc her husband and children were watching soccer with her inlaws. what WE did was read and constantly interrupt each other about our books. she's reading city of brass, which is second on my list after a library book, and i read another one of kim baldwin's insane lesbian thrillers. i had a lot of fun demanding she guess what song they danced to at an AIDS gala in DC in 2008 (Michael Buble's cover of Crazy Little Thing Called Love), or what fucked up lowrise jeans everyone was wearing with what bizarre business casual top. we were SCREAMING with laughter bc on a tuesday in june from five PM to eight PM this bitch drove her little blue convertible mustang from BALTIMORE!!!! to BROOKLYN!!!!!!!!! in THREE HOURS!!!!! you would be lucky to be past atlantic city in three hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this book does suffer from (what seems like) all three editors and two writers are white women who do not live on the east coast or have a lot of contact with non-white, non-english-speaking people. our heroine walks into a bar in miami past "a young Asian couple speaking Japanese". hm???? hello?????? the spanish-speaking detective in this book is sprinkling one random individual word of spanish in his paragraphs.
published in the beautiful far distant year of 2008, it is about the level of a post-9/11 action flick. the opinions about international relations are not very good. the authors' opinions seem mostly to be that their leads' enemies are imperial america's enemies. she kills a guy from kuwait in a cafe in a bazaar, a guy from cuba as he's doing a business deal in a hotel in miami, an american sex trafficker hiding out in the jungles. the big bad is a corrupt senator who's trying for a presidential run.
however! kim and xenia do have the juice. this was a genuinely tense and fast-paced, fun read that went balls to the wall until the literal last page. i have all the books in this series except the fifth one so they will be slowly returning. wish i owned these during the lesbian romance novel project.
-
watching
they're the men. and here's the map.
absolutely no idea how i stumbled across these gentlemen. i think i watched the correct sequence of autistic special interest videos to unlock a good rec from youtube.
very dry british humor, a persistent commitment to the handmade and costumed bit. there's claymation in this one.
-
playing
genshin: running around prefarming for a new waifu dropping this week (along with a new map area. we are going back to the moon. yes the moon in the fucking sky). finding little odds and ends just cheerfully out in the open. do i even have EYES!!!
-
making
got bored with the suggested files in the national archives transcription project, decided to simply search the word "bisexual" and see what happened. the most interesting and useful result, which i have now fully transcribed, is a folder full of photocopied early nineties press mentions of bisexuality.
CRUCIALLY, the article from this bonkers cover is included.
it is both heartening and disheartening to read these and discover we have essentially the same discourse and the same problems, with the exception of AIDS no longer being a death sentence. everyone has a personal and specific definition of bisexuality. everyone feels very alone and rejected by the larger gay community. lesbians continue to be mean as shit to bi girls. everyone is convinced we only want to cheat, have threesomes, eat hot chips, and lie. however (among people who could safely speak to national magazines without fear of losing their jobs or retribution) it is very nice to read about bi4bi couples just like. living their lives.
and now for a q2 retrospective. in no particular order
joined a credit union
poked at my student loans
had people over to my house twice for dedicated hangouts
had my bestie over approximately once a month as i make my house a nicer hangout space for her specifically (generally i go to her place)
vet visit for da gorls (we survived)
flew home :(
baby brother graduated college and is off to law school :)
8x overtime weekends :(
BIG raise :)
relationship upheaval :|
national archives transcriptions really keeping me from going insane at work
flooded my downstairs neighbors twice :(
landlord selling the apartment in the near future :(
medical stuff that would have been longer than the above list if i broke it out by itself. again, pro life tip, do NOT be unemployed for fourteen months without health insurance.
i did not set out to mention american imperialism twice during this big stupid birthday week but it happened anyway
listening: you can't run from yourself, aurora
reading (article): are you enjoying our linguini? by francesco pacifico
reading (book): lethal affairs, an adventure from the elite operatives series by kim baldwin and xenia alexiou.
watching: where do hills come from?
playing: brief genshin update
making: bisexual history, q2 retrospective
listening
is this an anime opening? yes. do i have any intention of watching the anime? no. i simply like this artist who does a lot of nerd shit collabs, including a lot of vocals for genshin. i like a song that sound like a large winged creature is taking off.
-
reading (article)
How American tourists took over everything.
part of my tragic backstory is that i spent too many of my formative years growing up on the jersey shore, where tourists are so important to the local economy the school year does not start until AFTER labor day. bc u need all hands on deck to squeeze that last hurrah out of tourists.
i frequently wanted to murder tourists. i cannot imagine being in hospitality in a nicer country and having to deal with floods of american tourists. the gelato worker in this article deserves a fucking medal. there's a bunch of tourism and empire thoughts rattling around in my brain
So when the American family slows down time to reflect on gianduia, or pistacchio, or arachidi salate, it feels as though they are not reflecting on flavors with us, they are talking to us as if we were curiosities of history, oddities, eccentricities, exotic pralines with the gift of speech. They love to hear us talk, explain our gelato flavors. We are the funny-talking people who explain flavors. They are the protagonists of history; we are not. They are slow because they are the main characters; they own their time. They own time.
Other tourists are also slow, as slowness is the main aspect of not knowing where you’re going — a relative slowness compared with the people around you, busy with the tasks that make up their life. An American family’s slowness is something else altogether. They don’t feel rushed. They have the kairos that you get from being at the center of an empire. Their time is blessed, and their thirst for knowledge is something everyone must submit to.
-
reading (book)
i must preface this with: it's kind of endearing that lesbians have their own poorly-aged action spy thriller series. straight men have SO many of them. but this one is lesbians!
Elite operative Domino is no stranger to peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, she is proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and believes the cause sanctifies the means. But her latest assignment to investigate journalist Hayley Ward will test more than her skills, ingenuity, and courage, because this time she faces the ultimate dilemma: a choice between loyalty and love.
i think i am pretty easy on this book bc of the reading experience: my bestie hung out at my house for nine hours on saturday bc her husband and children were watching soccer with her inlaws. what WE did was read and constantly interrupt each other about our books. she's reading city of brass, which is second on my list after a library book, and i read another one of kim baldwin's insane lesbian thrillers. i had a lot of fun demanding she guess what song they danced to at an AIDS gala in DC in 2008 (Michael Buble's cover of Crazy Little Thing Called Love), or what fucked up lowrise jeans everyone was wearing with what bizarre business casual top. we were SCREAMING with laughter bc on a tuesday in june from five PM to eight PM this bitch drove her little blue convertible mustang from BALTIMORE!!!! to BROOKLYN!!!!!!!!! in THREE HOURS!!!!! you would be lucky to be past atlantic city in three hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this book does suffer from (what seems like) all three editors and two writers are white women who do not live on the east coast or have a lot of contact with non-white, non-english-speaking people. our heroine walks into a bar in miami past "a young Asian couple speaking Japanese". hm???? hello?????? the spanish-speaking detective in this book is sprinkling one random individual word of spanish in his paragraphs.
published in the beautiful far distant year of 2008, it is about the level of a post-9/11 action flick. the opinions about international relations are not very good. the authors' opinions seem mostly to be that their leads' enemies are imperial america's enemies. she kills a guy from kuwait in a cafe in a bazaar, a guy from cuba as he's doing a business deal in a hotel in miami, an american sex trafficker hiding out in the jungles. the big bad is a corrupt senator who's trying for a presidential run.
however! kim and xenia do have the juice. this was a genuinely tense and fast-paced, fun read that went balls to the wall until the literal last page. i have all the books in this series except the fifth one so they will be slowly returning. wish i owned these during the lesbian romance novel project.
-
watching
they're the men. and here's the map.
absolutely no idea how i stumbled across these gentlemen. i think i watched the correct sequence of autistic special interest videos to unlock a good rec from youtube.
very dry british humor, a persistent commitment to the handmade and costumed bit. there's claymation in this one.
-
playing
genshin: running around prefarming for a new waifu dropping this week (along with a new map area. we are going back to the moon. yes the moon in the fucking sky). finding little odds and ends just cheerfully out in the open. do i even have EYES!!!
-
making
got bored with the suggested files in the national archives transcription project, decided to simply search the word "bisexual" and see what happened. the most interesting and useful result, which i have now fully transcribed, is a folder full of photocopied early nineties press mentions of bisexuality.
CRUCIALLY, the article from this bonkers cover is included.
it is both heartening and disheartening to read these and discover we have essentially the same discourse and the same problems, with the exception of AIDS no longer being a death sentence. everyone has a personal and specific definition of bisexuality. everyone feels very alone and rejected by the larger gay community. lesbians continue to be mean as shit to bi girls. everyone is convinced we only want to cheat, have threesomes, eat hot chips, and lie. however (among people who could safely speak to national magazines without fear of losing their jobs or retribution) it is very nice to read about bi4bi couples just like. living their lives.
and now for a q2 retrospective. in no particular order
joined a credit union
poked at my student loans
had people over to my house twice for dedicated hangouts
had my bestie over approximately once a month as i make my house a nicer hangout space for her specifically (generally i go to her place)
vet visit for da gorls (we survived)
flew home :(
baby brother graduated college and is off to law school :)
8x overtime weekends :(
BIG raise :)
relationship upheaval :|
national archives transcriptions really keeping me from going insane at work
flooded my downstairs neighbors twice :(
landlord selling the apartment in the near future :(
medical stuff that would have been longer than the above list if i broke it out by itself. again, pro life tip, do NOT be unemployed for fourteen months without health insurance.
i did not set out to mention american imperialism twice during this big stupid birthday week but it happened anyway
listening: you can't run from yourself, aurora
reading (article): are you enjoying our linguini? by francesco pacifico
reading (book): lethal affairs, an adventure from the elite operatives series by kim baldwin and xenia alexiou.
watching: where do hills come from?
playing: brief genshin update
making: bisexual history, q2 retrospective
listening
is this an anime opening? yes. do i have any intention of watching the anime? no. i simply like this artist who does a lot of nerd shit collabs, including a lot of vocals for genshin. i like a song that sound like a large winged creature is taking off.
-
reading (article)
How American tourists took over everything.
part of my tragic backstory is that i spent too many of my formative years growing up on the jersey shore, where tourists are so important to the local economy the school year does not start until AFTER labor day. bc u need all hands on deck to squeeze that last hurrah out of tourists.
i frequently wanted to murder tourists. i cannot imagine being in hospitality in a nicer country and having to deal with floods of american tourists. the gelato worker in this article deserves a fucking medal. there's a bunch of tourism and empire thoughts rattling around in my brain
So when the American family slows down time to reflect on gianduia, or pistacchio, or arachidi salate, it feels as though they are not reflecting on flavors with us, they are talking to us as if we were curiosities of history, oddities, eccentricities, exotic pralines with the gift of speech. They love to hear us talk, explain our gelato flavors. We are the funny-talking people who explain flavors. They are the protagonists of history; we are not. They are slow because they are the main characters; they own their time. They own time.
Other tourists are also slow, as slowness is the main aspect of not knowing where you’re going — a relative slowness compared with the people around you, busy with the tasks that make up their life. An American family’s slowness is something else altogether. They don’t feel rushed. They have the kairos that you get from being at the center of an empire. Their time is blessed, and their thirst for knowledge is something everyone must submit to.
-
reading (book)
i must preface this with: it's kind of endearing that lesbians have their own poorly-aged action spy thriller series. straight men have SO many of them. but this one is lesbians!
Elite operative Domino is no stranger to peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, she is proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and believes the cause sanctifies the means. But her latest assignment to investigate journalist Hayley Ward will test more than her skills, ingenuity, and courage, because this time she faces the ultimate dilemma: a choice between loyalty and love.
i think i am pretty easy on this book bc of the reading experience: my bestie hung out at my house for nine hours on saturday bc her husband and children were watching soccer with her inlaws. what WE did was read and constantly interrupt each other about our books. she's reading city of brass, which is second on my list after a library book, and i read another one of kim baldwin's insane lesbian thrillers. i had a lot of fun demanding she guess what song they danced to at an AIDS gala in DC in 2008 (Michael Buble's cover of Crazy Little Thing Called Love), or what fucked up lowrise jeans everyone was wearing with what bizarre business casual top. we were SCREAMING with laughter bc on a tuesday in june from five PM to eight PM this bitch drove her little blue convertible mustang from BALTIMORE!!!! to BROOKLYN!!!!!!!!! in THREE HOURS!!!!! you would be lucky to be past atlantic city in three hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this book does suffer from (what seems like) all three editors and two writers are white women who do not live on the east coast or have a lot of contact with non-white, non-english-speaking people. our heroine walks into a bar in miami past "a young Asian couple speaking Japanese". hm???? hello?????? the spanish-speaking detective in this book is sprinkling one random individual word of spanish in his paragraphs.
published in the beautiful far distant year of 2008, it is about the level of a post-9/11 action flick. the opinions about international relations are not very good. the authors' opinions seem mostly to be that their leads' enemies are imperial america's enemies. she kills a guy from kuwait in a cafe in a bazaar, a guy from cuba as he's doing a business deal in a hotel in miami, an american sex trafficker hiding out in the jungles. the big bad is a corrupt senator who's trying for a presidential run.
however! kim and xenia do have the juice. this was a genuinely tense and fast-paced, fun read that went balls to the wall until the literal last page. i have all the books in this series except the fifth one so they will be slowly returning. wish i owned these during the lesbian romance novel project.
-
watching
they're the men. and here's the map.
absolutely no idea how i stumbled across these gentlemen. i think i watched the correct sequence of autistic special interest videos to unlock a good rec from youtube.
very dry british humor, a persistent commitment to the handmade and costumed bit. there's claymation in this one.
-
playing
genshin: running around prefarming for a new waifu dropping this week (along with a new map area. we are going back to the moon. yes the moon in the fucking sky). finding little odds and ends just cheerfully out in the open. do i even have EYES!!!
-
making
got bored with the suggested files in the national archives transcription project, decided to simply search the word "bisexual" and see what happened. the most interesting and useful result, which i have now fully transcribed, is a folder full of photocopied early nineties press mentions of bisexuality.
CRUCIALLY, the article from this bonkers cover is included.
it is both heartening and disheartening to read these and discover we have essentially the same discourse and the same problems, with the exception of AIDS no longer being a death sentence. everyone has a personal and specific definition of bisexuality. everyone feels very alone and rejected by the larger gay community. lesbians continue to be mean as shit to bi girls. everyone is convinced we only want to cheat, have threesomes, eat hot chips, and lie. however (among people who could safely speak to national magazines without fear of losing their jobs or retribution) it is very nice to read about bi4bi couples just like. living their lives.
and now for a q2 retrospective. in no particular order
joined a credit union
poked at my student loans
had people over to my house twice for dedicated hangouts
had my bestie over approximately once a month as i make my house a nicer hangout space for her specifically (generally i go to her place)
vet visit for da gorls (we survived)
flew home :(
baby brother graduated college and is off to law school :)
8x overtime weekends :(
BIG raise :)
relationship upheaval :|
national archives transcriptions really keeping me from going insane at work
flooded my downstairs neighbors twice :(
landlord selling the apartment in the near future :(
medical stuff that would have been longer than the above list if i broke it out by itself. again, pro life tip, do NOT be unemployed for fourteen months without health insurance.
i did not set out to mention american imperialism twice during this big stupid birthday week but it happened anyway
listening: you can't run from yourself, aurora
reading (article): are you enjoying our linguini? by francesco pacifico
reading (book): lethal affairs, an adventure from the elite operatives series by kim baldwin and xenia alexiou.
watching: where do hills come from?
playing: brief genshin update
making: bisexual history, q2 retrospective
listening
is this an anime opening? yes. do i have any intention of watching the anime? no. i simply like this artist who does a lot of nerd shit collabs, including a lot of vocals for genshin. i like a song that sound like a large winged creature is taking off.
-
reading (article)
How American tourists took over everything.
part of my tragic backstory is that i spent too many of my formative years growing up on the jersey shore, where tourists are so important to the local economy the school year does not start until AFTER labor day. bc u need all hands on deck to squeeze that last hurrah out of tourists.
i frequently wanted to murder tourists. i cannot imagine being in hospitality in a nicer country and having to deal with floods of american tourists. the gelato worker in this article deserves a fucking medal. there's a bunch of tourism and empire thoughts rattling around in my brain
So when the American family slows down time to reflect on gianduia, or pistacchio, or arachidi salate, it feels as though they are not reflecting on flavors with us, they are talking to us as if we were curiosities of history, oddities, eccentricities, exotic pralines with the gift of speech. They love to hear us talk, explain our gelato flavors. We are the funny-talking people who explain flavors. They are the protagonists of history; we are not. They are slow because they are the main characters; they own their time. They own time.
Other tourists are also slow, as slowness is the main aspect of not knowing where you’re going — a relative slowness compared with the people around you, busy with the tasks that make up their life. An American family’s slowness is something else altogether. They don’t feel rushed. They have the kairos that you get from being at the center of an empire. Their time is blessed, and their thirst for knowledge is something everyone must submit to.
-
reading (book)
i must preface this with: it's kind of endearing that lesbians have their own poorly-aged action spy thriller series. straight men have SO many of them. but this one is lesbians!
Elite operative Domino is no stranger to peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, she is proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and believes the cause sanctifies the means. But her latest assignment to investigate journalist Hayley Ward will test more than her skills, ingenuity, and courage, because this time she faces the ultimate dilemma: a choice between loyalty and love.
i think i am pretty easy on this book bc of the reading experience: my bestie hung out at my house for nine hours on saturday bc her husband and children were watching soccer with her inlaws. what WE did was read and constantly interrupt each other about our books. she's reading city of brass, which is second on my list after a library book, and i read another one of kim baldwin's insane lesbian thrillers. i had a lot of fun demanding she guess what song they danced to at an AIDS gala in DC in 2008 (Michael Buble's cover of Crazy Little Thing Called Love), or what fucked up lowrise jeans everyone was wearing with what bizarre business casual top. we were SCREAMING with laughter bc on a tuesday in june from five PM to eight PM this bitch drove her little blue convertible mustang from BALTIMORE!!!! to BROOKLYN!!!!!!!!! in THREE HOURS!!!!! you would be lucky to be past atlantic city in three hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this book does suffer from (what seems like) all three editors and two writers are white women who do not live on the east coast or have a lot of contact with non-white, non-english-speaking people. our heroine walks into a bar in miami past "a young Asian couple speaking Japanese". hm???? hello?????? the spanish-speaking detective in this book is sprinkling one random individual word of spanish in his paragraphs.
published in the beautiful far distant year of 2008, it is about the level of a post-9/11 action flick. the opinions about international relations are not very good. the authors' opinions seem mostly to be that their leads' enemies are imperial america's enemies. she kills a guy from kuwait in a cafe in a bazaar, a guy from cuba as he's doing a business deal in a hotel in miami, an american sex trafficker hiding out in the jungles. the big bad is a corrupt senator who's trying for a presidential run.
however! kim and xenia do have the juice. this was a genuinely tense and fast-paced, fun read that went balls to the wall until the literal last page. i have all the books in this series except the fifth one so they will be slowly returning. wish i owned these during the lesbian romance novel project.
-
watching
they're the men. and here's the map.
absolutely no idea how i stumbled across these gentlemen. i think i watched the correct sequence of autistic special interest videos to unlock a good rec from youtube.
very dry british humor, a persistent commitment to the handmade and costumed bit. there's claymation in this one.
-
playing
genshin: running around prefarming for a new waifu dropping this week (along with a new map area. we are going back to the moon. yes the moon in the fucking sky). finding little odds and ends just cheerfully out in the open. do i even have EYES!!!
-
making
got bored with the suggested files in the national archives transcription project, decided to simply search the word "bisexual" and see what happened. the most interesting and useful result, which i have now fully transcribed, is a folder full of photocopied early nineties press mentions of bisexuality.
CRUCIALLY, the article from this bonkers cover is included.
it is both heartening and disheartening to read these and discover we have essentially the same discourse and the same problems, with the exception of AIDS no longer being a death sentence. everyone has a personal and specific definition of bisexuality. everyone feels very alone and rejected by the larger gay community. lesbians continue to be mean as shit to bi girls. everyone is convinced we only want to cheat, have threesomes, eat hot chips, and lie. however (among people who could safely speak to national magazines without fear of losing their jobs or retribution) it is very nice to read about bi4bi couples just like. living their lives.
and now for a q2 retrospective. in no particular order
joined a credit union
poked at my student loans
had people over to my house twice for dedicated hangouts
had my bestie over approximately once a month as i make my house a nicer hangout space for her specifically (generally i go to her place)
vet visit for da gorls (we survived)
flew home :(
baby brother graduated college and is off to law school :)
8x overtime weekends :(
BIG raise :)
relationship upheaval :|
national archives transcriptions really keeping me from going insane at work
flooded my downstairs neighbors twice :(
landlord selling the apartment in the near future :(
medical stuff that would have been longer than the above list if i broke it out by itself. again, pro life tip, do NOT be unemployed for fourteen months without health insurance.
i did not set out to mention american imperialism twice during this big stupid birthday week but it happened anyway
listening: you can't run from yourself, aurora
reading (article): are you enjoying our linguini? by francesco pacifico
reading (book): lethal affairs, an adventure from the elite operatives series by kim baldwin and xenia alexiou.
watching: where do hills come from?
playing: brief genshin update
making: bisexual history, q2 retrospective
listening
is this an anime opening? yes. do i have any intention of watching the anime? no. i simply like this artist who does a lot of nerd shit collabs, including a lot of vocals for genshin. i like a song that sound like a large winged creature is taking off.
-
reading (article)
How American tourists took over everything.
part of my tragic backstory is that i spent too many of my formative years growing up on the jersey shore, where tourists are so important to the local economy the school year does not start until AFTER labor day. bc u need all hands on deck to squeeze that last hurrah out of tourists.
i frequently wanted to murder tourists. i cannot imagine being in hospitality in a nicer country and having to deal with floods of american tourists. the gelato worker in this article deserves a fucking medal. there's a bunch of tourism and empire thoughts rattling around in my brain
So when the American family slows down time to reflect on gianduia, or pistacchio, or arachidi salate, it feels as though they are not reflecting on flavors with us, they are talking to us as if we were curiosities of history, oddities, eccentricities, exotic pralines with the gift of speech. They love to hear us talk, explain our gelato flavors. We are the funny-talking people who explain flavors. They are the protagonists of history; we are not. They are slow because they are the main characters; they own their time. They own time.
Other tourists are also slow, as slowness is the main aspect of not knowing where you’re going — a relative slowness compared with the people around you, busy with the tasks that make up their life. An American family’s slowness is something else altogether. They don’t feel rushed. They have the kairos that you get from being at the center of an empire. Their time is blessed, and their thirst for knowledge is something everyone must submit to.
-
reading (book)
i must preface this with: it's kind of endearing that lesbians have their own poorly-aged action spy thriller series. straight men have SO many of them. but this one is lesbians!
Elite operative Domino is no stranger to peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, she is proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and believes the cause sanctifies the means. But her latest assignment to investigate journalist Hayley Ward will test more than her skills, ingenuity, and courage, because this time she faces the ultimate dilemma: a choice between loyalty and love.
i think i am pretty easy on this book bc of the reading experience: my bestie hung out at my house for nine hours on saturday bc her husband and children were watching soccer with her inlaws. what WE did was read and constantly interrupt each other about our books. she's reading city of brass, which is second on my list after a library book, and i read another one of kim baldwin's insane lesbian thrillers. i had a lot of fun demanding she guess what song they danced to at an AIDS gala in DC in 2008 (Michael Buble's cover of Crazy Little Thing Called Love), or what fucked up lowrise jeans everyone was wearing with what bizarre business casual top. we were SCREAMING with laughter bc on a tuesday in june from five PM to eight PM this bitch drove her little blue convertible mustang from BALTIMORE!!!! to BROOKLYN!!!!!!!!! in THREE HOURS!!!!! you would be lucky to be past atlantic city in three hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this book does suffer from (what seems like) all three editors and two writers are white women who do not live on the east coast or have a lot of contact with non-white, non-english-speaking people. our heroine walks into a bar in miami past "a young Asian couple speaking Japanese". hm???? hello?????? the spanish-speaking detective in this book is sprinkling one random individual word of spanish in his paragraphs.
published in the beautiful far distant year of 2008, it is about the level of a post-9/11 action flick. the opinions about international relations are not very good. the authors' opinions seem mostly to be that their leads' enemies are imperial america's enemies. she kills a guy from kuwait in a cafe in a bazaar, a guy from cuba as he's doing a business deal in a hotel in miami, an american sex trafficker hiding out in the jungles. the big bad is a corrupt senator who's trying for a presidential run.
however! kim and xenia do have the juice. this was a genuinely tense and fast-paced, fun read that went balls to the wall until the literal last page. i have all the books in this series except the fifth one so they will be slowly returning. wish i owned these during the lesbian romance novel project.
-
watching
they're the men. and here's the map.
absolutely no idea how i stumbled across these gentlemen. i think i watched the correct sequence of autistic special interest videos to unlock a good rec from youtube.
very dry british humor, a persistent commitment to the handmade and costumed bit. there's claymation in this one.
-
playing
genshin: running around prefarming for a new waifu dropping this week (along with a new map area. we are going back to the moon. yes the moon in the fucking sky). finding little odds and ends just cheerfully out in the open. do i even have EYES!!!
-
making
got bored with the suggested files in the national archives transcription project, decided to simply search the word "bisexual" and see what happened. the most interesting and useful result, which i have now fully transcribed, is a folder full of photocopied early nineties press mentions of bisexuality.
CRUCIALLY, the article from this bonkers cover is included.
it is both heartening and disheartening to read these and discover we have essentially the same discourse and the same problems, with the exception of AIDS no longer being a death sentence. everyone has a personal and specific definition of bisexuality. everyone feels very alone and rejected by the larger gay community. lesbians continue to be mean as shit to bi girls. everyone is convinced we only want to cheat, have threesomes, eat hot chips, and lie. however (among people who could safely speak to national magazines without fear of losing their jobs or retribution) it is very nice to read about bi4bi couples just like. living their lives.
and now for a q2 retrospective. in no particular order
joined a credit union
poked at my student loans
had people over to my house twice for dedicated hangouts
had my bestie over approximately once a month as i make my house a nicer hangout space for her specifically (generally i go to her place)
vet visit for da gorls (we survived)
flew home :(
baby brother graduated college and is off to law school :)
8x overtime weekends :(
BIG raise :)
relationship upheaval :|
national archives transcriptions really keeping me from going insane at work
flooded my downstairs neighbors twice :(
landlord selling the apartment in the near future :(
medical stuff that would have been longer than the above list if i broke it out by itself. again, pro life tip, do NOT be unemployed for fourteen months without health insurance.
i did not set out to mention american imperialism twice during this big stupid birthday week but it happened anyway
listening: you can't run from yourself, aurora
reading (article): are you enjoying our linguini? by francesco pacifico
reading (book): lethal affairs, an adventure from the elite operatives series by kim baldwin and xenia alexiou.
watching: where do hills come from?
playing: brief genshin update
making: bisexual history, q2 retrospective
listening
is this an anime opening? yes. do i have any intention of watching the anime? no. i simply like this artist who does a lot of nerd shit collabs, including a lot of vocals for genshin. i like a song that sound like a large winged creature is taking off.
-
reading (article)
How American tourists took over everything.
part of my tragic backstory is that i spent too many of my formative years growing up on the jersey shore, where tourists are so important to the local economy the school year does not start until AFTER labor day. bc u need all hands on deck to squeeze that last hurrah out of tourists.
i frequently wanted to murder tourists. i cannot imagine being in hospitality in a nicer country and having to deal with floods of american tourists. the gelato worker in this article deserves a fucking medal. there's a bunch of tourism and empire thoughts rattling around in my brain
So when the American family slows down time to reflect on gianduia, or pistacchio, or arachidi salate, it feels as though they are not reflecting on flavors with us, they are talking to us as if we were curiosities of history, oddities, eccentricities, exotic pralines with the gift of speech. They love to hear us talk, explain our gelato flavors. We are the funny-talking people who explain flavors. They are the protagonists of history; we are not. They are slow because they are the main characters; they own their time. They own time.
Other tourists are also slow, as slowness is the main aspect of not knowing where you’re going — a relative slowness compared with the people around you, busy with the tasks that make up their life. An American family’s slowness is something else altogether. They don’t feel rushed. They have the kairos that you get from being at the center of an empire. Their time is blessed, and their thirst for knowledge is something everyone must submit to.
-
reading (book)
i must preface this with: it's kind of endearing that lesbians have their own poorly-aged action spy thriller series. straight men have SO many of them. but this one is lesbians!
Elite operative Domino is no stranger to peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, she is proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and believes the cause sanctifies the means. But her latest assignment to investigate journalist Hayley Ward will test more than her skills, ingenuity, and courage, because this time she faces the ultimate dilemma: a choice between loyalty and love.
i think i am pretty easy on this book bc of the reading experience: my bestie hung out at my house for nine hours on saturday bc her husband and children were watching soccer with her inlaws. what WE did was read and constantly interrupt each other about our books. she's reading city of brass, which is second on my list after a library book, and i read another one of kim baldwin's insane lesbian thrillers. i had a lot of fun demanding she guess what song they danced to at an AIDS gala in DC in 2008 (Michael Buble's cover of Crazy Little Thing Called Love), or what fucked up lowrise jeans everyone was wearing with what bizarre business casual top. we were SCREAMING with laughter bc on a tuesday in june from five PM to eight PM this bitch drove her little blue convertible mustang from BALTIMORE!!!! to BROOKLYN!!!!!!!!! in THREE HOURS!!!!! you would be lucky to be past atlantic city in three hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this book does suffer from (what seems like) all three editors and two writers are white women who do not live on the east coast or have a lot of contact with non-white, non-english-speaking people. our heroine walks into a bar in miami past "a young Asian couple speaking Japanese". hm???? hello?????? the spanish-speaking detective in this book is sprinkling one random individual word of spanish in his paragraphs.
published in the beautiful far distant year of 2008, it is about the level of a post-9/11 action flick. the opinions about international relations are not very good. the authors' opinions seem mostly to be that their leads' enemies are imperial america's enemies. she kills a guy from kuwait in a cafe in a bazaar, a guy from cuba as he's doing a business deal in a hotel in miami, an american sex trafficker hiding out in the jungles. the big bad is a corrupt senator who's trying for a presidential run.
however! kim and xenia do have the juice. this was a genuinely tense and fast-paced, fun read that went balls to the wall until the literal last page. i have all the books in this series except the fifth one so they will be slowly returning. wish i owned these during the lesbian romance novel project.
-
watching
they're the men. and here's the map.
absolutely no idea how i stumbled across these gentlemen. i think i watched the correct sequence of autistic special interest videos to unlock a good rec from youtube.
very dry british humor, a persistent commitment to the handmade and costumed bit. there's claymation in this one.
-
playing
genshin: running around prefarming for a new waifu dropping this week (along with a new map area. we are going back to the moon. yes the moon in the fucking sky). finding little odds and ends just cheerfully out in the open. do i even have EYES!!!
-
making
got bored with the suggested files in the national archives transcription project, decided to simply search the word "bisexual" and see what happened. the most interesting and useful result, which i have now fully transcribed, is a folder full of photocopied early nineties press mentions of bisexuality.
CRUCIALLY, the article from this bonkers cover is included.
it is both heartening and disheartening to read these and discover we have essentially the same discourse and the same problems, with the exception of AIDS no longer being a death sentence. everyone has a personal and specific definition of bisexuality. everyone feels very alone and rejected by the larger gay community. lesbians continue to be mean as shit to bi girls. everyone is convinced we only want to cheat, have threesomes, eat hot chips, and lie. however (among people who could safely speak to national magazines without fear of losing their jobs or retribution) it is very nice to read about bi4bi couples just like. living their lives.
and now for a q2 retrospective. in no particular order
joined a credit union
poked at my student loans
had people over to my house twice for dedicated hangouts
had my bestie over approximately once a month as i make my house a nicer hangout space for her specifically (generally i go to her place)
vet visit for da gorls (we survived)
flew home :(
baby brother graduated college and is off to law school :)
8x overtime weekends :(
BIG raise :)
relationship upheaval :|
national archives transcriptions really keeping me from going insane at work
flooded my downstairs neighbors twice :(
landlord selling the apartment in the near future :(
medical stuff that would have been longer than the above list if i broke it out by itself. again, pro life tip, do NOT be unemployed for fourteen months without health insurance.
i did not set out to mention american imperialism twice during this big stupid birthday week but it happened anyway
listening: you can't run from yourself, aurora
reading (article): are you enjoying our linguini? by francesco pacifico
reading (book): lethal affairs, an adventure from the elite operatives series by kim baldwin and xenia alexiou.
watching: where do hills come from?
playing: brief genshin update
making: bisexual history, q2 retrospective
listening
is this an anime opening? yes. do i have any intention of watching the anime? no. i simply like this artist who does a lot of nerd shit collabs, including a lot of vocals for genshin. i like a song that sound like a large winged creature is taking off.
-
reading (article)
How American tourists took over everything.
part of my tragic backstory is that i spent too many of my formative years growing up on the jersey shore, where tourists are so important to the local economy the school year does not start until AFTER labor day. bc u need all hands on deck to squeeze that last hurrah out of tourists.
i frequently wanted to murder tourists. i cannot imagine being in hospitality in a nicer country and having to deal with floods of american tourists. the gelato worker in this article deserves a fucking medal. there's a bunch of tourism and empire thoughts rattling around in my brain
So when the American family slows down time to reflect on gianduia, or pistacchio, or arachidi salate, it feels as though they are not reflecting on flavors with us, they are talking to us as if we were curiosities of history, oddities, eccentricities, exotic pralines with the gift of speech. They love to hear us talk, explain our gelato flavors. We are the funny-talking people who explain flavors. They are the protagonists of history; we are not. They are slow because they are the main characters; they own their time. They own time.
Other tourists are also slow, as slowness is the main aspect of not knowing where you’re going — a relative slowness compared with the people around you, busy with the tasks that make up their life. An American family’s slowness is something else altogether. They don’t feel rushed. They have the kairos that you get from being at the center of an empire. Their time is blessed, and their thirst for knowledge is something everyone must submit to.
-
reading (book)
i must preface this with: it's kind of endearing that lesbians have their own poorly-aged action spy thriller series. straight men have SO many of them. but this one is lesbians!
Elite operative Domino is no stranger to peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, she is proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and believes the cause sanctifies the means. But her latest assignment to investigate journalist Hayley Ward will test more than her skills, ingenuity, and courage, because this time she faces the ultimate dilemma: a choice between loyalty and love.
i think i am pretty easy on this book bc of the reading experience: my bestie hung out at my house for nine hours on saturday bc her husband and children were watching soccer with her inlaws. what WE did was read and constantly interrupt each other about our books. she's reading city of brass, which is second on my list after a library book, and i read another one of kim baldwin's insane lesbian thrillers. i had a lot of fun demanding she guess what song they danced to at an AIDS gala in DC in 2008 (Michael Buble's cover of Crazy Little Thing Called Love), or what fucked up lowrise jeans everyone was wearing with what bizarre business casual top. we were SCREAMING with laughter bc on a tuesday in june from five PM to eight PM this bitch drove her little blue convertible mustang from BALTIMORE!!!! to BROOKLYN!!!!!!!!! in THREE HOURS!!!!! you would be lucky to be past atlantic city in three hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this book does suffer from (what seems like) all three editors and two writers are white women who do not live on the east coast or have a lot of contact with non-white, non-english-speaking people. our heroine walks into a bar in miami past "a young Asian couple speaking Japanese". hm???? hello?????? the spanish-speaking detective in this book is sprinkling one random individual word of spanish in his paragraphs.
published in the beautiful far distant year of 2008, it is about the level of a post-9/11 action flick. the opinions about international relations are not very good. the authors' opinions seem mostly to be that their leads' enemies are imperial america's enemies. she kills a guy from kuwait in a cafe in a bazaar, a guy from cuba as he's doing a business deal in a hotel in miami, an american sex trafficker hiding out in the jungles. the big bad is a corrupt senator who's trying for a presidential run.
however! kim and xenia do have the juice. this was a genuinely tense and fast-paced, fun read that went balls to the wall until the literal last page. i have all the books in this series except the fifth one so they will be slowly returning. wish i owned these during the lesbian romance novel project.
-
watching
they're the men. and here's the map.
absolutely no idea how i stumbled across these gentlemen. i think i watched the correct sequence of autistic special interest videos to unlock a good rec from youtube.
very dry british humor, a persistent commitment to the handmade and costumed bit. there's claymation in this one.
-
playing
genshin: running around prefarming for a new waifu dropping this week (along with a new map area. we are going back to the moon. yes the moon in the fucking sky). finding little odds and ends just cheerfully out in the open. do i even have EYES!!!
-
making
got bored with the suggested files in the national archives transcription project, decided to simply search the word "bisexual" and see what happened. the most interesting and useful result, which i have now fully transcribed, is a folder full of photocopied early nineties press mentions of bisexuality.
CRUCIALLY, the article from this bonkers cover is included.
it is both heartening and disheartening to read these and discover we have essentially the same discourse and the same problems, with the exception of AIDS no longer being a death sentence. everyone has a personal and specific definition of bisexuality. everyone feels very alone and rejected by the larger gay community. lesbians continue to be mean as shit to bi girls. everyone is convinced we only want to cheat, have threesomes, eat hot chips, and lie. however (among people who could safely speak to national magazines without fear of losing their jobs or retribution) it is very nice to read about bi4bi couples just like. living their lives.
and now for a q2 retrospective. in no particular order
joined a credit union
poked at my student loans
had people over to my house twice for dedicated hangouts
had my bestie over approximately once a month as i make my house a nicer hangout space for her specifically (generally i go to her place)
vet visit for da gorls (we survived)
flew home :(
baby brother graduated college and is off to law school :)
8x overtime weekends :(
BIG raise :)
relationship upheaval :|
national archives transcriptions really keeping me from going insane at work
flooded my downstairs neighbors twice :(
landlord selling the apartment in the near future :(
medical stuff that would have been longer than the above list if i broke it out by itself. again, pro life tip, do NOT be unemployed for fourteen months without health insurance.
i did not set out to mention american imperialism twice during this big stupid birthday week but it happened anyway
listening: you can't run from yourself, aurora
reading (article): are you enjoying our linguini? by francesco pacifico
reading (book): lethal affairs, an adventure from the elite operatives series by kim baldwin and xenia alexiou.
watching: where do hills come from?
playing: brief genshin update
making: bisexual history, q2 retrospective
listening
is this an anime opening? yes. do i have any intention of watching the anime? no. i simply like this artist who does a lot of nerd shit collabs, including a lot of vocals for genshin. i like a song that sound like a large winged creature is taking off.
-
reading (article)
How American tourists took over everything.
part of my tragic backstory is that i spent too many of my formative years growing up on the jersey shore, where tourists are so important to the local economy the school year does not start until AFTER labor day. bc u need all hands on deck to squeeze that last hurrah out of tourists.
i frequently wanted to murder tourists. i cannot imagine being in hospitality in a nicer country and having to deal with floods of american tourists. the gelato worker in this article deserves a fucking medal. there's a bunch of tourism and empire thoughts rattling around in my brain
So when the American family slows down time to reflect on gianduia, or pistacchio, or arachidi salate, it feels as though they are not reflecting on flavors with us, they are talking to us as if we were curiosities of history, oddities, eccentricities, exotic pralines with the gift of speech. They love to hear us talk, explain our gelato flavors. We are the funny-talking people who explain flavors. They are the protagonists of history; we are not. They are slow because they are the main characters; they own their time. They own time.
Other tourists are also slow, as slowness is the main aspect of not knowing where you’re going — a relative slowness compared with the people around you, busy with the tasks that make up their life. An American family’s slowness is something else altogether. They don’t feel rushed. They have the kairos that you get from being at the center of an empire. Their time is blessed, and their thirst for knowledge is something everyone must submit to.
-
reading (book)
i must preface this with: it's kind of endearing that lesbians have their own poorly-aged action spy thriller series. straight men have SO many of them. but this one is lesbians!
Elite operative Domino is no stranger to peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, she is proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and believes the cause sanctifies the means. But her latest assignment to investigate journalist Hayley Ward will test more than her skills, ingenuity, and courage, because this time she faces the ultimate dilemma: a choice between loyalty and love.
i think i am pretty easy on this book bc of the reading experience: my bestie hung out at my house for nine hours on saturday bc her husband and children were watching soccer with her inlaws. what WE did was read and constantly interrupt each other about our books. she's reading city of brass, which is second on my list after a library book, and i read another one of kim baldwin's insane lesbian thrillers. i had a lot of fun demanding she guess what song they danced to at an AIDS gala in DC in 2008 (Michael Buble's cover of Crazy Little Thing Called Love), or what fucked up lowrise jeans everyone was wearing with what bizarre business casual top. we were SCREAMING with laughter bc on a tuesday in june from five PM to eight PM this bitch drove her little blue convertible mustang from BALTIMORE!!!! to BROOKLYN!!!!!!!!! in THREE HOURS!!!!! you would be lucky to be past atlantic city in three hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this book does suffer from (what seems like) all three editors and two writers are white women who do not live on the east coast or have a lot of contact with non-white, non-english-speaking people. our heroine walks into a bar in miami past "a young Asian couple speaking Japanese". hm???? hello?????? the spanish-speaking detective in this book is sprinkling one random individual word of spanish in his paragraphs.
published in the beautiful far distant year of 2008, it is about the level of a post-9/11 action flick. the opinions about international relations are not very good. the authors' opinions seem mostly to be that their leads' enemies are imperial america's enemies. she kills a guy from kuwait in a cafe in a bazaar, a guy from cuba as he's doing a business deal in a hotel in miami, an american sex trafficker hiding out in the jungles. the big bad is a corrupt senator who's trying for a presidential run.
however! kim and xenia do have the juice. this was a genuinely tense and fast-paced, fun read that went balls to the wall until the literal last page. i have all the books in this series except the fifth one so they will be slowly returning. wish i owned these during the lesbian romance novel project.
-
watching
they're the men. and here's the map.
absolutely no idea how i stumbled across these gentlemen. i think i watched the correct sequence of autistic special interest videos to unlock a good rec from youtube.
very dry british humor, a persistent commitment to the handmade and costumed bit. there's claymation in this one.
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playing
genshin: running around prefarming for a new waifu dropping this week (along with a new map area. we are going back to the moon. yes the moon in the fucking sky). finding little odds and ends just cheerfully out in the open. do i even have EYES!!!
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making
got bored with the suggested files in the national archives transcription project, decided to simply search the word "bisexual" and see what happened. the most interesting and useful result, which i have now fully transcribed, is a folder full of photocopied early nineties press mentions of bisexuality.
CRUCIALLY, the article from this bonkers cover is included.
it is both heartening and disheartening to read these and discover we have essentially the same discourse and the same problems, with the exception of AIDS no longer being a death sentence. everyone has a personal and specific definition of bisexuality. everyone feels very alone and rejected by the larger gay community. lesbians continue to be mean as shit to bi girls. everyone is convinced we only want to cheat, have threesomes, eat hot chips, and lie. however (among people who could safely speak to national magazines without fear of losing their jobs or retribution) it is very nice to read about bi4bi couples just like. living their lives.
and now for a q2 retrospective. in no particular order
joined a credit union
poked at my student loans
had people over to my house twice for dedicated hangouts
had my bestie over approximately once a month as i make my house a nicer hangout space for her specifically (generally i go to her place)
vet visit for da gorls (we survived)
flew home :(
baby brother graduated college and is off to law school :)
8x overtime weekends :(
BIG raise :)
relationship upheaval :|
national archives transcriptions really keeping me from going insane at work
flooded my downstairs neighbors twice :(
landlord selling the apartment in the near future :(
medical stuff that would have been longer than the above list if i broke it out by itself. again, pro life tip, do NOT be unemployed for fourteen months without health insurance.
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