Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

“Fascinating conceptually and deranged in execution” Kelly, 36, she/her, attracted to multiple genders (bi), ADHD. Zorpisuttle or TheZorpisuttle elsewhere. Blogs about Wheel of Time book and show (especially Mat, #problematic fave Tuon, and worldbuilding), SFF (largely Vorkosigan Saga, Star Trek and filk), weird art, cute reptiles, my baby daughter (#baby bulbasaur), other. I also recommend my '#surrealistvalentine' collage art. AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Zorpisuttle Store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/kallitropos/shop

[highladyluck]

This is a personal blog but I post a lot about Wheel of Time, specifically Mat, Tuon, and their relationship! If you'd like to archive dive, I've gathered the highlights below.

Influences My Major Meta My Minor Meta My Jokes

[veliseraptor]

The great critic Barbara McClay has written about the "politics creep" in every corner of human life, though really of bourgeois Anglophone human life, where every act from reading a novel to lighting a scented candle can be justified - and in fact, self-consciously needs to be justified in advance - as a bold act of resistance. Pretending that self-care is a brave political act detracts from actual political acts, and it sucks the life out of life itself: turning every moment into a performance for an audience, for an imagined crowd of other people on social media. This is other people not as fellow complicated human beings, but as fearful object, whose inner lives are imaginable only insofar as they might be watching and comparing and judging us for whether we've done enough, whether we're wasting our time. And books and movies and TV shows and every other form of fiction will always be, to some extent, a waste of time, as having friends will be a waste of time, as being in love is a waste of time, as every possible action or thought you may have could be considered a waste of time if every second of your life has to prove its value, and has to get a job.

from Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality by Lyta Gold

[necromycologist]

but sir. my evil clone is literally neurodivergent and a minor

[urists]

“Barrayarans so depressed” actually just statistical error. Average barrayaran is not depressed at all. Bleakman georg, who lives in palace and daydreams about not being emperor 10000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[winter-wise]

Miles Vorkosigan voice I'm normal about my disability which is why I have memorised Richard III in its entirety

[highladyluck]

Procrastinated on paperwork by finally working on the herb garden (mostly neglected for approx. a year.)

Harvested oregano, sage, thyme, and maybe 30 lil babby garlic bulbs. (I never harvested the garlic cloves I planted 2 years ago, so they sprouted in situ & needed thinning.) Above is an after picture- I replanted the 8 biggest bulbs and added Italian and Thai basil.

I’d still like to get a rosemary in a separate pot & plant some French tarragon in the herb bed. I had some before, but doing leaf cover for the garlic killed my tarragon. I’m going to try to actually harvest the garlic this time, so hopefully I can let the tarragon thrive. Maybe some chives too.

I gave up on parsley, dill, cilantro, and mint. I don’t like parsley, dill and cilantro always die too early, and I keep the mint away from the ground in a separate pot, but that means the raccoons constantly knock it over for fun.

[spiribia]

I think if you showed baru cormorant excel spreadsheets she would feel wonder at its arithmetic capabilities and profound pleasure at her command of such a quick witted tool but after a few hours sunk into playing with it the cold fist of dread that this was a masquerade tool - provided her to poison her figures? - would close in her chest and she’d queasily redo all the sums by hand just to double check and finding nothing would wonder if it wasn’t an exercise to steadily sow her faith in the technology and make her complacent in its whisperings so that one errant sum arced from the heart of the empire like an arrow could unravel the intestines of her lifelong work and she would come to the troubled conclusion that she could never trust their solutions meanwhile the apparitor is like you aren’t using Microsoft excel? and baru is like (lie) I found its results finicky, I trust my own hand better & apparitor’s like really now? You had trouble with it? Odd… And their brow furrows and the white hot knife of triumph like a darting fish flashes through baru’s mind like I’ve caught them guilty now! meanwhile exceedingly hot women are begging to have sex with her and she’s like don’t bother me right now I need to think on how to outsmart Microsoft excel

[highladyluck]

How does my baby eat her pants?

One leg at a time, just like everyone else.

[fudemushi]

If you met someone with the same last name as you, how surprised would you be?

Not at all, it's very common

A little surprised, but wouldn't immediately assume a connection

I would be surprised and assume there was some relation

I would be very surprised that I *hadn't* met this person, we must be related

Does anyone else with this last name even exist?

Voting ended on43m

[uberfluss]

first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

[thesebonesbite]

Magnus Archives fan I see

[partywithponies]

THIS IS SO FUNNY I'M SORRY

[maruti-bitamin]

Will be releasing a batch of original paintings on Sunday, Feb 22, at 9:30AM EST.

Previews can be seen here! 🌱Preview🌱

[highladyluck]

Had the opposite of a stress dream?!? I was at college and hadn’t done the seminar reading, so I was trying to get back to my dorm in the rain in my pyjamas and plead sick.

But then my spouse [who did not go to my school IRL] showed up and gave me a ride going past the building where seminar was, and I got caught in the crowd and ended up in seminar.

Fortunately it was a children’s book and there was built-in time to read it and get caught up, and a few classmates who I always thought were too cool to hang out with me were welcoming and kind.

[aurpiment]

I’m a little bit annoyed at popular humor that characterizes menstruation as the uterus throwing a fit because it wants a baby. no it doesn’t. here’s my alternative anthropomorphic script. it’s no less embarrassing but at least I’m right:

henchperson: uh, boss? You know how a couple weeks ago, me and the girls put up that barrier against invaders, extra thick, just like you asked?

boss: yes…

henchperson: one thing, though, boss…

boss: out with it.

henchperson: weeeel, the good news is no invaders.

boss: and the bad news?

henchperson: weeeeeel, we made it out of wet tissue again, boss. so we’re going to have to peel it off and put up a new one before it gets all nasty, see?

boss: why is everything wet tissue with you people? get that thing out of my sight!

[moved-to-orpheyon-deactivated20]

Combine your chinese zodiac and astrology sign to make your true fursona

[eternally-a-dreamer]

i still hate this post so much. i’m an ox and a taurus. i’m a bull bull. i’m so fucking annoyed oh m y go d

[daftpatience]

noticed the two types of people in the tags

[teawitch]

Before you stand 2 ox. One ox always lies. The other always tells the truth.

[butchyena]

dude.

[falseficus]

i knew a surgeon and he once told me “nobodys insides look like how the textbooks say they will. you never know what you’re going to find in there once you open them up” and that was easily the most ominous thing anyone’s ever said to me

[brownheadedcowbird]

when i was taking my first year anatomy lab, we’d occasionally find a cadaver where things would branch off or attach in the wrong order, and when we’d ask our prof about it, he’d just shrug and say “they must not have read the book”

[ryannorth]

When my friend was in med school one of the cadavers donated for them to autopsy didn't have a belly button, just smooth skin.

[dandelion-stuff-and-fluff]

In the past 10 years of teaching in an anatomy lab, I have seen:

- A donor with a scrotum the size of my head. When we opened it up, we discovered it was a MASSIVE inguinal hernia and a good 1.5 ft of intestine were trapped down there.

- A donor with situs inversus totalis, whose organs were a mirror image of what we normally see (ie their heart pointed right and their liver was on the left, just for starters)

- A donor whose right common carotid artery branched off the aorta waaay over on the left hand side of the body and crossed alllll the way back across the thorax to get where it needed to be.

- A donor with 4 lobes for their right lung (should only be 3). We named the 4th lobe the Lisa Loeb, but all of the students were too young to appreciate our sparkling wit.

- A shocking variety of penile and breast implants. Y'all would not believe the number of different ways science has come up to counteract gravity.

- A couple of cases of ectopic kidneys, where a kidney didn't rise to its typical position just deep to the lowest ribs and instead stayed in the pelvis.

There is probably some other stuff that I am forgetting. Take home point is: the human body is weird and wonderful and you should learn more about yours!

[brightlotusmoon]

....duuude.

[naamahdarling]

Spleens Georg

[stele3]

14???????

My contribution: client co pinched nerve in L side of neck. I asked about health hx; she said, “I've got some extra ribs on that side.”

me: “some?” (!!!!!??!?!??!???)

Some was 2, but that’s crazy enough.

[cactusspatz]

Yeah, I don't discover the anatomical weirdness but I've had clients come in with extra ribs, missing ribs, extra vertebra, accessory muscles (that's when you have duplicates - sometimes fine, sometimes not), bones connected where they shouldn't be (spoiler: if your lumbar spine is connected to your hip, it Causes Problems), all sorts of stuff. Bodies are weird!

[headspace-hotel]

More from the notes

This made me remember that I had a friend in high school who had one thumb that was like half an inch shorter than the other. Not sure how that happened.

[weaselle]

even the things you never think about are a spectrum

[thebeeshaveknees]

Quark can't say Fuck because Fuck is a valid ferengi name and he doesn't know what cousin Fuck did to the hu-mons that they say his name with such vitriol but Quark is proud of him for it

[pansy2025]

goo goo dolls if they were in dune: and i don’t want the worm to see me

[mezzodical]