shake the loneliness and shine the light

These fragments I have shored against my ruins. She/her, ever so much more than twenty. my original posts are mostly tagged as "psir" ("oh, that stands for Probably Someone's Insane Ramblings"). please ask if you need me to tag anything!

[teaboot]

My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

[teaboot]

Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect

[maculategiraffe]

splitting the obnoxious xander character into two separate guys was an absolute genius move on voyager's part. would not have predicted that two xanders would be better than one but it's working for me. harry kim does the "sweet dumb lil normie with a lil normie moral compass" role and tom paris does the "witty" little lines like "friendly sort, aren't they?" when aliens are rude, and sometimes they get thrown into prison together and beat each other up and then hug. the only bearable xander dynamic

[dragon-in-a-fez]

does the body ALWAYS have to keep the score? maybe we could just have a friendly game this time. maybe we can just have fun without putting numbers on it

[maculategiraffe]

also while I'm speaking of tuvok. in that episode with the little kids who turned out to be old people aging backwards or whatever dingbat doctor who plot:

obnoxious little kids: do you have kids? what are they like?

tuvok: well behaved.

obnoxious little kids: if vulcans don't have emotions, does that mean you don't love them?

tuvok: my relationship with my children cannot be categorized as an emotion. they are a part of me. I am... incomplete... without them.

I love it so much!!! I love it amounts tuvok would find so unseemly!!!

[maculategiraffe]

tuvok is one of those characters who is so incredible that I can't believe there was a time when I didn't know who he was. in the first episode I was just like "oh, another vulcan first officer, like spock. that's fine." and the whole time he was TUVOK

[animate-mush]

The thing about the whole AD vs CE vs whether it's all just cosmetic discourse is that it totally ignores where this numbering system comes from. We should just call it what it is: Bede notation.

It was invented by one person for a specific purpose - to have a universalizable way of establishing historical dates, rather than having to deal with dynastically based date systems. And it was a really good idea. This is not surprising, since Bede is basically the father of Historiography. He also is the guy who gave us the notion of Primary Sources. Bede is amazing.

When a guy revolutionizes the entire way calendaring is done, he has the right to set his zero point wherever he pleases.

People have pointed out that one problem with CE notation is that it presents itself as neutral when it is exactly the same system as AD. What exactly is "common" about this era? The zero point doesn't become neutral just by effacing its source.

(Also BCE is nonsense. Just use negative numbers)

It makes sense for scholarly tradition to not want to be tied to a specific religion. But scholarly tradition is very enthusiastic about being tied to earlier scholarly tradition. The convention of AD was established by a scholar for a scholarly purpose. We know his name. We know what he was doing, and why, and how. And he was doing it better than anybody else. That is worth honoring.

Rather than pretending that it's a neutral system, acknowledge that it's not. It's not some naturally occurring "common era," it's the system developed by Bede, centered around dates that were important to him personally (but which he intended to be universally applicable).

Like we should be honest about the facts that (a) an awful lot of people have been measuring dates this way for nearly 1400 years and changing it in a non-cosmetic way would involve a lot of seriously obnoxious bookkeeping, and (b) the zero is where it is because that's where the guy who invented the system decided to put it. "Anno Domini" is meaningless to people who aren't into that particular Dominus, and "Common Era" is meaningless period (and imparts a false appearance of neutrality). Pinning it to its creator, though, is already scholarly convention and is objective. It may or may not be the year of Our Lord, and it certainly isn't Common (whatever that means) but it is unarguably the schema developed by Bede, for better or for worse. So unless we're actually going to rebuild it from scratch, we may as well call it that. And even if we do rebuild it from scratch, we should still call it that. Because that is what it is.

[animate-mush]

Reblogging in honor of the feast of St. Bede today.

I have been informed that Bede notation may in fact have been first devised by Dionysus the Humble of Scythia to calculate the date of Easter more accurately. But my broader point stands.

Bede, yo.

[tobiasbones]

The other day i bought this yarn cause that’s obviously the trans flag, and I just saw that this colour is called ‘life’! I’m gonna cry

[maculategiraffe]

strongly opine that the character of kes on voyager should have been:

a) established to be in a surrogate daughter / ward / ellie-from-the-last-of-us type role to neelix, NOT a romantic one. she is not only two years old but established to be prepubescent. and having established that and written her like she is an innocent and inexperienced child or adolescent, it is so goddamn weird and uncomfortable to also establish her in a romantic relationship with an adult. without janeway at the VERY least getting concerned about kes's agency in this situation, instead of which kes immediately starts playing bizarrely confident ship's counselor to the doctor, which leads me to:

b) played by a soprano, not a contralto. the depth and richness and huskiness of the actress's voice combined with her calm and confident delivery make her sound incredibly adult, which is the opposite of the character as written. you want a little pixie type for this role, with little cheekies. even the tinkerbell hair looks especially dumb on this actress's face. I think it's a severe casting miscalculation that just ruins any hope of this character making sense to me. but I've mostly come around on neelix so maybe kes will also prove me wrong. or else leave the show and then I hear there is a sexy borg lady

[iapislazuli]

when i was at walgreens (at 3 in the morning which explains all of this) the cashier was talking to her coworker about how shed rather be a werewolf than a vampire because vampires are condemned to hell but werewolves arent and then she asked me what i thought and i said vampire because im already condemned to hell and she said in the nicest tone of voice “i dont think anybody is condemned to hell….” paused, stared at me for a few moments, and added on “…not even gay people” 

[iapislazuli]

Happy pride month to the filthiest most brutal read I’ve ever been given in my life

[ghostswhowontwearpants]

Mosquito jewelry by Les Nereides

[chainofclovers]

Put in the tags the completely finished (whether cancelled or wrapped up on its own terms) TV series that has YOUR perfect ending, however you define that

Please don’t include huge spoilers for the specifics of the endings, and it would also make me happy if people don’t use this to talk about the shows whose endings they hated

[trickstarbrave]

BITING YOU BITING YOU BITING YOU

[actualmichelle]

Every update i see on software these days invites me into a visual hellscape beyond my wildest most cynical imaginings

[vortexsophia-deactivated2022110]

[veerletakino]

[no-one-offical]

Reblogging thrice for effective reach

[toboldlynerd]

[pragnificent]

This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

[thingsamylikes]

I reblogged her late last year and my 2024 has been very satisfying work-wise and (secure enough to not stress out) money-wise so far. Money Snake is wise and good.

[lemonsharks]

always reblog money snake

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[certified-anti-microsoft-posts]

Devastated that unfortunately out of the alternative corporate verbs "Google it" is kinda the best option