#caed talks

[caedharlowe]

The single funniest line ever written in the dragon age franchise

[caed-rising]

@babylonbirdmeat‘s darling Erebus. Thank you for offering it as a subject!

[caedspeaksjapanese]

Discourse in the discussions pages of Indonesian duolingo. Assalamualaikum setting off a looot of "native Indonesians" with wildly differing experiences. Nobody uses this word, everybody uses this word, loanwords aren't real, mysterious """agendas""".

[caedharlowe]

the problem with breaking tasks down into tiny little approachable steps is that I forget to note when I have done each tiny task so each time I return to work on Big Task, I risk getting overwhelmed by working out of my task notes are actually accurate, as they often aren't. which defeats the purpose of making the tiny task breakdowns

[caedharlowe]

Anyway there are so many museums these days that have entire collections posted online. Currently I am nutting over Historiska, the Swedish History Museum, and their Viking+ collection. There’s so many artefacts from all over the world found in that location and time range, and the detail on the metalwork just blows me away. The tiniest wires and beads of filigree, and delicate as anything metal thread embroidery, the fabric rotted away so you can see everything in detail. Even a few fabric artefacts! There’s basically zero surviving textiles from that period and area but what is there is just. So so detailed. And all way before Industrialisation was even a possibility.

In particular this post was meant to be about hacksilver, which is exactly what it sounds like. People from later times chopping up jewellery or other precious metal finds and using them as money-by-weight, because there was so goddamn much buried in giant piles.

Makes me want to take up metalworking just to appreciate how much effort really went into everything.

[caedharlowe]

scored a bunch of the rote books in a garage sale and I love nighteyes so much

it's been long enough that re-reading them has been fun and exciting and I still get to wonder what will happen next

[caedharlowe]

hey if you're reading this I hope you're having a great day. I hope you have good times with good friends and you find peace

[caedharlowe]

So, for anyone who sees this, I have a question of pronouns. Is using they/them for someone who's explicitly binary trans worth bringing up to a friend?

I don't know if I'm overthinking it, but it's like. maybe you do they/them cis friends and I've glossed over it, but also maybe all that matters is that one person uses exclusively he/him and "I do that to everyone" doesn't hold water whether it's true or not