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OH NO

So Anthrocon 2025 is happening July 3-6

DASHCON 2 IS HAPPENING THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND

I WOULD ALMOST CERTAINLY BE IN TORONTO ON THAT DATE ANYWAY

THIS IS DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE

#dashcon 2 #anthrocon #dangerous knowledge

Wine and Philosophy

Reading Bataille while she kneels beside my chair, her head resting against my thigh. Red wine makes everything taste like velvet, thoughts, words, the way she responds to the lightest touch.

Been thinking about the philosophy of desire, how it shapes us into predator and prey, teacher and student. she asked what I was reading. Showed her the passage about the sacred and profane.

Watched understanding dawn in her eyes. Beautiful, dangerous understanding.

#bataille #philosophy #dominance #wine #teacher and student #understanding #dangerous knowledge

The Librarian forced the page open and chained it down. The book tried to snap at him.

Its contents had made it what it was. Evil and trecherous.

It contained forbidden knowledge.

Well, not actually forbidden. No one had ever gone so far as forbidding it. Apart from anything else, in order to forbid it you'd have to know what it was, which was forbidden. But it definitely contained the sort of information which, once you knew it, you wished you hadn't.

Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

Oughh I may have found a new favorite drink

Ginger beer with ginger-flavored Soju went down TOO easy

#i only had less than half that soju #but that went down Fast #i gotta be Careful with this #dangerous knowledge #im too much of a ginger fiend #OH WAIT I HAVE PICKLED GINGER TO SNACK ON #my posts

"The library defends itself, immeasurable as the truth it houses, deceitful as the falsehood it preserves. A spiritual labyrinth, it is also a terrestrial labyrinth. You might enter and you might not emerge."

The Name Of The Rose

Umberto Eco

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