#open throat

[ash-sokia]

i think aromantic people should get to kill one open throat reviewer whose asking where the queer themes are every day.

[ash-sokia]

folks on tiktok calling heckit ‘gay’ instead of ‘queer’ sleep with one eye open.

[ash-sokia]

im sad bc heckit made their own “everyone lives/no one dies” fanfiction of their perfect world with little slaughter and was so close to it…

[danielcraigssouthernaccent]

Another person I’ve convinced to join my cult of Everyone Should Read Open Throat

[knight-thyme]

[plantdad-dante]

Book #238 - Open Throat by Henry Hoke

(oh I do love an environmental revenge story)

This book made me look up why the fuck the English language can't agree on what to call this animal. (following research report sourced from Wikipedia, never think I'm a professional)

Turns out, it's mainly because they are very wide-spread over all of the Americas and every colonialist, of various empires, who saw one asked a different Native tribe, with a different Native language, what to call them. Combine that with English's tendency to acquire new vocabulary the mugger's way, and you make it into the Guiness World Records for having over 40 different names in one language.

"Puma", which is the name scientists, Latin America and most of Europe (therefore me) go with, is Quechua in origin. "Cougar" is English, via Portugese, via French, but ultimately comes from the Tupi language. Funnily enough, Gaelic also has a similar-ish name for the thing that seems to be coincidental and have no connection to this pox-ridden ancestry (the Scottish Gaelic word is just a general one for a male cat, I guess?) - though "cú" apparently means dog or smth, so who the fuck knows.

A thing that suprised me was that apparently some people call it "panther"??? Which is a different animal, guys. Panthers are black leopards, I thought we all agreed on that. Why- anyway.

"Mountain lion" is a very US-American name, as it sounds like the usual "just name the thing The Thing" thing, a la Rocky Mountains or "[My] Horse [Died Here] Creek", but turns out: they have no relation to lions, nor do they live (exclusively) in the mountains! So what the fuck.

What was I talking about again? Right, a book.

I have never been to L.A. and yet I am sick to death of it. It shouldn't exist, it is a monument to hubris, and one day the Earth is going to open her maw and swallow it whole, be it by fire or earthquake or tsunami or hurricane. Until then, this book was a... a new look at it. Which came as a bit of a surprise, because L.A. should, by all the exhausting accounts of it, be done with, literarily speaking. I wish we would be done with it, how is there still more to say

The puma should have been allowed to kill more people, but then I guess that would have been a different story, and I liked this as it was. A trippy dream of anthropomorphisation, of human detatchment from nature and the commodification of authentic experiences. Also a tragic tale of having to live in a world beyond comprehension that continuously tries to kill you because your sheer existence in its realm is a mistake to be corrected.

I like the title. In combination with the cover, it suggests a mouth, which is open to emit air or sound, or take in air or food. A puma ready to bite and consume, or make a threatening noise (pumas can't roar). As it turns out, the throat is not open through the mouth, it is open through the skin of the man's neck, bleeding, freshly dead. It's not a preambel to an action, it's its consequence.

The harm has already been done.

The only thing to do is live, and die, and act through the consequences. Hot damn.

[mourningyves]

[mina-can-read]

march 18th - open throat