#shaoniposting

[shaonicwhite]

i think we should all consider getting emotional over this xkcd. as a group. let's get emotional about it

[eldritchwyrm]

in n katherine hayles' chaos bound, her history of how postmodernism and poststructuralism share a cultural matrix with theories of chaos and disorder in the sciences

[shaonicwhite]

moonrise (2015) by phyllis shafer vs. landscape from saint-rémy (1889) by vincent van gogh. kind of obsessed with how they bleed into each other side by side

[shaonicwhite]

kind of obsessed with the conlang invented by 12th century composer and mystic hildegard von bingen. she called it lingua ignota and just sort of never explained why it exists or what it’s for? like. girl. why did you do this

in case you're wondering what was up with her, like, in general, she was an abbess who was (1) politically influential, (2) chronically ill, and (3) plagued by visions.

but like seriously girl WHAT was the conlang for. TELL ME

[shaonicwhite]

something that helps with feeling like you have no personal access to “nature”/the most lovely things about our planet and its ecosystems: remember that plants and animals that seem boring and ubiquitous to you are very much not boring and ubiquitous to other people. i grew up mostly in california, and i didn’t appreciate hummingbirds at all until a relative from india visited and couldn’t stop staring at them — because hummingbirds are ordinary in the united states, but they don’t exist AT ALL in india!

likewise, the last time i visited family in hyderabad, i camped out on my aunt and uncle’s terrace one morning and absolutely LOST MY MIND over the sunbirds. they were so small! and colorful! and there were so many of them! and to my family they were totally normal.

no matter how boring and “removed from nature” your city or suburb or town is, there are critters in it that are absolutely marvelous and fascinating, if you know how to look at them the right way.

[shaonicwhite]

thinking about.... them..... (stained glass windows)

places these are located, in order: (1) theodore parker unitarian universalist church (2) Institut Pere Mata (3) casa comalat (4) casa manuel felip (5) casa manuel felip (6) casa tomás vendrell (7) horace peck home / kalamazoo valley museum (8) casa navás (9) the met museum (it’s not in a building, it’s an isolated panel by louis tiffany)

[shaonicwhite]

i love how americans took one look at the british pronouncing lieutenant as left-ten-ant and just went oh absolutely not

[shaonicwhite]

during the early throes of the covid 19 pandemic, some people learned how to bake bread. my roommates and i decided to learn toki pona so that when we left quarantine, our other friends would think we’d been isolated together for so long that we spontaneously developed a new language.