...meanwhile, my brain is giving me someone named Tether, an aromantic, touch-hungry, skin-averse, heterophysical, sex-repulsed asexual who undergoes violence-hunger cycles in accordance with lunar cycles, peaking at the new moon. She gets paired with some guy called Knife, who as far as I can tell is a fairly vanilla heterosexual guy somewhere on ( Read more... )

Every once in a while I realize how idiosyncratic the shapes and conventions of my world are to their particular points in time. The visual arrangement of the walls and ceiling and doors and decorations in my room are only available as I perceive them from the posture and position in which I sit to observe them, in the time when exigencies of ( Read more... )

...and obviously rather old, judging by the date on the Scalzi post. Still, worth sharing.

John Scalzi has written an eloquent, elegant, and brilliant post up on Whatever: Things I Don't Have To Think About Today.

[...] Today I don’t have to think about the people who’d consider torching my house of prayer a patriotic act ( Read more... )

This was hard to write, and even harder to post. Harder still to post publicly. Still, here it is - after having sat in my drafts folder for about four months, but thrown to the world at last.

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In an effort to help people understand privilege, its forms and complexities, I'm going to use myself as a case study. I'm going to examine a lot of the ( Read more... )

I spent most of last week feeling like crap either physically or emotionally. (Or both. It was sometimes both.) Along with a persistent low-grade fever, I got hit with a case of I'm not doing anything with my life, I'm not going anywhere with my life, I will never amount to anything and I'm never going to mean more than I mean right now. Which ( Read more... )

Reading back over the latest of my slash-annoyed entries, possibly the issue would benefit from some re-framing.

One thing I come back to a lot is the concept of marking. (It's one of those concepts I kinda obsess over - like signification, but discussing that is going to have to wait until I feel like I really understand it.)

Markedness is a ( Read more... )

Jumping off of earlier posts, I am for the most part much more analytic than it's assumed to be normal to be. The reason I picked up PHP and databases so quickly, and enjoyed them in a way I'm given to believe that most people don't, is because they're systems which stand up well to an insane amount of poking and prodding and testing hypotheticals ( Read more... )

Ahahahahahaaa, the only sort of problem resolution I'm really good at is debugging HTML, occasional CSS, and PHP. This* has moved from deeply distressing to very prosaic to an absurdist comedy.

*You know it if you know it.On occasion people - usually my mother - assert that I'm good with people. I kinda wonder what she was looking at during most ( Read more... )