The Leewit @ghost_bird@witches.town
Newly witchy. Older. Trans. She/her.
I guess maybe it has a slow metabolism so it doesn't have to be constantly feeding. Perhaps it could cover itself in loose rock and hide at the bottom of scree slopes?
Looking at animal encounter tables while planning the next bit of my Traveller game and pondering the difficulties of a 3200kg carnivore/trapper that lives in the mountains.
politics, statues Afficher plus
(On the plus side, I got to watch my mother - who's a serious fungus geek of the "owns a microscope and hopes to identify a new species" variety - terrify the restaurant staff with questions about which species they meant by "hen of the woods" on the menu.)
Lunch with my parents at their usual posh country restaurant. Good food, but there's always at least one set of customers who make me want to break out the Molotovs.
(I'm reading Theory because someone at the #NineWorlds convention this month was talking about rhizomatics and Greek myth, and I wanted to understand what they meant. Some day I hope to ☺, but in the meantime I'm finding some interesting connections with Harraway's "Cyborg Manifesto", which is an old favourite of mine.)
"Instead of understanding desire as a lack or a hole in being, desire is understood by Deleuze... as immanent, as positive and productive, a fundamental full and creative relation. Desire is what produces, what makes things, forges connections, creates relations... Instead of aligning desire with fantasy and opposing it to the real, as psychoanalysis does, for Deleuze, desire is what produces the real; instead of a yearning, desire is an actualization, a series of practices, action, production, bringing together components, making machines, making reality."
http://projectlamar.com/media/Grosz-A-Thousand-Tiny-Sexes-Feminism-and-Rhizomatics.pdf
Undertale is coming out on Vita and I'm one of (probably) six people worldwide who's not played it already and is pleased to hear that.
@hayden can you slow down on the boosts? It's making my timeline hard to read.
"The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism. But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins. Their fathers, after all, are inessential. "
http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Haraway-CyborgManifesto-1.pdf
"The cyborg does not dream of community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal project. The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust."
http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Haraway-CyborgManifesto-1.pdf
New headcanon: all the non-squid vendors in Splatoon are actually squid. They mimic prey species because it improves sales.
Horror tropes, sex Afficher plus
"You've gotta look it in the eyes and say that I don't believe
You've gotta hold it underwater so you'll see where it bleeds
You've gotta stare into the mirror until you name this disease
You gotta know"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DxUxSOBifo
Friendly reminder to seize the means of production, comrades.
Numenera update: I'm reading the background stuff in the rulebook and I still haven't hit anything that would be out of place in a generic D&D campaign. The sample village in particular is a very familiar mix of idealised American small-town, some magical eccentrics, and a shop that sells ten-foot poles.
"If i lose you in the street
If i lose you in the street at night
If i lose you in the street
If i lose, don't be sad"
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in in words. The anti-Semites have a right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reason, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they do not seek to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.” -Sartre
Basic Worldbuilding Lesson One: don't do this.
"Throughout the Ninth World, couples of all orientations join together in commitment
ceremonies. However, because traditions, religions and cultural norms vary widely, the ceremonies and resulting relationships take vastly different forms from place to place... Parents typically raise children, although in some places extended families are common...
Most people live in small, agrarian villages, but some settle in larger towns or cities."
(And now I'm reading Numenera, which suffers from Stupid Terminology Syndrome but may yet turn out OK. I'll see how it goes once I'm through the rules and into the setting.)