Dr Erika’s (spookily) Online, PhD

Hi new followers! Time for a new introduction post, if only because the link for my book is through a different publisher. (Yay media conglomeration? Wait no). I'm a linguist and anthropologist. I used to be an academic, now I'm just writing. I wrote one book! I'm working on another.

ok I have done my mom labor, I now have 12 craft paper bags with cute little notebooks in them and little pumpkin notes saying "thank you for celebrating my birthday with me! ♡ Beastie" ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

extremely tiny wild strawberry

'Where are your nuclear wessels." Still my favorite scene in all of Star Trek. RIP youtu.be/sf8rDpu1vCk?...

I could spend the rest of my life analysing this feedback sign in the local Home Bargains. Did 'not happy' break from overuse? Was it taped over to ensure 100% positive feedback? Is the green 'b' in 'feedback' some kind of subliminal nudge? Is the duck tape indent because people still keep pressing?

the wee beastie is 3 🥹

YEP. And if you're not eating, any food at all is healthy.

Look it is fucked-up and unhelpful to expect a single person to do this (and yet we do it all the time), and it is even more fucked up and less helpful for human happiness to put this nonsense on a car. a CAR.

sisagwelga luxray - sparking luxray 🎆⚡

Auntie Witch wishes you a Happy Halloween

I have survived my first preschool halloween event. The wee beastie's birthday is tomorrow. Navigating spooky season as a parent with 2 birthdays in the mix is AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I hope whoever put i and o next to each other on qwerty keyboards is having a nice time in hell laughing at at least half my typos

Maybe I should not have decoded to read a book about self-defense after midnight why did I do this to myself

in a dark sort of irony, this too is gender: we displace agency from men onto women as a way of excusing their abuse—what did you say to make him hit you? likewise, the (male-coded) political right is always understood as being provoked by the (female & queer-coded) left

realllllly envious of everyone getting to party at NWAV in Montreal (I love you, I wish I were there partying WITH you)

I mean this is the age of competent adulthood established career a top spy should be, right? Right?

People with green eyes be like “👁️👁️”

Be sure to regard anyone named John, Matthew, Luke, Mark, or Paul with equal suspicion since they are, after all, named for central literary figures in a violent global religion. Sorry Paul McCartney.

Anyway, family-uber-alles-ness is a form of petit nationalism and I will explore that further at a later date or maybe never

The phonological crystalline entity is back, this time in typst, and parameterized, so you can mess with the angles if you want: typst.app/project/rP23...

I think the wee beastie (3 on Monday) has officially stopped napping. I think in lieu of a nap we're still going to have "quiet time" in the afternoons because they seem to benefit from that and also I need it. I need it.

Questions I have about WALL-E (2008): • Did every human go to space? • If not, what happened to the humans that remained on earth? • What happened to all of the people on the starliners that weren't the Axiom? It's bleak!!

Today: "we have rocks at home" "we have pumpkins at home" "we have blankets downstairs"

Diminish an anime: Yuri on Thin Ice

diminish an anime Neon Deuteronomy Evangelion

Basically, I'm fine with an analysis of non-monogamy that engages with the ways in which its practices can be shaped according to patriarchal cultural assumptions and desires. But if that's inherently delegitimizing to the entire enterprise, I have some quite bad news for you about monogamy

And then funny thing is, "this data is public so we can grab it and scrape it" is something people have been contesting for at least 20 years in internet research ethics discussions

no no, I said I'm part of the *fury* community

Whether or not ppl cutting off their parents is an actual phenomenon (is it, really?) or just clicky outrage bait, anti-estrangement is a paternalistic, socially regressive position — it’s so similar to being anti-divorce that the two are virtually indistinguishable.