Jen 🔜 Metatopia

So I basically never remember my dreams; the only ones I do remember are the ones that wake me up, which tend to be stress nightmares and those are always the same (insect and parasite infestations, very bad ☹️)

When I was on an SSRI in college, the craziest side effect was that I suddenly DID start remembering my dreams… and they were all incredibly mundane realistic things that not only could have happened but did happen regularly, which got very confusing lmao

#NowReading The Language of the Night: Essays by Ursula K Le Guin

Yep! Because I read different books at bedtime, I can actually confirm that my 15-20 minutes before bed accounts for 15-20 books in any given year. I'm reading a lot more than that besides, but I know plenty of people who would be happy to read 15 books a year. Well: 15 minutes a day to start

Obviously some books are denser than others - I've found that ~50 pages of Moby Dick consistently takes me closer to 90 minutes because I'm taking notes. But I don't feel like I am spending a CRAZY amount of time reading when I've done 100 books a year... because that's less than 2 hours a day

I think Descartes' "God" is the same thing as Parmenides' "it" case closed bring in the dancing lobsters

(it's not case closed; we only did the first three meditations out of six this week, we have to do the rest next week and I'm NOT ABOUT IT)

well. I suppose a 16th century tapestry of eve naked in the garden is a kind of adult content. thanks bluesky moderation. if you must.

I stopped at the bookstore quick on my way home (needed paperback copy of Paradise Lost)(…obviously) and this sign is up and I was like OHHHHH this is why YouTube was pushing ACOTAR content on me all day

the funny thing I did not think about here in terms of my creative habits is that I also still go to the same coffee shop where I went to my first real nanowrimo meetup and where I met all my friends

in 2014 I was like "wow I don't have any friends I should make some friends" and I went to a nanowrimo meetup and I made a bunch of friends and a bunch of them were also RPG people so we started gaming together and now I still hang out with them every week 12 years later lmao

gonna do one of those year-end in/out trend posts, but it's just extremely mundane shifts in my daily habits. OUT: shower gel strawberry jam on toast IN: bar soap apricot jam on toast you get the idea

Ages ago, in college, me and a few of my friends read a... pretty shoddy book about how ancient patriarchal societies were more focused on writing and matriarchal ones were more image-centric, and how the rise of writing systems subjugated women, who are OBVIOUSLY just inherently worse at that 🤮

It always feels so condescending, and maybe this is a me-problem because my single biggest pet peeve in the world is being condescended to. I regret to report that I am, despite being a woman, an independent rational adult with a thinking brain and a sense of pride.

Ages ago, in college, me and a few of my friends read a... pretty shoddy book about how ancient patriarchal societies were more focused on writing and matriarchal ones were more image-centric, and how the rise of writing systems subjugated women, who are OBVIOUSLY just inherently worse at that 🤮

Anyway we were all mad at it because none of us were of the "woo woo divine feminine" type idea that it felt very close to, and we didn't think our special woman brains needed pretty pictures to understand things while the big boys got to use their words.

Ages ago, in college, me and a few of my friends read a... pretty shoddy book about how ancient patriarchal societies were more focused on writing and matriarchal ones were more image-centric, and how the rise of writing systems subjugated women, who are OBVIOUSLY just inherently worse at that 🤮

The Jonathan Groff Anything Goes performance was basically religious viewing among a subset of my college friends and every so often now I think, where is my video of Mike Faist doing six continuous minutes of tap while making sassy asides to the audience youtu.be/YQv_hZwyz5Q

Imagine you are 14-15 years old and your dad is marrying you off to his buddy “Hugh Bigot”

You know, if I was negotiating with another family to marry my daughter to their son, and then that family summarily executed my husband, I probably would not have my daughter go through with the marriage anyway, but medieval women were built different

whose job is it to teach the new generation pop girls that they can sing from the diaphragm. that they have a chest voice and not just a head voice. that guy isn't doing his job. I assume this is a compromise with increasing expectations around choreography, but we have lost our way man