Zhanchi

me: haha I don’t really have nonverbal episodes also me: the idea of talking sounds overwhelming and excruciating so what if I just type at everyone for the next 12 hours

wow louise glück does not fuck around

— from American Originality; this is the first paragraph.

you can still have shit game balance in rules-light gaming

I was talking to a friend about this last weekend and it’s still a little on my mind, so I wanted to get it down—basically, we were talking about how in LARPing and gaming there’s always someone who wants to try and cheese the mechanical system in a way that’s not appropriate, and I also posited […]

buenos aires – iz*one

i’m apparently just never sure if i like iz*one’s japanese releases at first and then slowly become obsessed with them also the coats in both this one and suki to iwasetai are so choice, honestly. trying to figure out if i can assemble an outfit like this for summer…

douglas

putting discussion of this under a readmore bc it’s about the intersection of neuroatypicality + gender-nonconformity, but from like, a cis lesbian perspective? so your mileage may vary tl;dr hannah gadsby, same hat

sound + larp spaces

let’s take a moment to talk about AUDITORY PROCESSING HELL A list of things I find difficult about sounds: When a lot of people are talking at once, talking over each other, or there’s several different loud conversations happening around me When someone’s trying to talk e.g. announcements, but side conversations keep breaking out When […]

the silence that follows – stereocilia

also, unrelated, but another Twice comeback already? …I guess since it’s a japan release I can at least buy a copy while i’m suffering importing IZ*ONE and =LOVE albums because idk why japanese labels hate putting stuff on american iTunes

thanks, i hate it—

Mmm I’ve been sick way too long, I haven’t been taking care of my slightly-sprained ankle properly, my wife is having some kind of terrifying allergy, and I am yet again forced to do the uncomfortable math of “will we feel safe celebrating at Pride events” because fffffffucking terrorists Don’t like it!

CLC – ME

this is SO GOOD why isn’t it on iTunes yet so i can throw money at them

galapagos trip, 6/2

Marine iguanas, more turtles, some spooky lava tubes, also sea turtles that I didn’t get a good picture of and was too much of a weenie to actually go snorkeling to see