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sophia_sol) wrote2024-08-01 12:20 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2024-08-01 12:20 pm
5 things: internet age, wearing pink, bakkhai zeatre, chinese novels, redpoll lumping
one
it's wild to think how much of the span of my life I've been an internet/fandom person, in all the different ways I've done so over the years. I think I'm up to 24 years since I first got an account on a fannish forum!
two
something I would never ever have expected of myself from the first, like.....30+ years of my life. is that I'm enjoying finding ways of incorporating the colour pink into my wardrobe.
certain shades, and in certain ways -- it can really fit into the type of vibe I'm aiming for these days! I always avoided it when I was younger, and strongly disliked it as a child, because it was a "girly" colour and as a closeted-to-myself nonbinary person I was basically allergic to things that would make people see me as a standard-issue girl.
but there are ways to incorporate pink into outfits that don't make it read as "girl" but as "gay" and you know what. that's GREAT actually, it turns out!
three
bakkhai as translated by anne carson is SO MUCH FUN to put on in zoom theatre, highly recommend the experience
four
huh the master of demon gorge podcast episode about the chronicles of the eastern zhou kingdoms started with a history of the fiction genre in chinese, which is interesting to me because it comes quite directly out of a tradition of people writing down the stories they hear told in marketplaces and other informal contexts - which is to say, a tradition of folklorists. called the "school of small talk", and small talk is, I gather, still how novels are referred to today!
hello melding of my ur-special interest in folklore with my current interest in cnovels!!
five
this year's AOS announcement about bird species in north america has been released, and there's some big news! the common and hoary redpolls have been lumped into a single species! (along with the lesser redpoll)
from the various reading about redpolls I've done, I think this is a very good move, and I'm glad to see it's backed up with genetic analysis as well.
some of the other changes are very interesting too, but for me personally the redpoll news is the most exciting!
it's wild to think how much of the span of my life I've been an internet/fandom person, in all the different ways I've done so over the years. I think I'm up to 24 years since I first got an account on a fannish forum!
two
something I would never ever have expected of myself from the first, like.....30+ years of my life. is that I'm enjoying finding ways of incorporating the colour pink into my wardrobe.
certain shades, and in certain ways -- it can really fit into the type of vibe I'm aiming for these days! I always avoided it when I was younger, and strongly disliked it as a child, because it was a "girly" colour and as a closeted-to-myself nonbinary person I was basically allergic to things that would make people see me as a standard-issue girl.
but there are ways to incorporate pink into outfits that don't make it read as "girl" but as "gay" and you know what. that's GREAT actually, it turns out!
three
bakkhai as translated by anne carson is SO MUCH FUN to put on in zoom theatre, highly recommend the experience
four
huh the master of demon gorge podcast episode about the chronicles of the eastern zhou kingdoms started with a history of the fiction genre in chinese, which is interesting to me because it comes quite directly out of a tradition of people writing down the stories they hear told in marketplaces and other informal contexts - which is to say, a tradition of folklorists. called the "school of small talk", and small talk is, I gather, still how novels are referred to today!
hello melding of my ur-special interest in folklore with my current interest in cnovels!!
five
this year's AOS announcement about bird species in north america has been released, and there's some big news! the common and hoary redpolls have been lumped into a single species! (along with the lesser redpoll)
from the various reading about redpolls I've done, I think this is a very good move, and I'm glad to see it's backed up with genetic analysis as well.
some of the other changes are very interesting too, but for me personally the redpoll news is the most exciting!
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Re: (5) feeling very pleased about the "wrenaissance" for conservation reasons and also because maybe it'll mean my little species count number will tick up by one without my direct intervention 😅
Pleased for you about the redpolls, though sad to lose the great species name "A. cabaret." Birds just want to have fun!
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so true about the wrenaissance for conservation reasons, but it's one that feels like it won't affect my lists at all bc as far as I can tell, all the new species are on small islands I'll never visit, so it doesn't feel as personal
A. cabaret is a true loss, you're right!
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