Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

the new macOS looks like the old macOS with worse settings

updated my personal computer

hey twitter folks, if you maintain critical infrastructure, i encourage you to simply let the site go down and let elon try to replace you

we could share some code with mastodon without all the simple design flaws i mean

sometimes i get the urge to just make another fediverse rails app

russia now trying to raise up a skeleton army to bolster their forces it sounds like

« To reach Potemkin’s remains, they would have opened a trapdoor in the floor and climbed down a narrow passageway, according to people who have visited the crypt. There they would have found a simple wooden coffin on a raised dais, marked with a single cross.

Under the lid of the coffin, a small black bag held Potemkin’s skull and bones, carefully numbered. »

« KYIV, Ukraine — As Russian forces pillage occupied Kherson and Moscow rushes in reinforcements ahead of a looming battle for the strategic southern port, the city’s Kremlin-appointed proxy rulers dispatched a team to a majestic 18th-century stone cathedral on a special mission.

They were sent to steal the bones of Prince Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin. »

i don’t want to just be like “straight people don’t know how to fucking read” but in a very real way straight fiction is comprised of a number of literary slights of hand which serve to artificially uphold and reinforce the myths of straight culture, and i don’t know how you can care about literature and not see that happening, and i don’t know how you can see it happening and tolerate it, and i don’t know how you can refuse to tolerate it and still maintain that you are straight

i'm a good writer but there's things i absolutely will not tolerate in my own fiction namely :—

• pretending something normative is actually controversial (just write actual controversy)

• using bullshit or tropey conflicts for the sake of creating narrative tension (there are always better sources of tension)

• stating things with a flourish for the sake of making it appear more dramatic than it actually is (drama should be situational not a farce of prose [unless it is an actual farce i.e. comedy])

• “cheap tricks” more broadly, i.e. any technique which is justified primarily on account of what it does to the reader as opposed to what it does to the story (the story itself should justify the reader’s interest, so the job of the prose should be to support the story)

sometimes however it feels like refusing to do these things limits my potential audience quite severely, especially among straights (as the first two points are absolute mainstays of straight romance fiction)

you had to contrive a completely bullshit tension because literally every force in the universe endorses this relationship

as a gay person seeing straight people tear up over some straight relationship is just like… guys… how is this what you consider “emotional” there isn’t even any omnipresent somatic fear

anyway i'm reading the comments on one of the most popular zelda shortfics and not only do i not understand why the commenters feel these things, but i do not understand how they are choosing to express them either

this is a lie i do that

my complaint isn’t actually against swearing it’s against contemporary fannish culture of using really loud words (“i HATE that this is over”; “this DESTROYED me”; “gorgeous”; “asfkhfsfdjjtsvsa”; etc) as proxy for actual engagement with a work (the louder the words, the fewer interesting remarks are present); swearing is just the cheapest way that people do this and also the most unnecessary (because swears do not ever encode meaning just volume)

you may counter this with “but kibi! just saying ‘this is good’ isn’t any better!” but consider: nobody does that

like “let's fucking gooo” is but whatever, but then you get things like “this is so fucking good. holy fuck” and it's like

do you think saying fuck makes you sound more sincere? because it sounds like you’re reading a line right now

the way kids swear annoys me

you ever think about how qui-gon canonically was like "damn this kid has some thick plot armor"

disappointing NYTimes article refuses to mention the decimation of public transit infrastructure in list of reasons why gas prices have sway over public opinion