Lady @Lady@cat.family

> The One Power is divided into male and female halves, saidin and saidar, which work in opposition and in unison to drive the Wheel.

okay so this is like yin and yang. yin, darkness, passivity, femininity, and yang, light, activity, masculinity. surely they are present in all living things and drive the events of history.

> The Creator imprisoned its antithesis, "Shai'tan," the Dark One, at the moment of creation, sealing him away from the Wheel.

okay hold up

are the two halves good and evil or are the two halves male and female make up your mind dude

i’m reading the wikipedia page for the wheel of time and it seems very confused

did canada ever figure out the whole constitutional crisis thing re: queen elizabeth dying or was that just sort of deferred

when i was a kid they told me metadata was bad and that’s why i don’t know how to check a book out of the library

« error: TS2322 [ERROR]: Type 'unique symbol | unique symbol | unique symbol | unique symbol | unique symbol' is not assignable to type 'unique symbol | unique symbol | unique symbol | unique symbol'. » thanks

considering the only part of this i could remember was the part where they go ohh-OHH-ohh and i had another song stuck in my head at the same time it took me a bit to figure out

What a Day That Was (Live)

good at people who are bad at people

sweet dreams

sweat dreams

“don’t worry; i hate professional writers too”

Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(obj).map(([key, value]) => [key, mapValue(value)])) sure is a pattern

the bookstore owner, placing a novel on the shelves: ‘it’s a boy!’

like it looks like a shitpost but it’s actually very straightforward and clear

people who don’t understand performativity: what that mean?

people who do understand performativity: yeah that’s a logical application of butlerian poststructuralism onto literature

genre performativity

folks in a discord are having a conversation about “grimdark” but what they’re describing feels like it includes southern gothic and i’m not sure i agree with the equating of those terms

thanks to a mastery of language and abstract forms, humans can look at a pizza and say “food”, and look at a boot and say “shoe”. dogs cannot make this distinction

really frustrated by this whole “being in love” thing

you are not obligated to approach all traditional knowledges with suspicion; nor to justify them, where necessary, with hard and easily comprehensible fact

i hereby liberate you