alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

in argentina things don't typically say something analogous to gluten-free ("libre de gluten", "sin gluten", etc.). more usually foods are labelled as "sin TACC", which is short for wheat, oats, barley, and rye ("sin" meaning "without")

cause like sure it is on some level reassuring that 100% of uses of that name referred to the friend who continues to have that name and that none of our mutual friends gave any sign of even momentarily considering it as potentially ambiguous.
but also 100% of uses made me double take a moment before i parsed that they were talking to him.

surprising thing i learned this weekend is that spending much time around people with my deadname would be kinda hellish

i have now used my platform as the person currently acting to evangelize ghost town.
me: “it’s good even if you’re straight. i assume.”

bachelor party ttrpg session starting out strong:
we the combatants in this interdimensional labyrinth tournament are unionizing

perhaps on this trip i'll finally take a crack at our copy of el terrorismo del estado en la argentina

estoy comiendo medialunas y empanadas (veganas, por supuesto) antes de pasar una semana y media en los EEUU.

fucked up how knights

one time my mother-in-law used the comparison "Buenos Aires is the West of Argentina" to clarify that the rest of the country dislikes it.

solaris is kind of an underwhelming film

girl-like-substance’s writing really makes one wish you had stories you needed to tell.

(balance! how!)

how indeed, lothian

backwoods redoubt
carrion pride
persephone

i was forgetting to look at the chapter titles but now that i am, they really look like alternate-universe mountain goats song titles

i recommended it last night and she's already finished it

i forgot how good ghost town is wow

recommended ghost town to my wife after she finished the fic she was reading and now i'm rereading ghost town
(she is also reading ghost town but not re-reading it for obvious reasons)