alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

thank you @Lady for finding pdfoutline for me (iirc)

low-key life-changing

reading hack: the writing style of gideon the ninth is way less tiresome in the spanish translation

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