Wandering Adventure Party

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club don’t worry, you won’t see me. I just don’t sleep. We can stare at the river and watch the waters for everything but the faces we recognize… ​​

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club the difficulty is just my lack of enthusiasm for the premise. I’m ok with just jobbing this one and just getting through it. I usually do ok in contributing since I am instinctually combative with my books.

I’d feel bad but the book club has consistently picked genres or books of horror that I am just not into. I’ve liked one book out of about 7 so far, and that’s only because Shirley Jackson is a cheat code. I’m largely there to socialize.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club and I was wrong. 400 pages. This might be easier than I thought.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club The Hunger, by Alma Katsu.

I’m not really into historical fiction (I’d much rather read the actual history) so I’ve been dragging my feet.

I’ve been procrastinating all month. So now I have 2 days to read a 700 page book for book club…

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems that, and left wing authoritarianism always ends up taking up the conservative program, just with lipstick and a few nice words for the proletariat.

@sakurajima@sakurajima.moe

I wasn’t notified until this morning after a forums post.

I am sorry I didn’t put in a report sooner. I crashed almost immediately after getting off of work and didn’t wake until the early AMs.

I bought a 25lb bag of lentils with the goal of dry canning them and keeping them for a rainy day.
..but then there was a literal rainy day and my trunk got wet, ruining them.

At least for my purpose. An acquaintance is now in the process of boiling batches of that 25lbs of lentils for the purpose of feeding them to their 15 chickens.

@Ragashingo@starside.social I liked the message of this series a lot. I think it suffered from some pacing and narrative issues (episodes where the focus jumped a lot were not my favorite). I could have also done with our young MC being more of a character. She’s too often a blank slate for our perspective.

But the complexity of some of the relations and other things made it really enjoyable, even if the whole journal part isn’t actually important.

@AWanderingSorcerer@urusai.social outsider; but I feel like a fear of this is part of why they broke the taboo by electing an American pope - to guard against something like this.

The American Catholic Church is in an interesting place. They fall into many of the same positions of the evangelicals, and occupy many of the same information spheres. It’s kinda natural for them to fall into the orbit of what is “Christian” created by a largely Protestant country.

But suspicion of Catholics is deep into the DNA of American conservatism, especially its radical elements. I doubt they will ever be fully let “in”, at least not without a significant break with Rome.

From the outside it looks like there is a war for the soul of American Catholicism. I hope they break from the influences of the evangelical right, and find their own path. But American Christianity is nothing but a disappointment to me. I expect this to come to a head eventually. I think the chance of an antipope is extremely slim. But demographics of the church could easily flee.

@Chloe@catwithaclari.net @miawgogo@fedi.miawgogo.me I've also encountered situations where the stop cord was seemingly out of order.

This situation is especially hellish if the bus is full, and you have to somehow finagle your way to the front to ask the driver.You could hope the crowd asks for a stop ... but that's not me.

I am sometimes a bit disquieted when people refer to NB people as some combination of girlboy/boygirl. There are definitely people within that spectrum that identify that way, but it seems to exclude those who feel a third way, or people like myself who identify as ... not.

Not that I am asking for a purity test here. I meet people where they are, and I don't think any harm is meant. I've long accepted that my position makes me a curious outlier that sometimes breaks people's brains. Being agender is kinda like being the Bobby Tables or null pointer of the whole gender-identity discussion, and most people are not mentally prepared for your not-thing to be ... a thing.

@KitsuneVixi Pretty much the same idea I guess ​​

English arrogance is insisting to the rest of the world what a dish invented in France should be called.

@peachymist@labyrinth.zone you are doing enough.

I live in the in between spaces.

…yes I still read it.

Maybe it’s an extreme reaction, but I refuse to read an “Editor’s Introduction” that is over 50 pages long.

That’s the book equivalent of a multi hour game tutorial.

Yesterday was rough. I managed to make it through work and 36 hours without sleep.

But now I have some time off. I am not really sure what to do with it, honestly.