As long as we have loved, we're victorious
I went to bed early last night, for which I want praise. I decided that just adding to my sleep deficit would help neither me nor the nation. Today I have been cautiously checking out the election news: it looks not dreadful, which I suppose is why the man still currently in the White House is planning to SLAPP suit the voting population of the United States. As I said this afternoon on a friend's journal, I wasn't expecting a blue wave, I was expecting so much red voter suppression that we wouldn't even get a look in at a close race and I was seriously worried about right-wing stochastic terrorism on the night, so I actually feel better than I did when I woke up on Election Day. We still need not to have an electoral college. Have some links.
1. I found a Chicana tikkun olam song: Quetzal, "Justice Never Dies."
2. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
selkie: a Neolithic female big-game hunter. "Not content to stop at Wilamaya Patjxa, Haas and his colleagues dove into the archaeological record to see if they could find similar examples. The team reviewed 429 accounts of burials from 107 sites in North and South America dating back to the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. In total, they found 27 unambiguous examples of people buried with their hunting gear, of which 16 were male and 11 were female."
3. I had forgotten this essay by Lloyd Alexander: "The Flat-Heeled Muse."
spatch just told me a bright blue meteor was sighted over Gloucester earlier this evening. I bet it was from early exposure to Arthuriana that I learned to think of comets as dragon-stars.
1. I found a Chicana tikkun olam song: Quetzal, "Justice Never Dies."
2. Courtesy of
selkie: a Neolithic female big-game hunter. "Not content to stop at Wilamaya Patjxa, Haas and his colleagues dove into the archaeological record to see if they could find similar examples. The team reviewed 429 accounts of burials from 107 sites in North and South America dating back to the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. In total, they found 27 unambiguous examples of people buried with their hunting gear, of which 16 were male and 11 were female."3. I had forgotten this essay by Lloyd Alexander: "The Flat-Heeled Muse."
spatch just told me a bright blue meteor was sighted over Gloucester earlier this evening. I bet it was from early exposure to Arthuriana that I learned to think of comets as dragon-stars.
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Good sense always warrants praise! I was too stressed to watch the coverage, but also too stressed to sleep, so drifted off while reading LMB's Penric novellas about 6AM our time.
One of the friends I was at the pub with was complaining that she wanted to geek out on the election coverage (before she retired she worked for the bit of our government responsible for electoral registration), but having a friend visiting meant she couldn't.
I am seriously amazed there weren't any major firefights with militia groups outside polling stations. "right-wing stochastic terrorism" is an excellent term (even if I'm appalled it's needed).
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How would it be," she murmured huskily, "if you invented your own mythology? Isn't that what you really want to do?" --that made me laugh. I like all her questions as well.
Sometimes heartbreaking, but never hopeless, the fantasy world as it "should be" is one in which good is ultimately stronger than evil, where courage, justice, love, and mercy actually function. --I love him so much.
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You did such a good thing for your meatsack, not torturing it by staying up late!
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I spent last night curled around Deep Secret, which was where I'd gotten in my random DWJ comfort binge, then straight into Archer's Goon. "The Flat-Heeled Muse" was the perfect re-read in her company (it's been way too long).
That bright blue meteor cheers me.
Nine
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That is an excellent essay, thank you. It sends me back to my work in progress, muttering 'But would they know that? How? And how did they get to the blimmin island?'
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Thank you for the Lloyd Alexander essay! That was amazingly sensible too, and I'd never seen it before. This sort of thing really is what justifies the Internet...
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PS I love reading about ancient peoples and the actual complexities of their lives. Thank you for the Neolithic huntress.
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16:11 isn't even very strongly skewed towards the male-boned and this gives me a lot of joy.
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I am extremely impressed with you and a little jealous. Hopefully I will manage it tonight, because it turns out I can't sustain multiple <6 hours sleep nights in a row anymore.
~Sor
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It was right! Maybe this winter's great conjunction will herald the shifting of an age after all.
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*hugs*
What the fuuuuuuck timeline is this. (Do you think my actual vocabulary will come back, or am I just feral now?)
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I slept through a literal earthquake.
At least I was awake for the election!
(Do you think my actual vocabulary will come back, or am I just feral now?)
I think everyone's a bit feral right now, but your vocabulary is still in period, so I wouldn't worry long-term.
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FERAL ADMINISTRATORS from COUCHES of TEMPLES and SYNAGOGUES is practically t-shirt worthy.
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It's a tricky decade. I still think I haven't learned the proper usage of yeet.
P.S. It turns out I didn't sleep through the earthquake; I've just become so used to obnoxiously noisy trucks idling on the street in front of our building that I mistook our local fault line for one.
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Ex. Without diagram, my apologies:
I like to yeet Fascists into the sun.
We yote Halloween candy at neighborhood children.
By January 22, right-minded citizens will have yeeted that orange motherfucker into the sun.