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this is nothing. japanese cities are split into districts and subdistricts, which are randomly numbered, and then the house numbers within the subdistricts are in order of the date of registration. oh, and addresses are written in the opposite order (smallest unit to largest).

what did Europeans even do before google maps.

how did y'all find your streets

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one of the best academic paper titles

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The thing about Cottagecore is that is a fetishized aesthetic of country life, divorced from labor and idealized by a primarily urban audience with a backward looking ethos of tradition. They are not prepared for the stresses of a rural life: farming; harvesting; tapping pumpkins to ensure none of them have been replaced with flesh; losing out on income by having to use one of your pigs in a blood sacrifice to paint protective sigils over your doors and windows; checking cracks and chimneys for the flesh-vines of the Pumpkin Lord; having to decide, before the Growth is complete, whether that's really your tradwife or an amassment of vines, leaves, and blood in the shape of your tradwife; ignoring their desperate pleas that "I'm me! No! No!" as you burn them alive, realizing too late you picked wrong; and the exploitative corporate nature of commercial farming in 2024. All seen through a deeply colonial lens, of course

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i almost inevitably feel guilty when i have to cancel on professional engagements because of being ill/disabled. it's stupid because like, of COURSE i shouldn't be going to help out with a conversational club when i have a cold and could infect people. OBVIOUSLY i shouldn't be trying to record a podcast with someone when i can barely speak. but i suppose being raised in an ableist environment and taught to push through and ignore all your body's warning signals does that to you.

#autism #ableism #disability

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i've got so used to being mostly vegan that whenever i go to a restaurant and see all the meat options it actually catches me for a moment. like what is all this shit.

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real UK heads know that autumn is the worst here. it's soooo wet and grey and it's just a long dark descent into winter

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omg i really went off today and recorded a whole podcast. unfortunately it's supposed to come out at 7am tomorrow and i'm like 80% done editing the audio, but actually posting the episodes is my least favourite part so i think i'll just say fuck it and do it 'late' tomorrow morning

#but also it's my podcast and i'll do whatever i want #work

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Levels of understanding other slavic languages

oh we also have X and it means the same!

that looks like X but misspelled

that's just the archaic variant of X

this sounds a lot like Y from another slavic language I know which means X in mine so this almost 100% also means X

this word is completely different but I can kinda tell the meaning from the morphology

what

okay right now I'm gonna have to dissect the entirety of this language's history to figure out how the FUCK did y'all get to the point of calling X that and not something more normal

I wanted to ask for X and accidentally called someone a whore

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hyperfixating on this is not enough i need to eat it

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more karlach!!

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major respect for sims 3 players... even with mods that game looks so bad. i literally have never seen a sims 3 sim i liked.

#sims #sims 3 #it SUCKS bc the game has great body options compared to the sims 2 #like how did they make a game where you can make a big hairy beefy werewolf and he's UGLY

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so i was feeling mopey this morning about being in a catatonic period and being unable to socialise and stuff. but then i remembered what my friend said to me a few years ago, that sometimes it's only when we feel truly safe that our bodies can properly break down.

going through the process of flat hunting in london at the end of last year was SO stressful and i was breaking down crying loads and pushing through it a lot. so it was inevitable there would be a 'rest kickback' at some point. that's probably what this is now - which is a good thing! because it means that i feel safe and settled enough in my new flat to be able to go full slug mode and rest for several weeks.

it's honestly such a simple reframe but it makes me feel a lot better. mainly because i can then see my sickness/need for extreme rest as something positive rather than some awful doomsday clock to my becoming too non-functional to live independently. and it is is an act of love to myself to spend days and weeks inside playing video games, napping, eating food… i don't want to just see that as some necessary evil.

#disability #autism #autistic catatonia #autistic shutdown #rest #rest is radical #disabled #slug mode #gremlin mode #musings #house hunting #text post

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i rly wanna go to church tomorrow (i found a really cool queer-inclusive church with a trans priest) but it's 11:30pm and i was barely able to go outside today so it's looking... unlikely