Jess Mahler @jessmahler@wandering.shop

Idea that's been kicking around for a while and I've mentioned here or there. But I think I'm gonna start putting it into practice.

I think it's ridiculous that we identify our sexuality by reference to our gender. Why don't we just say what we are attracted to? If we need latin-esque words for it, why not androphillic or androsexual (lover of men), gynophilic/gynosexual (lover of women), enbyphillic/enbysexual (lover of enbies), etc.

This topic is one that I have been gaslit about, seen (black) people pull the "well my Polynesian friend doesn't think it's a problem", seen (white) leaders in the #polyamory community call Polynesians speaking out about this trolls.

The lengths I have heard polyam people go to invalidate Polynesians on this is disgusting.

I am DONE with this fucking debate.

I'm having a problem with gui emacs on Linux Mint. I can't kill more than a single paragraph at a time.

I've checked a half-dozen how-to-emacs sites and they all give the same instructions for marking the stuff you want to kill and using the kill command, but no matter how much I mark, it only ever kills one paragraph.

Anyone willing/able to help me figure this out?

#emacs #linux

Morning all.

I forgot to put a blog post up yesterday, it's been that kind of week. In theory today should be better. See what happens.

How you doing?

Okay, weird, random, and awesome.

Yesterday I got two messages on Goodreads asking about a collection of short stories that I had pulled from sale to edit/revamp and then got sick and it never got back up.

It seems there was a thread in a Goodreads group about paranormal romances, and this collection (which has MAYBE a handful of sales the entire time it was up) got recommended, and now there's at least a dozen or so folk trying to find it...

So... it looks like I've got some editing to do?

Random: i still haven't seen Captain Marvel (and honestly don't know if I ever will). But I'm baffled at how people keep talking about how little expression she has.

From the still shots I've seen, the character has plenty of expressiveness. It's just that she's not emoting with her mouth (smiling, frowning, etc), she's emoting with her eyebrows, her eyes, the angle of her head.

Okay, so she doesn't use her mouth much. So what?

I'm #autistic and i can see this. Why can't anyone else?!

Morning all.

Not much to say today, but I'm here. *waves*

I thought I was still exhausted by the move, but now that I stop to pay attention, this feels less like exhaustion (which should be past by now anyways) and most like the achey tired of being sick. But no other symptoms, no fever or sinus problems or nausea or anything...

Was seeing doc on monday anyway for followup on anemia. We'll see what he says...

Gah!

Okay, so far so good story and rep-wise, but the only way this author is distinguishing between English and ASL is English is in double quotes and ASL is in single quotes. And I really wish they'd used something more distinct bc I'm GOING to get confused with my executive dysfunction being as bad as it is.

After seeing so many poorly done #Deaf characters in the past year, I nearly passed on this book just because it has a Deaf character.

I haven't even started reading yet and I'm so happy I gave this a shot. I don't know if the author is Deaf or has Deaf family or what, but they opened the book with a quick rundown on Deaf vs deaf, the difference between English and ASL grammar, and generally made it clear that THIS author knows what the fuck they are doing. (and is fluent in ASL)

#amreading

Went looking for something to read and found what looks to be a fun MM #Kink romance with an disabled sub.

Lots of feels about his struggles bc my pet can't kneel and reading this character feeling like because he can't kneel he isn't any good as a sub... it resonates a bit too much with some struggles pet and I have had.

I'm looking forward to seeing this character learn differently.

#books #amreading

I'm doing really bad when Civ moves too fast for my brain...

#spoony #gaming