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  • I don't get the Deltarune comparison, but I feel like I understand exactly what you mean. I'm a woman. The way I act and the way I dress are more masculine than is typically expected of a woman. It's only after I started dressing "like a man" and cutting my hair short and not suppressing more "masculine" mannerisms that I started to feel like myself. I've used resources designed for trans men like style and fashion guides, but I've thought about it a lot and the fact does remain that I'm a woman.

    People generally expect that the way you (want to) look/dress/act is to a large degree aligned with the typical presentation of your gender in your cisheteronormative society, and they have a hard time wrapping their heads around it when you don't meet that threshold. This is mostly the case in LGBTQ spaces as well, in my experience. Some people in LGBTQ spaces will see aspects of my gender presentation (for example, I sometimes bind my chest) and take it as evidence that I'm in the early stages of coming out as a trans man. It's frustrating that in order for people to see me as my gender, I have to present in a way that makes me feel like I'm not myself. It's like either I can see myself as a woman, or I can get other people to see me as a woman, but not both at the same time.

  • I played it over the weekend. In my opinion, the game definitely holds up, but the remaster is basically the same as the original. The biggest change is the addition of new secret bosses in the purified zones. If you want to play the game again, you can just replay the PC version and you won't miss much.

  • ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Saw a seagull

  • they make a list of all the known bones and then circle the ones that aren't on the list

  • It's hard to take seriously a paper that uses the word "tankie"

  • Lem is my favorite author and the unknowableness of his aliens is what I love most about his work. I'm moved by his depictions of how difficult it can be to communicate with, understand, and relate to others. I especially like the ending of Solaris, where the main character eventually realizes that it will never be possible for him to understand the planet, and then chooses to stay with it anyway

  • my guess is that the buildings are large so people can fit inside

  • To be pedantic, octopi comes from the misconception that octopus is a second-declension noun in Latin when it's actually a third-declension noun. If you were writing Latin, you'd still want octopodes

  • Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. A psychologist is sent to a station in orbit around a planet covered by a sentient ocean to determine if research on it should continue. Lem's work consistently blows my mind, actually--other favorites are His Master's Voice (memoirs of a mathematician working on a project to decipher what might be a message from extraterrestrials) and Peace on Earth (an adventurer returns from a trip to the moon with his brain bisected, and the half that remembers what happened is both unable and unwilling to communicate it).

  • frog and cranberries it must be fall

  • I haven't seen it, thanks for the rec

  • Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972). Easily one of the best movies I've ever seen. It's available for free on YouTube with subtitles in English and a few other languages. Silent Running (Trumbull, 1972). This movie inspired the original set of Mystery Science Theater 3000. It's not a masterpiece but it made me really emotional. The Fly (Neumann, 1958). A classic in sci-fi horror. There's a 1986 remake by Cronenberg, but I can't vouch for it as I haven't seen that version yet. Asteroid City (Anderson, 2023). Very Wes Anderson. Made my eyes hurt when I saw it in the theater. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968). A visually stunning classic featuring evil robots. M3GAN (Johnstone, 2022). A horror story with a sci-fi premise. I like when robots get to be completely selfish.