maya 🧙‍♀️ @maya@occult.institute

me at el parque de las palomas, staring lovingly at pigeons eating out of my hands

I don't have dni categories

it is my job to block/mute you if you're annoying me (or to request moderation if appropriate) and Trust That I Do

if you read stuff on my website and it's more convenient to refer to me as your friend than as a person on the internet with a website you keep up with, I hereby befriend you

if you see undesirable content being federated through occult.institute to your instance please let me know and I will implement the necessary blocks. this is a 1.5 user instance so I don't typically bother blocking instances proactively but that is only because of laziness/perceived lack of impact, and I don't want it to actually impact anyone

if u follow me and u wish I would CW something I don't, DM me :)

i was just rate limited by the instance i admin

harsh

i don't have enough of a thing for dante to merit getting this but what a vibe

@iliana https://cohost.org/iliana/post/85557-i-need-to-read-the-u write one on a cow https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-20434,00.html

could you green screen these patterns onto someone's clothes in a music video https://github.com/luamfb/tempest-lcd

our dog has started lying on the couch cushion right behind my shoulders and she is the best headrest ever

regency occultist snail mail rpg idea: https://maya.land/responses/2022/08/18/regency-occultist-mail-rpg.html

like genuinely even if you thought it were a stretch to project a modern nonbinary identity onto Joan, that is actually *exactly* the kind of stretch that makes stories about saints useful; they're supposed to feel like you or me. st clare as the patron saint of TV is not because anyone thinks there were literal cathode ray tubes involved. a lot of saints are important in non-literal-historical ways and it's already normal to accommodate a multiplicity of contradicting stories.

you could depict her as a real femme gal who resents having to cross-dress to achieve her goals. you could characterize joan as nonbinary or a trans man and get real good stuff out of either. lesbian joan? yes! i think the people who are mad about nonbinary joan have not dug enough into how wild hagiographies get, or into *the point* of them.

genuinely i cannot imagine being mad over *any* characterization of st. joan's gender/sexuality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dressing,_gender_identity,_and_sexuality_of_Joan_of_Arc

i feel like aws is making fun of me with all the billing dashboard stuff for my one dollar website

anyway

look i can do at least moderately responsive images

https://faust.land/flora/vaccinium-parvifolium/

sorry, their open graph metadata was wrong, this will have a link to the potatogrower.com page in just a second here

why not learn a little about potato technology today: https://maya.land/responses/2022/08/17/washington-potato-technology.html

anyone else rolling this around their head these days?

anyway, one of the things I answered with was figuring out how to foster interdependence in my life, or experimenting with what that can look like within the bounds of a vaguely normie lifestyle.

my mom asked me what the point of my life was going to be. we quickly scoped that question down to "the point of my life for the next few years or so as they look from here" because, well, woman plans and god laughs.