my, uh-- @maya@occult.institute

tbh i don't think i really care that much about the historical reality of what plague doctors actually thought they could cure, the figure from our contemporary viewpoint is what's interesting to me

the plague doctor as a creepy figure is fascinating. like, we're uncomfortable with the idea, like he's a figure of death, but he's not *killing* people. accepting the presence of this figure is accepting what's going to happen to you. he is a weird counterpart to the last rites a priest can offer. he's got leeches and nothing

on the one side, allows a lot of fun unreliable narrator stuff where maybe you don't understand what was going on in this family/village until you hear multiple people. on the other side, what are the literary possibilities of palliative care's acceptance of the inevitable?

before coronavirus i told my mom that i had this idea for a sort of decameron-like novel where a plague doctor is just going around during The Plague in an unspecified country and (pseudomedieval) century listening to people before they die

@TeethTeethTeeth I enjoyed it! I'm a sucker for sets and costumes that really go for it, and it was a good laugh.

@toroidal me: well THAT sounds terrible. *looks* oh, it's "stripe identity"--maybe that means it's just like a credit card? that'd be weird, but--
https://stripe.com/docs/identity

OH there's NO way THAT can go terribly wrong

https://auralite.io/ <-- this could be cool, but it's taking VC money so it almost certainly won't be, but I'm still a little hype to see a new project using webmentions.

don't be a cynodont, be a cynoDO

@antifuchs has he thrown it at me

@vy I read some of the other replies and I know that it's late but I would say that I think "cartridge" is best for something capturing an idea of modularity/interactivity, but "cassette" is better if it's a metaphor for data in storage

@lesbianhacker oh man this is too familiar =_=

does posting with brid.gy work if you don't have microformats2? I'm trying to write a guide for web mentions for neocities ppl who often do all their html by hand and can't decide whether to mention brid.gy

update: when I wake up it feels for a bit like my teeth are in different places. I.. uh... that... doesn't seem ideal?

"dum licet esse bene" ~ "while the gettin's good"