Category: Writing
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Review: Mariana Alessandri’s Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods (2023)
Review of Night Vision by Mariana Alessandri. In three words: read this book.
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Putting an 8th-century manuscript back together: Mich. Ms. 155 (Video)
Video: That time I accidentally put an 8th-century codex back together again based on patterns of damage.
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Notmas 2022: Low Tide at Imperial Beach
Some photos and a video from Imperial Pier in San Diego for my now-annual not-Xmas (aka Notmas) pilgrimage to the sea.
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Home Again: or, What is this feeling?!
I made it Home. As in, I made it back to this place I’d made my Home. But what even is ‘Home’ to someone who didn’t grow up with that?
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An Oceanside Notmas (Port Aransas, TX)
Sooo this being the third trip to an Ocean on (or around) xmas, I’ve named my xmas-alternative: Oceanside Notmas!
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The Beautiful Regularity of the Periodic Table of Elements: or, Really no one thought maybe I was autistic? (Or is that even a label I should have known back then?)
No one noticed I was probably autistic even after I memorized the whole Periodic Table in eighth grade (along with the 27 Amendments to the US Constitution). But am I better or worse off for it?
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Said the Stork to the Snake (Or, Thoughts are silenced by snapping beaks)
The Stork has power over the Snake. Stork and Snake both know it. Yet somehow Stork still manages to persuade Snake to serve himself up for a her meal. Peitho, Persuasion, is a delicate yet powerful skill.
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My Favorite Crabapple, My Oldest Friend
A few photos of the spectacle put on in April 2021 by my favorite tree in the world/my oldest friend.
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Actually Autistic Moment of the Day: “of”
One of my earliest memory-fragments, puzzling over the spelling of ‘of’ versus the sound of ‘of’. It makes a lot more sense on this side of realizing I’m actually autistic.
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Neurodivergent Reading List, Pt. II
My neurodiversity reading list grows by the day and three more books have made it onto my shelves before I’ve finished the first set.
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 