🦆 νησσοτροφεῖον 🦆 @nessotropheion@sunbeam.city

🦆 Freddie, 26, they/them
🦆 Nonbinary, trans, queer, pan; afab and not visibly or widely out
🦆 Depressed + anxious, probably autistic
🦆 I'm a non-denominational leftist
🦆 Long-Term Goals: write more often, finish my damn bachelor's degree, live in a commune w/ my friends and family
🦆 I work as an instructional assistant at a public high school
🦆 I currently live in southwestern Oregon, recently lived in the Boise area, originally from the SF north bay area
🦆 I've worked with #ducks for 6+ years, also have both reading and experience with agroecology, permaculture, organic gardening, herbalism, etc.
🦆 I love cooking and end up posting about that a lot
🦆 Polytheist with really shitty practice habits, mostly into ancient syncretic Mediterranean stuff, and also local cultus, cartomancy, and pop culture magic
🦆 Other interests include: classics, video and tabletop gaming, anime, sci-fi

🦆 I like infodumping, so please ask me questions about stuff!!

#Introductions #Introduction

March is the first month in the older Roman calendar. Of interest this month is a festal sequence for #Cybele & #Attis and Liber's special day.

🎋 Canna Intrat (15): marks the birth of Attis.

⛓️ Liberalia (17): celebration of #Liber, god of vegetation and freedom, and a day for coming of age ceremonies. The god was sometimes, in later periods, conflated with #Bacchus or #Dionysos.

🌲 Arbor Intrat (22): marks the death of Attis, and is followed by a 3-day mourning period (23—25).

📯 Tubilustrum (23): an older holiday in honor of #Mars, marking the beginning of the campaign season and a cleansing of either war trumpets or sacrificial trumpets (scholars disagree).

😭 Dies Sanguinis (24): a day of frenzied, violent mourning for Attis.

😆 Hilaria (25): celebration of the resurrection of Attis.

🛏️ Requietio (26): a day of rest from festal mourning.

⛲ Lavatio (27): ritual washing of Cybele's image

🥗 Salus (30): holiday in honor of Salus, goddess of safety.

marrow is stored in the bones

jostaberries? jocasta berries

which is the gist of what I said back to him lol

last week one of my zoomer students asked me if I'd heard that "Bush did 9/11". buddy, you were born in 2005, I was saying Bush did 9/11 before you were born

i've got a terminal case of Constructed Wetland Ass (CWA)

where's my bog ass and marsh ass representation. not to mention fen ass, mire ass, and my favorite, bayou ass.

I exclusively use facebook to dump photos of my kitchen projects to flex on my friends and family, and to sporadically share long articles/essays that no one will read

Hataage! Kemono Michi: stunning!!! extremely entertaining, a dark horse that I did not expect to be my top pick of the season. our protag is a bisexual furry pro-wrestler who cannot be stopped. I can't wait to see him settle into a quiet life as a creepy monster shop owner. https://anilist.co/anime/107339/Hataage-Kemono-Michi

Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen: very sweet iyashikei, feels more like a kids show. will be picking this one up. I'm curious to see how many eps it takes our heroine to invent the printing press. https://anilist.co/anime/108268/Honzuki-no-Gekokujou-Shisho-ni-Naru-Tame-ni-wa-Shudan-wo-Erandeiraremasen

Kono Yuusha ga Ore TUEEE Kuse ni Shinchou Sugiru:
entertaining, but not overly so! was worth watching purely for the protag's ridiculous faces. will give it another episode or two, but whether this one is watchable or not depends on if the male hero ends up having another facet or two added to his personality. https://anilist.co/anime/105156/Kono-Yuusha-ga-Ore-TUEEE-Kuse-ni-Shinchou-Sugiru

Houkago Saikoro Club:
the most interesting part of this anime was pausing it to identify the real life board games (Scythe! Dominion!) on the game shop's shelves, but the characters and art were completely uncompelling. does not pay enough respect to its quiet girl characters. https://anilist.co/anime/104115/Houkago-Saikoro-Club

Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo: bad. this anime wants to be Aku no Hana but it completely failed to be interesting even before it dropped its twist.
https://anilist.co/anime/104464/Ore-wo-Suki-nano-wa-Omae-dake-ka-yo

ITT: one-toot reviews of this season's anime as I check them out

I swerve to avoid crunchy pedestrians

I swerve to avoid crunchy potholes

"I got you some semen from a promising stud halfway across the country!!"

domestication play

animal husbandry play

Overheard at work:
"I'm SMH my head."

my two favorite things about pokémon go in my town:

— nighttime raid battles at the park near my house, scheduled afterit closes. if you go near the entrance a lady on a golf cart yells at you about how the sheriff could arrest you for trespassing.

— pokéstops for the psychedelic murals on the sides of several different dispensaries