🦆 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.

"What if social theory offered more than vying flavours of anti-humanism? What if our logic could express the wriggling queer forms that are now hatched nightly, by the desperate and the very online? What if we had a rationalism as weird as our everyday conditions?"

https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/breakthroughs-bait-xenofeminism-alienation

the underclassmen have been doing their yearly poetry memorization assignment, so I did my yearly "memorize one of their poems, while working" as a private flex. this time it was "A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti.

a lot of my students wear Friends merch to school and ask me if I like the show, then act hurt/ confused/ condescending when I say that I have purposefully never watched the show and have no intentions to start

"I shouldn't get comfy," I say, getting comfy.

does this IWW photo frame look fuckin' sick with my fb profile pic, or what

Check out this absolute unit of a city I managed to complete in Carcassonne tonight. This baby was worth 36 points (I still lost the game).

we stan a slowking

I wish I had photos of the collages I did back in high school so I could see wtf I was thinking. If I didn't throw them away at some point they're somewhere in a box in Idaho.

why do you guys gotta do the funny bits seemingly only when I'm offline trying to do a relationship

I have had two back-to-back mild colds, and it is ridiculous, but not debilitating. It feels like every students and staff member I've interacted with the last two weeks has been sick.

pro-tip: do not put kahlua in your morning coffee because you want to see how it tastes

ate a grapefruit with a spoon for the first time since I got glasses, and found myself flinching and squinting away from it when it squirted, and realized that I have protection now

let's play gay chicken! we can make chicken noises while being Gay 🐔 😤 💦

danshi koukousei? in my nichijou? it's more likely than you think

apparently I'm smart because I can just explain the meaning or spelling of words like "isomorphic" and "inexorable" on the fly whereas other teachers I work with have to look things up

me: I'll read these things later, gotta put them in tabs

my tabs:

me: *reads 11 books in a hard sci-fi romance series*

my tabs:

the road construction in my neighborhood (ongoing since the start of summer) feels almost done! and, unexpectedly, we're getting sidewalks! I'll be able to walk to the park with sidewalks the whole way!

Open offer to anyone in the Roseburg OR (or wider) area who wants a clothes/makeup shopping buddy! If you'd feel more comfortable accompanying an afab trans person who "looks like a girl" so you have plausible deniability in women's sections, I've done that for people before. I just realized that this is a service that people beyond my closest friends might find useful.

Mi perdis la ludon

all these things are still part of me lol