🦆 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.

placenta frittata
what a wonderful phrase

I fell down an Improbable Island and Catherine Asaro hole the past week and haven't been on here as much, which is fine! I don't, like, *need* to waste hours looking at shitposts when I'm tired and want to relax, and it's nice to float between different fixations

oh boy, tomorrow I get to teach the kids how to equilateral a triangle

I just thought y'all were thirsty for mr. peanut

love when I think y'all are doing a lol random bit, and it's actually a news item I missed because I live under a rock

I speak without a filter again, and someone tearfully asks me, "Why are you so unreasonable and insensitive?"

I rip open my shirt. On the left tit is tattooed "Logic sometimes makes monsters" — Henri Poincaré; on the right "Conscience doth make cowards of us all" — William Shakespeare.

it's warm and sunny enough outside that I can have the windows open for a little bit for the first time in months :D

Sometimes you check out an anime that's terrible and horny in the way that makes sex boring, and you think, I bet my ex is watching this

for the uninitiated, HILF is an acronym from Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish Cycle

My notifications are totally screwed, is it just me or is it something going on with sunbeam.city? (It was down most of yesterday and I still have no idea why/what happened, or if it was just something on my end.)

in 2020 we're learning that in damp climates you should clean your window tracks

HILF (High-Intelligence Life Forms I'd Like to Fuck)

all this talk of MILFs and DILFs, no one ever talks about HILFs (High-Intelligence Life Forms)

I live in awe of those brave souls who can do their memes on a computer instead of on little scraps of paper

for your consideration

(workshopped with @sherbet_marcuse)

next year I expect everyone to cw their christmas posts with "infohazard"

he melts brie on crackers and calls it nachos, if you know what I mean

🔎 how to clean klein fleshlight

my students know that I watch JJBA and talk to me about it and it's great

I am uniquely qualified to participate in horse/duck fight discourse, having helped calm a raging stallion, and having been attacked several times by my mother ducks when I had to move one of their babies, and having also raised runner ducks into lap cuddlers