Rev. Halcyon Daze

@facilitatrix

Hal, ey/em/eir, 3 aeons in a trenchcoat. Accused of the Devil's work & praised for the LORD's work with roughly equal frequency; for legal & safety reasons it's just me on the business cards. Hedge priest, raconteur, bioethicist, part-time psychopomp. 🔞

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Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· 17h

Woke up to a buncha older white guys in overalls getting donuts in the hotel lobby talking about how long they’ve been a part of the “chaser community” and got jumpscared til I realized they were all watching weather reports and the *very* dark clouds forming outside.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· 18h

Hey theology pals, if you heard me yelling about deadlines in July, this was why 🥰

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· 1d

The cool leftist cousins have left so it’s now just me and a bunch of transphobic boomers. Shoutout to the cool cousins explicitly telling their kids that the older generation deadnaming me is explicitly a form of bullying.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· 1d

I’m convinced everyone has a thrift shop item they regret not purchasing. Mine: ⚰️ A pastel pink jersey for a peewee softball team sponsored by the local mortuary; the team was called the Lil Diggers and the mascot was a ponytailed girl blowing a bubblegum bubble while digging a grave.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· 2d

Got an hour before I roll out to brunch at the Masonic Lodge as the only one who didn’t go to church this morning, but fortunately most folks in this town will hear me say I’m a proud parishioner of St. Mattress on the Springs and just mutter something bonkers about Papists so

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· 3d

It Happened To Me: Getting to the first family reunion I’ve been to in eight years, in rural Indiana, and realizing ✨AS I PULL UP✨ that 80% of the people attending have no idea I transitioned.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· 5d

Yeah, just Be Normal about it. 💖

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· 5d

Probably a very chipper nurse asking me to explain they/them pronouns to her while I was in the ER post-hysterectomy, fully bleeding through (thin) chux pads about every 5 minutes, and having Splash Mountain [Biblical Plague] happen every time they had to roll me to change the pad.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· 6d

The concussion clinic at UCSF can’t see me until October, **after my disability leave is over** and something got fucked with my paperwork so I haven’t gotten paid since I started leave and the main effects of my head trauma mean I can’t be on my laptop or phone for more than 15 mins and just…

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· 7d

Sure, why not.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· 9d

I have to travel for a family funeral next week and I’ve been thinking about how I would handle a situation like this. Dr. Croft does an excellent breakdown of the psychology that goes into this type of “spiritual warfare,” and my backpack now has a mason jar of earplugs for fellow passengers.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· 11d

World builder Air quotes Caffeinate Misgender Extremophile

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· May 7

Occasionally friends are like “Phoebe has no teeth, how does she eat crunchy treats?” and my answers are usually either “upsettingly,” or “with a level of tongue dexterity we primarily associate with alien symbiotes,” or “imagine a Muppet with a gullet.”

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· May 5

I am blessed with a cat who adores figuring out creative ways of slotting herself into whatever negative space exists in the crook of my arms and shoulders if I lie down for more than a few minutes.

Same brown and white tabby, melting like a Salvador Dali clock in the crook of her human’s arm while they nap together. They are sharing a pillow.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· Apr 24

This is technically the light in both my eyes and the light in @hikikomorphism.bsky.social ’s eyes thanks to a cool artist we met at a night art market in New Orleans.

A collage of two people’s irises under fancy ophthalmologist equipment.

The 11:00-5:00 angle normally appears a rich bronze-y brown in normal sunlight. Medical lighting reveals them to be layered shades of ambers and rust oranges. A softer version of Sauron. A crackling campfire on a cold night.

The 5:00-11:00 angle normally appears a lighter brown/hazel in normal sunlight. Medical lighting reveals them to be a flame-orange corona around the pupil, then an intricate striation of icy blues beneath veins of caramel. Somewhere between a tidepool or a geothermal feature at Yellowstone.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· Apr 22

Fact-checking myself: I have my streams crossed. CostCo does have caskets, but the convertible one is called Shelves For Life, by William Warren. If you want a cheaper alternative, a friendly local death doula can probably point you towards an easy-to-decorate pine or biodegradable cardboard casket.

A very pretty minimalist wooden bookshelf with an open back and neat shelf partitions. The uprights have a cool angular shape to the base and narrow towards the top because this bookshelf can be deconstructed and reconstructed into a coffin.

And here’s William Warren’s schematic diagram for how the shelves convert into a coffin. There’s a lot of text here but it’s too small for me to read, too. Sorry about that. If you search William Warren + Shelves For Life you’ll probably be able to find better information!

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· Apr 18

Out of my ADHD meds, dealing with fresh grief and older trauma anniversaries, and my coffee grinder broke this morning. Phoebe kept chirping at me to follow her upstairs, flopped in a sunbeam, and meowed until I joined her on the floor. I still feel like shit, but she’s a very wise cat.

A brown and white tabby cat headbutting her human’s forehead while they flop in a sunbeam together

Same tabby cat, this time gently cupping her human’s cheek with a paw.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· Apr 15

This beanie ended up much slouchier than intended but god the blacklight reactive dye from Seismic Yarns is fun. #Knitsky

A cathedral beanie in normal sunlight. Striations of neon with black outlines emulate stained glass.

The same beanie under UV, with the “windowpanes” glowing.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· Apr 13

I would make a terrible findom because my wishlists would roughly look like YOUR TRICKSTER GOD DEMANDS WARMER SLIPPER SOCKS FOR EIR WORSENING RAYNAUD’S.

HeatHolders Thermal ankle socks with grippy bottoms.
I’m on a ton of different meds that result in having much healthier blood pressure/oxygenation… but inexplicably at the cost of making my toes perpetually ice cold. I’ve been living in wool socks when I’m indoors and I need warmer grippy ones.

White fuzzy slipper boots that can inexplicably be microwaved for my agonies.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· Apr 10

Sometimes I remember kids at Bible Camp, circa… 2005? who shopped at an abstinence-only/purity culture brand called Wait Wear. Which later rebranded to Chastity Couture. Which also sold thongs.

A white hoodie reading “traffic control! wait until marriage!”

A grey t-shirt reading “NO TRESPASSING ON THIS PROPERTY, MY FATHER IS WATCHING.”

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· Apr 5

Happy Passover from the upsettingly girthy leek I found for @directxman12.dev’s Seder.

A plush leek, a normal-size leek, a leek about 150%-175% thicker than its neighbor, and a can of seltzer for comparison.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· Apr 3

My Amazing Technicolor Blacklight Spring Wrap is getting blocked! I really like how the subtle gradient of miniskeins means the flowers take a minute to be visible. #KnitSky

A shawl I cast on when my aunt was admitted to hospice and she’s still going like the Energizer Bunny. This shawl combines lacework and a little bit of mosaic knitting to have some cool daisies/eyes hidden in it, and the colorway is twelve blacklight reactive miniskeins that look like my Lisa Frank trapper keeper.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· Apr 3

Hell yeah, let’s go.

Pronouns ey/em;
Perform acts of great love with a kind smile and sharp teeth.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· Apr 3

5D Crackers In My Bed

A board game from the late 80s called Crackers in My Bed where you try to feed an abhorrent little ginger child a bunch of crackers while he lies in bed. It’s a matching game with an atrocious name and it’s weirdly good at triggering the psychosomatic sensation of laying on tiny sharp crumbs.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· Apr 2

Being in a radically different field from your partner often means your main research contribution is memes.

Bart Simpson at chalkboard, with lines reading “I WILL NOT GENERATE BIOTERROR, CBRN, OR MASS-HARM CONTENT UNPROMPTED AS A DISPOSABLE TEST CASE.”

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· Apr 2

My parents wanted proof of life (of Phoebe) post-earthquake and I think this is the most annoyed I’ve ever seen her, and, tragically it’s still extremely cute.

A brown and white tabby is getting her belly rubbed, which she normally adores, except that she wants breakfast and is about to maul my hand as a complaint about the delay. Given that I just trimmed her claws and she has no teeth, her fighting back is very earnest but not especially effective. Her ears are pricked in annoyance and her eyes convey she’s about to swat at me. (She is well-loved and well-compensated in Churu and knows how to request water from the fridge.)

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· Apr 2

Coming as a surprise to no one; this was a pretty fun quiz.

I think my Zen score was lowest because it was always my 2nd or 3rd choice.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· Mar 27

CONSUME THE LIMINAL BURGER

A favorite diner, after hours. Lots of kites and LEDs.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· Mar 26

Thinking about that time some friends of mine asked me to use my Phenomenal Clergy Powers to help draft a plaque reading (in part) that I had certified their art piece as “100% Secular Geometry.” (Full details in alt)

Visual: a dozen gently glowing hoops have been carefully interwoven into a Hopf Fibration. LEDs inside make it pulse with rainbow light.

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In 1931, Heinz Hopf discovered that a hypersphere in four-dimensional space can be described as circular fibers mapped to points on the surface of a three dimensional sphere, as shown in the video at right. Stereographic projection of the Hopf Fibration results in a remarkable structure in which all of three-dimensional space is filled with nested tori formed from linked Villarceau circles. Each fiber is projected to a circle in space (one of which is a line, thought of as a "circle through infinity”). The twelve illuminated hoops in the piece suspended before you thus represent a 3D projection of twelve equivalent points on the equator of a 4D hypersphere.

“Higher dimensional” structures means that they require more than three coordinates to represent. This term does not refer to sacred geometry. The artists consider humanity and the multiverse to be inherently inspirational just by existing.

Statement of Secularization:
Fibration has been certified 100% secular geometry by non-religious clergy, and utilizes principles of mathematics adhering to the underlying structures of our known universe.
Fibration is not dedicated to some greater Divinity, Plan, or Purpose. It was made by humans, for humans, to be directly experienced as what it is without further need to represent Something More, and that is all, and enough.

Spiritual Emergence Allergen Alert:
While the artists have observed strict creative isolation protocols throughout the development of this piece, Fibration was produced in a facility that handles multiple forms of art and spiritual experience and, as such, may contain trace amounts of pareidolia.
If you find yourself perceiving manifestations of divinity in Fibration, please consider the possibility that complex emergent phenomena are entirely responsible for our chaotic internal perceptual projections.

Rev. Halcyon Daze@facilitatrix· Mar 20