katjr

@katjyr

Story-teller; dreamer; chaser of daemons. She/they #Disabled #ChronicallyIll #TaiwaneseAmerican #Writer #AmWriting #AUDHD #AnxiousAF #願 #🥄4️⃣🥄 Avatar art by Kari Dru Based out of New Taipei, Taiwan. Writes fantasy sci-fi as Ekaterine Xia.

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katjr@katjyr· 6d

Casual and unthinking misogyny is constantly being on a concubines’s case hundreds of years after she’s dead just because she had the misfortune to be concubined to a shit emperor who did such a bad job there were uprisings. Is there a specific reason to trot this woman out constantly?

A woman in Tang style robes is eating lychees on the train. The people around her, in modern clothing, look extremely disapproving.
Caption says “I’m the imperial concubine, I love lychees” and then in smaller text under, “but can’t you wait until you get out of the station”.

katjr@katjyr· 7d

But no one said you can’t or shouldn’t write “problematic” characters or that you shouldn’t write as your heart calls you to. “Disabled person so mad about disability they turn evil” is a super common ableist trope and we are not where we can reclaim it yet. Look at Killmonger, in a similar vein.

Fallon:
Counter point: I am a disabled horror writer. I will write my characters, including disabled ones, however I want. Unproblematic characters are boring and I don't want to read, write, or watch stories with boring characters.

Cause what's your alternative here? Disabled characters can only be angels? No problematic character traits at all? That doesn't help combat ableism, it just puts us on a pedestal.

katjr@katjyr· 15d

“elegantly cheering” is technically okay for 優雅應援 (should be cheering on), but I’d go with “elegantly supporting” or “flawlessly supporting” as a matter of vibe. AM to PM is an awkward choice when dawn to dusk is right there. “Flawlessly supporting your every moment from dawn to dusk”. #translation

Advert of a woman with her hair in an elegant updo set against a backdrop of green pastures amidst the mountains.
Text says 國產鮮乳
從早到晚優雅應援你的所有時刻
AM to PM, elegantly cheering for every moment of you

katjr@katjyr· 17d

Lemme search up the video again… 20 ml gin, rum 15 ml, vodka 15 ml, mint syrup 15 ml, ice in shaker, and then what might be a version of lemon soda (水溶 C).

Green cocktail. Layer of bright green atop a more mellow green.

katjr@katjyr· Jan 21

Melting, I think some metals evaporate at too high a temp…don’t wanna risk that! Look it my very “balanced” chart with nothing but wood and metal except for the year which is fire wood haha.

Bazi chart. Year is “fire wood”, then it’s “metal wood” “metal wood”, and “wood metal” for month day and time of day.

katjr@katjyr· Dec 4

Thinking about how the rich can casually rich and you won’t even know unless you do the awkward thing and ask about the price. Went to Toto today to ask about bidet prices and saw a cute toilet… and it’s 210k ntd. So 7000+ USD. The commercial showed a lady sitting on a mossy round boulder 😃

A 210k+ toilet. NTD. So roughly 7000+ USD.

katjr@katjyr· Sep 17

Can someone please fucking explain why there is a bloody threshold between the platform and the metro car? How wheelchair unfriendly is this? It was rough dragging my (very heavy) suitcase over.

A raised threshold between station platform and metro car.

katjr@katjyr· Aug 14

Out of habit, I looked at the Montreal Steak Seasoning section at Costco and was pleasantly surprised to see that the formulation looked correct once again (what I am used to). And for a moment I thought they changed the formula back, except right beside it, in almost identical labeling…

Two bottles of Montreal Steak Seasoning held side by side. The formulation looks dissimilar.

Two bottles of Montreal Steak Seasoning with the labels showing, keywords almost identical exdept for word placement.

katjr@katjyr· Aug 10

#WhiteOrNot

Woman with brown hair wearing a hat and sunglasses, pinkish lavender top and whir pants. Striking a pose meant to convey lighthearted freedom idk.

katjr@katjyr· Aug 10

#WhiteOrNot

Short haired woman in a black turtleneck against a red backdrop.

katjr@katjyr· Aug 10

Another round of #WhiteOrNot. Gonna start a thread of all the people I see in adverts for local builds as it’s probably easier to see the overall effect when it’s all in one place. Kev challenged “odd how it seems all the people in build adverts seem to be white women”. So let’s see.

A woman with glasses and dad hair holding up what looks like shopping bags in one hand and a drink in the other. She is set against an orange background advertising a new build in the area.

katjr@katjyr· Jul 26

Also what the heck I can mostly understand 潮汕 and almost all of 汕尾? This is in supposedly in the Canton area!

katjr@katjyr· Jul 26

Fascinating… I can understand some of these dialects but oddly enough, not ones from cities next to each other 😂 廈門市 yes 寧德 ish 漳州 yes 泉州 ish again but less than 寧德

katjr@katjyr· May 31

Saw this, thought about it, and, Spirit, when I feel unmotivated, remind me again of my joy. When I feel tired, let me rest. When I feel lost, let me wander. When I feel empty, remind me to eat. And when I forget where I came from and where I am going to…was the destination the point anyways?

Picture of the Taipei 101 in the background (I think?)
With the text:
Lord, when I feel unmotivated, remind me again of my purpose
When I feel tired, strengthen me.
When I feel lost, redirect me.
When I feel empty, till me with Your presence.
And when I forget why l started, remind me that I don't have to do this alone-you are walking with me every step of the way.

katjr@katjyr· May 7

Chinese colorism is really problematic and I hate it so much but I also kind of admire their dedication to sunblock.

Full body sun block dress with hood and visor. Shapeless.

Full body sun block dress with hood and visor and face mask, with waistline.

katjr@katjyr· May 5

This!

Cup o’ noodles, shrimp flavor. They have a very nicely stylized shrimp on the cup 😂

Lid of the shrimp cup o’ noodles, with an ingredients list that would send my mom into paroxysms.

katjr@katjyr· Apr 18

I just swept the flat and I’m so relieved at how relatively painless that was, I simply have to share the trick: a “squeegee broom”. It’s one of those triangular affairs with a thin too-firm rubber edge that will squeak abominably if you use it on your car but perfect for the floor. #🥄4️⃣🥄

A cardboard box with the words Magic Broom on it, and laid out alongside is two metal segments, a white plastic handle, and the squeegee bit itself.

katjr@katjyr· Mar 25

#editing It is 2025 and I am feeling soul shattered and fragile. Reading over this throwaway line I wrote, I'm not sure I want to set this loss into canon. "Some of those first princesses didn’t return. " Looking at the world today...I don't think I can speak that fate over them.

Being crown princess wasn’t supposed to be easy.
The entire ritual of sending her to wander abroad was based around the notion that the heir to a crown needed to see how it was outside the realm.
What it felt like to be Other, to be at the mercy of the kindness of strangers, to have to carve out a clan using only herself as lure.
“Thank you for coming with me on this journey, Yì. I could not imagine doing it without you,” she said, smiling at him, hoping to soften the harsh glint in those dark eyes.
The first princesses hadn’t brought their personal guards on the qiānlǐqiānxún. They left court with gold, jewels, and a lone warrior picked at random from the ranks.
It wasn’t the most sound idea the royal family had ever had, even if it were the choice made by too-proud princesses rather than the court.
Some of those first princesses didn’t return.
Others came back battered and bloody, but triumphant.
After the third great loss and a near broken royal line, the court and council reconsidered and laid down new rules.

katjr@katjyr· Mar 16

Since I'm done, I can go back and re-read the first lines and hey, I don't hate it.

Free will means you get a say.
You may hate all the choices given, but sometimes that’s just how it goes.
She stood in line, waiting to pass through the páifǎng.
Beyond, was the afterlife. Supposedly.
Golden lettering scrolled across the páifǎng, but the words shifted from moment to moment, from Chinese to Arabic to English to Japanese to what looked like hieroglyphics, too fast to decipher.
“Don’t look at the páifǎng. Your soul is too fragile for that yet.”
A hooded figure stood beside her, what looked like a tablet in their outstretched hand. “Here. If you’re aware enough to be risking your soul, you might as well fill this form out. It’ll save you some time with the guards.”
“Why have a páifǎng that says something we aren’t meant to know?” she asked.
The figure tipped their head to the side. “Your mind is incapable of parsing the thing and if you try, your mind will not like it. That is not the same. Once your consciousness is more resilient, you will have no trouble. The páifǎng exists because gates are required between one existence and another and names are necessary to bind. It does not exist as a signpost.”
Well, that certainly put one in one’s place.

katjr@katjyr· Mar 12

I was signing up for something today and noticed the web page URL ends in AmazonAWS dot com. Sigh.

katjr@katjyr· Mar 9

This is mine and I love it.

Wooden comb with hand beside it for scale, taken in bed so there’s a lot of wrinkly fabric.

katjr@katjyr· Mar 6

….I hate AI and everyone who uses gen-AI so much because we actually had a source of knowledge that was mostly useful and they ruined it. This site:

Some fish stick to the pan when frying because of a funny thing called “g-forces.” When you apply pressure to a hot object, like a frying pan, the heat causes gases to escape from the object. These gases cause the fish in the pan to become trapped, and they won’t move until you remove the object from the skillet.

From: https://testfoodkitchen.com/how-do-you-pan-fry-fish-without-sticking/

katjr@katjyr· Mar 6

Thank all my friends for giving me entire lists of things wrong with the picture.

Girl standing against a backdrop of mountains with a glowing ghost tiger beside her, she is wearing blue hanfu and holding a bell jar with a rose plant in it.

katjr@katjyr· Feb 24

I genuinely am asking if an app that does this, has enough sophistication to be asking 80 USD. Scrivener for iOS is only 25 USD. I admit I do not understand how these things are calculated and truly am curious.

katjr@katjyr· Feb 15

More pictures to help if you use image search.

Woman stacking clothing into packing cubes. The ad claims you can compress clothing up to 40% of original volume.

Infographic showing how the packing cubes zip down to compress.

katjr@katjyr· Feb 15

Actually I know you can’t because these are without a brand. But if you look for something that matches the pictures you ought to be able to find similar because it’s all made in China and repackaged anyway.

Set of 6 packing cubes in a khaki-cream nylon that zips down to compress.

katjr@katjyr· Feb 13

My extremely petty rage of the day: so the #LockNLock colored stainless steel containers…I thought it was 3D printed or painted or something reasonable for a thing that is going in and out of the freezer and dishwasher but no. The color is this…fragile plastic thing that is shattering.

Duckling yellow LockNLock container with the paint job chilling right off.

katjr@katjyr· Feb 7

Look at this. I want it. But omg a linen version please.

Woman in hanfu in gradients of blue and white.
It’s the type with what I call the “open cardigan over a tank top, all tucked into a big circle skirt”.

katjr@katjyr· Feb 1

Once zipped up into a bag, it also has a band so you can slide it over the handle of your luggage for easy transportation. The thing looks super slick and really nice and I was intrigued for a full three seconds before I realized how this is not really sensible for travel (for me) at all.

Eight in one hanging travel organizer with zipped up pockets that then zips up into a tote bag.

katjr@katjyr· Dec 22

There is also this loaf pan, but it’s like 5 kg 😱 It’s 26 cm by 18 cm which is excessive even if I love how it looks.