Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat

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Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· 19d

Also, if anybody needs to know how to ask whether several monks have new guns, in Tibetan, I may have just the thing

A page from the book "Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan" reading course and reference grammar. The page contains short samples of Tibetan phrases, including the analogue to "Do several monks have new guns?"

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· 27d

Ab so lute ly that, so much that, yes. Like getting to visit one of my former ferals, living his best fat soft life with my friends

A white cat with almond-shaped green eyes, pink nose leather, and grey patches on head and neck peers at the camera. Below and above are draped sheets, because he loves sheet tunnels more than anything besides screaming and sitting on asses. He no longer has external ears, and this gives him a rakish, adorably sharp-eyed look

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jul 9

There's always room for cat. Here, have a picture of @rahaeli.bsky.social and @sarahquaint.bsky.social 's bathmat

A black-on-brown tabby princess doing her best impression of a bathmat while stretching her head out (shown) for the chin scritches. Her whiskers are all the way forward and she is blissful - I will not be hauled away for crimes against felinity just yet

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jul 5

The introduction to this 1938 collection is a marvel of aghast incredulity. PEARLS are being CLUTCHED, and I love it

A black book cover with gold-colored text: "Translations From the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke", M.D. Herter Norton, 1938

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jul 5

Couldn't find the picture I know I have of that one, but enjoy this hideousness instead

A fashwagon parked in a town center, skinned in iridescent wrap that resembles a Vegas sunrise as seen through the eyes of Hunter S. Thompson, with the license plate DEFCON.

The windows are too dark to tell whether there is a rearview placard for the handicapped spot in which it is parked, and I use that term loosely, given how badly this thing is not squared up in the spot

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jul 4

Three oranges, all alike in dignity and intelligence

An orange tabby (which autocorrect tried to render as "table", and... not entirely wrong?) with large eyes and a white bib and stockings is flopped on his left side against a pair of sheepskin slippers. They are approximately the same color

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jul 4

Meanwhile, babby language student over here reading the text at the top of the sheet:

Chris Evans as Cap, gesturing at the camera. Overlaid is the block text I UNDERSTOOD THAT REFERENCE

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jul 3

I am working on turning three pounds of sock-weight wool yarn into a blanket during a heat dome because I am a chaos gremlin and I embrace my sickohood

A pile of knitted yarn is draped over a lap. The yarn is in three different colorways of variegated green-yellow, blues, and blue-purple, stacked in strips of garter stitch to make a log cabin blanket. It's three pounds of fucking merino, less what isn't yet knitted, and thus holds a lot of heat

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jul 1

Meme of a smiling young Black football player on the field with the block text overlaid: "They had us in the first half, I'm not gonna lie"

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jul 1

I keep a pic of the bookmarked page to hand because, well, *waves around*

A picture of a soft-cover copy of Tony Kushner's play "A Bright Room Called Day", open to a Zillah monologue that concludes with "Don't put too much stock in a good night's sleep. During times of reactionary backlash, the only people sleeping soundly are the guys who're giving the rest of us bad dreams. So eat something indigestible before you go to bed, and listen to your nightmares."

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jul 1

Welp, Sibling Mallet of Courteous Debate it is, then

A screenshot of the emmah.net page with the Unitarian Jihad name "Sibling Mallet of Courteous Debate" listed

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jun 28

A still from "What We Do In the Shadows" of Colin Robinson saying, "Yeah, I'm not positive what my deal is either, so I just sort of keep on truckin'."

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jun 25

Me, a few months ago: So I have some ideas for how I can learn another language so that it’ll actually work this time *three used bookstores and one Internet later* Me, last night, to @alchemy-tits.bsky.social : Well, that escalated kinda quickly, huh

A picture of two rows of books in a wooden bookcase. The top shelf is a few novels and a seriously deranged number of diglot Rilke collections; the bottom shelf is multiple dictionaries and reference books on German, with a few texts in other languages keeping them company. The general effect is that of the German language section of a small used bookstore. I was, however, nowhere near a bookstore when I told on myself like this

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jun 25

I tried to put a cat treat next to the wolf spider for scale, and she lunged for it immediately and has been perched on it since. It's her cat treat now

A wolf spider standing astride a Greenies cat treat. She's brown with spindly legs and has a pattern of black racing stripes along her back. The cat treat is about the length of her body and twice the width

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jun 21

Apparently because I was busy dealing with Other Big Feels, the one-year point for my AuDHD diagnosis recently passed, and I missed marking it. Feels a bit too on the nose, really

Michael Brill & Safdar Abidi’s “Landscape of Thorns”. The image depicts a seared landscape of sand and scrub, with a field of jagged spikes sticking out of the ground and smaller spikes jutting off the larger ones at sharp angles. Behind is a washed-out sky of ivory with streaky pale yellow clouds like narrow flags or banners all across it

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jun 19

On the other hand, at least it proves out that I need no plagiarism engine for generating fucked-up drawn hands. My "let's see just where the basement is that I have to skill up from" test sketch can do that just fine all on its own

A maybe-60-second e-paper sketch of a hand from a reference photo of a climber gripping an edge. The drawn hand is ... well, I tried, okay?

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jun 16

Damn buddy, nice work on those eyespots, I was totally fooled

An Eastern Eyed Click Beetle on an unfinished and faded wooden picnic table, next to a dime for scale; it is about twice the length of the coin and slightly narrower in body. Yon beetle is mottled dark wood brown in color, with dark yellow flecks and two massive black eyespots behind its head

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jun 12

Got it. Okay, so with the caveat that I’m only partway into season 1, my understanding is the cross is from his mother? I went and dug out the crosses I’ve received over the years for the sake of comparison: /

Three pendants on chains are displayed against a white card. On the left is a four-lobed gold cross with a smaller Orthodox three-barred cross inside, and in between is empty space for an open, airy feel. At center is a similar lobed cross but heavier in design, solid and dark with age acting on a cheap finish over copper, with the Orthodox cross picked out in the center in dark blue enamel. To the right is a tiny and stylized crucifix picked out in gold color against a sky blue enamel backdrop

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jun 11

I was due a reread anyway...

The back cover of Jane Yolen's novel "Heart's Blood"

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jun 9

through the declensions as a sort of sequential cascade. So what I ended up doing was this: And splitting out the formal to the side and situating it where I could compare it to the patterns in second and third person finally made it click, and I went “ohhhhh so instead of fancy You, it’s 5/6

A handwritten chart of German personal pronouns broken out into quarters, with informal to the left and formal to the right, singular up top and formal below

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jun 9

Cats is hug,

Two tabbies paw-to paw on their sides, curled on a white hearing pad, being all cute and shit

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jun 9

Unexpected find in a used bookstore, a Landstad prayer book from 1883

The title page of a Norwegian prayer book. The page is about palm-sized and is age-stained and a bit ragged. It shows a publication date of 1883 and what appears to be a gifting note printed midway down

The cover of the same prayer book, which is dark black with a stamped design of a cross surrounded by floral designs. The corners are rounded from wear, and the spine is... regrettable. There are two small pins on the right edge that are used to hold the book closed with leather straps

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Jun 6

Plaaaaaants

A collection of purple oxalis plants. They each have three triangular deep red-purple leaves that look a little like moths' wings

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· May 27

Oops, heh This playlist used to be partly “stuff not in English so I can turn off the language parsing part of my brain” before it morphed into “I wonder if this would work for ear-training”, and I turned up an unpruned relic of the earlier version. That is… not German

Screenshot of a partial song playlist on a streaming service. The songs are nearly all in German with the exception of the highlighted track, which is “Félre az útból!” by Sub Bass Monster. That one is in Hungarian, aka “really very not German”

The other tracks are:
“Türlich, türlich (Live)”, Jan Delay
“Mit Dir”, both Live and Unplugged, Joy Denalane and Max Herre
“Fickt-Euch-Allee”, Grossstadtgeflüster
“Der Kommissar” and “Rock Me Amadeus”, Falco
“Augenbling”, Seeed

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· May 23

I found a royal softling sandwich earlier

A small grey tabby with white chin and eyeliner is curled into a lump on a dark grey blanket. She stares to the side with flat ears; tented above her head and draped across her back is a white comforter decorated with rows of cartoonish farm animals that some asshole has thoughtlessly peeled off her to get a picture instead of letting her snooze properly

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· May 14

Mnohaya lyeta! Many years!

A graphite drawing on a sheet of sketch paper in a wire-bound book. It is supposedly of the front half of a reclining sheep. Allegedly. If you squint at it

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· May 1

Champion. Hater

A page from "Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation" by William H. Gass. There are nearly a dozen separate translations of the same line listed from a Rilke poem. Not shown are the six others on the pages before and after, followed by the brutal takedown of why they all suck compared to the author's own. This man is a champion hater

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· May 1

A promotional photo of Duran Duran from 1986, the year “Notorious” was released. The image is black and white, and in it three young white men with teased and feathered hair are wearing white button-down shirts and black jackets while attempting to smolder at the camera

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Apr 23

I've now spotted this little jumping spider on different days, so it seems this is her regular patch. I've dubbed her Sister Spinnster, and we're friends now, it's the rules

A small black jumping spider with white banding on her legs and iridescent green eyes perches on a terra cotta pot. She is the size of a dime and very pretty

Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente· Apr 19

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