[linkspam] My nipples are essentially indistinguishable from an extremely disgruntled turtle

[kaberett]

That is, they are presumably in there somewhere, but they have Retreated Into Their Shell and are Not Coming Out.

Meanwhile, in another part of the forest:

• Karen Armstrong on the myth of religious violence (circa 2014)
  
• A camel through the eye of a needle, and other wild tales of translation
  
• Mount Taranaki (Aotearoa) has been granted 'living person' status
  
• Brutalist cuckoo clocks ("Cuckoo Blocks")
  
• Book and the Dragon: a tiny nine-page comic about queers and libraries and dragons (silveradept, I thought particularly of you)

Comments

[vass]

Extremely disgruntled?

That Stant Litore article is amazing. "When you translate radical or subversive texts into the language of Empire, you eventually get Imperial texts." !!!!!

The first link you have there for brutalist cuckoo clocks goes to a series of portraits by Yannis Davy Guibinga.

[kaberett]

BAHAHAHAHA.

I am glad you enjoyed the Stant Litore. :D It starts out as brilliant one-word-translation lulz and ends up even better. I am seriously considering buying some of the dude's books even though he does appear to be a ~straight white guy.

... I think what happened there was my laptop did the thing it sometimes does of misinterpreting simultaneous keyboard + touchpad input (it's SUPPOSED TO DISABLE THE TOUCHPAD, I just clearly poke around in settings some more, but urgh) and had deleted everything but the very beginning of the entry slug. Which apparently landed somewhere quite other than a 404, and I'm a bit baffled.