who only by moving can balance

1. Tumblr, as you may be aware, makes the convincing and thorough case for black Hermione Granger. Jewish Hermione headcanon just crossed my dash. Consequently I have abruptly acquired the unshakeable conviction that Hermione is an Ethiopian Jew.

2. On a related note, since people are apparently occasionally surprised by this, I reiterate that my main tumblr is 100% a space for stuff that will make me smile (or cry in good ways) when I look back through it. That is the entire purpose. If small iridescent blue squid are your jam, and you don't object to occasional botany and frequent mineralogy spam, there's a thing. (I have been looking back at my tumblr archive a fair amount over the past week.)

3. Passing cissexism with a happy ending: I had an absolutely charming interaction at the front gates to Kew today. I handed over my membership card. "Um, is this the right one? It says 'Mr'..." said the staff member. "YES IT IS," I said, gearing up for a fight, "KEW DOES NOT PROVIDE MY ACTUAL TITLE AND IT'S THE LEAST WRONG ONE, HERE ARE ALL MY OTHER CARDS WITH MY NAME ON." "WHAT IS YOUR ACTUAL TITLE," he said. "MX," I said. "WELL LET'S REISSUE YOUR CARD WITH THAT ON, THEN," he said. "... I tried during sign-up but like it's one of those things where y'all list like His Royal Highness but not anything actually gender-neutral," I said. "Oh my god," he said, "I know, and Lord Admiral, and I actually brought this up in a meeting but nobody got it, I didn't actually think to point out that we offer KING and so it's super transphobic not to offer Mx but that's an excellent point." "... so I should write in to complain if the new card doesn't have my correct title on?" "IF YOU CAN THAT WOULD BE AMAZING," he said, "BUT I WILL GET OFF MY LIBERAL HIGH HORSE NOW." "I AM RIGHT THERE WITH YOU AND IT IS FANTASTIC TO KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE ONSIDE IF I WRITE IN." It was very cheering. Like, his immediate response was very clearly "oh SHIT I am SO SORRY for misgendering you hOW CAN I FIX THIS" and it was Very Affirming.

4. I accidentally two kilos of parsnips for eighteen p sorry me_and your fridge is full of parsnips

5. I wrote in to Clue with a bug report and a PS of gratitude for the fact that the innards of the app are incredibly consistently gender-neutral and competent, because genderqueer + endometriosis, and got back a message saying "thanks for the bug report, I'm punting it to dev, I'M GENDERQUEER TOO :D :D :D :D and are there any features that would help you with endometriosis management? we're thinking about what else we can implement!" So that was a lovely experience of customer service, too.

6. I rewatched Captain America: The First Avenger this evening, and I picked up some more bits I could tell I'd missed from ybeb, and it is nice to have that a bit more solid (also wow I'd... really not have got on with these films terribly well if I hadn't had ybeb as a lens).

7. I have mostly learned the words for the gig I'm performing next week.

8. Finger splints and increased NSAID really do seem to be bringing my background pain down some.

9. Duolingo is still hitting easy-measurable-success buttons (I'm currently using it to drill gender of German nouns, and the forms of the second person I'm crap at because heritage speaker), and is leading to me learning all sorts of weird North German words. It is a fascinating cultural experience.

10. I am managing a degree of self-awareness and coping-strategy-application, and this is in fact a good thing much as I would prefer to have enough grip in the first place to not need it.