Zoë Camille @zoec@deadinsi.de

An updated #introduction / #reintroduction.

My name is Zoë; I'm non-binary and genderfluid pansexual in my mid 30s.

By the day, I work in the books business. All day long, I'm hella . I love reading, writing letters, drawing stuff, taking photos of nature (especially plants and birds), and sometimes a bit of writing for fun. I identify as leftist, humanist, and anti-authoritarian. Spiritually, I follow the Unitarian Universalist way.

Currently, I'm being treated for depression and anxiety disorders. I use CWs liberally, and if you'd like me to CW my posts, please let me know.

I am trained in mathematics, physics, and astronomy. I love learning more about the world and its people.

All interactions are welcome, as long as we remain respectful towards each other as human beings, no more no less.

It's nice to meet ya!

It's rather fortunate for them that russian deserters are not (yet) flooding border passes such as Khabarovsk, Blagovishchensk, or Ussurysk ftm.

If they do, they'll be in a surprise how "welcome" they will end up with, possibly after a month or two. (For reasons that I totally disapprove of.)

During which time their new "friends" will be sweating over which of the two buttons to press on a daily basis.

When Anglos insist on "word count"... in pausa or fully sandhied?

When cats feel fulfilled they go pṝ, pṝpṝpṝ... pūryante

Now I'm tasked with the Augean job of finding the total sum of words I've translated, ever, while a large portion of the original documents have been missing.

This book (Devassia's modern epic, Kristubhāgavatam) is actually quite good for learning Sanskrit, because

- the language is dignified but not exceedingly ornate or obscure

- each verse is accompanied by prose translation in English, with further notes on cultural references

- the material (life of Jesus) is fairly well-known for those with some western cultural background

- the book is available from the Internet Archive

However,

- the typesetting quality isn't great, and on top of this, the defects of scanning add to the problems with legibility

I wish I could find a lgbtq-friendly local photographer who's willing to do gender-confirming photoshoots for me.

And I wish I weren't too broke to pay them.

I like how in this rendition the word for "angel" is "devadhūta" (deva-messenger, not a modern coinage), which happens to literally correspond to the Chinese 天使. In most Western languages the origin of the word "angel" (invariably derived from the Greek adopted by the LXX bible) simply means any messenger in general.

na jāne puruṣaṃ kaṃcit kathaṃ tatsaṃbhaviṣyati | 4.26 a, b

"I don't have-knowledge/experience-of (middle voice) any man; how should that be possible?"

business insultant

lol

mṛtir hi dāsyāt khalu mānināṃ varam || 1.14 c, d

"Because dying as a proud people is still preferable to servitude."

hahah I got it!