i think they missed a trick, which i also missed until i thought they were gonna say it: severian being initially unrecognizable to palaemon is also jesus being unrecognizable to the apostles after the resurrection

Data and Geordi LaForge dressed like Holmes and Watson, TNG "Elementary, Dear Data"

Beverly Crusher getting it on with a sex ghost in an old-fashioned house, TNG "Sub Rosa"

catching up on shelved by genre, circling back to guasacht's irregulars feeling like a gang of guys from berserk or vinland saga: daria definitely feels like a type of casca

i think i need to jot down some thoughts between now and starting urth so i have a record of what i thought was being signaled here

another divine year, another kalpa, another turn of the wheel of ka.
or is the first severian from this same world, would we say? apu punchau is severian, and ouen is a severian who is not severian, and little severian is a not severian who is severian.

interesting how citadel doesn't really address going from being 2 to being 100+ with much more than "eh you get used to it." i don't think that's a wrong approach, i just expected wolfe to do a little more with that.
although "most of these dudes were second-rate philosophers" is a pretty good bit.

how similar is the selection of a librarian to the selection of an autarch?

rewatching twin peaks to show it to my girlfriend and sometimes we don't watch one for a week or two
and then i get jumpscared every time maddy shows up because i forget she's in the show

curious what ana thinks about another 1981 prog rock album, king crimson's 'discipline'
i could also see that being part of the "identity crisis" but it certainly doesn't fall into being a "standard rock album"

happy birthday KTP!

saturn #heavenwillbemine

Hey fyi way too many, even leftists who should know better, effusively praising the papacy is making it way, way more difficult to organize against this.

This trans healthcare ban is literally going to cost trans people's lives but yeah, woke pope made a statement or whatever.

"how many headmates are you introjecting per day"
"like maybe 5 or 6 right now my dude"
"you are like a little baby" *upending blue phial and readying weird knife* "watch this"

vodalus' aspect warriors to the rescue

the autarch and his squad of anthro cat women

"we are the thing itself, the self-ruler"
the self-ruler? the *self*-ruler?

oh come on the new infantry formation that just joined them is ratlings and ogryn

in popular accounting of the influences of 40k i feel like this never comes up, but it's In There. all this sword and armor and laser field gun bullshit (positive)

some fucking Living Saints from 40k dropped in

a prototypical gambino or askeladd, this guasacht feels like

the eighteenth bacele? why that's one more than the council of seventeen!

master ash feels a little like he came out of The Witcher, come to think of it. snowball earth...

branching timelines that cannot be descended, versus he who still calls himself severian "but am conscious, as it were, of my double root."
a person can come from two (or more?) pasts, but a future can't?

interesting inversion on the time travel paradox: you cannot visit the past beyond when it becomes impossible that that past yielded your future
severian interprets the green man exactly wrong, his presence precludes ash.
on the other hand, perhaps the green man could no longer exist in saltus

STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - “In dark times, should the stars also go out?”

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

Thank you to It Could Happen Here and @miawong.bsky.social for talking to TNN's @davidforbes.bsky.social about this important issue.

The Catholic Church's horrific trans healthcare ban threatens trans people around the country. It's an injustice that needs *a lot* more attention.

this would have gotten my ass in late 2020, she just thought it would be "safe"

Lyra you were so kind, and so loved. You deserved so much more. I will miss you, friend. Thank you, for the joy of knowing you. Rest well.

For my friend.