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I would name my child Fatalitee.

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I don’t know that I would consider this high quality but I have found some scents from Lush that I really like.

I’ve enjoyed the MAC cosmetics I’ve tried, e.g. tinted lip balm.

For mascara “Better Than Sex” from Too Faced is pretty popular and I’ve enjoyed it myself, but I have been using up some Mineral Fusion mascara forever.

As an aside, I never end up buying mascara for myself because my partner always buys too many to try and gives me their rejects, and I tend to be so economical that even once the mascara dries out, I keep rehydrating it with sterile saline and so a single tube lasts me forever 😅

So admittedly my makeup needs are pretty minimal - I would actually love to have more time to do makeup for fun, to explore new looks and refine existing ones and so on.

Looking forward to this week being over 😄

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way too many rainbow bangles to match your trainers?

thank you! 🤍

I think a suggestion mentioned in Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber was to use a terminal based browser like lynx and spend your time on the web, e.g. reading and editing wikipedia articles. Most passers-by won’t recognize the text on the screen as a browser and will think you’re working.

This is the book I’ve been reading during electrolysis sessions … and I’ll never know if that’s the reason I hate this book or not.

that sounds about right 😄

maybe add a straw boat hat

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that makes sense, I just had to share on the improbability that you didn’t already know 😅

and that’s awesome - I’m so jealous, I would have loved to have taken a topology course let alone a graduate level topology course 😭

I do remember Spivak’s writing being poor pedagogy but succinct and elegant, it does seem like some kinds of mathematicians are like this but it’s inaccessible and leaves too much work for the reader, esp. students. I always felt like an outsider that way in math, like my brain just didn’t work the way everyone else’s did. I really enjoyed Morris Kline’s Mathematics for the Nonmathematician, placing math in its larger humanistic context was really compelling and I found it made me much more invested in learning and understanding the math.

And Paul Lockhart’s Mathematician’s Lament, Measurement, and Arithmetic have radically changed the way I view and interact with mathematics and has been really helpful for me.

Misogyny is rather common unfortunately (I mentioned in another comment reading Bukowski who is almost proudly misogynistic), but I’ve read American Psycho (one of the few books I really don’t think I should have read) and probably too much of de Sade’s The 120 Days of Sodom, so let’s just say my brain is probably rotted enough for anything at this point.

I did start Dick’s Man in the High Castle and while I really want to like Philip K. Dick because he fits my interests thematically, I’ve never been able to get into any of his writing (so far anyway), so I probably do need a little encouragement - I’ve long wanted to read Ubik, thank you.

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oo, thanks! I’ll definitely add it to my list 📝

I started just reading whatever books were showing up when watching episodes of Lost, I remember Turn of the Screw was one of the books Desmond Hume was reading in the bunker, along with The Third Policeman. The latter book reminds me of Pynchon and other postmodern literature, it’s quite surreal and I quite enjoy the way that book is simultaneously extremely detailed and realistic but entirely fantastical, as if describing a new impossible physics through mundane experiences in a radically different world (all while capturing kind of psychological realism that simulates psychosis or something). Anyway, I like books like that.

EDIT: oh oh oh, btw I love your username and I feel compelled to share in case you happen to not already know, the person who popularized Spivak pronouns was a mathematician emself who wrote an excellent text on calculus.

I like a pretty broad range, tbh - it’s hard to predict what I’ll like or capture my interests.

I guess I mostly enjoy:

• horror (e.g. House of Leaves, Tender is the Flesh)
• sci fi (Asimov, Ted Chiang, Octavia Butler),
• cozy reads (All Creatures Great and Small, The House in the Cerulean Sea),
• literature …

Trying to rack my brain I’m realizing I haven’t really read much fiction until recently, I usually just read non-fiction books on a topic I’m obsessing over. A lot of the fiction I have read in the past tends to have some kind of connection to something important to me. I often feel guilty when I read fiction, like I’m wasting my time or being indulgent.

All that said, I’m pretty open and want to try new things, so I’d be happy with just trying out what you like to read and seeing how it goes.

I love Reductress, lol - good rec!

ah, that’s a good question but I’m not sure how to answer - I just finished China Miéville’s The City and the City which was great (he’s a great writer, I had previously enjoyed October), weird lit in general is good but I’m not a fan of VanderMeer.

Other recent reads:

• Bunny, by Mona Awad, which was strangely impactful and sticks in my mind but isn’t a book I would recommend necessarily, nor did I particularly enjoy or think was well written (or maybe I just didn’t enjoy the style?)
• Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh, which was very well written and was all-consuming but not enjoyable necessarily - I loved this book, I hated this book, this book was like rotting in the best way.
• Little Fish by Casey Plett, a trans novel - I’ll read pretty much any trans novel, but this one was good, sometimes I felt like I needed to read Casey Plett like I needed to breathe oxygen, it’s really hard to describe that feeling but her writing captures a lot of mundane trans moments that made me feel less monstrous in my existence
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, which was a wonderful book (rather short, though)
• The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper, I admittedly only read this book for personal reasons related to my past - Tepper’s perspective comes across as horribly homophobic, transphobic, and eugenicist … but for someone like me who grew up with strongly opinionated (even if problematic) women in their lives, this book helped me revisit and process some of that past.
• Post Office by Charles Bukowski, the misogyny aside, I enjoyed reading the entirety of a book complaining about bureaucracy while sitting for several hours waiting for an opening at the DMV to renew my driver’s license.

Books on my list to read sometime:

• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• I need to finish reading The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien
• was thinking about trying out China Miéville’s Embassytown once The City and the City has aged in my mind to the point where his voice becomes a novelty again and it’s like reading him for the first time
• I keep hearing Han Kang’s The Vegetarian coming up in relationship to Bunny so I thought I might try it out sometime, but I might need more time away from Bunny first
• likewise with more time passed I want to read anything else Ottessa Moshfegh has written
• I started reading Samantha Harvey’s Orbital - that might actually make a decent audiobook read, I just didn’t ever feel particularly motivated to stick with it to the end.
• I keep starting and stopping Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built, probably another good audiobook option I should revisit
• I started an audiobook of Orlando by Virginia Wolf, and while I have aspirations to stick with these things, it feels like the book has to come at the right time and this just isn’t the right time

In particular audiobooks I’m looking to listen to during recovery:

• The Outsider by Stephen King
• Fairy Tale by Stephen King
• Replay by Ken Grimwood
• Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman
• Jodi Taylor’s St Mary’s Chronicles
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Armor Towles
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë