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keri

@keristars.bsky.social

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I love museums and history. ★ bed-tethered disabled! AuDHD, POTS, MCAS, and ME/CFS. ★🧑‍🦽★ I miss traveling and being in nature and sewing. location: Jacksonville, Florida (agender ace ey/em/eir)

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laura @lauraillustrates.bsky.social · 3h

a small break

illustration of a white sheep eating tea and cookies. the sheep has roses and ribbons by her ears. the cookies are reminiscent of danish butter cookies and the kettle is yellow and patterned with roses. the sheep holds a pink coffee mug and one of the cookies.

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, i have a summer duvet (thin, polyester) and a winter one (thick, feather). Just the cover or a sheet isn't enough for me. I have to keep my neck and head cold, but my core and legs shiver. (it makes no sense: if I'm not freezing, it's too warm 🤷)

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 13h

it's a very confused keri with cold feets, trying to reduce a/c usage when possible and still baby the dysautonomic temperature dysregulation.

i might pull out the feather duvet soon, but I'm worried it will be *too* heat trappy ?

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 13h

it's 65°F outside tonight, so i was like "very cool, i can up my thermostat to 68° and still be cool in bed" but i was wrong!!

it's so much colder in here than I'm used to since reducing the amount of bedding i use, but i guess inside warms up more than outside if I'm not maintaining it??

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 13h

i am eliding the antisemitism and islamophobia because i don't really know what to do with it. i think Champney considered herself progressive and not particularly bigoted?? and yet.

We start learning about the Baumgartners, Bird's family, on page 44 if for some reason you are curious to see.

Three Vassar girls in the Holy land : Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Maps on lining papers

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 13h

it's a bit, hmm, weird? to be reading all these descriptions of "actual places in the Bible!!" when we know that much of the ancient stories are just that. 1892!

also the way i cringed when they so casually climbed one of the pyramids and were given chisels!

(Three Vassar Girls in the Holy Land)

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 13h

i need to learn to make more than just onion soup, but I'm half afraid any other kinds won't be the same 😂

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 15h

my house smells really good, though. probably anyone else walking in would think "ew, onion!" but i can pick up the bits of nutmeg, too. for whatever reason, the scent renews or gets stronger when i leave the bathroom. i guess because of the layout/air circulation patterns?

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 15h

oh no the worst part of SoupTime has come: waking up in the middle of the night to pee

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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 18h

sooooouppppp

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 18h

yes!

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 19h

I didn't know that Ivar "torture the queer and autism out of them" Lovaas, the monster who invented conversion "therapy"/ABA, was also a literal Nazi, but this is the least surprising fact ever.

H.S. Kallinger (he/they) @xakana.bsky.social · 19h

"Lovaas was a member of the NS Youth League, patterned after the Hitler Youth and named after the Norwegian Hirden paramilitary organization... Both he and his father are listed in Norway's "National Treason" files documenting Nazi collaboration."

He also said the Nazis inspired him to behaviorism.

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 19h

there's discussion of whether miracles exist, could happen. why did God choose me (to suffer, to be healed)?

That they actually got permission from the church to film at Lourdes!

it's not exactly a happy movie. it's contemplative. it doesn't answer it Christine experiences a miracle or not.

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 19h

but i also feel better for having watched Lourdes again. It does lend itself well to re-watching! So much is communicated through body language and in the background of shots.

all the religious ritual, the occasional Ave Maria in the soundtrack. I don't know how to express what in me grabs onto it.

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 20h

like, mentally/emotionally better, lol, not physically (i wish!!)

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 20h

it really is incredible to me how every time I'm feeling less than great and have SoupTime, I start feeling so much better. Is it dopamine from *doing* something, or is soup just that magical.

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 21h

Lourdes on Letterboxd boxd.it/108q

i love it so much 😭💖💕

In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 23h

Strike a pose (Common Grackle) #birds 🌿

Iridescent black bird with bright blue neck and head, yellow eye and pointy, downward curve beak. Bird is perched on the edge of a concrete bird bath with beak pointed skyward. Background is soft focus green and pink.

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 21h

ahh noticed a line i think i missed before?? and the way it gets delivered and when. about the loneliness of disability/chronic illness.

i love this movie so much 😭

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 21h

i love this shot. It starts medium, then closes in on Christine. Something like 20-30 seconds total? and organ music, i can't remember the name, just that it is sacred music that gets used for halloween lol

A screenshot from the movie. It's a space with squat columns, extraordinarily fat ones. The camera is set up just behind a column so it blocks the left half of the screen. Christine sits in a plain wooden chair, pale blue jacket and red bucket cap. She's facing left and her legs are hidden by the column - she's almost hidden, too. Behind her and in the distance are more of the columns.

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 22h

I don't want to spoil the character arcs for anyone yet to see it, but the way the secondary and background characters are shown is great. and so much is done without dialogue, or only a few lines?

Sylvie Testud is really good. and Elina Löwensohn as Cécile!

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 22h

decided to watch during SoupTime. good choice, me. this time, I'm paying attention to the other pilgrims, not so much the central drama between Christine and Lea Seydoux's character.

There is a lot of different ways they relate to their illness/disabilities, how they react to Christine.

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 2d

idk why but somehow this week has me feeling like i need to watch LOURDES again.

i mean, i know why it has come to mind, but idk why the need to watch. (i love that movie so much, but I'm not really someone who rewatches things!)

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 1d

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

phys.org/news/2025-10...

A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 1d

in that half-waking state before my sleep, when my mind was wandering, i kept going back to ballet exercises at the barre. and my leg muscles kept twitching, trying to activate. probably every muscle at least once, and my toes, too. I'm sure, now, why my ballet dreams are so fatiguing. 😅

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 1d

what the heck how did 8am happen again?! who authorized it?!