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niqaeli torres, child of disaster

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herein you will find: a plexiglass 4th wall, whining, cats, fannishness, occasional intersectional social commentary. she/they. blocks for bad vibes and fuckshittery. 0.00000015% of a Hugo Award Winner.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · Jan 21

this disaster is terrible
and we may not survive it
our descendants may not survive it

but we are children of disaster
the ones that made us and the ones that nearly unmade us but did not

so we might

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 4h

when the fuck *did* the fucking prescriptivists get their hands on merriam-webster’s social media account, and how do we pry it back out of their condescending, racist, classist hands

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7h

Not to be THAT dictionary, but…

It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 6h

even if you only did the CT that turned up that finding in the first place BECAUSE THE PATIENT HAS FUCKED UP CRANIAL CARDIOVASCULAR SYMPTOMS, ahem, I’m not enraged at all or anything, not in the slightest. *cough*

niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 6h

but, see, there’s OTHER veins in the head and lots of people have partial occlusion of these specific veins without symptoms because those other veins drain enough, so *obviously* cranial venous insufficiency isn’t a real problem, it’s an incidental finding

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 6h

my wrists would not let me use that as a weapon. steel folding chair or my emotional support crowbar for me.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

Yeah, that. If you could trust it logged only to your private devices and nothing would get get hijacked into a botnet as a poorly secured IoT device, this could actually be an incredible health tool. It makes me so angry how much cool stuff technology *could* do has been ruined by these fucks.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

that is sure a series of words I just read.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

what

niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 2d

right?? like. if you're masking in 2025, how are you still doing so badly. you could just not bother and no one would blink! why? mask badly??

niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 2d

we had an AMAZING photographer!! but also, yeah, we were fucking adorable at our wedding. maybe for our 20th anniversary I'll actually get around to putting the scrapbook album together, lol

niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 2d

also, also:

happy anniversary to meeee (and Spouse! but he's not on bsky so I can't tag him)

we cleaned up real good.

a man in a formal tux jacket is looking up in delight at and holding the hand of a woman sitting up on a boulder slightly above him and wearing a green and black renfaire outfit who is also smiling widely at the camera. the out-of-focus backdrop behind them is that of northern arizona trees in autumn.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 2d

hilariously @jmtorres.bsky.social herself is actually not in residence atm, only their spouse; I dragged my Spouse out here to at least get the hell out of Phoenix for our anniversary and so he could see echan, since a proper birthday celebration for me wasn't in the cards this month.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 2d

it is glorious out here today at chez @jmtorres.bsky.social

a view of a wooden deck looking out onto a gloriously sunny yard in the san jacinto mountains

a screenshot of iOS weather app for an area with the specific location blacked out. the current temp shown for saturday 10/18 is 68F, with the rest of the week predicted for 69F (nice), 70F, 70F, and 70F

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 2d

the goodest of girls! <3

niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 2d

I mean, I don’t judge—my musical taste is eclectic as fuck, too—but it was some serious tonal whiplash! The least jarring transition of the lot was the jazz to the modern trance/dubstep, and… hoo boy, when that’s the *least* jarring transition, oof-da.

niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 2d

asking because I have the most blanket of blanket permission statements granting all the permissions, and I STILL had to add an additional paragraph to it years ago because people kept asking if they could use/discuss certain fanworks in academic settings (yes, yes you can), so I... dunno anymore!

niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 2d

other fanbinders: do you worry about whether fanbinding is fine, if the person whose work you want to bind has a public blanket permission statement that is as permissive as they could figure out how to communicate??? (niqaeli.dreamwidth.org/332593.html, for context)

niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 2d

okay, I'm sitting here trying to decide if I need to address these issues re: fanbinding specifically, the way I had to address academic use/engagement very specifically in my transformative works statement?? I threw fanbinding into the list of various types of fanworks I could think of in it, but…

niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 2d

Oh, I am so glad you were able to get the meds you need from the ER! and yay flu shot as a nice bonus for all the other hassle.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 2d

I dunno Zelenskyy following Volodymyr was possible to predict, I think. After that second word, though… yeah not a one.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 2d

after that: modern trance/dubstep, and now US folk/country. like, if this were just random on a large library I would expect LESS whiplash between every song’s genre.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 2d

I would like to know who the hell put the music mix together that has gone from hard rap, to soprano opera, to amy winehouse, to fuckin’ jazz. in the course of four songs. I have musical whiplash.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 2d

They mostly will kill you out of utter indifference! But you’re still dead, whether it’s indifference or malice. And you really, *really* don’t want to annoy them; they play with their food when they get annoyed. The 8k mountains all generally kill you quick, even the malicious ones.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 3d

for a second scrolling through my feed I mistook this for @ravensnpennies.com's Nimbus, who is a very canny, smart orange boy; Galileo definitely gives similar vibes in this photo!

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 3d

The Land Reclamation of the Boob Swamp. The Extinguishment of The Sweat.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 3d

what happens when you annoy them? allow me to introduce you to the entire genre of Appalachian folklore-based horror.

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