Weekly, March 28, 2026: TV reactions, links, "Defy the Gods," and Anne Lister Ballet
Kuliana to the sorcerer:
Make me a woman.
Give her eyes like stars. Cheeks like glowing apples, lips like figs, breasts like two dancing gazelles, hips like a bowl full of wine. Give her a voice like a songbird. Place wings on her feet that she may dance with gladness.
Replied the sorcerer—not without sympathy:
I will make you a woman. But my art has no neat channels. It floods. Here is what I foresee:
You will have eyes like a branch lit at both ends. Cheeks like heated bronze, lips like an open wound, breasts like two halves of an onion, and hips like a chariot full of salt. You will have a voice like a thunderclap.
And after, I will place a sword in your hands, that you may know no peace nor captivity.
from The Epic of Kuliana (fragment 1)
-- from Defy The Gods ttrpg
- 2026 book releases for trans visibility month
- Trailer for ballet about lesbian diarist Anne Lister (1791 - 1840), who often went by the name "Gentleman Jack."
- Documentation on how to add react to a mixed-framework project.
- Article about bathroom policing
- Article suggesting that neurodiversity week should include acquired conditions
- Recycling bourbon waste into capacitors
TV Quick Takes
- Scarpetta: Middling dysfunctional detective mystery held together by a lesbian/ai relationship, Jamie Lee Curtis doing full chaos goblin mom, and a series of implausibly fashionable vests for the title character. Frustrating season 1 ending.
- Monarch: Multigenerational polycule drama with kaiju. Many problems could be fixed if characters talked to each other, but what's the fun in that?
- Ted Lasso, season 3: No Ned, No!
- Deadloch, season 2: Educational, already learned a dozen new profanities. And "dickbum, dickbum, dickbum."