Been thinking about treating myself to a nice pen, but I don't know what to get. #Pen enthusiasts of Mastodon, any #recommendations? I think I'm not ready for a full on fountain pen, but I do like really smooth roller ball pens.
I'm looking for #song#recommendations for my company's #karaoke night in a few weeks. I've already decided that, while it would be fun, I'm not going to perform WAP. I'd like to try to get the DJ to help me do Never Gonna Give You Up without announcing it first.
What would you sing, if you were a middle aged white guy with no sense of embarrassment?
Hey Mastodon, do you run, write for, or love a blog/website that is dedicated to discussing music finds, new and old?
If so, we'd love to add it to the Links page of our 1001 Other Albums blog. If you want to share with the class, drop your link below! Sites in any language are welcome, and can also include music archives/databases, podcasts, YouTube channels, and online radio shows. :ablobjam:
For those interested #Professor#RobIliffe has an excellent book on Newton's theological writings entitled 'Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton'.
Bernardine Evaristo picks Fire Rush, Damon Galgut goes for Winnie and Nelson, while Anna Katharina Schaffner opts for Coffee and Cigarettes. Some excellent choices in @thetls#books of the year.
My spouse is having shoulder replacement surgery and facing a long recovery over the dark winter. I thought it might be fun to learn how to play some kind of game together - a #BoardGame, or #VideoGame, even role-playing like D & D...maybe?
We've never done anything other than a few board games. I'd like it to be fun for two people (or more), relatively easy to get the hang of, and for video games, no gun violence.
Are there any good "feminist" #anime out there? It doesn't necessarily have to have overt philosophically #feminist themes (but it def can), just anime that have well-written, well-rounded leading women characters.
A lot of the anime I consume has mostly hypersexualized women characters (I don't go out of my way for that, it seems like it's just kind of a staple of the medium). For instance, I really like shonens, but they can be super fan-servicey. I'd like to shake that up.
I know there are some great Miyazaki characters, but other than that, I'm not aware of many others. #Recommendations are very welcome.
I have been trying to find something to read, but nothing is standing out to me. I guess I am in a slump of some sort. Any recommendations are welcome. I read just about anything, but very little fantasy. I enjoy nonfiction especially nature or social justice focused. I love middle grade books and some YA. So throw anything at me and maybe I will find something to get me out of this slump.
Twitter interactions are mostly intra-fandom and Discord/Reddit really drill down on their niches. I just want one place to get all my genres.
Plus as a person who listens to a lot of #postpunk / #darkwave, gothy spaces online devolve to "that's not #goth, let's define goth for the nth time" or people posting fits instead of music 💀