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Drinking from Mnemosyne 🌹 she, mx., nonbinary, woman; philosopher queen; trying to learn myself @hypatian@eldritch.cafe. Account CN: food.

A book titled "Where We Stand, Where We Fall: the politics of Doctor Who", by lizbeth myles
A table set up with the Nemesis board game. Most of the ship has been discovered. The photo is from the position of the Captain, who has lost the use of both arms. There is noise everywhere. Numerous alien bodies are scattered around. Part of the ship is on fire. One alien is fighting the Scientist while the Captain is in the next room (the airlock control). The Pilot is on her own on the other side of the ship. There are five rounds left before the ship goes to warp.
A giant inflatable swan with "Boston Legacy FC" on its side, outside Centreville Bank Stadium.
Sunny day view out from the seats towards a soccer pitch, with players warming up and groundskeepers wetting the pitch.
Atari 800XL computer and Atari 1010 cassette tape drive, with power supplies and ca lea for both. Sotting on top of the computer is an Atari Music Composer cartridge.
A black cat lying on a bed in shrimp pose.
An unhappy-looking Scottish person wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses in bright sunlight walking down a wide roadway. Automatic captions read "... that we took from the airport to the hotel, but ... I don't really think Miami is designed for walking. ... Very much designed ..."
An iPhone and an iPad, each showing a different World Cup game at the same time. The devices are on a lap of a person in the rear seat of a car.
A scene from the movie "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night". The Girl stands on a sidewalk lit at night by the harsh glare of bright streetlights.
Me in a gaucho hat with random other people in the background in a park.
A tattered mass-market paperback copy of Jane Yolen's "Dragon's Blood", with library tape on the spine.
A close up image of a friendly black cat loafing on some cloth which apparently covers the writer's arm. In the background are a white ceiling and blue walls and bookcases full of books and topped with stuffed animals, boxed gunpla, and other random items.
Three mass-market paperback novels side by side on a black background, all by C.J. Cherryh. From left to right: "Gate of Ivrel", "Well of Shiuan", and "Fires of Azeroth". The three are obviously connected, as the cover art for each shows a sword-and-sorcery style white-haired woman with a white cape and a sword and a young man as a retainer. Over the course of the three covers their clothing and equipment becomes slightly more practical.
Aldus Digital Darkroom 2.01 icon from an early 90s Apple Macintosh running System 7.
View from the mid-front towards the rear of a bus full of people wearing Rhode Island FC kit. Your correspondent faces the camera on one side in 2025 RIFC amber kit while her friend (who is wearing Defiance 1636 kit) laughs at something off-camera to the right of the viewer.
Black and white still from the classic Doctor Who story "The Web of Fear" (1968). In the foreground, a young woman with short hair is speaking. She is wearing a plain dress and holding a tool while looking down at a work area. Behind, a pair of men in military uniforms are standing. The one on the right is looking towards the woman scientist with a slight smirk.
The cover of Port Eternity by C.J. Cherryh. Two men stand next to each other (or the same man?) one in a space suit, the other in shining armor, both with appropriate helmets. In the background is a castle with its base in a bank of clouds.
A few shelves of mass-market paperback books, dominated by C.J. Cherryh
View from a second floor nook at the Providence Athenæum, showing more nooks amidst the stacks across the way, and a view down to the first floor. The shelves have busts at their ends. The library is fancy.
A Korean food critic speaking on a TV show saying "Tofu hell isn't a place where you can easily survive."
Two cats atop a platform on a radiator. The left, a tortoiseshell, is in a ridiculous twisted pose on her back. The right, a black cat, is resting his head on her butt. They both look sleepy and relaxed.
Four panels showing players from both teams standing still at the start of a game. We are united. Tonight, we kicked off the 2026 USL Championship season with a moment of stillness.
Three by three grid containing across each row: Elite Beat Agents Star Wars Galaxies Ultima IV Final Fantasy Tactics Left 4 Dead World of Warcraft Icewind Dale APB: All Points Bulletin Unreal Tournament 2004
A Mothra plushie held in one hand in front of a door.
A black cat (Nip) sitting on top of my left arm as I am lying on my side and trying to take this photo with my other hand.
Cover of Throwing Muses, "University".
Cover of the Siouxsie &The Banshees album "The Rapture". Siouxsie's face with dark grey eyeshadow, deep red lipstick, and purple-black hair against a textured purple background.
A tortie loaf looking very judgmental back.
A blue plate with two sad looking pieces of fried fish and a handful of tortilla chips.
Close look at a poorly mended piece of clothing, with two distinct woven patches, one of which is wretched and the other of which is starting to become passable.
Still from the Third Doctor TV story "The Green Death", featuring from right to left Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, the Doctor, Jo Grant, and Professor Clifford Jones all in front of the brick wall of some sort of industrial building.
A scene from the movie "Pompoko" where it is snowing as seven tanuki are sitting on a porch singing, with one playing a guitar.
An otherwise normal video game character from the game Where Winds Meet... with a giant mahjong 1-bamboo tile for a head
Close up of the face of Nip the black cat who is sitting on my chest like an insomnia demon.
A big pot of ham and bean soup in progress.
A distinguished looking black cat sits atop a red blanket under which there is obviously a pair of legs. His paws are folded over each other. He is looking suavely into the camera.
Character in the game APB: Reloaded wearing a dark blue dress with orange accents around the hem, cuffs, and collar. She wears matching flat shoes and thigh-high stockings. On the back of the dress is the badge of Rhode Island FC.
A pita sort of food thing filled with cheese, thick turkey aloces, cranberry sauce, and stuffing. A hand holds a hot sauce bottle labeled "Bird's Blood" containing a thick dark red-purple liquid.
Cover of "The Luminous Fairies and Mothra" (the original story), by Shinichiro Nakamura, Takehiko Fukunaga, and Yoshie Hotta, translated by Jeffrey Angles.
The cover of C.J. Cherryh's _Gate of Ivrel_. A baby blue sky in the background with a pale yellow sun. A woman (Morgaine) stands triumphant with a sword barely unsheathed in both hands above her head, a white cape fluttering off her shoulders. She wears sword-and-sorcery bikini top, loincloth, and boots. Her hair is white. Behind her is a door-like structure in which swirls inky blackness. Before her, facing away from her, a man (Nhi Vanye i Chya) kneels with an unsheathed sword point-first against the hard ground. He is likewise barely clothed in sword-and-sorcery style.
A still from "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night". A black and white image of a young person at night in a dramatic cape and striped top, with low suburban buildings an harsh nighttime streetlights in the background.
Eight images from the movie "Stalker): people on a rail handcar, a dog investigating a person lying on his side in a swamp, a person in a black coat walking through a surreal interior with a hummocked floor, people in the lit opening of a warehouse(?) in the rain, people walking beside a river with a dig with a powerplant on the far side, a person wearing a head-scarf looking sidelong towards a few glasses on top of a marble counter.
A black cat lounges on top of a platform on top of a radiator, while a tortie sits by the base of the radiator.
A large crowd of people in various Rhode Island Football Club gear jumping around and cheering.
A game of riichi mahjong after revealing the winning hand, with tiles laid out to explain scoring to a newer player.
Black cat absolutely snoozing it up in a sunbeam on top of a burgundy blanket.
Cover of blu-ray case for disc 1 of "Gacha Boxx: Gacharic Spin × Doll$boxx Zepp Tour 2024-2025", showing Gacharic Spin on stage.
Chip the harbor seal, RIFC's mascot, getting up out of a folding chair at the watch party.
A greenscreen CRT display showing text from ADVENT. Although probably a later version.
Celebration in the stadium after a goal. Scarves up in the foreground. Yellow and blue smoke rise from the supporter section behind the Tampa Bay goal.
Defiance 1636 hoisting their tifo before the game starts. "Psycho Killer Siempre Fiel."
Bix Caleen, the girlfriend of Cassian Andor from the TV show "Andor", with a welding mask flipped up, looking off-screen to the right of the viewpoint.
Some daisies and a couple of bees.
A table set up to play three-player riichi mahjong.
Two cats stare towards the camera. One is a black cat the other is a tortoiseshell. They are on a bed. There are bookcases in the background.
A band on stage performing under white lights. The band consists of a drummer, bassist, guitarist, and vocalist.
A band performing on-stage under putple lighting. The band consists of a guitarist, a bassist, and a drummer.
your correspondent, wearing a mask, lit by a bright nearby light
Two teams face each other just before the start of a soccer match. The lighted display reads "Anchors Up".