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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 19/09/2026

The comments, at least, seem to uniformly agree.

A comment from Bronson van Wyck:

Who can be surprised that a critic whose own book is humbly subtitled “How to Look at Art” is less than enthusiastic about an institution that pointedly rejects the idea that people need to be told how to look at art. The reviewer tells us more about his own insecurities than about the ostensible subject of his piece. The Lucas Museum is an incredible gift. Many of us are thrilled to see not only its contents, the diverse array of pieces interesting in and of themselves, but also to have a window into the perspective of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our age. The writer’s inability to find the joy in a project of epic beauty and scale, where high and low mix with seeming effortlessness, that allows us to see the common creative threads that connect us all, tells us that, indeed, this museum is not for him but instead for the other 99.99% of us who yearn for more not less access to art and less not more self-appointed gatekeepers.

Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 19/09/2026

Last night I ran into a term I hadn't seen before for an AAVE construction, "indignant 'come'", and spent a pleasant half-hour learning about other constructions I'd realized were there but hadn't realized were formal parts of the language.

15. Indignant <Come>

The Black English <come>, alongside being the verb equivalent to “come” in Mainstream American English, can be used to introduce information about which the speaker is indignant—close to morally offended. So, <yesterday, he come talmbout he rich now> means “yesterday, he said he’s rich now (and I’m not happy about it).” No motion is necessarily implied.

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 13/09/2026

From David Lee Roth's autobiography:

Van Halen was the first band to take huge productions into tertiary, third-level markets. We'd pull up with nine eighteen-wheeler trucks, full of gear, where the standard was three trucks, max. And there were many, many technical errors — whether it was the girders couldn't support the weight, or the flooring would sink in, or the doors weren't big enough to move the gear through.
The contract rider read like a version of the Chinese Yellow Pages because there was so much equipment, and so many human beings to make it function. So just as a little test, in the technical aspect of the rider, it would say "Article 148: There will be fifteen amperage voltage sockets at twenty-foot spaces, evenly, providing nineteen amperes ..." This kind of thing. And article number 126, in the middle of nowhere, was: "There will be no brown M&M's in the backstage area, upon pain of forfeiture of the show, with full compensation."
So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl ... well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you're going to arrive at a technical error. They didn't read the contract. Guaranteed you'd run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening.

The folks in Pueblo, Colorado, at the university, took the contract rather kinda casual. They had one of these new rubberized bouncy basketball floorings in their arena. They hadn't read the contract, and weren't sure, really, about the weight of this production; this thing weighed like the business end of a 747.
I came backstage. I found some brown M&M's, I went into full Shakespearean "What is this before me?" ... you know, with the skull in one hand ... and promptly trashed the dressing room. Dumped the buffet, kicked a hole in the door, twelve thousand dollars' worth of fun.
The staging sank through their floor. They didn't bother to look at the weight requirements or anything, and this sank through their new flooring and did eighty thousand dollars' worth of damage to the arena floor. The whole thing had to be replaced. It came out in the press that I discovered brown M&M's and did eighty-five thousand dollars' worth of damage to the backstage area.
Well, who am I to get in the way of a good rumor?

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 09/09/2026

RT with your home river I currently live in the Red Cedar watershed, but my home river will always be the Gunpowder Falls. This photo, from districtangling.com, was taken within a mile of the house I grew up in.

A man in fly-fishing gear stands in a shallow river (about up to his knees). The banks are grassy and lined with tall trees, although beyond him is a small dirt-and-pebble beach. At the top of the photo, a green-painted metal frame bridge crosses the river.

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 08/09/2026

Man, which wouldn't I? But if I had to choose... I'm torn between these two.

A Burmese python, with a pattern in various shades of brown, coiled on a field of grass and looking to the left

A giant Pacific octopus, striding confidently across a pebbly ocean floor, with one arm raised

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 29/08/2026

I can, indeed, do oubt. This is garbage for a number of reasons, but I have to give it credit: it is, at least, more readable than some human-designed flyers I've seen.

A flyer from October 2002 advertising the THUMP event in San Francisco at the DNA Lounge. It is a wild melange of, as jwz (whose site this was posted on) characterized it, "angry font salad".

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 09/08/2026

b.mino.mobi/palm/ I used to talk to people. Now I just shout into the void. ("you post like a scheduler", ouch.)

An orange-brown radar chart with six points: Cadence (how regularly do I post) (77), Vigil (do I usually post at the same times) (86), Lexicon (how narrow is my vocabulary; higher is narrower) (18), Polish (how well-crafted are my sentences) (92), Drift (how little has my posting changed over time) (79), Chorus (how much am I posting without replying or without getting replies) (95).

Below, text: 99: The Loom. Categorization: The Crier -- One voice, an enormous vocabulary, no reply expected.

Then my username (noelle.monster).

Then the text "you post like a scheduler. Prove you are alive."

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 31/07/2026

Richmond Lattimore's 1965 translation, in the 1975 edition. My first Iliad was the 1991 Penguin Classics edition of Fagles's translation, although I know Fagles better in the 1997 PC edition since it's what I had in college.

Cover of the Harper Colophon 1975 edition of Richmond Lattimore's translation of The Odyssey (titled "The Odyssey of Homer: A Modern Translation by Richmond Lattimore"). Gold text on a black background. The majority of the cover is a gold-and-black illustration of a man in a cape and crested helmet, holding a spear and looking over his shoulder as a rowed, single-masted ship passes in front of the sun in the background. The sea is represented by repeated wavy gold lines, the sky by a pink field.

The 1991 Penguin Classics edition of "Homer: The Iliad" translated by Robert Fagles. White text on a black background; the cover art is a bronze statue of a bronze age armored spearman. The spear is missing, but the helmet crest and shield are intact.

The 1997 edition of Fagles's Odyssey. The cover is gold and light blue, showing an ancient Greek depiction of a bearded man and a fish; by and large the text is black, but the title is white block letters on a metallic red background.

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 29/07/2026

I disagree with my result, my dot is way too far to the right

Two graphs labeled "Crazy Axis" (vertical, on the left) and "Hot Axis" horizontal, on the bottom. Both are scales from 1-10. On both graphs are colored areas: red (0-5 hot, 0-10 crazy) is the "no-go zone", lavender (roughly 0-1.5 crazy and 8-10 hot) is "unicorn", green (8-10 hot, 1.5-5 crazy) is "marriage". There's a diagonal line between regions from 5,5 to 10,10: an orange triangle at the top, toward the center, is "crazy zone"; a purple quadrilateral from 0-5 crazy on the left side, 0-7 crazy on the right side, and 5-8 hot is "fun zone", and a smaller blue quadrilateral from 5-8 crazy on the left side, 5-10 crazy on the right side, and 8-10 hot is the "date zone". The top graph has no labels but is overlaid with a grid. There's a black dot at about 7.5 crazy, 5.5 hot, near the lower left corner of the "crazy zone".

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 16/07/2026

I distracted him from grooming. I hope less sadness comes to you soon, Seanan.

A black cat with his tongue stuck out, lying on a purple bedsheet next to an orange duvet

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 07/05/2026

Okay, but -- do you see my vision? Quick and dirty, but...

The above image, edited so that the blouse is black and the scarf is gold.

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 13/04/2026

It's a fidget, yeah. An earlier iteration of this design had a bearing in the clip, and people would fidget with it; the designers just took it to the logical next step.

Five clicky gel pens, one each in green, blue, cream, pink, and grey. They're all a solid color except for a small metal band below the cap and a metal bearing in the clip.

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 11/04/2026

The happiness of living with a small animal who loves and trusts you and who thinks that beside you is the safest place they can be. I love you, Bioux.

A black cat photographed from above, lying down on a green bedsheet, with an orange comforter to one side and a cream-and-grey wedge pillow to the other.

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 07/04/2026

I kept seeing people with their copies of @chanda.blacksky.app 's new book and thinking "when will my copy of _The Edge of Space-Time_ come home from the war?" I can finally come down off the widow's walk, it just arrived!

A hardcover copy of "The Edge of Space-Time" by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, sitting on a pile of other books at the corner of my desk. You can also see the corner of my Hobonichi journal, a mermaid-themed composition book, and the ballot I have to complete and mail in. Also seen: a Micron pen and Statler mechanical pencil.

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 25/03/2026

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy ...actually I'm not sure if this counts as religious

"Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks", by Ilya Repin. From Wikipedia:

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks depicts a supposedly historical tableau, set in 1676, and based on the legend of Cossacks sending an insulting reply to an ultimatum from the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed IV. According to the story, the Zaporozhian Cossacks (from "beyond the rapids", Ukrainian: za porohamy), inhabiting the lands around the lower Dnieper River in Ukraine, had defeated Ottoman Empire forces in battle. However, despite his army having suffered this loss to them, Mehmed demanded that the Cossacks submit to Ottoman rule. The Cossacks, led by Ivan Sirko, replied in a characteristic manner: they wrote a letter, replete with insults and profanities. The painting exhibits the Cossacks' pleasure at striving to come up with ever more base vulgarities.

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 21/03/2026

Just ran across this Reddit post that reminded me of @diane.dianeduane.com and soup. www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...

Excerpt from a book, with the sentence starting "As a gift to myself" highlighted:

"9:00--By this time I'm usually in bed, reading a library book or watching a movie on my phone. As a gift to myself, I open a subscription to the Hallmark Channel so I can stream unlimited romances for $5.99 a month, and they're the perfect way to unwind at the end of the night. As I turn out the light and rest my head on the pillow, I revel in the comfort of happily ever after -- of families reunited and scoundrels sent packing, of treasures recovered and honor restored."

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 19/03/2026

Post an image and/or gif of who you wanted to be as a kid. (There ain't a gif for mine, so.)

The cover of Tamora Pierce's "The Woman Who Rides Like A Man" that I grew up with. A light-skinned woman with long red hair, wearing a white blouse, a billowing blue cape, loose blue trousers, and boots, with a sword at her hip and a black cat in her lap, riding a brown horse with brown-and-white mane and tail and white "socks". The horse is rearing slightly.

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 11/03/2026

Not as good as Dana's, but still respectable, I think. www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/

Your Delta E(OK) JND - which means "Just Noticeable Difference" for the Oklab color indexing scheme.

0.0052

Very nice. Comfortably below the 0.02 JND that the colour science people say is the limit. You'd make an excellent paint-chip inspector. Is that a job? It should be.

A pair of buttons; one reads "Share result", the other "Again. I can do better."

A link reading "Read the post about this", which goes to https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/too-much-color/ .

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 21/02/2026

I would have been so tempted to just reply with this

DOCFUTURE (the "O" is the full moon emoji), username @topherflorence, on Twitter, 7 October 2021:

back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 min in the finale

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 12/02/2026

From the other day when Bioux wouldn't let me make the bed

A black cat sitting on a large bed with green sheets and an orange comforter. The sheets and comforter are disheveled and curled around the cat.

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 01/01/2026

I try to make that every year. Let's see if I manage it this year too.

A screenshot of the quoted post. My 2026 word is "compassionate".

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 26/12/2025

I... don't think I can argue with this, honestly Which AO3 tag are you? uquiz.com/quiz/vNQPkn/...

Your result:

domestic fluff

don't listen to them, you aren't boring!! two old men (they're thirty-five) doing laundry and taxes together is peak romance, actually

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 04/12/2025

I return often to Bertrand Russell's "In Praise of Idleness". harpers.org/archive/1932...

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. In England in the early nineteenth century fifteen hours was the ordinary day’s work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busy-bodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief. When I was a child, shortly after urban working men had acquired the vote, certain public holidays were established by law, to the great indignation of the upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say, “What do the poor want with holidays? they ought to work.” People nowadays are less frank, but the sentiment persists, and is the source of much economic confusion.

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 03/12/2025

Just ran across this bot account (I'm pretty sure because I used the word "sane" in a post). FYI.

The header for "Konan - debunking psychiatry" (@konanjacks.bsky.social).

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 17/11/2025

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? I likewise have an embarrassment of riches -- and also I'm younger than many people doing this, and I'm reluctant to call *anything* a perfect album -- but: