space 🛰 birb @variance@chitter.xyz

trans rights!

a bird, a nerd, and a friend!
it’s me! hello!

birbs are good:
☑️ flying
☑️ a e s t h e t i c
☑️ SCREM

belated #introductions post

hi, I’m aster! pronouns: they or he, neutral neopronouns like ey/em/eir are also cool!

I’ve been on the fediverse for > 1 year, but I recently decided to rebrand/switch instances, so here I am

I’m a physics grad student doing research related to climate science; I rant about this and related topics sometimes

mostly, though, I make jokes which occasionally manage to be somewhat funny, and I sometimes post sketches. also, birds. I’m lowkey a bird!

anyway, hello!

🎵 And I'm looking down the stairwell
At the vanishing dot
On the map of the spot
Let me take you there
The dotted line
Surrounding the mind
Of a self called nowhere 🎵

welcome to hell brain, how may I take your existential crisis?

anyway, here’s 4′33″

“if you look like DM, run this D&D campaign for me that I’ve been wanting to try for ages because everybody just wants to play and nobody wants to be DM, myself included”

“if you look like DM, this me”

ghhh I’m tired of this physical form

current main gripe is my hair is falling out but there’s lots of other mild annoyances

why can’t I just become an amorphous blob capable of shifting forms as I please

having an existential horror night while “no one knows my plan” by tmbg plays on repeat in my head is pretty sureal, ngl

having an existential horror sort of night

so I do still sorta understand spoken russian given enough time and/or context

some people on the ski lift were speaking it and I got the gist that they were discussing whether or not they’d finished grooming different ski runs, and which run they wanted to try next

also there’s so many polish speakers here, I saw at least 4 groups of people speaking it today; the ones I sat on a lift with were also talking about ski conditions, go figure

I really like this cover tmbg did

https://youtu.be/n4ITTE_S8Y0

never heard the original song until later but it’s a catchy one

I listened to a bunch of tmbg albums today and now they’re all getting mashed up in my head

having multiple songs stuck in your head at the same time is a strange feeling

me: hmm I should check out some music I haven’t heard before
also me: -listens to tmbg for the nth time-