Notices by elilla&, arm trans women :nkogun: (elilla@transmom.love), page 3

23:59: I will just configure this old 2017 tablet to read mangas, I'll put a custom ROM cos it's a bit nicer, I won't spend any time playing with super customising it or anything

00:00: https://github.com/mirrorwitch/magiskal-fonts

had to spend 3 more hours to make a fonts.xml that actually works for variable weight for CJK in this device… now it finally looks good…

not even Noto Sans CJK latest releases have Han codepoints beyond Unicode 13, but I can finally read 𰻝𰻝面; (Unicode biáng is on v.13) on my tablet from 2017, more importantly the emojis are now all monochrome text:

can't believe elilla& became an android developer and learned to make signed APKs by hand and everything just to be able to use comic sans (Shantell) as a theme on her manga reading tablet.

https://github.com/mirrorwitch/magiskal-fonts

worth it though

you can use custom fonts on your android device, it's open source! all I needed was a special ROM that voids the warranty, then hacking my own device for root, then writing a bit over a thousand lines of computer code including reverse-engineering stuff from LineageOS and making my own key store and whatnot, and then nursing said lines of computer code for various very-badly-reported hard to debug errors until it more or less worked

you can't really show how a screen feels on a photo because the photo will feel like your screen, but I got the matte screen protector for the 30€ OLED tablet. it's still not as good as my daughter's drawing tablet to read manga, but there's nothing in that price range that compares to this and is big enough for my old eyes, so this is my manga reading maschine now. actual manga and e-ink screen provided for comparison.

paper >
e-ink >
matte screen (drawing tablet type) >
oled screen with matte screen protector >
regular glossy screen

is my ranking of what's best to read on (and therefore to use at all; exception being CRTs better for retrogaming.)

I hope at some point I can invest 100-something euro in bifocal prescription glasses with reading lenses built-in and adapted for my astigmatism etc., that should help with the whole furigana situation

ok so this is dope—again, I have no way to show it to you through a photo, but the oled screen with the matte filter, while it's still to bright for my tastes in a pitch black bedroom at night (even at minimum brightness + "night mode") – at average café ambient light it's amazing, practically as good as e-ink to read manga. now I kinda want to slap matte films on every screen I have, plus I'm like, bitter and resentful that this isn't the industry standard for the screens themselves (like my daughter's drawing tablet that inspired this whole thing). even the muting of the colours in the odd colour page looks better than the garish gloss of normal Android glass in my opinion, and objectively way less harsh on the eyes. (though where the OLED truly shines continues to be the gorgeous blacks. well, where it doesn't shine I guess.)

also: this manga is so gay lol :heart_sparkles_lesbian:

so at this point I should admit that even with a 10" screen I still need to zoom in to read unknown kanji or furigana regularly. meaning for a truly zoom-and-pan-free experience I'd probably need an A4 screen, at which point even "OLED Android from 2017" would be cost-prohibitive, let alone an e-ink screen.

aging kinda sucks for bookworms. I still hope the right kind of glasses makes this better, or I'll have to like, hire a young and promising Japanology intern to read books out loud for me like old academics in movies while transmitting to her my accumulated life wisdom about the true meaning of research and whatnot, and like, who has cash to properly recompense Japanology interns, in this apocalypse. I can't pay an intern in life wisdom.

however the day was saved by just how easy and smooth it is to zoom and pan on this screen. while I tend to underestimate the usefulness of touch interfaces because they're so awful for typing, for this they're perfect, and the 10-year-old hardware handles high-resolution images perfectly fine. the whole experience is still pleasant and infinitely superior than reading manga in my >A4 computer screens, thanks to the combined effects of the display quality, portability, touch UI, and—importantly!—the fact that I have restricted the tablet from doing anything else other than reading manga/ebooks.

for 30€ I am very glad I did this—I mean the true cost was several evenings spent finding and customising an open source ROM that can still run on this thing, setting up all the required software, mending the fabric of the casing etc. but at the end I got something that is giving me plenty of Japanese practice every day, plus a great EPWING dictionary device, plus as a bonus, finally a way to read academic PDFs that doesn't suck too much :blobcat_thumbsup:

that goes for everyone reading this, I know only like, 6 months worth of #DGS, but if you see me in person and you'd like to learn what I know and practice together, you're invited :blobcat:

good news: inspiration finally hit for my spoken word piece next Friday in Köln (see above in thread).

bad news: it's the kind of topic that I probably shouldn't be talking about in public (and certainly won't be discussing online)

I need a poem for the new spoken word act.
inspiration: no
me: come on please, I'm begging you 1 (one) new poem
inspiration: lalala
me: ok I guess I'll play Picross I dont even need you
me: ok I need you please come on
inspiration: ok but it's a fedpost. fedpoem 🙂
me: ok whatever I'll take it we have 1 day left
me: we need a conclusion for this please the thing is tonight
inspiration: ok in the middle of the train seems like a good spot
inspiration: here, handwrite this
me: inspiration this thing is like 3 times bigger than the time limit
inspiration: also it's all a cohesive whole so if you remove anything it won't work
me: :blobcat_ohno:

one of my favourite topics but not one of my favourite poems. I wrote this one day before a spoken word session and it's not as fierce or fiery as I'd like, it's kinda trite. nonetheless I don't regret having written something for the Wandervögel. it's just hard to make every thing you write a bop; some of your stuff has to be mid.

Teens of Weimar,
You who called yourselves Apaches and Cossacks and Pirates
Not because you had a theory of anticolonialism or anything but because
You heard about Indians in the tales of cowboy and you burned to be free
Like the Navajos and the Comanches you only ever knew
From the fantasies of settlers, and still you did not dream of being gunslingers
You wanted to shoot the sheriff like Comanches, years before History called upon you
To shoot the Gestapo sheriff like Comanches.
You who preferred the mountains to the city
From the start, knowing without being taught that every Police
Is a Gestapo, and every schoolmaster
A Reichsjugendführer,
Until your police was the actual Gestapo and your schoolmaster, the actual
Reichsjugendführer.
My cosplay Comanches, made-up Gypsies, make-believe Barbarians!
More than all of the journals of postcolonial studies put together you got it,
Your politics was of the body, your lives living proof
Of how Europe is the first colony,
Of how the Earth calls to us,
You who walked the path of the lumpen, you roaming bands
Camping, playing, singing, whoring, pickpocketing, drinking in campsites
And gay bars, you boy prostititues, you girl
Gangs,
When I head out to fight my own nazis I think of you
Ambushing the Hitler Youth in a back alley with parody songs
And knives,
I think of your outrageous genderfucky costumes when I dress up,
Not to be anonymous but so that they see me coming,
And I put on my lapel the Edelweiß
That I grew on my garden to tell you that you have taught me so much,
Ancestors, you taught me how to win,
Your bomb may have failed to explode the Gestapo that one time and you may have been taken in but you won,
You won, because in every single photo I have seen of you even after full-blown NSDAP occupation your outfits were always outrageous,
In every single photo of you your smiles explode across history with wild palpable
Happiness.

(for some of my better stuff see https://files.transmom.love/poems.pdf . tomorrow I'll read either "Dear Germans" or "The Woman's Train", I'm undecided yet. and then a new piece. the new piece is about transgender suicide and grief. it is very personal and heavy. as usual I will CW in location before the actual performance.)

TIL: OHG rīm didn't mean Reim/rhyme but number, series; the original meaning that's still the case in Welsh rhif. the same is true of ON rim vs. modern Scandinavian, and Old Frisian rīm vs. modern.

also ᾰ̓ρῐθμός is a cognate—I'm so used to stuff like this coming from Arabica that I had assumed it was from al-something.

ah see now this was a fun move because it's a hail-mary but it forces the BSW to take a stand in public. and it once again did, see the Thomas Schulze quote. I want a gf that clings to me the way the BSW clings to the AfD

https://www.n-tv.de/politik/SPD-laedt-in-Sachsen-Anhalt-ueberraschend-zu-Sondierungs-Gespraechen-id31340539.html

• fucking love being a woman
• love being a fucking woman (woman who fucks)
• being in fucking love with woman
• love fucking woman, being a

I fucking love being a woman, thanks gods I'm a woman

what is this "thread mode" button on glitch :neocat_confused: