Maggie Greene

talk TODAY at 4 PM PST on "Socialism at Altitude," Zoom available! Since the airline lost my baggage, I'll be looking like a Montana hobo, but I've got some cool sources and cool stories www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/e...

Mid-Autumn, Tiger Hill, Late Ming "Everyone was perfectly silent, even the mosquitoes."

For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...

We have a new Sinologist community on Discord - membership has a brief application & isn't *totally* open (it's professional in nature), but if you've been looking for a China group outside of bsky/Facebook/Twitter, this might be the ticket. discord.gg/g6S8WbVW

Sleeping Wumbum, for anyone who needs it (she only barks when she’s dreaming)

FF14 static Lunaris , a #FFXIV commission work for @mcgreenesd.bsky.social & @vaerisunder.bsky.social

Got our static commission for this tier done, it's PERFECT! (we wanted Yellowstone roadtrip vibe)

Eight warriors of light stand over the defeated body of a lalafell.

Huzzah! @dapneym.bsky.social, @mcgreenesd.bsky.social, and our static finally took down M6S!

I'm giving a talk at UC Irvine on Oct. 6 on my mountaineering stuff - it'll also be on Zoom & posted to Youtube later. I'll do more promo as the date nears, but isn't this a good poster? I'm going to ask one of our office staff to print me off a copy so I can put it on my office door.

Wumbum. I cannot explain how much I adore her.

Can’t blame you for coddling her, she is precious!

She’s still my everything.

Things I love about BZN: mountains, not really pictured here but they’re impossible to ignore; the fact I don’t worry about locking my car or house; the way summer storms look when they’re rolling in.

Still clocking along & still the cutest chonk to ever chonk.

Up late & can’t sleep, getting some reading done while this chonk slumbers

IYKYK

Chonkchonk is best raid buddy.

I sometimes wonder why my iPad has slime on it. This is why.

I wish I could adequately explain how much I love her, but I can’t.

Cleared the new Extreme with that static; everyone’s decked out in the finest of Mingmom Couture.

Would that we were all as chill & unbothered as Wumbum.

A favorite former student inquired about my favorite ‘aesthetic,’ I responded by saying I found that a weird question but sent photographs to illustrate what I think my aesthetic is. This one is most representative: Austrian porcelain horses, Chinese propaganda & Suzanne Farrell.

We cleared the 24 man savage raid on the last pull of the last session for us. It was fun (and aptly named - a lot of chaos!), but I’m glad to be getting back to normal 8 man savage in a week! I have no idea how ppl raid with such big groups in WoW.

I wouldn’t say it’s disrespectful, she just slaps (our WHM dropped dead to the first raidwide with no mit - my co-lead intentionally didn’t feint just to make everyone who hadn’t seen her before understand how hard she slaps in savage)

Screenshot from FFXIV: Eight warriors of light stand behind the prone body of the Brute Bomber.

Screenshot from FFXIV: a sole warrior of light dressed as Sailor Moon faces off against Wicked Thunder.

Screenshot from FFXIV: eight warriors of light stand in front of Wicked Thunder.

Managed to clear M3S with @dapneym.bsky.social and @mcgreenesd.bsky.social! Made prog on M4S, but the beginning of that fight is brutal.

My sprouts are soooooo close to an M3S clear, I think if we hadn’t had a surprisingly early maintenance, we might’ve done it tonight!

Chaotic continues to be absolute chaos (I’m amazed glad ‘normal’ high end content in XIV requires 8 ppl at most). Theme this week was Men in Black.

Tell me this isn’t the prettiest pit bull

Snake ♥️ #YearOfTheSnake

Wumbum arranged herself like this, crazy dog. XD

Eight warriors of light posed in front of the Brute Bomber in a cage match location.

Didn't clear M3S (or M2S, had a 0.01% enrage) but did see progress in the fight. Also glammed up color schemes for some birthdays. We only need one more M2S clear before we're done with bees, and we're all looking forward to it. With @dapneym.bsky.social and @mcgreenesd.bsky.social

不讀書最高，不識字最好， 不曉事倒有人誇俏。 老天不肯辨清濁，好和歹沒條道。 善的人欺，貧的人笑，讀書人都累倒。 立身則小學，修身則大學， 智和能都不及鴨青鈔。 There are no readers at the top — Illiterate? You'll benefit. And praise Is the prize for idiocy nowadays. For Heaven won't discriminate Between the low-down and the great, And men have never understood The difference between bad and good. So mock the poor. Defraud the kind. Watch anyone with learning fall behind. Or practice your calligraphy and study your epigraphy: You'll find The learned and the competent Are worth less than a copper cent.

Anonymous, Yuan dynasty, re: Yarvin and Bannon before him