Professional storyteller and author from Hungary. MA in Archaeology, MA in Storytelling, PhD in Culture Studies. I write about folktales, folklore, mythology, representation, role-playing games, and nerdy things. She/her #ttrpg #folklore #mythology #storytelling #archaeology #fedi22 Hobbies and interests include #crochet, #beading, #archery, #travel, and #geology
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Last Notes npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD This is the latest Hungarian memorial for the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Mohács against the Ottomans. Yes. It is real. Yes. We lost that battle. #Hungary #history #WTF https://files.ohai.social/media_attachments/files/117/134/294/501/640/287/original/47c218e7bd027119.jpg npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…lwtz I recently read Arboreality and it did center on the issue of saving books for a dystopian future npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD No, Mastodon, I am serious: If AI companies are shredding books And Google is nerfing search engines to make you ask AI What do we do? Like, I am the generation that has learned to use a card catalog. I can do archival searching, and annotating my own books. I am just in a place of general anxiety about the future of accessing, saving, and sharing information. Any thoughts welcome. #AI #information #research npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Did Google Books get nerfed or something? I used to get a lot more hits on folklore searches, and now it often tells me "no results" or only gives me two or three. What happened?... #Google #internet #enshittification npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD I don't know who's following the news, but the Danube and other rivers are at an all time low in Hungary. A whole lot of stuff is coming to light. So far people have found a Roman gravestone, mammoth bones, an 18th century fortress, several ships and boats, a WWII German motorbike, at least one stolen car, two discarded guns, and a whole lot of wartime explosives and ammo. What a time to be mudlarking. #Danube #drought #ClimateChange #Hungary npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD In Hungarian, the equivalent of "woke up on the wrong side of the bed" (as in, having a grumpy day) is "Peed on nettles" 😄 #Hungary #linguistics npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD So, apparently AI companies are now buying up books and destroying them after feeding the content into the machines. Straight up distopian. 😡😡🤬 1. Libraries and archives have to be protected at all costs, now more than ever. 2. Buying up out of print books related to your special interests is now a public service. #AI #books #bookstodon npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD I'm over the whole "how important women are in the Odyssey" debate, and I don't care whether Nolan made their role better or worse. Honestly I don't mind that the Odyssey is about Odysseus. Duh. What I do mind is that people can still cash in big on a 24536th Odyssey adaptation, instead of adapting any of the DOZENS of amazing epics that ARE about women. (Publishers keep telling me underrated Greek myths are not marketable because "everyone wants the popular ones") #mythology #Odyssey #women npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Today's parental rage: No taxi company in Budapest has any cars with a booster seat available. Apparently kid seats and booster seats are not mandatory (!!!) in taxis. Therefore, they just don't have them. They would literally let me get in with a toddler and no safety seat. WHAT. THE. FFFFFFF #parenting #safety npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD IMHO shower cabins in hotel rooms with no shower tray, just the plain tiled floor of the bathroom, were all designed by men. npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Today I've been told "this comes with age" by a doctor for the first time 😅😅 Please send comfort animals #adulting npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD My magpie tarot deck has now collected some 200 cards, and looking at it, there are some trends emerging about what kinda cards I gravitate towards: - Knights that are women - 10 of Cups cards that show diverse ideas of family - Gentle Strength cards - Kingts of Pentacles. Just, like, all of them. - Buff lady blacksmiths as 8 of Pentacles - Strange animals (e.g. tardigrades, bowerbirds, cuttlefish, etc.) - Magpies. #tarot #MagpieTarot npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…jvlj Turkish, actually 😅 I'm reading a book on the history of Crete npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD I have read a lot of euphemisms in historical sources for pregnancy (e.g. "in the family way") but I did not expect to see an 18th century source call it "being in an interesting situation" 😅 #history npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Good news: The kid is very much excited about storytelling and role-playing games Less good news: Now I have to run 45 minute RPG sessions during the morning commute before I had my first coffee 😅 #parenting #ToddlerDnD #ttrpg #DnD npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…v5xp You are joking, but I used to play D&D with my friends behind a pile of supplies during PE classes with no dice whatsoever. Basically just storytelling. npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Dear Wizards of the Coast, We have been playing RPGs with pen and paper since the 1970s (in my case, then 1990s) and we can do it again. Screw You, D&D Players not giving a crap about D&D Beyond anymore #ttrpg #DnD #gaming npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Here is another one 😊 It's from the Sinking Wasteland Tarot. The whole concept of the deck is imagery from a dying world. And yet, this 4 of Wands card is so beautiful. (I am sharing queer cards from my magpie tarot deck) #image #tarot #queer #lgbtq #PrideMonth #pride #MagpieTarot https://files.ohai.social/media_attachments/files/116/695/675/375/463/573/original/e5f241004b4bac0a.jpg npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD I am going to share the incessant questions of my kid with you all as #ParentTrivia Enjoy 😄 "Mom! What story is RAAAWR... POOF?" (If you guess this one you can answer the rest) "Mom! What is his mom's name?" "Mom! What was his name? No, the other name?" "Mom! What are those running?" "Mom! Who says little hair? What are the words?" "Mom! What is the little one's name?" #parenting #cartoon npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Grandma was a wartime kid. She hoarded and reused everything. Most famously, she repurposed our old sandbox toys for kitchen use. Which is why all her recipes say things like "One shovel of flour. Two scoops of cocoa. One half fish of sugar." 😅 One day, historians will be baffled. #food #recipes #tradition npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD I was feeling a bit out of sorts, so my husband took me to the end-of-the-year ice cream trip with his high schoolers. At one point he just went "here's one of my students who is a huge paleonthology nerd and works on the Hungarian dino excavations every summer, have fun". And then we gleefully nerded out together for an hour. This is how I learned that Mochlodon vorosi and Ajkacerstops kozmai turned out to be the same species Get yourself a husband who gets you #dinosaurs #paleonthology npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Last week when it was a balmy 23 Celsius I heard people complaining "whyyyy is it not summerrrrr yet??" Rage. I feel rage. #summer #weather #heatwave npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD The hardest part of parenting while neurodivergent is my info dumps constantly being interrupted mid-sentence. Baby, I love you fiercely, but Mommy NEEDS to tell Daddy what she's just learned about mosses, without someone cutting in every half sentence. 😬 #parenting #neurodivergent npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD New damage types just dropped for #ToddlerDnD Eyeglass nose pad punched into eye socket Damage: 2d12 blinding Toe broken by dropped wooden block Damage: 3d10 swearing Nailbed bit while feeding piece of banana to Toddler Damage: 2d6 radiating Shoulder dislocated from sleeping on floor in one specific comforting position Damage: 1d12 permanent Stepping on D4 discarded in shag carpet: ... actually that was the DM's fault #parenting #ttrpg npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Odysseus is getting off easy in this retelling... he didn't leave the Cyclops alive to show mercy, he blinded the Cyclops because someone needed to open the damn cave door 😆 npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Warrior of the Mind is a pretty good song. Although Odysseus is a lot more wiley and smart than wise. I don't think fixing the world was on his agenda but I'll take it... npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD And we are starting with infanticide off the bat. Three thoughts: 1. I am glad they included this episode of the story, but I am worried Odysseus will still come off a hero to cheer for after this. 2. "It is the will of the gods" - nice out, but no. It was literally Odysseus' idea. Which gods anyway? Half of them are on Troy's side. 3. "When does a man become a monster?" - I think it is safe to say it is on the far side of offing a baby, my dude npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Okay right off the bat, Odysseus ordering people to attack (he's not the commander...?) because the Torjans have been slowly killing them and keeping them from their families. I mean... kinda? Dude you coulda left anytime. Your beef is with Menelaos and Agamemnon. You are on the invading side here. npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD I am on a long train ride and finally decided to suck it up and listen to Epic: The Musical. From what I know in advance, I will have some Thoughts and Feelings about this. Live tooting to follow (with spoiler tags) #EpicTheMusical #Epic #Mythology npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD TIL that one of the diagnostic clues for autism is "Thinks about their special interests outside of the time when actually engaging with special interests." And I'm like... what? What else do you think about?... #neurodivergent #psychology npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…z406 There is actually a modern novel retelling where Achilles is a trans woman, called Wrath Goddess Sing npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Do people who are losing their absolute shit over Elliot Page being Achilles "just because of accuracy" know that in mythology Achilles was raised disguised as a girl among women to avoid going to war?... #mythology #Odyssey #storytelling #ChillTheHellOut npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD I'm reading a book of classical poems by Arab women, and found this gem from some 1000 years ago: "Leave me alone, you’re not my equal, you’re not a man of the world nor a man of faith, yet you want to own me, you mindless twit." (by Umm Ja'far bint Ali) That's it. That's the whole poem. #poetry #poem #WomensHistory #women #literature #art #bookstodon npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD The Hungarian version of "the tables have turned" is "the ice cream licked back." 🍦 #Hungary #language npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD I said it before but: I really believe that with the rise of #AI we need dorky people more than ever. We need niche special interests. We need specialized academic fields. We need knowledge like the person's on Insta who keeps pointing out that AI generated images of Cambrian fossils are clearly fake, because the crustacean shell has the wrong number of little bumps. We need people like the witchy person who likes fiber arts so much they learned how to shear sheep and process wool themselves. npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD The European Court of Justice just declared that Hungary's book ban law violates EU rules and fundamental rights. No more wrapping queer books in plastic and banning them from book shops! 📚 #Hungary #EU #lgbtq npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD The #AtoZChallenge is still ongoing, so here is a Small Town Legend about someone accidentally slapping Empress Maria Theresa on the butt: https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-queens-buttocks-small-town-legends.html #blogging #folklore #folktales #SmallTownLegends npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Líra, the bookstore chain that Fidesz tried to bully out of existence, has just moved all Orbán books to the "History" section. LOL #Hungary #elections npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD "Grandma, where were you when the entire city of Budapest was partying to celebrate Orbán's fall?" "At home, trying to get your mom to sleep." 😅 Some of my historical memories won't be as interesting as others. #parenting #Hungary npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Headline today: "The change is already visible: The prime minister elect held a press conference and answered questions in full, logical sentences." The bar is... that low. But hey, it's progress? 😆 Full, logical sentences are a good thing. #Hungary #elections npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Magyar Péter's party (Tisza) won with a historic landslide. I am overjoyed that Orbán and his gang are out. But at the same time I'm waiting. Waiting to see the book bans lifted. For trans rights to be reinstated. For the child protection system to be fixed. For queer people to be allowed to adopt again. For the child traffic rings to be prosecuted. We handed a center-right party absolute majority. I really, really hope they will do better. #Hungary #elections npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Here we go. Election day in Hungary. Please keep your fingers crossed. And your toes. I don't even know what a best case scenario looks like, and I have no clue how today will go. It's stressful. #Hungary #elections npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD TIL that one of the names in Old Norse texts for the god Tyr (who got his hand heroically bitten off by Fenrir the Wolf) is... ... "Wolf Leftovers" Norsemen, masters of the SICK BURN #mythology #history #Vikings npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD TIL that there is an old Icelandic runic spell that is designed to give someone uncontrollable farts. #TheMoreYouKnow #history #magic npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD I just saw a job posting titled "Research Fellow in Deep Uncertainty" and I feel absolutely qualified... npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD There is a place called "T-Rex Fitness" down the street. Do you think they skip arm day?... npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD I did it! I deleted the green owl! ... but now I am slightly afraid for my life npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…h3f9 Elsie de Wolfe, Elisabeth Marbury, Anne Morgan, Anne Vanderbilt npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Was anyone gonna tell me that Gilded Age New York society revolved around a polycule of famous lesbians or was I supposed to learn that from a book on interior design? #history #queer #lgbtq #HistoryVagueposting #WomensHistory npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD The DM, trying to spook us with unnatural creatures that lurk in the Wilderness: "There are... ducks that are also turtles!" Party: "Dawww!" 🥰 DM: "... also, snakes with legs!" Party: "So... lizards?" DM: "Wha... no, mammal legs!" Party: ???? DM: "And... possum-bat hybrids!" Party: "DAWWW!" 😍😍 DM: "Imagine the weirdest possum face and bat face mixed together! They hang by their tails!" Party: "WE'LL TAKE A DOZEN" #rpg #ttrpg #gaming npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Hey #ttrpg and #DnD people, what do we think of a Ranger class character whose "Favored Enemy" is rocks? Like, not in a hostile sense. More of a dedicated rock hound type character. Probably a Dwarf. #rpg #gaming npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD For no reason in particular: 🍇 Othello 🍎 Ambrosia 🍊 Tarocco 🍐 Nashi 🍅 Yellow pear 🍓 Woodland What are your favorites? 😊 #food #fruit #plants #gardening npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD They know what's in your house. They know who your friends are. They know what you say about people behind their back. They know what you eat. They know where you sleep. They know when you're on your period. They know when you fart. They are not the NSA. They are not the CIA. They are your child's kindergarden teachers. #parenting npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…35la such a good intro! :D catchy npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…35la my favorite part is the koala, don't know if that was in the anime :D npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…35la I haven't seen the anime, the manga is 9 volumes currently, so I'd say yes? npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD I'm reading Heaven's Design Team, a manga about engineers designing the animals in Heaven. (In a science way, not a creationist way 😄 ). It's tons of fun! Last night I had a dream about an anime convention that did a Heaven's Design contest: teams of three (engineer, biologist, graphic designer) had to design animals based on prompts. I think this would be a lot of fun to do actually 😄 #manga #books #bookstodon #nature npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD The US postal service issue continues to be bonkers. I have tried to send letters to the US from multiple post offices in Budapest, and everyone says something different. The scale goes from "No, you can't send anything to the USA at all if it is heavier than a piece of paper" to "We don't care, let's send it". Today a post office worker told me she'll be "fined and fired" if the US finds out there was "any items" in the envelope. There was a greeting card in the envelope. #WTF npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD They opened a Playmobil playhouse at the mall, with different sets at different tables. It's kinda shocking how even the smallest kids automatically gravitate to the tables in a gendered way: girls to the princess castle, boys to the pirate ship etc. Except for my daugter who made a beeline to the firehouse with the boys. And then tried to relocate some knights into the safari. I keep thinking these gendered things are passe, and yet it's still very much a thing for a lot of kids... #parenting npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD #ThePitt said "Happy 4th of July" in an ER and I heard millions of healthcare workers watching and crying out in anguish 😅 npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD #ThePitt is back and that makes me very happy #TV npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…frj5 My immediate first thought! You work in a damn ER, dude! npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…pphc word! npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD A note to Hollywood: If you want to surprise us with a character suddenly turning evil, maybe don't cast an actor who's never played a single positive role in their life. Typecasting sorta gives away the twist, guys. #cinemastodon npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Today's gift from the algorithm: "Visibility undergarments" 🤔 npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD It's the end of the year, which means I once again compiled the statistics of all the earworms I have woken up with this year :) It is an ongoing project... Here is the blog post: https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2025/12/299-earworms.html #music #earworm #blog npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Sooo I got the Minos: Dawn of the Bronze Age boardgame for Christmas. We are trying to figure it out with hubby while the kid entertains the grandparents. Question, how many neurodivergents does it take to set up a 150 minute long tactical Bronze Age-based game that is technically the combination of Catan, Wingspan, and Risk?...😅 #gaming #boardgames #games #image https://files.ohai.social/media_attachments/files/115/803/768/644/414/617/original/734e373ea72c54e5.jpg npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD #ToddlerDnD Kid at home: *wakes up at 5am and makes it everyone's problem* Kid at Grandma's: *wakes up at 8:30am and tells us to be quiet because she still needs sleep* Honestly, what is this? +10 Toddler Handling? Power Word? Cone of Sleep? Cookies of Extreme Chill? Ray of Insult to Injury? #parenting npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Final result of my magpie tarot advent calendar 😊 (I only kept the cards I really loved). It was a lovely idea, I'll do it again next year! #tarot #MagpieTarot #AdventCalendar #image https://files.ohai.social/media_attachments/files/115/791/208/409/827/219/original/76a4b63c1e8d47d7.jpg npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Grandma: "And which hook should I read you before bed?" Kiddo: "ANIMALS DYING!" Grandma: "....???!!!" Me: *Pulls out the Encyclopedia of Extinct Animals* #parenting #bookstodon #FamilyChristmas npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD 8 years out of school, my anxiety dreams have finally graduated too! Now, instead of missing exams and classes, I had a dream where I was supposed to give a workshop at a conference. Except I didn't remember the time or venue for it, and it was on a topic I know nothing about. Progress...? #dreams #anxiety npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Here is suspicious quiet in the other room. I ask the kid what she's doing. She responds "Guess!" The options are many, but none are reassuring. Schrodinger's cat is definitely dead. The question is how mangled it is. #parenting #WinterBreak npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Happy Solstice everyone! 🌄 🌲 It is getting brighter from here 😊 #solstice #WinterSolstice npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD I'm not saying my kid would fail the marshmallow test, I'm just saying what marshmallow? #parenting npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Someone tell the USA that dystopian literature is not a manual... #USPol npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…796m agreed npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…8zak tell that to the sick kid... npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD I have been having long and elaborate dreams lately. On top of that, they are usually the strangest combination of two completely different things. So far I've had: John Wick + Gilmore Girls Transformers + Kingdom of Gems Wizard of Oz + X-files I don't even know what my brain is doing but I'm sure I could sell some of these to Hollywood... #dreams npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD It must be the Christmas spirit, because the kid is home for the winter break and we yell "Jesus Christ child!" very often these days... #parenting npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…536v Only in the evening. At naptime it's minutes :D npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD #ToddlerDnD Spell: Sleep Target: Toddler class Small creatures Range: 2 feet (if you move out of range you have to start the casting over) Casting time: 30 to 120 minutes Verbal components: Monotone rythmic lullaby Somatic components: Pat PAT pat (NOT pat pat PAT) Material components: Favorite Pillow, The Other Pillow, Not That Blanket, Non-Itchy Pajamas, 30+ plush toys, 3 glasses of water, and the rest of your sanity Duration: a few hours if you're lucky #parenting #DnD npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…vkca My husband has Avatar MtG cards in his advent calendar this year and she wanted to know what that's all about :D npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD We started watching Avatar: The Last Airbender with the kid, and since she is bilingual, she noted "Apa" is Hungarian for "Dad". So now every time she wants something from her father she yells "Apa! YIP YIP!" She thinks it is hilarious and she's right. #TV #parenting #AvatarTheLastAirbender npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…0gak Also, the sentence "As an alpha male myself..." unironically coming out of a black gay character's mouth... 😬 npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…0gak oh Med Show Bingo would be lots of fun :D npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…0gak Honestly I was hooked when they did a fentanyl panic episode right after I watched the John Oliver video on fentanyl in TV shows 😆 And now I want to see what other TV stereotypes they run into npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…0gak Also, they weirdly soften those at the end. Like the incel shooter where they did a whole monologue at the end about how he was just "a poor, lonely guy" npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…0gak Oh I am like 3 female main characters in who had all gone actually unhinged npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…0gak Yeah I am like 5 seasons in because my mental health is at the level where I can't process actual good shows that need my attention :D I watch it with kind of a morbid fascination npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…0gak The writing is hilariously bad too "This relationship got boring what do we do?" "Let's have the woman go crazy!" Repeat npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Okay, so hospital shows are my absolute guilty pleasure But recently I had to resort to Chicago Med and I have never seen a more wretched hive of toxic male characters Geez #TV #TVShows npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…0gak and how? 😄 npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Today on "Search History with a Toddler": "Do anteaters throw up?" #parenting #nature npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Hollywood: *Makes an entire point about seeing beauty with different eyes* Hollywood: *Still makes the scarecrow look hot tho* #cinemastodon #Wicked npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD Went to the movie theater bathroom and they were playing "Do you wanna build a snowman?" on the speakers. Go away Ana, I'm trying to pee. #cinemastodon npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD So I'm reading Wrong Passport, a memoir written by a gay American man stuck in Budapest during WWII. It's a fascinating book in more ways than one. For example, I just realized his friend "Teddy the Pilot" is none other than Count Almásy László, explorer of "The English Patient" fame. I also just learned that Teddy was a n*zi sympatiser and at the same time in a relationship with an anti-fascist German soldier. I did not have that on my bingo sheet for this book. #history #bookstodon #queer npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @nprofile…rk7t LOL I didn't even make that connection but yes :D npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD I'm watching #PrehistoricPlanet Ice Age, and whoever decided that it should be extremely dramatically narrated by Tom Hiddleston was right on the money. #TV #nature npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD My main takeaway from #StrangerThings : These people have been very lucky that American houses are all made of cardboard. #TV #TVShows npub10e0kqadwgzg9ng8x508lst8uctr0mvcvcj94m5pfvgz9nuw6nt2smc5cq4 Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD According to The Goddess in Everywoman, the test of which "goddess" dominates our attitude on housework is what we do when our husband goes away for a week. Apparently Hestia women cook for themselves, and Aphrodite/Persephone/Hera women eat cottage cheese out of the box because there is no man around they want to please. Lady. LADY. I eat cottage cheese out of the box when my husband *is* around, which goddess is that? #mythology #bookstodon #books