back by unpopular demand: me

Harriet Du Bois and High Stakes Witnesses: A Tragedy In Two Acts

our innate feelings of Ick around a person whose body looks frightening is something to work on and hopefully move past, because humans deserve human kindness, and to be involved in community, no matter how they look or sound or smell or act out.

The reason I want to make it so clear that he was a friend to the community is because it makes this story funny instead of mean. He kept meticulous records of his pigeons, noting where each one was and who they were with and whose chicks were whose. It was not always the case that the chicks in a certain nestbox were the offspring of the parents in there. Sometimes, a mother hen would push a chick out because it was overburdened, or maybe a cock would push a chick out because wanted it dead (pigeons, like humans, can be monstrous assholes for seemingly no reason).

It is for this reason that it is very advantageous to have something rare like a gay couple in the loft. Pigeons are unique in that they make "milk" for their chicks, and cocks can do this as well as hens. So, because a gay couple can feed their young but never actually bear young, they are often the recipient of orphaned chicks.

All of that is to say this - when my grandfather passed away, my mom took over the pigeon business, as she had been helping him for years. And looking through his records, it was all very standard, very plain, well-documented minutiae about the birds and their pedigrees, save for one spot that looked something like this:

BOX 15

RED CHECK HEN

YELLOW COCK

BOX 16

BLUE SLATE HEN

DUNN BAR COCK

BOX 17

RED GIMPEL COCK

BLUE CHECK COCK

Disco Elysium's connections to Arvo Pärt

sources:

Disco Elysium

Sacred and Terrible Air by Robert Kurvitz, Group Ibex translation

Disco Elysium artbook

Torson & McLaine OST shared by Argo Tuulik

Sounds Beyond: Arvo Pärt and the 1970s Soviet Underground by Kevin C. Karnes

Arvo Pärt Sounding the Sacred edited by Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt, and Robert Saler

Arvo Pärt: Out of Silence by Peter C. Bouteneff

Arvo Pärt wikipedia page