Pride Month 2022 – Delarivier Manley

June 18, 2022

Following Aphra Behn’s death in 1689, Delarivier Manley collected her inheritance and brought forward the discourse around the sexual identity of women and the legitimation of female same-sex attraction. She’s one of the “fair triumvirate of wit” with Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood, a term coined by Irish critic James Sterling.

Pathetic Behn, or Manley’s greater Name;
Forget their Sex, and own when Haywood writ,
She clos’d the Fair triumvirate of Wit.

(note: “Pathetic” is here used in the sense of “dramatic”, “evoking pathos”).

She’s today’s profile on my Patreon.

books and literature

Project Hail Mary

I really wanted to like this book, having liked The Martian and… well, we don’t talk about Project Artemis. I enjoyed the movie just fine, and I hoped the book would fix some oversimplifications and convenient occurrences depicted there. Also, the main character is a

April 17, 2026 8:00 am

architecture, engineering and construction

The Standard, the Tooling, the Agent: Three Futures for BIM

Some people asked me what I think of AI in the new Revit 2027. Other people asked me what I think of the entire Autodesk Cloud ecosystem being rebranded as Forma. More people requested I express an opinion on the lack of mention to agentic

April 15, 2026 8:00 am

movies and tv

Unveil: Jadewind

Well, I did something unusual: I watched a Chinese TV series that has no English dubbing, just subtitles. Which makes it hard to do it while I work because I have to pay more attention to the subtitles, but I guess it’s useful to hone

April 12, 2026 6:24 pm