The solitary Anna's hummingbird that ineffectually sentries our feeders is there today, despite it icing over and snowing. The moment I brought out a warm feeder, they hopped on it and chugged as fast as their tiny beak could, before zooming off and returning 5 minutes later.
Christmas Eve, and therefore time for the traditional listening of A Singular Christmas
https://notes.variogr.am/2009/11/30/a-singular-christmas-2004/
Space dragon art
I got me a bit more of that space dragon art.
Artist is Adalore: https://twitter.com/Adalore1/status/1464716488896618499
When we finally found our way to the stars, we discovered many planets that had once been inhabited by long-gone alien civilisations.
Some left memorials and statues commemorating their great deeds and glorious histories.
Some left libraries. Those, we learned from, and mourned.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Me, a unixy old person: "... and before end to end encryption was standardized, that meant that something called replay attacks were possible. To mitigate this, kerberos authentication was invented, which..."
A young unixy person: "can you pet it though."
"what"
"Kerberos was named for the three headed dog that guards the gates of hell, right?"
"... yes?"
"Can I pet the dog, is my question."
"..."
"..."
"Ok, no, but file that bug immediately."
another dreamthing, dragons, tf-adjacent
Continuing the tradition of my weekly sleeping-in-on-Saturdays giving really cool dreams:
This one was heroic coming-of-age story. Most of the details were pulled from other identifiable sources, but the main protag is cool enough to write out.
They're a gender-ambiguous (female-leaning) person who discovered they could shapeshift by accidentally becoming their own (adorably small, anthro orca-dragon) OC. They quickly identified they could become anything else they wanted within the same approximate mass range, with a catch: they need to actively focus on it.
Their personality is distinct enough that I need to noodle on it a bit more to describe them well. The villain also had vague ideas on how they work and may point to other-than-human origins.
While the dream had them doing hero things, they're more into chilling out to chiptunes, signalwave/vaporwave, and playing variations on 80s and 90s videogames with friends.
They also chose a name for themselves, but it has a conflict with someone I know, so I'll need to find a good alternative for them. Still, very neat little fictionthing.
(Also meant to post this earlier, but lots of random other things happened in the meantime.)
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/43879353/
Group commission I'm in with @kistaro, @Goldkin, @Veladynee, and some other folks that aren't on Mastodon AFAIK.
We're spaceship dragons! NYOOOOM!
dream nonse
This is a few days after a different stranger in a dream said this when I asked them why they do what they do:
"I am you. You have agency here. I'm just part of the script."
Then I woke up.
Either I have very coherent dream gremlins, or someone has a fun sense of humor.
re: starbase game, ship design WIP
While this is already fairly elaborate, you can bet I will try to design a space dragon in this game.
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
Also on @Goldkin (meow.social) for follow requests that don't work here.