You might be an Internet Ancient if you:
• remember Netscape Navigator
• ever used any modem with a bandwidth of 28,8 or lower
• had an Early Adopter account on Livejournal
• witnessed the rise and fall of PhPBB
• witnessed the rise and fall of Napster
• used the web before Google existed
• ever used a dialup BBS site
• remember Gopher
• ever downloaded music as .mod files
• remember when about 90% of the web was made up of personal sites which were "under construction" and had pictures of people's cats on them
• remember when Yahoo was literally just a big list of websites
• know IRC commands
• have heard anyone unironically use the phrase "information superhighway"
• can recognise different bandwidth modems by what bleepy handshake sound they make
• have ever received one of those chain e-mails where you have to scroll through about a kilometre of forwarded headers only to find a "hilarious" vaguely lewd image and/or a banal list like this one
@Caudle Hyper-empathetic autistic. I am too, it can suck.
Combine it with Synathesisia and you can get the 'Seeing Auras' thing. Also, tracks with Werewolf syndrome.
And shapeshifters in general. When you're a hyper-empath, you tend to just Be The Thing People Want Without Anyone Knowing.
Some people are Gender: Harley Davidson Motorcycle and Beer Gut.
Some of them wake me up in the mornings by performing their gender, loudly outside my bedroom Window.
Now, I know that they're compensating for naturally flagging hormone levels and they're just affirming their place in the world, but don't you think they could be a bit... Quieter about it? Like, within the Legal Decibel Levels?
Or maybe keep it to a Parade, once a year.
re: gender thoughts
@caymanwent@snouts.online @cobaltshroom@snouts.online As a Plural system with a semi-masc lesbian and a Transguy in here...
Weirder things have happened. And that association with the Transmasc can actually be a psychological sign of partial androgen insensitivity during puberty.
@dhivael@dragon.style @anthracite Was it Recent? haven't kept up.
...Their Dragon and Gnomes comic was A Callout
@InvaderXan Funny this is how Vampires operate Too.
@wintgenstein Witchdoctors be like: You're feeling the Nature of the Triple Goddess rising in you, and this is normal when you're a Transgirl. Also probably Borderline. Goddesses be like that.
@numberonebug@snouts.online Know that feel. Then again, uh... How many plural non-binary trans folks do you know?
Because when you're Plural... the harder some alters pull in one direction, the Worse the plural feelings get.
Feel free to Telegram message me at the same username as here, I actually have a real Answer for this one.
...Speaking as the one in here who's Male, but uh... Transmasc, against all reason and logic.
Southern Mass's local machine healer and part time witchdoctor.
Tiny motorcycles, magic potions, machine tools, progressive rock, trance states, and hand sharpened drill bits. Oh, and I read Tarot. Probably 18+ just to be sure.
#nobot