Charlotte Finn @SkunkyLass@awoo.space

Probably shouldn't name my custom Gallic religion in Civ 6 "Gauls Gone Wild," huh

@SchneidRemarks I knew that things on Twitter were bad when I saw a prompt going "go to Letterboxd, search for a half-star review of your favorite movie, and post it." Literally, go to a different site, search for a reason to be mad at a stranger, take a screenshot, and bring it over to Twitter so we can spread that bad mood around. That's what I ultimately can't stand about that place.

@SchneidRemarks See, this is kind of why I keep trying this place out, because I've felt that Smart and Mean has, too often, devolved into Smart and Cruel.

I don't mind someone dunking on a billionaire or an NYT columnist. The problem begins when people apply that thinking to someone who doesn't like Shrek.

@Zauberin nice! (Assuming this is what you wanted)

Hey, I've tried to follow two people on mastodon.lol and I've gotten errors but only from this instance. Who do I talk to?

A friend of mine who's in his very early thirties talks, quite frequently, about how he'd like to end his life at forty. About how he thinks that existence is torture and that bringing someone into existence is a violation of their consent.

I think about how I'd have never discovered so many important things about myself if I'd only lived to forty. I'd never have met some of my best friends. I'd never have gotten into my favorite hobby. I'd never have seen one of my favorite movies. I'd never have transitioned and found out how much genuine joy there is in it.

But I cannot convince him. He's dead set on it. He flies into a rage when he sees pregnant people.

I'm glad to step up when someone is hurting. As the song lyric goes, love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night.

I just wish I was actually any good at it.

@Leucrotta "Freddie Mercury is expressing a desire to ride his bicycle, or as he refers to it, his bike - and to ride it wherever he likes."

A while back, James Leask, on his then-podcast, said that he valued David Brothers being the kind of comics critic that didn't do much work, but meant all the work he did. That he didn't release a new article constantly, but when he did, people said "hey, David Brothers wrote something today." That his work was something that was infrequent, but always talked about. He spoke when he had something to say.

And thinking about it, that's what I aspire to. Can't make a living that way, but in terms of critical expression, I feel that I'm at my best when I have a lot to say about a weighty tome of work.

Anyways: I wrote about Kate Beaton's graphic memoir, DUCKS, today. https://shelfdust.com/2022/10/10/lost-in-away-notes-on-kate-beatons-ducks-two-years-in-the-oil-sands/

@irisjaycomics Already got mine! I'm sure you'll pick something rad

I dreamt that someone I knew had lost the battle with depression, and that it had happened right in front of me despite me pleading at the top of my lungs for them not to do it. And I remember getting so incredibly angry because other people I knew made fun of them after they were gone. Like, "here comes the old autistic meltdowns I didn't know how to handle" angry, when I saw something that felt deeply, deeply unjust and couldn't understand it.

And when I woke up the first thing I did was check my phone to make sure it hadn't happened, because all of it - the suicide, and the post-suicide mockery - felt so real. Like it could have happened.

I believed that I'd wake up to a bunch of people I know mocking someone else I know for committing suicide.

I hate what social media does to us, sometimes. Making us all a little less humane.

@mcc I dunno who is making these decisions that go into these designs, but I don't know a single person who went "oh cool, there's a black dot in the screen at the top, and no headphone jack, and it's the size of a VHS tape"

@irisjaycomics In an interview, Neil Gaiman once said that he wished he'd clicked with Sam Keith sooner because once he knew what Sam liked to draw, he knew he could go "okay, it's a double page spread of demons" and Keith would make every single one unique

@irisjaycomics Late to this but I've always loved your work and I love talking with you even when we wind up at loggerheads

I'll probably get it. I'm just tired of feeling so dammed self-conscious about something that brings me genuine joy, because people will go pantshit over it. Even if I'd never do the same to them if they posted a glamor selfie.

I know, I know, if they freak out they aren't my friends. Just that I won't know who isn't a friend until they do something, and that makes it harder.

Plus, these days if a friendship goes bust, there's the possibility of them dumping out their digital purse and letting everyone know about shit you told them in confidence. Always a fun consideration, especially if you still believe people are entitled to a reasonable expectation of privacy. (Old fashioned, I know.)

I'm sweating a hole through my shirt trying to work up the courage for a YCH that would put me in an evening dress and meanwhile John Oliver is posting his otter fursona with no shirt and a big bulge in his cutoffs.

It sucks, sometimes, to have a friend group with personality artifacts left over from the SA forums. I can't tell myself "no one will mind," because I know very much that people will mind.

@irisjaycomics I really liked it when it was in early access; I should go back now. Carefully peeling a spaceship like a banana is relaxing, it turns out!

@Doephin Dang. Well, I'll look into 'em. Thanks!

@Doephin Well, now I'm curious. What's the name of the company?

@irisjaycomics 🤮