Aether (moved) @Taylor@awoo.space

I'm only in eight Discord servers, one being pretty dead, a few others only one chat being active... but the few that remain, there is just a lot going on.

I still wish a few friend circles were still on IRC. They were in one chatroom. Not more like ten, each.

I miss that simplicity sometimes.

I've been surrounded by computers all my life. I was first using them when I was like, 4. I was trying to make HTML pages when I was 11. I did computer classes in high school, which involved learning to write emails, to be a good at desk-job things.

Generally speaking, I've just had a lot of practice at Writing Good online. My gripes with people that can't (or actively choose not to) write professionally is perhaps simply because they grew up without the same education or time investment as me.

@Oneironott Yeah this one checks out.
Especially things like "your friends are not out to get you" "BUT WHAT IF--" "brain please"

I really wish I would stop, like, using "like", as like, an interjection like that.

The impression I want to give off is cute girl, composed professional, and sly creator, depending on the circumstances. I don't want to come off as an airhead... yes I know I'm sometimes a literal airhead, but--

It's why I'm particular about typing with proper grammar too. A lot of people I know seem to have done away with that, and to be honest, it makes me sad. It reads to me as depressed, without energy, uncaring about concise communication. It's why I use it myself generally to express talking under my breath.

But having said that, I've seen it expressed that (requiring) proper grammar is a form of class oppression created by schooling, and therefore throwing away such rules is rebellion against that.

And frankly, that strikes me as ridiculous.

I desperately want to be understood. I've rewritten this post half a dozen times because I fear repercussions for saying "why can't some of you just type more maturely?!". Getting someone angry at me over expressing that would be communication breaking down. Maybe it's just because I grew up to the early 00s internet, where proper grammar was actually part of the rules on basically every forum because of the existence of l33t speak.

I already have something of a typing quirk anyway. I type as I would speak - with grammatical conventions to indicate pauses. And maybe that's why I end up like, saying like a bunch. But I'm still wishing I didn't.

@Oneironott *thumpthumps tail* Critters... animals... nonhuman~.

@Oneironott *plaps four paws down~*

@Oneironott *sqrrks about~*

@IceWolf @Oneironott That's absolutely what's so great about the internet, and why I find so much power in it, even if it's not so good in some regards.

@Oneironott If I see myself as a toy wolf, and other people looked at me as a toy wolf, then maybe reality will just give up and conform to our wills.
... would be great if it did work that way...

Oh, is it Tail Appreciation Day on twitter or something? So that's why there's been musings about tails here.

@Oneironott Dragon and otter tails especially, the big tailbase sweeping weightily down to the slimmer end, whole form swaying, bonded so completely to someone else...

@Oneironott Swish and sway, all feeling and weight and movement~.

@Oneironott Thinking about becoming all tail...