Aether (moved) @Taylor@awoo.space

Not that I really want to be CWing everything but I do wish image thumbnails were a bit smaller sometimes. Like if it's shorter than it is wide by a certain amount bias that, but beyond a certain point just crop the sides as is standard.

The last post I made on Twitter was a good bit reference and the more Twitter stays up/people post the more y'all are mucking it up!!

@eevee Yes. Also personally I've always used fav/like as personal bookmarks, whereas some people almost seemed to use it as a Read button. Which explains weird perspectives on The Algorithm.

@elfi Sincerely wonder this myself. Like awoo is on Glitch, any reason Glitch can't update the security but not touch the frontend...? > .>

@saphire I didn't know they even got bought out, I just knew the UX got... pretty bad~. It just came off to me as a need to retain relevance, so they wanted all the modern bells and whistles.
And then they got rid of categories. Good luck finding stuff now.

@saphire I feel that ought to be okay, it's how things used to be! We had different forums, websites... heck there were like 3-5 art sites in the mid-00s really.
Personally, I think we should be using what fits our particular use cases, not all crammed on the same site...

@saphire ~Network effects~. Once people are convinced one site is where the users are, and another is "dead", they just don't bother.

Decadent silica gel.

Kunosato: "By dead spots, I refer to the blind spots in the visual cortex of the human brain."
"Affecting these areas means transmitting your own delusions into them, so that the target sees your delusion."
"When that happens, the target perceives that delusion as a completely real phenomenon."

[Note: delusion = daydream]

Miyashiro: "B-but that's just a hallucination, isn't it? It's no different than hypnosis."

Kunosato: "Hypnosis? Really? Then what if every single person around you recognises that delusion as reality?"

Miyashiro: "Every single person?"

Kunosato: "That's right. And what if by 'everyone', I meant 'every single person in Shibuya'?"
"Or what if that spread to everyone in Tokyo, then everyone in Japan, and then everyone in the world? Who would tell you it wasn't real?"

Miyashiro: "Th-that's..."

Kunosato: "At that point, your delusion ceases to be a fantasy or hallucination. It then becomes reality. That's why we call it realbooting."

The interesting thing about Chaos;Child (and Chaos;Head)'s concept of the Dirac Sea, "delusions", and consensus reality, is it reminds us a little of some things we've read before on some magic/kin-related personal websites back in the late-00s/early-10s.

There was a web page that supposed that, if everyone in the world sincerely believed a specific person could use fire magic, then they could. And that was what "real magic" was. Which just seemed a little silly to us, especially when you factor in that a significant portion of people require evidence or experience to "believe" something.

But regardless this concept here is just the same, really. Only involving some theory involving negative energy and antiparticles.

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@frameacloud We kinda wish there was more representation for the elven star/heptagram too, but we kinda see that less often.

We've been setting up our FA (https://www.furaffinity.net/user/tayruu/) on the chance it's going to get more hits as furries go back to it, and then remembered... oh right we should probably add "don't add my art to e621" to our profile because otherwise lurkers that use artists like a commodity will make off with our uploads. :T