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.

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.

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

... maybe I shoudn't be tagging some things "identity weirdness" so much if it comes off as beating myself down for my "non-standard" pondering of experiences.

A first-person perspective version of my previous picture, Personal Universe.

I have a strong desire to just be a universe lately. Godhood, motherhood, caring for and guiding the reality within me.
... would be better than dealing with a lot of worldly garbage lately.

DA appears to have done away with its categories, and focuses instead of tag-based organisation of submissions.

Now, its categories were an absolute dumpster-fire with how broad they were in some places but specific in others but oh my god this will have broken finding millions of submissions.

I went to search for a reference and found some easy enough by virtue of choosing the right keywords, but casually browsing something like... Windows UI skins... is going to be impossible now.

It's agonising that there's no good websites for artists. DA's shitting the bed, FA's admins suck, Weasyl is stuck in the loop of no traffic.

I hate what Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr did to the internet. I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it i--

Why even bother with these massive public spaces? They either leave you open to harassment, remove control from your own content, or you get lucky and become popular and untouchable.

Yet it's impossible to escape them because the euphoria of attention is intoxicating.

Focusing on small self-made communities would be nice.

Some people seem capable of doing it more than others. Some people make no effort to break the cycle of latching onto that attention and show little empathy towards others if it doesn't satisfy that attention.

Even if DA and the rest were effectively social networks too, there was no structure forcing endless engagement and growth. They celebrated art, not commodified it.

Or maybe I'm kidding myself and it was just as bad (given the existence of points and the print system), but at least we had art, rather than angry microblogging.

@Oneironott Remember to shortstack your friends into otters.
https://twitter.com/vmpexx/status/1282840560970141696

Alien worlds in fiction often unavoidably have human morals (or simply the opposite of human morals), human civilisation structures... and we can't be sure that's how aliens would really work.

That said, trying to think up a truly alien culture and civilisation is basically impossible, huh.

... honestly I'm not sure how I would feel about Earth having the first life in the universe. That would be cool and would also suck at the same time.

Woof Woof Story is an isekai where the protagonist reincarnates as a giant wolf.

It's kind of silly, the fan translation I found is a clunky mess, and it has unnecessary ecchii...

and also this cute scene that makes me wish I could go out and howl myself

*squints* is fer.al going to go lootboxes

I know I want godhood and all but I don't really want it to be that say, I contribute something great to the evolution of self-expression and get called a "god" in the historical narrative sense.

I want to be around for the wonderful posthuman world.

This tweet is about the Portuguese translation in 2077 translating a character's name as "correct" rather than "right".

But I'm looking at the characters there and, unless there's more context to disappoint me, it seems to be someone that's got their mind put across two bodies. Alternately, it's two people who became one person through their minds mixing together, while retaining two bodies.

And even if that's like, the one example of more extreme non-standard expression of the self in that game, I at least am surprised to see it in the game at all. Because I'd written it off as being populated entirely by human-type Cyborgs With Weapons.