Aether (moved) @Taylor@awoo.space

It feels to me like there's kinda two overarching perspectives on what constitutes "identity".

One is that identity is the image of your self. It's how you want to project yourself to the world, be it a sort of personal "brand" or as a desired physical vessel. Whatever other details involved depends on the person.

The other idea of identity is more about function and interaction. What your role is in society and your greater goals in life. This perspective I think is what Persona leans towards, and is probably reflective of Japanese work culture and gender roles. (It's also why I think The Discourse gets thrown at Persona, because people misunderstand its actual intention.)

I wonder how, if it ever would, how Persona would handle non-human identity in its setting.

Persona has had a bunch of explicitly non-human Persona users - ie. jungian shadows, a dog, a few robots - but non-humanness as an identity could be interesting in its universe exploring the myths given life from the collective unconscious.

I kinda wish I could alter minor meta-data on posts without reposting it.

i.e. let me fix a post's CW or plain-text-vs-markdown if I forget something after posting

Hilariously, after I post that, I see another post about the subject of internet harassment and the Kids These Days, empowered by the over-sharing culture prying into every little detail of everyone's lives and interests.

Twitter link, unfortunately the raw text source appears to have been deleted.

I wasn't raised in a religious house, but I did go to a religious high-school. Not for any personal belief reason, but because it was small and my parents felt it would be safe for me, because of my physical disabilities. Versus say, going to a school with tens of thousands of students and getting trampled in the hallways.

But at that school, there was certainly those odd moments by the faculty that were all about moral purity and villifying the supposed evils of the world into anthropomorphic threats. My classical history teacher once said that "[your dean] uses god and satan as shorthand to represent what she sees as good and evil".

And perhaps, that's what the religiously fervours gay kids are like. They've created bogeymen of The Problematics, and they're not one of The Problematics, therefore they have to be one of the good ones.

The biggest parallel for me is the idea that all sins are equal, & since thoughts can be sins (e.g. lust, envy), indulging in bad thoughts is just as bad as doing bad things. And suddenly shipping a 17-yo with an 18-yo and being a literal child molester are basically the same.

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On that note, perhaps I'll share a stream-of-thought from yesterday...

This post on Twitter has been getting around in various ways, and I extremely vibe with some of the concerns expressed. Here's the original Tumblr post too, for it in text form.

I've said repeatedly how off it's felt to me since mid-2010s people put everything out in the open and it's like... that's private information. You don't need to tell everyone your specific sexual interests/etc unless you intend to cyber. Though being that said, my asexuality could also just have me personally responding to it all "but why, what's the big deal" and being put off by the cultural obsession with categorising yourself sexually.

But later points are valid too: harassers and bullies are not going to be put off by "x don't interact". It's often simply virtue signalling to allies, it's not going to discourage shitty people. Especially when "x" things are just the latest buzzword by fancops that is extreme enough to catch peoples' reactionary tendencies. Just rally cries for friends and allies.

It's kind of ironic in the end. Back in the day when I was at high-school, the internet safety stuff seemed reliant on any harassment coming from a local person. Both in terms of what level of danger a kid could be in, and what parents and teachers are capable of doing about that sort of thing. Internet safety felt like it woefully underestimated the internet is global.

But even if I didn't think the saftey stuff was very good, I still didn't overshare various deep and personal(ly identifying) information online. Largely because that information wasn't even important for my friends. I have a self online I've created, and that's the thing that's important.

I don't really care about The Teens because of the playground bullying that is the modern internet, but I do care about this cultural shift that's making things more volatile online.

We really need more 18+ websites. Not for adult content, but to give the kids and teens other places that are safer to make mistakes, and then the adults can have places away from the prying eyes of kids that have nothing better to do than to police the behaviours of adults with more worldly experience than them.

All I talk about on here is identity things and occasional weird horny things... because there's not enough friends on here to make more casual conversation worthwhile, unless I decide to cross-post some thoughtstream from Twitter...

Dragons.
Big dragons...
Big synthetic dragons..

Thinking again about this picture for Macro March reasons... I'm not a destruction sort of giant dragon, but sometimes accidents happen.

(By Stormdragonblue.)

Me changing current form basically be like:

Awuuuuuu.

The video itself is kinda interesting, it goes into the early days of "Web 2.0" and the decline of that code open-ness due to the ever evolving nature of the internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxV14h0kFs0

Mood.

I wanna commission more art of dragon me.
... I also wanna be Amaterasu again...

Thinking about scenarios involving my massive macro scale make me feel fuzzy and happy...

I really am very big. @ -@ Maybe not, city-destructive, since it seems that cities have truly massive buildings, but when I think about relative scale to other things and the more common size of dragons it just kinda makes me all... hh, aaa <3 *tailthump*

http://t.mwx.ca/misc/2101/vesa_scales.jpg

Been to the dentist, had my puffy inflatable teeth polished and poked, all eight of them. They're all good, it seems~.

Just imagine a giant toy dragon head poking into a dentist's room...

Back when all my friends were on IRC, some of us used mIRC and some were on Trillian.

If you set your text colour to black on Trillian it would be black on mIRC - not the "default colour". So anyone with a black bg would see your text as black on black. I ended up switching to mIRC later myself to have alias commands for RPing and to avoid these colour problems.

Basically what I'm trying to say is that, even in the mid-00s we had to all use the same software and clients for things and the fact we are all now on Discord changes nothing. The pattern of walled-garden design remains consistent across time.

I think my appreciation of the pear body type aesthetic has increased since being a dragon... even if I'm a feral dragon...

It's incredibly fucking frustrating how impossible it is to report ERPing art thieves on Twitter.

DMCAs doxx you, impersonation expects legal documentation.

I just want to get through to someone on their report team that actually understands furry impersonation goddammit.

I want more art of dragon toy me... who can I toss money at...

(Lineart by Rawr/Arin, colour by myself.)

Feral posture is good posture. Best to stand tall on all fours.