green except too damn hot @green@awoo.space

@indi that feel; I know it well. much, much empathy.

@JulieSqveakaroo *sends empathy and offers of gentle hugthoughts*

@girlareyoubot@botsin.space yes, in fact I am! :D

@aparrish @xuv plus the costs (not high, but not inconsequential) of setting up and maintaining the instance on your own equipment. it would force more of an investment than the "tweetdecks" seem to make currently, especially if their instance gets blocked by most of the fediverse; then they have to start over with a new one. too much bother, not enough obvious return--at least, at this stage.

@lizmonster I had a depressive disorder, since childhood, and no idea what the problem was--I didn't figure it out and learn how to treat it for another decade and a half; I was dating an Actual Sociopath who was my very first emotionally/verbally abusive boyfriend (I didn't know that was a *thing* until later, too); and I was living in Oakland, CA, and doing... a wide variety of illegal and quasi-legal things. 9___9 I'm glad I survived too, and thank you! <3

@Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town oh, ugh. much empathy and hugpets offered.

@lizmonster so for me the age 21 is linked directly to thoughts of dealing with alcohol, intoxication, and addiction. also "dear GOD how did I SURVIVE some of the stuff I was doing" because wow I made some incredibly bad decisions, and I was EXTREMELY LUCKY. more than once.

yeah, I'd love to have that body again, but that age was... not good for me. *shudder*

@lizmonster I remember my 21st birthday because my friends took me bar crawling. it wasn't my first time drinking, or going to a bar (we were Bad Kids), but it was my first time doing so *legally*, and since it was my birthday every bar we went to gave us a round of free drinks. (I also remember 21 was when I recognized how close I was veering to alcoholism, and decided to moderate my intake, which worked for me, fortunately.)

@Aradia@mastodon.social D: D: D:

@Elizafox oh please make this a bot thing, omg I would follow and repost so much, yesss

@Austin_Dern @ElectricKeet actually, that's... pretty damn close to what works for me: find something I don't want to do *more*, convince myself that thing needs to be done NO REALLY RIGHT NOW, and I'll find myself producing all kinds of other stuff instead...

@Elizafox (and this is a little incoherent and burbly because I'm sick, hahalololweee)

@Elizafox fwiw, I don't always agree with you, but I do enjoy your, uh, virtual company. you've never caused me personally more than mild irritation with those disagreements (I can't even remember any of them as examples right now). if anything the programming posts are the ones I'm most likely to skip over. XD but I really do like reading what you post. you make people *think*, and sometimes that's worth upsetting people. plus you're funny, and kind, and enjoyable. <3

@mona@cybre.space @kara@occult.camp @ghost_bird@witches.town which reminds me of the bit in Xenophile (the Phil Foglio comic) where a couple ride a horse to a standing stone circle and have sex, then wake up with the male (iirc) having turned into a centaur. they discover that the centaur-ness is transmissable via sex. this ends up (after a not-shown sequence) with their disgruntled horse having six legs. XD

@kara@occult.camp sorry, Dionysus was raised as a girl to hide from *Hera*, who had tried to kill their pregnant mother and possibly the infant as well, because Hera.

@kara@occult.camp Dionysus, who was hidden from Zeus as a kid by being changed into a girl and growing up with the Maenads.

Kuan Yin, who is honored in different regions as male, female, or both/neither.