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Minor family negativity, gender 

Still, that was an awful lot of emotional labor to have to do for a parent, especially given the very basic requests like "maybe could you not deadname my partner"

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Not included in the letter, thankfully: the polyamory thing or the paganism thing.

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Helping my mom write a letter to explain both my gender and sexuality situation to my extended family. THAT'S a fun little bit of wordsmithing. o.o

@forestservice Pouring something healthy for the tree (rainwater is good) at the roots is pretty commonly accepted too. :)

So I'm seeing some discussion about why Mastodon isn't necessarily taking off with certain minorities (let's be honest, they mean POCs while trying to dance around the term, this place is super White asides from the apparent Japan contingent).

Here's some thoughts:

1. The whole notion of "instances" is really unintuitive. When you Google "Mastodon", you get an instance like mastodon.social, but it's not immediately apparent that M.S isn't your only option or WHY you'd want a different instance

@vahnj Seattle always seems to have more future than I expected! For instance, didn't realize you were here too! ;)

dysphoria? sort of? 

@tieflingjinx Happy to help at least that little bit; is why I like to mention that sort of thing; is always need helpful to me too; I feel like such a weird case sometimes that it's nice to hear from anyone even vaguely similar.

dysphoria? sort of? 

@tieflingjinx Yeah this is all pretty relatable. *offers hugs*

@vahnj I thought kobolds were tiny dragonkin, not goblinoids! ;)

Just had a long meander about meditation best-practices in another chat, and ended it with the phrase "Hopefully that won't brick my god-phone"

...I do the technomancy thing the other way, apparently.

House, Magic 

@literorrery Yeah, I'm familiar with this feeling with our house too. Trying hard not to be the neglectful sort, mostly managing, with some difficulty. The yard is still a huge quandry.

House, Magic 

@literorrery The sunk cost fallacy is only a fallacy in the context of a purely mechanistic objective-value-based universe.

...Not sure if that actually helps with the core issue though.

@ThorGoLucky Seconded! I like it even better with Dr. Pepper though. Also I'm spoiled by living in Seattle where I can get good cheap local aquavit.

Drugs, alcohol 

@Siphonay If you like the smell of unburnt cannabis you might be fine with the taste?

I don't mind it myself but I know lots of folks do (I also don't mind the taste of psilocybe, so I am obviously some sort of mutant. ;))

Most edibles put a lot of effort into masking it (and it still comes through a bit usually)

Drugs, alcohol 

@Siphonay Only if you like the taste of cannabis. ;)

When I make it I use absinthe spices as well. I call it Faerie Dragon. ^.^

Alcohol 

ought to be easy for me, I literally designed a cocktail for that, years ago. But I don't have a pic of it right now.

Oh well, gives me something to do tonight. ;)

@Siphonay Such a pretty color; if only it stayed that green. Mine always turns brown after a few months.

Today was positive, but draining. Hope I sleep well. Until tomorrow, awoo-friends! 💜

@MinUmbra I knew I should've added a :heart: at the end. ;) Yay for emoji with actual linguistic content. :heart:

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