Indi Latrani @indi@awoo.space

Re: City spirit-homes: I feel I'd be remiss if I didn't give a nod toward some of the GOOD sculpture around the city here. Nature-oriented, community-orient.

Maybe I'll post some pics someday if the sun ever comes out again. ;)

The city where I live now has sculpture too. Inspiring curves and imposing angles of metal stand in front of offices and retail complexes, inviting the spirits of the city to make their homes there.

Of course they come, new-wrought urban spirits, sleek and shiny and ready to be looked at. But all they show us is more of the same.

“This place is new and exciting and up-to-date! Come see, come see!"

I long to see them rust, just a bit, showing that nature works its ways here too.

The town where I grew up was filled with spirit-homes, shrines, sculpture.

Here, the path of the rivers that surround us shown in miniature on the sidewalk, reminding us how small we are.

There, a coyote silhouette, who could hide among the real ones when they wander through at night.

Elsewhere, wind plays in spinning spirals of colored metal, the invisible made visible.

Nature and history were invited in, twined through our streets, as we made our homes uneasily among them.

Felt pretty lousy today, but am currently managing quite a bit better than the fast few days, after a bout of worse-feeling and then a fair bit of tearful discussion.

Improvements due in large part to my patient and thoughtful owner, who I'm very thankful for.

@itsnero @irisjaycomics I wish I had a way to, like, bring a LOT of folks down there at once, if only for a visit. I could do an awesome tour.

@literorrery Yeah exactly; I've HEARD the aphorism "Comment the why, not the what" but I'm not sure I ever heard it when I was learning programming in the first place.

Perhaps I can process some of my weird current homesickness feelings by griping about internet media!

...I'm not sure how I feel about Night Vale.

This is not to say I don't like it. It's clever, and weirdly soothing, and really good at representation.

I just... it's hard to describe.

Imagine there was a podcast about a weird little town a lot like the one YOU grew up in, earnestly focusing on evoking a definite sense of place...

...but it was written by a bunch of New York City hipsters.

@literorrery I wonder how much of this is a result of folks teaching commenting badly?

@irisjaycomics @itsnero Have you ever been down there?

All I want is the resources to be able to move my entire social group to New Mexico and set them up without having to worry about working.

@Scavenger@octodon.social Yup. :(

@ElectricKeet User-agent spoofing is what I did; just take the "Waterfox/53.0.1" bit off the end there.

Y'know, my first impulse in this whole thing was to make a (minor, gentle) case in favor of "One has to draw the browser-support line somewhere, for the mental health of support folks if nothing else" but if they're doing this sort of picky-ass user-agent check to determine what's supportable and what isn't, that's pretty fucking inexcusable. :P

@ElectricKeet I have a solution for this (just tested it) if you need one.

@KoBunny This sounds like something that would help me a lot too.

Especially if the cabin was on the other side of the Cascades.

I mean, I'd go either way but... yeah.

@literorrery Elanna mentioned this last night too. It's worth a try, at least. :)

I have really been missing the desert lately.

This isn't (just) a subtoot at the weather; I've been thinking a lot about how much that sort of landscape resonates with me.

@irisjaycomics *showers you in wads of money*

@irisjaycomics I will literally double my Patreon pledge for this. At least. :D :D :D

@irisjaycomics (PLEASE DO THIS)

@irisjaycomics So next project is magic college but everyone is (even more) gay, with sassy gay familiars to sell it to the furries too?