Indi Latrani @indi@awoo.space
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Glowy Postfurry Gay Coyotter Rave Toy.
Responding to @mentions and not much else. 💜
Joined Apr 2017
@irisjaycomics For serious I didn't even parse that as a mistake, I figured there was like a 72K web design contest like the 64K demoscene stuff.
POV-Ray was such a big part of my high school "getting way into Computers" memories.
I reading about Phong shading (uuuh because of ReBoot of course) and I saw this and it sent me into this deep reverie of twiddling shading parameters in a text editor.
I'm weirdly glad that the POV-Ray website still looks like this:
@emanate Yeah oddly enough I did that same breakdown with my antecedents and got one color-pair for each too. :) It actually helped me rethink some of my spark/steel/smoke stuff too which made for an interesting lot of thinking last night.
@somekindofcrow And now I'm curious; what's your take on R/U/W?
@somekindofcrow To be clear, I don't think someone's taste in game flavor has anything to do with their personality in a general sense, but you may've already noticed that I'm one of those folks who's basically ALWAYS playing for bleed. ;)
@somekindofcrow Yeah TBH all the philosophy-of-black stuff I've read really just drives home why it never really bothered me back in high school when my Christian mom said "okay you can play it as long as you don't use the black cards". ;)
It always sorta gave me bad feels.
@reibeatall I goofed and forgot to link the original article, it is here: https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/the-mtg-color-wheel-c9700a7cf36d
@literorrery Yeah, thought you might. :)
Did not expect a personality-typology article about the MtG color wheel would make me cry, but here we are:
This is everything I want to be, and it helps me see how to get there and yet how far off it still is.
Wellp, I can no longer say that no one at work has commented on my collar. After just over 5 years, that streak is broken.
Upside: It came up because a very cool coworker who also turns out to be poly and kinky mentioned a leatherworking class I might be interested in. XD
@literorrery What do you got for something that connotes being meaningfully other-than-human, without using the words 'other' or 'human'. Bonus points if it still clearly connects back to the historical antecedents. ;)
@literorrery Hey wanna help me make up a new identity label word? ;)
@Oneironott @starkatt @literorrery @vagabondsun See I have a lot of hesitation with this because the "Actual X" construction is really commonly used for comedic overstatement reasons ("This pic has actually killed me with cuteness, I am literally dead") that they make me personally worry MORE about it being unclear.
@starkatt @literorrery @vagabondsun See I get the stuff about the baggage, and that's what gives me reclaiming feelings, though admittedly I'm going off of just having read a lovely dissection of how the mid 2000's communities really made a toxic hash of things.
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@starkatt @indi @vagabondsun I don't think that word "belongs" to anyone, is what I'm getting at. It didn't evolve organically from within the old guard; it was a late introduction drawing a distinction most older community members didn't really see as relevant because "were" covered a broad range of identity-expressions. We'd already rejected Lion Templin's "contherianthropy" by then, f'rex. "Therian" wasn't our word for ourselves until after several schisms and subsumption into furry.
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@starkatt @indi @vagabondsun I was in ahww back in 1992-3, and I don't recall anyone using the word before Eternal September; it evolved later, when some people tried to distinguish "non-human identity" and "were means 'human' and I'm not" from "spiritual animal connection." Honestly, I think more people have heard of the word from the Furry Surveys than from original community source material.
@literorrery @starkatt @vagabondsun OMFG this is a FASCINATING wrinkle on the whole thing, and I REMEMBER that "but 'were' is human!" objection now and this is kinda blowing my mind in light of what the communities have become now (viz: a lot of "we all know we're ultimately human" respectability stances)
@starkatt @vagabondsun I am literally right now sorta engaged in a conversation with Emily right now about "hey can we just reclaim it" ;)
The thing is I was never really engaged in the communities either, one thing I maybe should've made more clear in my post is that like, when I look at those labels it's usually in terms of "would these resources or ideas be useful for me to try", and only secondarily considering what they communicate to others.
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pronouns: he/him • ve/ver
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Glowy Postfurry Gay Coyotter Rave Toy.
Responding to @mentions and not much else. 💜
Joined Apr 2017
