Indi Latrani @indi@awoo.space

Hey it's a pagan article of the day, two days in a row!

http://paganbloggers.com/critter/blog/2017/05/09/on-pagan-writing-styles/

This one is actually really relevant to the conversations with @literorrery et all last night!

We grew up with fewer positive interactions with humans, and more time to focus on everything else in the world.

We have to either make our peace with the rejection of family and tradition, or learn to radically reinterpret them.

We have to fight against consensus reality just to express our identities and live our lives.

Queer people are magic.

It's not that we're born with some secret chosen-one destiny.

It's just that we get plenty of practice at it.

Paganism for plushies
Spiritwork for the synthetic
Animism for AIs

@literorrery I mean, for serious:

"Program to an 'interface', not an 'implementation'."

That sounds like pretty much exactly what you were getting at earlier. ;)

@literorrery Help I'm reading summaries of Design Patterns (the book) and it's giving me praxis ideas.

Hey it's time again for one of those intermittent "Indi posts a paganism/spiritwork thing!"

http://sarahannelawless.com/2017/04/23/everthing-you-need-to-know-about-animism/

"Everything You Need to Know About Animism", and the title is surprisingly apt; it's 8000 words long, very in-depth, and raises a ton of points I agree with, and only a few I take minor issue with.

If you want to know where I'm coming from with all this 'animist' stuff, that's a good place to start!

(I wish I had a better handle on what I mean by 'not a person' to make it clear I don't mean it in a self-deprecating way, heh. Language is hard)

One of the hardest things is how I want to TALK about stuff , but I sort of don't know where to start; I feel like I'm... imposing, or being annoying, whenever I ponder discussing specifics.

That's why I ask for questions from folks sometimes. Helps me form my thoughts, when they're in relation to others.

Just one of the ways that goes to show how I'm... not exactly quite a person, I suppose. ;)

Blugh. Sorry for being scarce and possibly worrisome lately. It continues to be a rough few weeks for me, feeling hung up on a lot of things (gender stuff, job stuff, relationship stuff, y'know, basically everything)

It's all frustratingly hard to talk about, but I can reassure folks that I feel like things are... getting better?

I seem to have this pattern where things start feeling dramatically worse just when they seem like they're about to start getting better. It's.. frustrating.

From Star Wars RPG tonight:

"I wanna go out like a Jedi!"

"...Getting cut in half by a Sith in the first movie?"

Anyway, that probably sounds more maudlin than I actually feel right now. Mostly I'm just feeling like a rather silly object right now, for letting something like that slip.

Also I guess have another piece of furry erotica to add to my "this book fundamentally improved my identity/worldview" list.

(https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TKWEZNM/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1J9ACPSJU3GY3&coliid=IBL5GP9W8GLT4)

What does it say about me, about my needs, that I can forget for so long how important it is to be to embrase being a toy, being artificial, having a purpose, being useful?

But when I do finally remember, what does it say about me, the eeling of rightness and clarity and completeness and hope that returns to my life once I realize it was missing, and reach for it again, how easily the thoughts of what I was made for just come together in my mind.

Merging my furry and professional profiles like a boss, right here.

Aaaah I just noticed my first Mastodon PR got accepted today! \o/ https://github.com/tootsuite/joinmastodon/pull/8

Thanks @Gargron!

(And then we came up with a whole bunch of text changes throughout the rest of today. Oh well, more commits to come!)

Thoughts from a conversation in another venue:

MOBAs and Team Shooters seem to have ended up with a pretty clear shared aesthetic: Stylized, glowy, diverse morphology (read: Cool animal people and robots and stuff). This aesthetic is REALLY APPEALING to me, but I cannot play the games worth a darn. I wonder if this will ever spread beyond those genres.

Basically: When can I get a game with cute glowy furries that I can actually play? c.c;

Multiculturalism 👍: When the only thing I'm anxious about when mentioning my spiritual observances to my boss is the possibility of a philosophical debate about the differences between his polytheism (Hindu) and mine.