Indi Latrani @indi@awoo.space

Other cool/weird things I saw there, not mentioned in the article:

- A Games Workshop store, marked by (of course) a big Space Marine statue to match the big Gundam statue in the Bandai store.

- Another 'arcade' area that was just aisle upon aisle of crane games

- A "spy gadget" store (?!)

- A really good comic shop that we went to semi-regularly for most of our time living in the Bay.

I knew someone who worked at the Bandai store; it was him that store, and the Gundam film at the anime film festival Bandai sponsored (that my friend comped for me) that got me watching the series to begin with.

A LOT of my early good SF memories are twined up in that building, wow.

I didn't actually know the bit about the history of the arcade, it was Portal 1 for as long as I was there, so I assumed the decor was off-brand "Stargate-y" stuff (as was the style in arcades at the time). I wish I'd known it was Mobius stuff, I would've appreciated it more. XD

https://twitter.com/MaxKriegerVG/status/968609994764705792

Sorta a sequel to the one @irisjaycomics shared previously about DisneyQuest.

I remember going to the Metreon a lot when I was first in SF in the mid-2000's, I could already see it starting to go downhill then, but I loved it. I'm honestly pretty sad to see how the story ended.

I mean I think this is a huge proportion of why like I don't get art very often (money aside); it's always this huge gauntlet of "How do I get folks to see me correctly, hnnnngh"

Oh cool cool cool that special flavor of dysphoria that comes from "oops all my refsheets are subtly wrong"

#postfurryworldproblems?

LB: Just played this and it's real good. Made me feel good things in a very difficult-gender-stuff day.

All the 'feminize your voice' stuff makes me nope out super fucking hard for a number of just... very me reasons.

Next best idea, "maybe just sound more 'gay'"... Yeah, don't bother googling that.

I hate my voice so much and I have zero fucking clue how to make it better. >.<

OMG so... I've been misgendering Breel for... years? I am embarrassed but also kinda squeeeing about a whole BUNCH of stuff in retrospect now. :D

*gets convinced to go out in public on Tapestries MUCK with a variant gender setting, because it might get more folks more interested*

*gets whispered to immediately....

...By someone of the gender presentation I'm usually not interested in (as stated clearly in my preferences), who seems to want me, an obvious subby toy, to dom her*

Cool, rad, this is working great. :P

So has anyone else ever experienced like, I'm not sure what to call it other than reverse sense memory?

Many years ago, back in college, I spilled an entire condiment cup of soy sauce all across my laptop keyboard. Fixing it involved a harrowing disassembly and it never fully recovered, and also forever after smelled of dried soy sauce. :P

I just spilled a cup of water all over my work laptop. Fortunately, this computer is a lot more resilient. Unfortunately, I KEEP SMELLING SOY SAUCE. O.o

Re the current discussions about making friends in communities where open sexuality is common, I'm thinking about how we can do better with tools and values about communication.

So, I have a question for folks, especially those who feel they're not well-served in these communities currently:

What do YOU, personally, want others to know about your needs, regarding sexuality or lack thereof?

(Answers in DMs okay!)