kasran, fourier transfemme @typhlosion@awoo.space

I hope everyone is staying safe

An analogy for fedi feeds: "Home" is the folks you like hanging out with. "Local" is the cafe where you like hanging out. "Federated" is the city the cafe is in.

#twittermigration

kobold: uwu
dragon: wow!! how do you do that?
kobold: well first u gotta close both your eyes like your taking a big nap
dragon: ok u_u
kobold: then u put on a smile like you just ate some good cookie dough!
dragon: uwu
kobold: yea!!

Writers are taught not to write wish-fulfillment—it's too easy, boring, or low stakes. But that reasoning is wrong. It only seems that way because we've all already read thousands of wish-fulfillment stories about cis het able-bodied white males, so they're very... predictable.

For every other demographic?

Readers actively, desperately crave wish-fulfillment stories about themselves, because they rarely if ever see them.

#writing #craft

Wrote some words on the what, the why and the how of the Cosmic Conquest port.

https://www.evolutional.co.uk/post/cosmic-conquest/

‘My hands have now regained the moderate ability they possessed before I was captured,’ observed Maturin, ‘but his have gone on to a point I never thought he could reach: his hands and his mind. I am amazed. In his own way he is the secret rat of the world.’

Did I ever show y’all my sketchbook cover I painted

With a heavy heart, I must announce my departure from tech. After much contemplation and soul-searching, I have come to realize that my true calling lies elsewhere - the shadowy, eldritch realm of Lovecraftian horror.

For too long, I have been confined to the mundane realities of coding and debugging, but the allure of ancient deities and forbidden knowledge has beckoned me forth. I can no longer resist the Great Old Ones, and must set forth on a journey to explore the mysteries of the cosmos.