Indi Latrani @indi@awoo.space

Hey y'all, should probably mention I'm going through a rough anxiety-spike time lately and have worked out that I should pull back a bit on my reading of here (This is not anything anyone is doing wrong, it's largely my anxious-brain's horrid compulsion to read CW-toots that I probably shouldn't, etc)

So I'm gonna try and mostly go to "write-only" here; you probably shouldn't expect me to pick up on anything important if it's announced here.

That being said, being reachable and connected is really important to me, so if you wanna talk, please nudge me via DM, or on Telegram (https://t.me/IndiLatrani)

And I'll probably still be here somewhat, just maybe less and I don't want anyone to worry or find me hard to reach. 💜

#introductions, woo! Haven't done this in a while.

* Usually a coyote/otter critter, currently a reindeer, because of winter!
* #postfurry, glowy, synthetic, specifically ✨​plush✨
* #otherkin AND #furry (Which I suppose means therian too!)
* #nonbinary, also gay. Ask me how! ;)
* Animist #pagan spiritworker, who's ended up running regular rituals at my (owner's) house in Seattle
* UX design for dayjob, surprisingly relevant to the above
* Never ever used this many hashtags at once before

Found this picture, now crying again. 💜

I keep crying about the Opportunity rover today.

It's been a stressful and emotional day otherwise too, but more than once, something about Opportunity has sent me over the edge; I'm writing this out in a little phone-booth room at work to try and... something.

When Opportunity landed, I was still in college. I knew that. But I looked up details. It was a Sunday. I was at a furry convention. I had just met up with Elanna for the first time in meatspace, a day or two before. I went back to school with some degree of clarity about my life. I was going to graduate, and move out there to California, spend more time with the folks I met out there (Elanna included).

Opportunity's mission was supposed to last 90 days. Before I graduated. I remember being in my dorm room hearing all the cool new things from the Mars rovers, hearing about them continuing on past their original missions. It feels so fresh. I wish it wasn't so long ago.

I graduated. I moved to California. It was okay. I met a lot of folks. I finally started missing New Mexico again after a few years, and in 2007, I visited. We went to a space museum, saw a movie about the rover missions, and their already-unprecedented mission success.

In May 2011, we moved to Seattle. It was pretty good. Less than a month later they called the end of the Spirit rover mission. (I didn't notice at the time, I just saw it when I was researching it today.) Opportunity was still going. Had been going all that time, through so many life changes.

I didn't really pay much attention or think much when they last contact with the rover last summer. For some reason it only hit me now. Now, in the midst of winter, with a myriad of life stresses, when I keep having these bouts of "I wish I could go back to when life was simpler." And then this. For some reason it feels like now I can't. I was in college then. I was working out what to do with my life. Trying new things. And now I keep feeling like I just have to to grow up.

I'll miss you, little rover.

So I'm gonna try and mostly go to "write-only" here; you probably shouldn't expect me to pick up on anything important if it's announced here.

That being said, being reachable and connected is really important to me, so if you wanna talk, please nudge me via DM, or on Telegram (https://t.me/IndiLatrani)

And I'll probably still be here somewhat, just maybe less and I don't want anyone to worry or find me hard to reach. 💜

Hey y'all, should probably mention I'm going through a rough anxiety-spike time lately and have worked out that I should pull back a bit on my reading of here (This is not anything anyone is doing wrong, it's largely my anxious-brain's horrid compulsion to read CW-toots that I probably shouldn't, etc)

Hey everyone, I'd like to share a really fun Kickstarter project that my Alpha/owner/mate Elanna is involved with!

It's an album of songs produced via predictive text keyboards by a bunch of very funny folks, whose work you may have seen before producing a Harry Potter chapter the same way.

It's a really fun project, with some very affordable (and some very silly) rewards, and it'd be awesome if you checked it out

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1410676500/the-songularity-a-pop-album-by-humans-and-machines/description

Okay so I'm in a huge work meeting and there is a thing they're talking about called PBIS and they pronounce it as a word and I don't understand how no one else is giggling every time.

Magic stuff update: Things went really really well again! You all are awesome, thank you!

https://awoo.space/media/XHOfgUYT3ZXG3tNM1uk

It is probably going to make me even more noodly with my toot wording though, whoooops.

OMGs sine when has my instance had a 'delete and re-draft' option for toots, that is THE BEST.

Positive result and I'm feeling much better, thank y'all!

I may do this sort of thing more often, if that's okay with folks; it's nice to get my practice out there a bit more.

https://awoo.space/media/JJyakP2kwrrmDm5ibC8

Oh how lovely, the urban chicken-farm somewhere in our neighborhood has a rooster now. -.-

Being actually woken up by a rooster crowing outside is surprisingly baffling experience.

All this just for some language lessons for me to use as cute emoji signoffs here.

My life's weird. :D

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Well that was certainly an official out of body experience.

Time gets weird.

💭​ If the characters used to represent and promote organized proto-furry meets were like, weird colorful psychic alien hybrid critters, does that mean postfurry has existed as long as furry has?

https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Skiltaire

* That cleanly brings us right back around to the main point; dirt/earthiness
* Sometimes you gotta get mundane. Sometimes you get mundane when you don't want to.
* Either way it's a good idea to have a notion of how to get back out of it when you don't want it anymore.

Reclaiming (and banishing) Mundanity

* Writing off someone as "just some Mundane" is right out.
* But look at the root of the word; mundus; world; earth
* A tangent: Lots of spiritual/woo stuff talks about "purification", there's arguments back and forth about whether this is puritan horseshit or value-neutral hygienics.
* I like to think of it in terms of what goes in what place. Dirt is a great and good thing when you're working in the garden, but less welcome inside