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Yeah, well, boring life is still pretty boring. The weather, especially the temperature, has led to me deciding that I'm unlikely to take more caravan trips this year, and I'm pondering where I actually want to go next year.

My RedSox are taking it down to the wire as to whether they'll make postseason - with six games to go it's still not guaranteed.

Worryingly there is, aiui, a possibility that DreamWidth might get geoblocked in the UK because of the government's stupid 'child protection demands proof of age' stuff. Already it's blocked from one US State for such a reason.

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Tales of Vesperia Liveblog, Part 3

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Trying the dreamwidth thing again!

Name: Celestial

Age: 31

I mostly post about:

my personal life, thoughts, day to day stuff. Sometimes mental health/trauma related stuff. Crafts, occasional outfit photos. Cat pics. I also recently did a huge family photo archiving project, so I want to share some cool old photos and what I know about the people in them.

My hobbies are:

I like dabbling in different types of crafts. Primarily into making beaded jewelry, but I've also been learning stained glass this year and that is really cool. Trying to get into reading again. Taking photos, doing home DIYs, watching a lot of movies and TV. I like fashion, but don't dress up much lately (trying to fix that).

My fandoms are:

not a huge fandom head in the traditional sense anymore. I'm a diehard My Chemical Romance fan since I was literally 10 years old. Also a big Nicolas Cage fan, almost finished with a quest to see every single movie of his. Can't think of many others off the top of my head but I fixate on stuff for a while and then forget about it.

I'm looking to meet people who:

are also neurodivergent (audhd here). have a wealth of different experiences and points of view. anyone who is willing to read and occasionally comment.

My posting schedule tends to be:

I'm aiming for once a week this time around, but may be more or less depending on what's going on in my life.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are:

No TERFs, no centrists or republicans, no Zionists. I don't care if you're personally religious but I'm not and don't appreciate that perspective in regards to my own life. No Harry Potter fans, it's lame if you're still into that given... everything. Don't be a shithead in general. And probably no one under 21.

Before adding me, you should know: Hmm. As I said, there may be the occasional post about mental health/trauma stuff. I'm also regrettably a true crime enjoyer, i rarely talk about it but if I do I'll tag. Unsure about anything else that might be relevant

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questions

Question thread #144

It's past time for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.

Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Kate Bush • Babooshka

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saturday

howdy hi hello yes yes

today i am rolling around in my bed and not feeling tired at all despite it already being midnight apparently...i just so happened to finally take a peek at my laptop clock, i can't believe it's already midnight...anyway, what have i been up to lately... a lot of work! we'll be prepping for the holidays soon which mean a lot of shipping orders starting october / november and moving forward into the true holiday + xmas rush. i'm excited, but i'm also a little nervous too...

in more exciting news, around 2 weeks ago, i discovered a band called Grandmaster due to the instagram algorithm recommending me something i actually think is cool and they are...so very cool...I REALLY REALLY like them and their concept and the lore and etc etc etc...regardless, I have recently been given the honor of drawing a few things for them to put on their merch!! I am beyond flattered they even came and asked me after I posted a bunch of silly sketches of their mascot/main guy...waaugh...it almost doesn't feel real...give them a listen if you have the time mayhaps? Their instagram is here too if you want to look at that. They are a prog funk / jazz fusion / jazz rock group and I really do like them a lot. ehe. Their new album will be out sometime next year!

what else...oh yesss i made a new personal mastodon instance. I just prefer having the ability to choose who i can federate with instead of having it done for me...I don't like not being able to see or talk to some people on different instances. I do like that you always have the option to go and just make your own instance to really free yourself up.

I think that's about it for now! I'll try to link to the stuff I made for GM once it's complete and up and all that. Yay!

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Name: Nora Neurosismancer (they/she)

Age: 41

I mostly post about: Whatever is on my mind, also my daily poetry when I'm happy enough with it to share.

My hobbies are: Poetry, paganism, witchcraft, and so much music. I'm big into all things gothy: darkwave and coldwave, post-punk, synthpop, new wave, industrial, metal, and just outright werid shit. Oh, and I do competitive air guitar.

My fandoms are: Star Trek and Trek-adjacent stuff, also I'm deep in the fandom for various bands, especially DEVO.

I'm looking to meet people who: Post interesting stuff. Bonus points if you're trans or some other flavor of queer.

My posting schedule tends to be: I'm aiming for a couple posts a week.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: No minors, no TERFs, no Nazis, no Evangelical Christians, no Harry Potter.

Before adding me, you should know: I write some pretty emotional, and sometimes sexually oriented poetry. I've precious little filter about adult topics.

back again!

name: squid

age: 21

location: midwestern united states

i post about: i'm into a lot of things but what i end up posting about are monthly periodical-types of the music i discover and listen to (free for anybody to access) and the general musings and feelings of an anxious college guy (behind an access lock). i might someday make a dedicated post about history or politics or literature but i rarely feel like i have any meaningful contribution to what could be said. that's a very broad characterization but check my about me on my profile for a slightly more detailed synopsis

my hobbies are: my whole life revolves around music, more or less :] i listen to music extensively (squid771 on last.fm and rateyourmusic), collect vinyl records, and go to college studying sound engineering (i'm a senior!). i have an off-again, on-again recording project that i'll someday release something under. i play guitar, i'm an untrained singer, and i play various keyboard instruments. i always try to watch movies but usually that means i'll just gather a bunch, watch 2 in one night, and then go 6 months without watching another. i'm trying to read more (5 books read this year; infinitely times more than the past couple of years), i'm big into history (currently researching the george mcgovern 1972 campaign, and concurrently the history of how the word socialism/communism got such a negative connotation in the U.S.), and i like to walk around at night, or in the rain, or both. i try to appreciate the little things. i want to write, and learn esperanto, but i've never found enough consistent motivation to try either

my fandoms are: i haven't really considered myself to be really big enough on anything to be part of a fandom, but some of my favorite bands/artists are fishmans, stereolab, broadcast, nick drake, elliott smith, the radio dept., the field mice (all of sarah records really), brian eno, yo la tengo, ichiko aoba, and many many others! i could talk about music for days and days. as far as like forms of media go i'm big into the trails series (games 1-5, trails and crossbell; cold steel ruined the franchise), deltarune (haven't played undertale but i generally know what happens by osmosis), off, team fortress 2, and disco elysium; and then cowboy bebop, samurai champloo, NGE, general 2000s adult swim-core type stuff for anime

i'm looking to meet people who: i put a post up here about 6 months ago when i first started this account and i did get a lot of responses but nearly all of the people that replied to me aren't active anymore. i'm looking for people to really connect with and are in this site for the long haul (or at least for a while). i'm not too picky about sharing interests but having mutual appreciation for something always helps. the main thing though is that i'm just trying to make more friends :]

my posting schedule tends to be: whenever i feel like there's enough going enough in my life to post about something. this is usually like 2 to 5 times a month. i do tend to get wordy in my posts for what that's worth

when I add people, my dealbreakers are: i'm a very vague socialist so i'm not particularly chill with MAGA types or people who are just unnecessarily rude but i think there's like only 2 people on this site with those beliefs anyways

before adding me, you should know: i don't really comment much but i read everything that's posted. i get in my own head about responding to/posting comments and not feeling like i have enough to say. but i'm always looking to talk to more people and come out of my shell
i'm very depressed and mildly autistic and can be in my head a lot of the time, so the posts behind my access lock can get mopey and despondent. i'm doing the best i can to grapple with my emotions and the world around me so a little bit of empathy goes a long way. we're all going through something

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what are you playing wednesday

What Are You Playing Wednesday

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Tales of Vesperia Liveblog, Part 2

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Current Mood: optimistic
Current Location: United States

Returning to This Website

Name: Nix/Nyx or other names (they/them or any pronouns).

Age: 28.

I mostly post about: I'll probably post about my life the most consistently. I might also post writings and about my creative projects in general. Overall, I think I'll mainly use this blog/journal to process thoughts or ideas and to help me remember things, as I have a terrible memory. Maybe I'll post song lyrics and/or poetry I come up with, too.

My hobbies are: Making music, listening to music, gaming (I play a variety of games), reading (manga, graphic novels, articles, books, etc.), writing, streaming (I'm currently streaming as a VTuber), content creation, and more. I also recently started drawing again with digital art and go on the occasional hike.

My fandoms are: This is going to be embarrassing, but I'm not sure what counts as a "fandom." Maybe I'm overthinking the definition? Either way, I don't think I am a part of any specific fandoms right now, but that could change. Some things I like that I can think of right now are Okami (for nostalgia reasons) and Baldur's Gate 3.

I'm looking to meet people who: I'm mostly looking for more people around my age. It's a plus if you're also LGBTQIA+, disabled, or neurodivergent, and it's even better if we share interests.

My posting schedule tends to be: This time around (I used this website a while back), I'll probably post pretty sporadically overall. In the past, there were points where I almost posted daily, so that might happen again.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: I'm okay-ish with differing opinions as long as it's nothing too major, but that's probably a thin line I don't even fully understand yet. (I like keeping my mind open to new ideas if others will do the same.) However, I do draw the line at right-winged people and centrists. That's all I'm going to put for now. Oh, and please be at least 20 years old. Thank you.

Before adding me, you should know: I struggle with my mental and physical health and will probably post about that a lot. For similar reasons (mostly related to my energy levels and shyness), I also have a hard time commenting on posts, but I'm trying to overcome that. Responding to DMs can be even worse, even though I do appreciate messages from people.

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Man who grew up with back issues of Permaculture Magazine has strong opinions on agriculture lol

On a less virulently angry note: my book on urbanisation and the dead has been explaining how to tell the impact of the "Neolithic Revolution" on the human population via teeth and deaths and man, agriculture was bad for us on almost every front except fertility! Evolution, you fucker.

A couple of notes:

1. interestingly the populations that suffered the least from agricultural adoption were ones involved in "wet rice farming"; Neolithic Thai and Japanese civilisations didn't have the tooth problems than were present at the Dicksons Mound civilisation at the equivalent developmental period or at Aşlıkı Höyük. No word on any South American cultures but it does rather put a hole below the waterline on the ~Tumblrite Morality Inversion~ mentality of New World Civilisations Did Everything Right, Only Evil Europe And Evil Adjacent Areas are wrong at things.*

2. You inherit caries from your mother. As in your oral bacteria are transferred through "prechewed food and maternal affection" as an infant so you end up with your mother's bacterial microbiome, in the same way that vaginal birthed children receive the faecal microbiome of their mothers by uh. being in the poo? I think? IDK because I was a Caesarian back when those were uncommon.

3. It's set me thinking again about how much environment and resources shape the development of cultures and the "speed" at which they reach specific "milestones" in their history. Scare quotes because environment and resources and the culture that develops also dictate what people value, what their purposes are. AS a loose example: woven cloth is not a high priority if you live in a place where it rots off your body in a month. The effort/reward ratio is just not worth it. Writing is held up as another one, but as multiple cultures in Australia have demonstrated, you don't necessarily need writing when you have a continuous intergenerationally-checked oral cultural memory stretching back possibly 40,000 years.

4. In partnership with what I was reading last night while I was tracking down the etymology of "Gunyah": agriculture has been tried most places where people live, independently of external influence. Some places abandoned it, some places did it for only alternate years, some places had more regenerative variants (floating gardens, food forests, etc), and nowhere, not even in Evil Europe Which Does Everything Wrong, did people completely abandon hunting and gathering as a full culture--not even during industrialisation--until the advent of the 20th century.

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What Are You Playing (Thursday)

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