Lady @Lady@cat.family

i don't want Theories i want Lore!!!

people think you can Prove a Theory with Facts and References and fans that's not how fiction works

(namely fansite forums)

my problem is i'm actually a lore and worldbuilding and folklore nerd but that doesn't have good representation on AO3 and the places where it does have good representation i wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole

« “Want a quick blowjob sexy?” Link smiled and nodded. » zelda is a great fandom because your generic teenage smutfic author’s inept ability to describe how people engage with sex happens to also be how Link canonically engages with everything

titled “Zelda smut” but it's about Link

apparently for October this instance is doing pokémon

@binoclard@octodon.social yes, it is worth the risk; it is much easier in academia if your name (and email!) match what you actually go by because that stuff gets cemented in people's contact infos and can be hard to change

(if your email does not match your name you might want to consider filing a support ticket to have it changed before a bunch of people start using it professionally)

my guess is your professors will be chill about it but if they aren't it's better to find that out sooner rather than later

formality/professionalism can be a help not a hindrance here because it reduces the appropriateness of invasive personal questions. if someone is bothering you just be like “excuse me but my gender identity is not why we are here”. don't be a jerk about it, but be unyielding

@zoec

- a large hosting provider will have data centres around the world, so i'm not sure what “jurisdiction of hosting” actually means—it may be more complicated than where the server and data physically sits. if you care about price, DDoS protection, uptime, etc, a large provider like Linode is probably your best bet—but does a Linode server in Frankfurt Germany count as “hosted in Europe”? in some senses maybe yes, but Linode is still an American company.

- i'm not sure there is such a thing as a good domain registrar; DNS registration is in essence kind of a grift. every registrar wants you to buy names you don't need and will try to sell you things which aren't useful (like blockchain names) because that's how they make their money. if there IS a good one i haven't met it (and don't trust it will stay good); personally i would shoot for “easy to use and won't screw me over” here and not expect to find anything better than that

- regarding the last two points, these are a tooling problem not a hosting problem, imo. IF YOU CAN (a) find a cheap server you can ssh into, and (b) set up a Makefile to run your static site generator and then call rsync—updating your site becomes as easy as typing `make sync`. the question is whether you have the comfort level to build and maintain that tooling. in this case i think “too much tech” is the wrong way to think about it—good tech makes your life easier, not harder—and it's the solutions for people who don't have much comfort with tech which are always both limiting and a hassle to work in (because they don't let you automate and optimize for the workflow which is best for you)

as far as price is concerned, i have an extremely small and boring linux server on Linode and it costs $5 USD/mo plus tax and requires negligible effort on my end. i think this is an appropriate ballpark price; it might be possible to go cheaper (but not much) and i would be wary of anything significantly more expensive

just lingo no duo

garfield without garfield but it's duolingo without the owl

« Protests were traditionally just one tool in activist campaigns to pressure governments, alongside back-room negotiations with political leaders or alliance-building with powerful actors. The use of social media, by channeling popular energy away from such organizing, means that mass protest is now often the only tool, and typically ineffective on its own. »

« A protest does not have power just because many people get together in one place. Rather, a protest has power insofar as it signals the underlying capacity of the forces it represents. »

jaunty lil kitty pose

@noelle although the most severe concerns of https://youtu.be/hqwP6uuYOWo aren't applicable to non-fan creators, i agree generally with the take that the list of reasons to talk about a thing prematurely look something like

1. you need help finishing the thing
2. there is no reason 2

(actually there are some other reasons, like you want to teach people HOW you are doing the thing so they can follow in your footsteps, you want to give friends insight into your life, etc, but these are all decidedly non-promotional)

@noelle i think ideally you should never talk about it

as a creator, both (a) the time spent talking about the thing and (b) the positive feedback you receive about the thing sap your strength to actually finish the thing (both in terms of cost of engagement and because you inevitably start to derive fulfilment from “talking about the thing” instead of “doing the thing”, which is not a position which lends itself well to the thing getting done)

the ideal situation for someone making a thing is for OTHER PEOPLE to share it and talk about it without you having to say a word, so you can focus on your job, which is actually making the dang thing. in my opinion they will do that if:

- they can make cool things with your thing
- your thing enables them to better connect with others
- your thing enables them to complete important tasks
- your thing is impressive to them in some way
- your thing makes them feel emotions
- they are a fan of you or your previous work

unfortunately all of these cases except the last one require already having made a thing

i would much rather somebody take my code and extend it and then let me know, so that i could review the extensions and make my own determination on whether or how to incorporate them into the original codebase, than someone send me an MR

share recipes, share patches, write code you can use today and then use it