Lady @Lady@cat.family

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/us/russian-activists-asylum.html

hate it when the art requires that the lesbianism be implicit rather than explicit

@alyssa porky i believe

the local and federated timelines are an important affordance offered by the mastodon software, enabling traditional queer community practices like the “awoo”

contemplating creating an AO3 alt…

« Seven years later, the Carpenters set up a tent in Gerudo Valley in order to restore the bridge that the Gerudo destroyed to ward off intruders. However, Mutoh is the only one remaining as his employees have all abandoned him to join the Gerudos as thieves. The female bandits reject the Carpenters and hold them prisoner in separate cells throughout their fortress. » sorry people who want to claim the gerudo aren’t TERFs

« Bolson's profession, demeanor, and attire are an allusion to the Carpenters in the Japanese version of Ocarina of Time. In it, the Carpenters would aimlessly prance around Kakariko Village and notably employ characteristically feminine speech. Additionally, one of the Carpenters refers to Link as a cute boy. These are stereotypical traits of gay men in Japanese media that weren't properly adapted for the English versions. » TIL this was a reference

@yuki2501 the fact that it is years or sometimes centuries before a piece of writing connects with someone who understands it is a strength of the medium, not a weakness. the fact that writing can exist, unnoticed, for decades and then suddenly leap of the page and grip someone’s heart is why it is powerful. you aren’t doing live standup comedy, you know? try not to judge your work solely based off of the immediate audience reaction right now; that’s not what the medium you’re working in is made for.

i’m not going to pretend like this isn’t lonely but i also want to suggest that you are not powerless. if you create something that you think is important, then what you are waiting for is simply for that thing to be encountered by someone else who agrees. that person may not exist in your audience right now, but you have to have faith that they will exist eventally, and give them a fighting chance at reading your piece when they do.

at what point will they realize i am just joshing and they do not have to Respond

oh no is this author the type to want to reply to every comment because i am the type to make a friendly shitpost in response to every reply

@clacke this is a fair response; it probably wasn’t clear but my intention WASN’T to pin blame for this culture on the GNU Social software or OStatus protocol (which i actually generally respect) but more emphasize the fact that what we (or, some people) consider the “fediverse” today is a completely different set of technologies and instances compared to what it was in those days

i can say, subjectively, that the channer culture was established Enough to take issue with Mastodon and dominant (or talkative) Enough that they were most of what Mastodon seemed to be communicating with, but of course there WERE plenty of other, even older instances out there as well

the reason why i tend to write those very old instances off is because their “individualist hacker culture” mostly did not feel to me like a communal FEDIVERSE culture (but rather a bunch of individualist nodes which happened to talk to each other); this might be unfair but it seemed to me like the channer and later Mastodon instances had a sense of federated community which the predecessors did not (this may or may not be a good thing, depending on your outlook)

if your view of “pokémon” is “the main series pokémon games” you need to realize that you have a very narrow, anglocentric and possibly gatekeeping idea of what pokémon is or is about

do pokémon fans know that there are entire linguistic communities whose only exposure to pokémon is through the anime and for whom nintendo steadfastly refuses to even consider video games

as is, uh, typical for BotW post‐canon fic it spends half of its time in the present and half of its time in the past, but getting those weaved in a way where readers won’t lose the thread feels like a difficult task

like the thing i’m going with right now works as far as getting words on the page is concerned but i think it almost certainly isn’t what i want to publish

i’m still writing this 4+1 story but i really don’t know what i’m going to wind up with as far as structuring it and making it into an actual workable piece of fiction

i could maybe do 7 albums