Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@Lady i dont think apprenticeships traditionally paid enough to really build up savings with but i could be wrong

@villainousfriend yikes 😬

@xieliansbignaturals i’m glad you enjoyed it!! reading is always so nice when i can really get drawn into a book tho it hasn’t happened in a hot minute

@ajroach42 if its on my spec sheet it probably works fine—my experience is that the m4a formats support much better metadata than flacc (and also most of my existing files are alac so it’d be a pain to convert them all lol)

good luck with your continued experiments :)

@ajroach42 nice! have you tried alac?

@ajroach42 ooh nice! what file types does it support?

@Lady mood 😔

@compostablespork glad you were able to find a glasses combo that works for you! i had to break up with my most recent eye doctor bc they wouldn’t even consider writing me a prescription for my daily glasses that was less than 20/20

@monorail yeah its good to be nice to ourselves/other people about the fact that we can’t know everything, even things which are “obvious” or “everyone knows”

bc I’m a nerd, I tend to use the “todays lucky 10,000” format (from: https://xkcd.com/1053/ )

@david technically speaking you only need to be recognized by the catholic church as a baptized adult man and all other requirements are mere custom. However if you go that route you’ll need to get all the cardinals to be willing to vote for you before the conclave starts. If you can attain the rank of cardinal (and are under age 80) its a lot easier however bc you can just attend the conclave itself and convince the cardinals you’re the best choice directly

@weirdestate honestly this one feels like a little set dressing would go a long way—more neutral colored curtains and pillows would go a long way towards making the room be charmingly quirky instead of overwhelming

@hatsune_kun also incidentally worth noting that the fujo in fujoshi literally means “girl” in Japanese so if you are restrictive enough in your definition of fujos then tautologically all fujim are women

@hatsune_kun in practice i think the “male dominated” early internet had actually had many women taking advantage of its anonymity to stealth (as well as others who were out as such) while transformative fandom has definitely never been even close to an exclusively female space so I’m hesitant to make strong assertions about the actual makeup of those groups, but in terms of their respective cultural norms bl & transformative works have definitely produced many culturally feminine spaces

@hatsune_kun the impression i get is that this stereotype developed when sff Fandom & the wider internet were VERY male dominant cultural spaces and so bl/transformative fandom being even like an even gender split would have been seen as “unusually feminine”

and then, like many gendered hobbies it kinda turned into a self fulfilling prophecy where men, esp cishet men were leery of doing something that was “for girls” so the space continued to skew towards women & queer folk who were comfortable w/that reputation