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WRETCHEDSORCERESS wrote

I think probably I post like an obscure neocities page run by an autistic woman. Thankfully I have one of those sites and also Just Post to do that on.

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twovests wrote

This is definitely the vibe you give, but your writing also punches way above the weight of an ordinary scientist. It makes me think you're someone who deeply values The Arts

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WRETCHEDSORCERESS wrote

Thank you that is genuinely so sweet. Honestly my main ambitions are all creative. If I am not making art I enter a sort of torment-chrysalis

I do move liquids from vessel to vessel as my career, but that is just for the money and because it is fun. My true passion is writing incoherent commercially unviable fiction

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twovests wrote

If I am not making art I enter a sort of torment-chrysalis

I would like to re-emphasize how much I love everything you post. You say things that are novel but sound so natural, I wonder how I ever lived without "torment chrysalis" in my vocabulary.

incoherent commercially unviable fiction

The big question is where is this fiction available?

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WRETCHEDSORCERESS wrote (edited )

I wonder how I ever lived without "torment chrysalis" in my vocabulary.

just as mycoplasma survive with not cell walls nor peptidoglycan, deprivation has made you stronger. you are presumably highly resistant to antibiotics.

The big question is where is this fiction available?

I have system agnostic ttrpg stuff published in a small magazine!

Been working on a novel, though I write very slowly! but steadily — went into a dwarf fortress style fey mood over it. no idea where it'll end up, but it's a bit too grotesque for the current spec-fic zeitgeist, I figure. might try finding an agent when its finished, but i dont want money, just to subject more people to my gross art :D

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twovests wrote

(I'm sure you know this, but it looks like your IRL name is attached to that-- in case you're worried about doxxing yourself here.)

I haven't gotten deep into TTRPGs , I always thought these required some existing system (like DnD or Pathfinder). I haven't read through it all yet, but is this meant to be standalone, or does this attach to something else?

In either case, thank u for sharing :D

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neku wrote (edited )

i am mostly sincere in a cringe way or miserably failing at being funny so i'm probably reddit vibes all the way down

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twovests wrote (edited )

i do swear you are not reddit vibes. you are not cringe

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twovests wrote

insufferably opinionated about my esoteric worldviews but with a heart of gold. i hope. someone say yes please.

i call it "just post vibes"

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flabberghaster OP wrote

i believe you are wonderful and you deserve to be loved, so just post vibes.

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twovests wrote

awwhhh you are also wonderful and deserve to be loved

🦔

you give me the vibe of every senior engineer i have ever met. this is a compliment, to be clear-- a rare peak into an inner life

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nomorepie wrote

Yes! I hope you won't take this the wrong way but I saw someone post on the reddit just post a few days ago, very ornate and well thought out and esoteric posts, and I was like, is that twovests?? Turned out to be someone else alas, a few out there are still carrying the just post torch!!

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cute_spider wrote (edited )

I generally think of you as the quintessencal poster, you make looking at just post every day worth the while.

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twovests wrote

This is genuinely so nice, I worry a lot that my posts are sometimes Too Many and Too Strange.

For what it's worth, you are a vital part of JstPst to me. 1000 years of cute spiders please

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rain wrote

I worry a lot that my posts are sometimes Too Many and Too Strange

I’m a relative newcomer, but I’ve loved your posts from the beginning. Please keep just posting :)

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rain wrote

Old school livejournal

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twovests wrote

This fits a lot. You also give off "old school Reddit" vibes to me (but only the good parts!!!)

Tangentially, I associate LiveJournal very heavily with my first introductions to other plural (/functional multiple) people

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rain wrote

This fits a lot. You also give off "old school Reddit" vibes to me (but only the good parts!!!)

The funny thing about that is I’ve barely touched Reddit. So thank you even if I have no idea what you mean lol

Tangentially, I associate LiveJournal very heavily with my first introductions to other plural (/functional multiple) people

During our livejournal years my headmate was being told by a psych that the rest of us were an apparently benign coping mechanism due to trama. Which would have made lots of sense - if at least a couple of us hadn’t predated the trauma. Which may help explain why I am generally just disgusted with modern psychiatry.

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twovests wrote

So thank you even if I have no idea what you mean lol

Reddit in ~2010 was very much like Hacker News is today, I think?

The bad parts? Almost entirely white men with a libertarian bent, liberal beliefs, and an -- at best -- unexamined worldview on gender and race, with interests in videogames and porn. There was r/ShitRedditSays as a small but vocal counterbalance, in which jstpst shares much cultural overlap.

But Reddit also placed a lot of value in critical thought / rationality (more r/atheism, less "LessWrong"), had a highly-educated userbase, and were generally cool with people who were weird.

Which may help explain why I am generally just disgusted with modern psychiatry.

shakes your hand, as a fellow plural person disgusted with modern psychiatry.

You know what's funny? If you had your LiveJournal pre-2012, your posts might have been the very ones which told me I wasn't alone in this. I remember my headmate as an "imaginary friend" distinctly before the trauma for which she was a "coping mechanism".

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rain wrote

and were generally cool with people who were weird

Weird people are my people :)

If you had your LiveJournal pre-2012, your posts might have been the very ones which told me I wasn't alone in this

Our account was pre- 2008; we quit when the US operations were sold to SUP. And in general we weren’t talking publicly about plurality at that point so it wouldn’t have been our account anyway.

Which is too bad because that would have been awesome lol

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cute_spider wrote (edited )

I try to be a reddit spider but I assume I come across as a reddit toad

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twovests wrote

please elaborate more on these two types of reddit critters

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cute_spider wrote

Spiders are cursed to identify other spiders and dislike them for no good reason. For instance, when I identify somebody who I perceive as too similar to me I immediately start to become annoyed with them. It's like that online and offline and is one of the defining characteristics when I self-identify as a spider.

toads are cool they live in swamps and eat everything and don't jump as good as their reputation suggests. sometimes they are battletoads.

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twovests wrote

I am also annoyed by people who are similar to me but I thnk it might be that I am annoying. Maybe we are annoying together?

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cute_spider wrote

I mean I imagine we both think we're annoying together so we can go with that, as long as we admit that we're more annoying in our heads and more funny and interesting than we realize in reality!

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underscores wrote

probably pinboard/delicious

social bookmarking is arguably the least social type of social network

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nomorepie wrote

Longest sigh ever. I am tumblr

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flabberghaster OP wrote

I saw a great post in there about a human basketball player who enters and wins the Westminster dog show on a technicality

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nomorepie wrote

I am so lucky that none of my posts went viral on there like that fr

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twovests wrote

THAT WAS YOU?

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Jenheadjen wrote (edited )

I was the one who made the Reverse Air Bud post on tumblr. I've said before that I didn't like that it was the post that blew up the most of anything I've said online, and so now Flabberghaster keeps bringing it up to torment me

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twovests wrote

THAT WAS Y- oh that makes a lot of sense actually, username-speaking

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twovests wrote

you are a Good Poster. you give off tumblr but that is good

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missingno wrote

30 minute video essay about being mad at video games

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