A though experiment i found useful when I was questioning was the button one: in front of you is a magical button that will perfectly change you physically to the opposite sex, and everyone who knows you will remember you as always having been this way. Would you press the button?

we must find the the Nipple of the Universe

woof

My tongue is long and flexible. I can pick my nose from the inside out, I can touch my tongue to the other end (it starts in a pocket inside your throat.)

You know the olfactory bulb? The spot in your brain famously swabbed with the first few months of covid tests? That's a bundle of nerves some people will say are part of your brain.

I can touch that with my tongue :D

what do u mean u can touch your brain with ur tongue

i had a buddy in high school who had a third nipple. it definitely happens!

i think it would be cool to have eight nipples like a dog. just shove em on there. who cares

I don't have anything diagnosed, and I don't know if I can claim a sleep disorder. But I can also claim not to remember the last time I had a night of restful sleep!

So, I wish you luck, and will also be looking at this "N24" thing...

Do you also have N24 or a different kind of sleeping disorder? Either way, my condolences and wishing you luck with getting that much sought after normal sleep schedule 🙏

I appreciate these updates, I also am desperately trying to find ways to contort my sleep schedule and have had no success. I also tried fractions of melatonin gummies.

Update: Well it did put me to sleep, but only for about 5 hours. I was hoping it would knock me out for a proper 8-9 hour sleep, I think it probably didn't because I had only woken up about 5 hours before going to sleep again so my body didn't really need the full sleep. I probably should have waited until my sleep schedule rotated around to normal sleeping hours first in retrospect, but I was impatient. I think I will wait for that before I try this again. Still, it did put me to sleep at a time where I normally wouldn't be, so I'm willing to be positive and write this up as a partial success

<3<3 i really liked this autobiographical style of post. i have nothing to add but i feel like i know you a bit better now

thank you for posting, since i wanted to see it, and i wanna be ur friend

whoa, what a nostalgia blast. I remember these types of gifs being everywhere on DeviantArt back in the day. now I know what tool they used to make them!

Oh rad :D I love that. Thank you for sharing.

I was surprised learn that the person who made the ring of fire is 60 years old. I really associated these gifs with the youngest of internet youth, so I kind of went down a rabbit hole.

Chris-26, born in 1957, has a PicMix of the new pope which is admittedly quite endearing. That's only ~68, so not so old this is surprising.

Clicking around recent, it seems older people dominate the site, albeit one user being 111 years old makes me wonder how true these ages are.

But peoples profiles are full of comments like this:

💙Hi!💙 Beautiful image💙 Thanks for visiting and appreciating!💙 💙Kisses!💙

This whole feed feels painfully nostalgic-- like I'm looking back into what Facebook was ~15 years ago.

About a year ago I made a really dismissive post about how there was "no great AI art"... But it feels hard to say this isn't an earnest piece of art incorporating AI. Like, I wouldn't call this "great", but I can at least recognize that was a really satisfying thing for that person to make.

There is a whole and fascinating culture here. Prior to this, I would have categorized "AI art" as either (1) bad porn or (2) communities making AI art for the sake of AI. But this seems wholly earnest.

I don't know what to say except that I am fascinated. This feels like a holdout from some of the last vestiges of the old internet. And most importantly, these aren't .webms or .gifvs or .mp4s-- these are honest-to-soft-g-god .gifs Thank you for sharing

Lightning background is from Sonic Rush. Ring of fire is from Picmix with the colours adjusted. It really is just a pile of GIFs layered on top of each other.

Woah, I appreciate this.

I recognize the constituent elements of that gif with Blaze the Cat -- it appears to be a 3D noise texture, animated in the Z and Y axes, used two times in the same place: With a gradient map for the pink lightning, and with a gradient map for the alpha masks for the Blaze art.

I'm putting all these details out there to ask the question: How was that made? Is it...

1. Picmix provides the tools to do noise textures, gradient maps, alpha masks, and to animate things; and you made that by hand?

2. You made that background by hand, but not in Picmix?

3. Picmix provided that pink-fiery texture thing, and everything I said was gibberish? Or

4. The background art came with that pink fiery texture thing baked in.

I ask just from curiosity :3

Getting a dark cyber nose installed in the dark cyber future....... sniff sniff

I am getting my eyeballs upgraded to use USB ports so I can remote them so I can remove the pressure behind them aughhhhhhhhhhhhh

I hate having to keep up with online-trans-girl-kink-du-jour but the "robot girls" have a point. No sinuses ever for the rest of my life? That's a fantasy I can get behind

Face feel stuffed with nasty gloop? Dripping down your throat and making you sick?

Consider Flonase: It'll make everything worse!

:D

I earnestly assumed that was a reference to a Pope Ritual

Consider: JD Vance has to take over Pope duties for the night he died. Heartwarming easter movie?

it's a reference to The Santa Clause, a 1994 comedy christmas movie starring Tim Allen lol

I figured out Santa was fake early on but thought my parents earnestly still believed in him. I thought Pope was a guy among the pantheon of Made Up Holiday Figures, like the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy.

No idea what all you said means but it feels horrifying to image

do you mean if he dies at your house you have to put on his clothes and finish delivering christmas presents for the night?

London's so nice that they named the coach station after you :)