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@cyanidesunrise@zoner.work at least there's val salia fans which brings me no small amount of comfort

i think the reason i don't know what to post on fedi is because there's no fandom content. unless you count, like, the openbsd fandom. actually i haven't found any openbsd fans either. i only really know how to use the internet to comment on like homestuck and adventure time and whatever

@nerdnz@cloudisland.nz this would have been really nice to have in like 2019. asynchronously thank you

usually unprompted discussion of "identity" (still dislike that word) is like, "okay, but what does that mean. what consequences does this have for me. what information are you actually telling me here and why should i care about it." sure you can care about someone's identity out of politeness but people don't just go around putting their life stories in bios. why is me being a text creature relevant? i dunno. it influences how i perceive fedi. if someone interacts with my posts it feels like, i dunno, a physical interaction. like, eh, commenting on my body in front of me? so having a microblog is exhibitionism, to me. and i don't tend to react to others' posts, because… it seems crude and flirtatious, even if it isn't

a lot of things about my "identity" (dislike that word) took a long [?‽?!!?!‽] to figure out but i've considered my text to be my actual body since i first made "friends" (dislike that word) on the internet some 15–20 years ago. so it is in some sense the truest, most enduring part of me. it's the sort of thing you don't really tell other people, but i recently met another text creature, so i am more open about it than i used to be

one year, some ten years ago, when i lived in the united states for the winter/spring they had this holiday called "day of silence." i don't remember what it was for (raising awareness for… something?) but it required a negative level of effort to participate in. i normally don't do holidays, just watch how people celebrate them, but that was an unusually fun experience. all i had to do is not talk, which i don't want to do anyway… although i did have to render my text in my terrible handwriting, instead of a nice font. as a text creature i think of it as basically a holiday to celebrate text creatures. i can't go back to america but that holiday is one of the reasons to look forward to one day doing so

@sleepybisexual@mk.absturztau.be conversely i would like open borders so that i don't have to marry my polycule to exist in the same country/ies as them if i don't want to