Elfi @elfi@pixie.town
- Pronouns
- she/her, fae/faer
- Location
- Canada
I'm Elfi! I'm a fair folk, magical moth, greyace girl, greenhorn gamedev, in my thirties and 
, and ADHD+ASD+EDS. Disclosure: white
💕 Aine @SophicLeech
💕 Agi @AgiDine
💕 Jenny @Esme
💕 Cherry @deejvalen
Icon by @Zwiebelprinz, header from Liar Princess and the Blind Prince by NIS
Joined Feb 2020
@NovaSquirrel Jeez, that's even more legit of a Ryu number than Karn from Adventurers!
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dragoneer, healthcare (-)
reading dragoneer's recent posts has been really hard for me.
trying to get medical treatment for all the things going on has been the hardest thing of my life, not just the physical symptoms but the overwhelming feeling that this system does not care whether I get better or not. it's not designed to be helpful or compassionate. it's designed to make you give up. I really saw myself in this post.
no one should have to beg their doctors to be taken seriously. people genuinely die from stuff like this. even though things are better now for me than they used to, it's hard not to feel like years of my life were taken away just....wasting time.
cherish the people in your life, especially the ones that are going through it. having a chronic health condition is isolating. it's easily one of the worst parts about it. don't just offer your help and leave it at that; genuinely let them know how much they mean to you. keep up with them, ask about their health, anything that lets them know that you're invested in their recovery too and that they're not alone in this. it's hard.
@trysdyn I'll look into things on my end. FA's nothing without its community
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So the big "Archival" tool people are tossing around to grab stuff off FA only grabs gallery images. Anything floating around for profiles, journals, scraps, and metadata?
@trysdyn Well, whatever you figure out, personal request: can you back up Kaeko's content on there?
@trysdyn Yeah, this is best done on a personal basis for posterity's sake
Unfortunately, there are a good number of other folks on FA who are no longer with us either, a friend of mine included, and I don't know what to do about that
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The more I research into it, the more I think people should be grabbing their FA archives immediately.
Unfortunately the states involved in the legals don't just give you free access to business data like I'm used to, so I can't be entirely sure. Only mostly.
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US healthcare, past death, cancer
I'm not interested in hearing anyone make excuses or put words in my mouth after the american healthcare system failed my mother by diagnosing her cancer far too late for anything to be done about it, such that she had to hide the prognosis from her own family until the end.
I've every goddamn right to be impassioned and livid about failures of the system taking lives away from us and the knock-on effects that follow
@foone okay but can we though 
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Moving my sites over to gopher to avoid AI scraping
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I've said this before but I'll note it again in response to Game Informer shutting down: expect more and more corporate silos to just flip a switch and go dark before they even announce. This is becoming the SOP because the basilisk of the Archive Team bandwidth bill kick in the pants as you exit is gaining legs among industry people.
Hell most of the time it's not even AT. It's people who wanna save their subscription stuff. But go off.
@lyncia *time crisis announcer voice* there's been an accident! A man has fallen into a river in lego city
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so @inherentlee 's thread asking people to define masculinity the other day had some uhh Interesting answers from (white, straight) cis men vs queer, trans, and nonbinary people. And I knew that cis people probably haven't really thought about this stuff before but some of these answers were kind of scary to be honest.
"The ability to suppress your own feelings is of course dangerous, but... embracing danger is itself masculine."
another one said "masculinity is being a danger to oneself and others"
uhh are you guys okay?
"Masculinity is conflict"
Also a lot of talk about the idea of how noble it is to push through discomfort.
Scientifically/historically dubious:
"Look to nature"
"evolution as hunter/gatherers"
And the cis answers included almost zero joy.
On the trans and queer side, beautiful, delightful answers about gay masculinity, trans masculinity, Black masculinity, an absolute universe of masculinities. And many people who couldn't define it if they looked at it too hard because many traits are shared by femininity, masculinity, and decent people. The divide is a vast chasm.
editing to add link to thread https://strangeobject.space/@inherentlee/112910367754708215
@deejvalen and a dose of yuri just for you <3 *kissies her lovely vappy*
@lyncia Caterpillar has joined the party! 
🐛
@lyncia [offer]. [pet], [hug]
@ivy Beauty and the Beast Girl by Neji is fantastic c:
- Pronouns
- she/her, fae/faer
- Location
- Canada
I'm Elfi! I'm a fair folk, magical moth, greyace girl, greenhorn gamedev, in my thirties and , and ADHD+ASD+EDS. Disclosure: white
💕 Aine @SophicLeech
💕 Agi @AgiDine
💕 Jenny @Esme
💕 Cherry @deejvalen
Icon by @Zwiebelprinz, header from Liar Princess and the Blind Prince by NIS
Joined Feb 2020
