Local moth fairy loves lämp, more at 11 @elfi@pixie.town

Randomly feeling 100% moth

or rather being a sleepy moth loaf

I forgot how utterly exhausting turkey day prep is, even with a smaller social group due to the ongoing pandemic.

At least these days I know ehlers-danlos is the reason why I wear myself out on cooking like this so quickly... but it doesn't mean I'm going to be any less sore in the morning x_x

aaaaaaaa my gf jinri is trying fae/faer pronouns with me and it's extremely flustering but also a warm and fuzzy feeling ;w;

Had fun at the vrchat meetup but it was a lot bigger than the one I saw last and hhhhh my head decided to deal with all the anxiety from that by dumping it into my dreams instead

mastodon is evidently cancelled so I'd like to introduce mothtodon, the new federated microblogging server

What's different? Toots are now squeaks, faves are now lamps, and boosts are now boops; also all posts are now printed out on caterpillar-safe paper and ink, then delivered between instances by trained carrier moths who subject them to the utmost scrutiny for harassment or hateful behaviour

We're still working on that last one so for now all posts are yeeted to the void, but even then it's better than the alternatives, right?

LB I am the void

Also of note, at the climax of the dream the dictator had summoned a massive castle stronghold, and in the denouement the military higher-ups throwing the party (only for their fellow brass and lauded hero) had used technology they derived from magical glamours to make the base the party took place at look like that castle, hence the sheer tackiness that drove the (naturally rather PTSD-laden) main character to desert and destroy their records

Does anyone else just, like... dream full-ass stories up to and including feature films?

Apropos of nothing the dryad girl was really cute and fae, definitely sharing more features with plant than person in things like surface texture and features, and her appearance kind of presaged all these events because she had just cursed two "troublemakers" (mercenary scouts) to turn into trees when she met the young man

Had a very intense and vivid dream that had a ton of moving parts; a region of natural wonder, a sweet dryad met by a young man whose family had visited the area, an ancient windfish-like kaiju in torpor under a great temple being studied by a government, a man with a mercenary army seeking its power coming and forcing it awake and destroying the temple, only to slay it with a bullet through one of its missing plates, followed by taking over the entire region and ruling it like a dictator

The young man's family (turning out to be researchers) survived and escaped, but the man going back to stop the dictator and learning of magic through the dryad, getting the backing and training of the government's military force, and launching geurrilla attacks on the dictator's forces before facing him head-on as two powerful mages, the dryad sacrificing herself to give the young man an edge over the overwhelming power of the dictator who had fused with the remains of the kaiju and various machinery after an assassination attempt had claimed his mortal life

A phyrric victory, the region wasted away without the influence of its two guardians, the military threw a tacky celebration only for the embittered young man to go AWOL and destroy all of their records, followed by vanishing outright and using both his magic and stolen military technology to become something of a fae supersoldier that could disappear into the wood and disrupt any camera or radar that could pinpoint him with a high-energy pulse, ultimately fighting against the world's militaries to protect what natural wonders remained

Wow @_@

it's saturday somewhere, and it's too early for screenshots so have a really early #mockupMonday? idk

So with some trial software, cardboard, a nylon strap, a stapler, and a pair of joycons, I managed to get a VERY rudimentary VR rig set up.

Upside: cheap, I have spent $2 on this endeavour so far
Downside: bodgy software, may need to try alternative solutions, 10 minute runtime limit, and there's so little smoothing or calibration that I get motion sick with just those 10-minute test runs

With some finetuning, a chance to make proper grips, and maybe secondhand equipment, maybe I can get it good enough for primetime!

cc @Zest @wolfcoder

3D printing resins arrived, holy crap that's a bigger bottle than I was expecting. This should last me a long time o_o