Some Coward @Phorm@dragon.style

Hello Mastodon. Hello Dragon.Style.

Some of you here know me, but most likely do not. I'm Phorm. I'm a rather mundane thing, work in chemistry, and spend too much time puttering about the internet. I'm not a dragon, but I think dragons are keen.

I fancy myself a genie. I am obsessed with genies. Like VERY obsessed with genies. I spend way too much time talking about genies. In fact, I'll likely be rambling about genie research in this space often.

#Introduction

If someone makes a decision to end their own pain, you don't judge them on that. You don't call them a coward. You don't rail against it.

Your temporary sadness isn't more important than their enduring suffering. And you will never understand the depth of their pain.

It doesn't get better for everyone. Some, it does. But others, it never will.

Little did any of them know, that even now within this very harem, Phorm Backslide, the former djinn of Lampwick Falls - Pervert, Genie, Slut and Queer, and ARCH enemy of the Prudish Boys - Squanders her misspent life.

If the only comfort I can find in life is convincing myself that the exploitation of my labor imparts purpose and belonging, and as such I should happily suffer and welcome abuse, I'm probably already a failure of a human being.

Oh yeah, and part of the problem oppressing so many.

It'd be nice if a meteor would kill me today.

Currently pushing hour twleve at work right now. Yesterday was a long one. Tomorrow doesn't look better.

But if I weren't at work, wouldn't I just be wasting time? It's not like I'd be doing anything worthwhile. It's not like anyone cares if I'm off work, or available.

Work only values me because they can exploit me. But at least they value me for some reason, I guess. Maybe that's what I need to cling to from now on.

"If you get rid of yourself, you can start playing with characters."

I'M TRYING, OKAY?

https://twitter.com/RosewattaStone/status/999998543384530944

On the plus side, I may have figured out how to make decent pineapple upsidedown pancakes? https://dragon.style/media/0xHyE5UobjS12d1_blk

Sorry to everyone I've been worrying lately.

I know that is a frequent refrain from me, to the point where my apologies probably ring hollow. It's just increasingly difficult to exist in this reality lately, and I'm sorry for making it harder for anyone.

I'm managing okay. I'm not going to do anything rash. Thanks to everyone for your support.

I only just now caught up with the news that roughly 1500 children have been separated from their parents by ICE, have been completely lost, and some have been put into the hands of human traffickers.

I live in a country that is undeniably evil, and has cross the threshold into fascism beyond question.

That I continue to live it in comfortably is reason enough that my life should be forfeit. I tacitly support this evil, and I can't begin to parse how vile that makes me.

*Civil War-era violin music begins to play*

My dearest Lulabelle,

Beloved, it is with a heavy heart that I write to you from the battlefield to tell you that we have updated the terms and conditions of our Privacy Policy...

Outside of a working conformist, it's hard to think of myself as anything other than a "fan" of things. I'm not a creator.

And who likes fans? No one. Fans are awful. People only ever complain about how horrible fans are.

Which tracks, really.

Wonder if I can just, like, dump myself into a void or something forever. It'd be like litter disposal.

I've been very busy with work. And I admit I'm not current with the contemporary goings-on of the fandom, or its general proximity, but...

Why the holy fucking hell is ANYONE in the year twenty-eighteen talking about Roy Goddamned Calbeck.

(Other than to say, "What the hell, that piece of shit is still around?")

Just want to say sorry that I'm not much fun lately. And sorry if I'm not responding or replying when I should be. Hopefully I can fix myself soon.

But thanks to you all for your patience and kindness. It is genuinely appreciated.

Also, because I find it hilarious - In case you were unaware, the official MLP comics once dunked on Scott Adams. Quite efficiently, too. https://dragon.style/media/ijlLKAvalw25Xv1wQJ8

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the warmth and kindness last night 💕

Pretty sure it's indeed work related, given my current and upcoming schedule/responsibilities. Doing my best to manage it.

omg - Overwhelming Magical Geniefication
tbh - That Bottle's Hot
smh - Sudden Mystic Harem
lol - Luridly Overpowering Lamp
stfu - Smoke That Fuses to your Underhalf
idc - I'm Djinnified Completely
lamo - Lamp Accelerated Multigenie Orgy

Overheard/Seen elsewhere:

"So they claim [Outlandish justification for political thing]. And in other believable news, I just gave birth to a centaur."

"Hey, congrats! Can you raise them to be a communist, so I can call them Li'l Trosky?"

I finally got up the gumption to navigate the tangled wires and play Polybius in VR.

Attention @anthracite: Holy shit you have to try this sometime. It feels so much BIGGER than it does normally.

So, there's MerMay, obviously. But that just made me think (also obviously) about what a genie themed month would be called.

Genietober?
Djinnuary?
Big-Titted-Haremgirlvember?

Dear Fediverse: What's the etiquette regarding so called "Follow Bots"? The accounts that follow you, openly state they are bots, and are ostensibly there to 'increase visibility between servers'?

Do these serve any actual purpose?

You ever have one of those days where... Like...

You just kinda want to stumble into some alien technology... And like, have your head to spontaneously Flooomp out into a perfect, rounded, featureless sphere atop your neck, rendering you a toyified drone? A faceless slut toy, to be loved and used? To be rubberized and relieved of intrusive thoughts and feeling of inadequacy and anxiety and shame...? To have purpose and value and pleasure without guilt as a bubbleheaded...? Uh...

That's a thing we all think every now and then, right? Yeah? No?

... *Cough*

Well, I guess we all have different needs.