Orion Scribner 🐉 @frameacloud@dragon.style

#Introductions
I've been on Mastodon for months, but haven't done an #Introduction on this instance yet. I'm Orion Scribner, and I make #comics, writing, and illustrations. I confess I haven't done as much of that as usual, because my day job in tech support has been eating my life lately. I'm best known for my comic, Theri There, and the #Otherkin Timeline. I'm #trans and #nonbinary, and this year I'm working on my transition, so you might hear some toots about that here. Here are a couple drawings I've done of myself, picture me as either.

https://dragon.style/media/CeRmOFof4X0yOJrJwn4 https://dragon.style/media/UBQHZfrxw_-p-TDK-Cw

"Putting the cart before the horse" is a description of a horse trailer, and is the only practical way to take a horse on the freeway. We live in a weird era.

@green Did you see these velociraptor pride patches? https://www.etsy.com/listing/542662086/pride-velociraptor-patch-lgbtqipa-lgbtq?ref=shop_home_active_4

Trying to ID some rocks in my rock collection. Grieving that Googling things isn't as smooth as it was just 5 years ago, now that every hit's either an ad or basically an ad. All these vile SEO magazines, where an article is split into one paragraph per page, and each page is four-fifths ads, and the same article is on all of the different magazines that come up. I miss when the top web results were personal sites by enthusiastic hobbyists, or pages from educational institutions.

Wow, Crystalinks.com is still around?? That's the stuff.

I'm using web-based #twine 2.0, editing the story style CSS to set background color of the whole story. The instructions from the wiki aren't working, so either the documentation's outdated, or I'm doing something wrong. Nothing seems to change the background color. Would someone tell me what to do?

Last boost is also a great example of how individuals come to their own conclusions about what makes a good/bad social media site, & due to differing opinions about which imperfections matter most, those conclusions aren't likely to be unanimous.

Re last boost: I'm interested in these concerns as part of my project to only maintain a presence on good social media sites, & to starve bad sites of content. Problem is, most sites will be imperfect, so it's tough to categorize them as good or bad. Twitter is a politically horrifying corporate mess, but I've always disliked how Mastodon leaves its users far *more* vulnerable to harassment in certain ways, just as described. For now, I'm not moving from Mastodon to Twitter just yet, but Cass's article is an important data point in decisions of this kind.

Guess I could hashtag this thread so it gets seen a little more widely, please see first post in thread: #occult #occulttalk #advice

Do you have reason to believe that maintaining a permanent paracosm (a vivid inner world) is a drain on one's personal psychic/energetic resources, such that it would be harmful to have one? Or perhaps only harmful to have a very large/detailed one?

I've read a couple of occultists who thought it was important for these to be only small or makeshift in order to keep it from being harmful. I've spoken to other occultists who believed it was important and necessary for an occultist to maintain a permanent one, and didn't dream of any risks. Paracosms appeal to me, but I want to be informed about the risks... if occult experience can even be universal enough to agree on details like that. What's your experience with this?

The Wikipedia article about French toast is nice: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_toast Most of the regional and historical names for French toast would make good band names, especially "Poor Knights of Windsor," which sounds more like a band name than a food for sure.

Yesterday, I shut down the little used bookstore I've been running on Amazon for ten years. It had been a nice semi-passive stream of income, but then the competition got too stiff, and the fees got too high. On the rare occasions when a book sold anymore, the profit was too tiny to be worth my trouble of shipping it. It's a shame to see that biz go, since the initial setup was a lot of work, but it's a relief to get that storage space back. It's a relief to be making ends meet well enough from my office job, without having to do this extra busywork.

I packed up about 300 books and donated them to the public library. Family and I picked out and kept about 100 others that we hadn't really wanted to sell in the first place. My "to read" stack has never been bigger.

Wanted: a live action remake of a Studio Ghibli film, where whenever the characters get excited and their hair fluffs up, it's accomplished by having the actor put their hand outside the frame on a Van de Graaf generator.

It's Towel Day! Do you know where your towel is?

I like thinking about how divination and magic systems are put together, and how they could be done differently while still being structurally meaningful. It's like doing puzzles.

Nice article about a French revolutionary effort to replace monarchical imagery in playing cards with politically revolutionary imagery about equality and human rights. I wonder if I can buy a print of it anywhere? It'd be nice for fortune telling. http://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/new-playing-cards-for-the-french-republic-1793-94

Some kinds of knots that would make good band names:
Boom Hitch
Cat's Paw
Lark's Head
Monkey's Fist
Devil's Tongue
Tom Fool
Snuggle Hitch

I understand Slipknot is already taken.

Some names of Kalanchoe plants that would make good band names:
Flaming Katy
Widow's Thrill
Devil's Backbone
Penwiper
Pies from Heaven