Indi Latrani @latrani@octodon.social

Hey nice, awoo.space federates with octodon now! I'll probably use that as my primary/personal one and just keep this for loud/public/etc stuff.

So feel free to follow @indi for ...more ...content...? (Not that I've been posting much the last few days anyway!)

@starkatt I did! I poked through a few servers and looked at @CobaltVelvet's toots too.

@Gargoylezoo There ARE physical descriptors that suggest non-binariness though; there's this joke about the 'enby uniform' that usually involves dyed hair, an undercut, and soft-punk clothing, and I'd be lying if I didn't admit that look catches my attention. That though it's definitely a cultural signifier, and it does feel like a different SORT of attention compared to the (fairly rare) times when I find myself going 'that guy is cute.'

@Gargoylezoo This is actually a pretty complicated question, largely because I don't key off of physical appearance that hard to begin with. And then also to the extent that I do it's admittedly still somewhat male-skewing too (hence gay-as-in-male, as previously mentioned), though preferably the non-traditional, 'queer' sort of such.

@Gargoylezoo Eh, sure, go for it. :)

@LeDiva Yeah, that's exactly where I'm at with it. It just feels so good in my paws.

@fluffy Not being considered a developer helps a lot with all that. ;)

However, all is not lost. It does have THIS. ^.^

It's a Nokia 770, an "internet tablet" from the days before smartphones. Well, wide adoption of smartphones. My first phone was a Sidekick, and then I had some crappy Windows smartphones for a while, before my first iPhone.

However, this thing doesn't seem to see ANY wireless connections available, so... that's gonna be a problem. ;)

Maybe I will just play with this all day, my favorite piece of (not very) retro-tech that I found in a box the other day and just got the charger for. https://octodon.social/media/lyo78Oft-QJfK4gTszI

Ugh, it's been so long since I worked at home that I forgot my VPN password.

...That's a reasonable excuse to not actually do the 'work' part, right? ;)

@ruth This is the land of awoos, so wolves count too right? :)

https://octodon.social/media/G0V00SqBN2rs43f1sEw

@literorrery I figured that's what you were getting at, and I was gonna be all pouty because I love baroque but bounce hard off jazz. ;) But I think it's probably fair.

...then again, Bach was the one who was writing his stuff to honor a specific external higher power... ;)

@literorrery Wait, which one of those two is me, then? ;)

@literorrery The god-dealings are a whole other interesting thing too; again when I think of witches I think of folks who may know gods exist but not want to have to deal with them (though again I think Pratchett is influencing me here!)

For my part (back to the topic of alchemists and magi and Great Works), ascension has never been much of a draw for me. But hey, when you all apotheosize, you're gonna want someone down here at the other end of the god-phone, right? ;)

@literorrery Interesting. 'Witch' for me speaks to a sort of 'whatever works' approach; I'm brought to mind of the Pratchett witches who often just used straightfoward non-magical headology to great effect. Or, consider herbal medicines that don't have to have any esoteric power to them at all.

...Then again, arguably part of the effect there is that it is the mysterious Witch who is the one telling someone to do these things, so perhaps in that way your statement stands. :)

@Snip Well, tooting back and forth. ;)

Chatting about my spiritual-path labels in one thread, and my gender/sexuality labels in another thread at the same time. This place is awesome. :purple_heart:

@literorrery Yeah, I get that. Oddly enough 'witch' has a faint appeal to me; certainly 'sitting in the hut at the edge of the forest being weird, helping folks out with stuff when they come to you' has some obvious resonances for me. :)

A lot of the words we use are culturally-bound stuff that we brought forward, that never would have co-existed when they were first used. Lots of 'witchcraft' practice is arguably 'shamanic' by some folks; definitions, for instance.

@Gargoylezoo It works out that way, but the original intention was really still more "I identify with m/m culture even if I'm not male". But yeah, if it didn't have that sort of practical accuracy, I probably would not be using that term. :)