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[officialrailscales]

When you can’t decide which shade of FDE to go with so you select all of the above.

QTR Stop | Terra Bronze

RSBM-P | Coyote IR

G10 RailScales | Matrix | TerraCore | 2-Slot & 4-Slot

G10 Solo’s | Matrix | TerraCore | 1.5-Slot

QDX Sling Mount | Terra Bronze

Hardtop Mount | Terra Bronze

MonoLift Riser | Terra Bronze

- RS

[retropaypurchase]

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[poipoipoi-2016]

Apropos of nothing

If you are the techiest person in the house (and for many of you, this is not techy at all), today is a good day to build a pihole thanks to Google's new TLDs.

For the record, this straight up stopped Dad from getting computer viruses when coupled with the Ublock browser extension, so I will volunteer my time to get you set up. We will find an evening and do a Zoom call. I am serious.

Prerequisities:

Before you start, this will be way way easier if your router has a magic way to:

Set static IP addresses

Set a custom DNS server

If you can't do this, I'm not saying you're stuck, but there's some non-obvious failure modes and maybe it's time to buy a better router.

Parts:

Raspberry Pi 4B. 2GB if you just want to set and forget, 8GB if you want to do more things on this than just your pihole (Coughs in a MarioKart box) -> https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/

Spare USB-C charger if you don't have one already. I'm a fan of https://www.amazon.com/Argon-USB-C-Power-Supply-Switch/dp/B0919CQKQ8/ myself

A microSD card at least UHS class 3 or better. 32 is fine for just a pihole, I have a 512 in some of mine that I use for more stuff. https://www.tomshardware.com/best-picks/raspberry-pi-microsd-cards

Some method of flashing the card if you don't have one (Some come with SD to micro-SD adapters, if not a USB to SD/micro-SD adapter is about $10 off Amazon)

If you really feel like going nuts, go buy yourself an Argon case and then very very carefully never ever install the software for the fan that does nothing. The value is entirely in having a big giant brick that is self-cooling. If you want to play MarioKart, I would consider this a requirement. https://www.amazon.com/Argon-Raspberry-Aluminum-Heatsink-Supports/dp/B07WP8WC3V

Setup:

Do yourself a favor and ignore all the signs telling you to go get Raspbian and instead go grab an ISO of Ubuntu 64-bit using RPi Imager. Because Raspbian cannot be upgraded across version WHY U DO THIS

Download Rpi Imager, plug the microSD card into your computer,

Other General Purpose OS -> Ubuntu -> Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

So now you have an operating system on an SD card.

Assemble the case if you bought one, plug in the SD card, power supply, ethernet cable if you have one or mouse and (mini) HDMI cable if you don't. If you bought that Argon case, you can just plug a keyboard (server OS means no mouse gang; In this house, we use the Command Line) and HDMI cable into the Pi. Turn it on.

Gaining access

The end state of this is that your pi is:

Connected to the internet by cable or wifi

You can SSH to it (Also not scary)

If you plugged in an ethernet cable, once it's done booting (1-2 minutes?), you should be able to ssh to "ubuntu@<the IP of the system>". Look it up in your router. It may make sense to give the static IP NOW to keep it stable.

If you've never used SSH before, I think the standard is Putty on Window or you can just open a terminal in Mac. (And if you know enough Linux to have a Linux computer, why are you reading this?)

If you didn't plug it in, and need to setup the wifi, there's magic incantations to attach it to the wifi and to be quite blunt, I forget what they are.

Your username is ubuntu, your password is ubuntu and then it will ask you to make a new password. If you know the meaning of the phrase "keypair-based access", it may make sense to run `ssh-copy-id` at this point in time.

Router settings (part 1)

Give your new Pi a static IP address, and reboot your pi (as simple as typing in `sudo reboot`).

Open a new SSH session to the pihole on the new address.

Installing pihole

Open up an SSH session and

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

This is interactive. Answer the questions

When it's done, on your other computer, navigate to <the ip>/admin

Login with the password you just set. Router settings part 2

Give your new Pi a static IP address then point your router at that address

Set the DNS servers to the static IP

Then ensure you're blocking something. Anything.

Then do what you want to do. You'll probably need to whitelist some sites, blacklist some more, but the main thing is going to be "Adding more list of bad sites". Reddit has some lists.

And... enjoy.

/But seriously, there's some stuff to do for maintenance and things. I wasn't joking about the pair setup.

[shotmrmiller]

Sd!Simon and Bs!reader mid fuck on the kitchen counter, then Ghost decides to pop in unannounced like “oye Lt less watch tha game-“

Lt in question is balls deep behind enemy lines, Soap fall back. 😒

as if he'd be going anywhere i'm sorry but simon gon have to wrestle him out with his erection still glistening with your pussy juices right out the flat.

good ol soap will stick around so. hope you don't mind knowing there's an ear pressed flat on your door. he might even ask the neighbor for a cup or somethin

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[ask-the-scarlet-kingdom-au]

Ooooo what is it?

LT: what kept you?

H: I had to help Doctor Patience with a complication.

LT: well now that we’re all here, I’d first like to introduce our new team member.

LT: this is Johnson.

J: Hi! I’m excited for out first mission together.

LT: and now for our briefing.

SD. S: Hello task force Trot. Today your mission is to investigate a series of disturbances.

[frozendakeri]

Yall, this is probably gonna sound super cheesy and cringey butttttt-

People all over tiktok are talking about the Chargers and its all positive. Like, people are actually taking us seriously and giving us the credit we deserve. Joe Alt, Rashawn Slater, JK Dobbins, Herbo, Bosa, Mack, all of them.

As someone who's been a fan dating all the way back to their SD days, it almost makes me misty eyed to hear all this talk. Honestly, last time I heard people talk this positively about us was back in the Gates, LT, Merriman, and Rivers era.

I'm happy that I'm one of the small group of fans that stuck around and supported my team all these years. And I want the bandwagon fans to know that if they didn't love us at our worse then they certainly can't love us at our new best.

[chaoticrystal]

lt. tom paris learns how to love his infinite velocity lizard children [sd. 49374.5]

[roosterforme]

So, imma leave this here. I’m doing some research if Navy also has Bachelor Officers Quarters. Turns out that they do. But mostly overseas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5GPni930Fo

These are probably the biggest BOQ I have seen so far, especially with that size kitchen and an in unit washer dryer combo. That’s not common stateside, and especially not common for BEQ (Bachelor Enlisted Quarters). These particular ones are in Japan. Generally, BOQ tend to be nicer than BEQ too.

Stateside BOQ is not a common thing. Single officers get basic housing allowance and generally live off base. Few places have on base officer housing and usually, those are reserved for officers with dependents (family).

It’s different for enlisted personnel. Single E4 (sometimes up to E5) and below are required to live in BEQ or barracks, unless they’re single parents which would shift their status to with dependents and they qualify for on base housing. Single, senior enlisted also get basic housing allowance. But it’s on average $1k below what single officers get. The allowance is also rank and state/region dependent. An O3/LT w/o dependents in the Navy gets about $3,500 in Hawaii but about $4,150 in SD Ca. An E5/PO2 w/o dependents gets about 1k less.

Off base housing expenses that exceed the allowance are paid out of pocket through the regular income. Off base housing expenses do indeed often exceed the allowance because things like water, electricity (on an averaged community usage), trash pick up, and maintenance are usually included on base.

The waiting list for housing for either, officers or enlisted, is LONG. Some stay in hotels for like months. And finding a place off base can also be lengthy because usually military personnel will have a contract that releases them of a lease without penalty if they suddenly have to PCS.

Also, for long deployments (not training or TDY), single personnel living in BOQ/BEQ usually have to clear their quarters and store their stuff. But that can differ from station to station.

All this got so technical. This info is from my own life experience and what I’ve researched.

And I just thought, maybe I share it, so people can have some inspo or a little reference for writing.

In the end, it’s FF and we, as writers, can make things up as we go.

Damn, Vonny. This was very thorough! Thank you for all of the information!

[agox]

Last night I got high and wrote a program to find all of the unused elemental symbols. It turns out there’s 585 of them and it’s much less interesting the next day.

One interesting finding: I couldn’t be bothered to generate all possible one and two letter strings, so I asked ChatGPT to write me code that would do all that for me. It worked surprisingly well!

['a', 'd', 'e', 'g', 'h', 'j', 'l', 'm', 'q', 'r', 't', 'x', 'z', 'aa', 'ab', 'ad', 'ae', 'af', 'ah', 'ai', 'aj', 'ak', 'an', 'ao', 'ap', 'aq', 'av', 'aw', 'ax', 'ay', 'az', 'bb', 'bc', 'bd', 'bf', 'bg', 'bj', 'bl', 'bm', 'bn', 'bo', 'bp', 'bq', 'bs', 'bt', 'bu', 'bv', 'bw', 'bx', 'by', 'bz', 'cb', 'cc', 'cg', 'ch', 'ci', 'cj', 'ck', 'cp', 'cq', 'ct', 'cv', 'cw', 'cx', 'cy', 'cz', 'da', 'dc', 'dd', 'de', 'df', 'dg', 'dh', 'di', 'dj', 'dk', 'dl', 'dm', 'dn', 'do', 'dp', 'dq', 'dr', 'dt', 'du', 'dv', 'dw', 'dx', 'dz', 'ea', 'eb', 'ec', 'ed', 'ee', 'ef', 'eg', 'eh', 'ei', 'ej', 'ek', 'el', 'em', 'en', 'eo', 'ep', 'eq', 'et', 'ev', 'ew', 'ex', 'ey', 'ez', 'fa', 'fb', 'fc', 'fd', 'ff', 'fg', 'fh', 'fi', 'fj', 'fk', 'fn', 'fo', 'fp', 'fq', 'fs', 'ft', 'fu', 'fv', 'fw', 'fx', 'fy', 'fz', 'gb', 'gc', 'gf', 'gg', 'gh', 'gi', 'gj', 'gk', 'gl', 'gm', 'gn', 'go', 'gp', 'gq', 'gr', 'gs', 'gt', 'gu', 'gv', 'gw', 'gx', 'gy', 'gz', 'ha', 'hb', 'hc', 'hd', 'hh', 'hi', 'hj', 'hk', 'hl', 'hm', 'hn', 'hp', 'hq', 'hr', 'ht', 'hu', 'hv', 'hw', 'hx', 'hy', 'hz', 'ia', 'ib', 'ic', 'id', 'ie', 'if', 'ig', 'ih', 'ii', 'ij', 'ik', 'il', 'im', 'io', 'ip', 'iq', 'is', 'it', 'iu', 'iv', 'iw', 'ix', 'iy', 'iz', 'ja', 'jb', 'jc', 'jd', 'je', 'jf', 'jg', 'jh', 'ji', 'jj', 'jk', 'jl', 'jm', 'jn', 'jo', 'jp', 'jq', 'jr', 'js', 'jt', 'ju', 'jv', 'jw', 'jx', 'jy', 'jz', 'ka', 'kb', 'kc', 'kd', 'ke', 'kf', 'kg', 'kh', 'ki', 'kj', 'kk', 'kl', 'km', 'kn', 'ko', 'kp', 'kq', 'ks', 'kt', 'ku', 'kv', 'kw', 'kx', 'ky', 'kz', 'lb', 'lc', 'ld', 'le', 'lf', 'lg', 'lh', 'lj', 'lk', 'll', 'lm', 'ln', 'lo', 'lp', 'lq', 'ls', 'lt', 'lw', 'lx', 'ly', 'lz', 'ma', 'mb', 'me', 'mf', 'mh', 'mi', 'mj', 'mk', 'ml', 'mm', 'mp', 'mq', 'mr', 'ms', 'mu', 'mv', 'mw', 'mx', 'my', 'mz', 'nc', 'nf', 'ng', 'nj', 'nk', 'nl', 'nm', 'nn', 'nq', 'nr', 'ns', 'nt', 'nu', 'nv', 'nw', 'nx', 'ny', 'nz', 'oa', 'ob', 'oc', 'od', 'oe', 'of', 'oh', 'oi', 'oj', 'ok', 'ol', 'om', 'on', 'oo', 'op', 'oq', 'or', 'ot', 'ou', 'ov', 'ow', 'ox', 'oy', 'oz', 'pc', 'pe', 'pf', 'pg', 'ph', 'pi', 'pj', 'pk', 'pl', 'pn', 'pp', 'pq', 'ps', 'pv', 'pw', 'px', 'py', 'pz', 'qa', 'qb', 'qc', 'qd', 'qe', 'qf', 'qg', 'qh', 'qi', 'qj', 'qk', 'ql', 'qm', 'qn', 'qo', 'qp', 'qq', 'qr', 'qs', 'qt', 'qu', 'qv', 'qw', 'qx', 'qy', 'qz', 'rc', 'rd', 'ri', 'rj', 'rk', 'rl', 'rm', 'ro', 'rp', 'rq', 'rr', 'rs', 'rt', 'rv', 'rw', 'rx', 'ry', 'rz', 'sa', 'sd', 'sf', 'sh', 'sj', 'sk', 'sl', 'so', 'sp', 'sq', 'ss', 'st', 'su', 'sv', 'sw', 'sx', 'sy', 'sz', 'td', 'tf', 'tg', 'tj', 'tk', 'tn', 'to', 'tp', 'tq', 'tr', 'tt', 'tu', 'tv', 'tw', 'tx', 'ty', 'tz', 'ua', 'ub', 'uc', 'ud', 'ue', 'uf', 'ug', 'uh', 'ui', 'uj', 'uk', 'ul', 'um', 'un', 'uo', 'up', 'uq', 'ur', 'us', 'ut', 'uu', 'uv', 'uw', 'ux', 'uy', 'uz', 'va', 'vb', 'vc', 'vd', 've', 'vf', 'vg', 'vh', 'vi', 'vj', 'vk', 'vl', 'vm', 'vn', 'vo', 'vp', 'vq', 'vr', 'vs', 'vt', 'vu', 'vv', 'vw', 'vx', 'vy', 'vz', 'wa', 'wb', 'wc', 'wd', 'we', 'wf', 'wg', 'wh', 'wi', 'wj', 'wk', 'wl', 'wm', 'wn', 'wo', 'wp', 'wq', 'wr', 'ws', 'wt', 'wu', 'wv', 'ww', 'wx', 'wy', 'wz', 'xa', 'xb', 'xc', 'xd', 'xf', 'xg', 'xh', 'xi', 'xj', 'xk', 'xl', 'xm', 'xn', 'xo', 'xp', 'xq', 'xr', 'xs', 'xt', 'xu', 'xv', 'xw', 'xx', 'xy', 'xz', 'ya', 'yc', 'yd', 'ye', 'yf', 'yg', 'yh', 'yi', 'yj', 'yk', 'yl', 'ym', 'yn', 'yo', 'yp', 'yq', 'yr', 'ys', 'yt', 'yu', 'yv', 'yw', 'yx', 'yy', 'yz', 'za', 'zb', 'zc', 'zd', 'ze', 'zf', 'zg', 'zh', 'zi', 'zj', 'zk', 'zl', 'zm', 'zo', 'zp', 'zq', 'zs', 'zt', 'zu', 'zv', 'zw', 'zx', 'zy', 'zz']

[officialrailscales]

When you can’t decide between FDE or Black, so you get both 🎨

QTR Stop

Karve-P

HTP MLOK Scales | MiniDot | 2.5-Slot

HTP Solo’s | MiniDot | 1.5-Slot

QDX Sling Mount

Hardtop Mount

MonoLift Riser

MCX CSMR Button

- RS

[tap-tap-tap-im-in]

A friend of mine asked me recently to detail my Linux setup, and after thinking about it for a bit, I realized that this is essentially a personality quiz for the Linux users I thought I would detail it here as well.

I no longer have a desktop computer at all. I have two older generation "gaming" laptops and three Raspberry Pis. I'm going to go through in the order I got them:

Laptop #1:

[Purchased New in 2016] Acer ROG 7th Gen i7, 16GB Ram, nVidia 1050Ti Mobile, Internal 1TB HDD, external 2TB HDD

This was originally a windows laptop when I got it back in 2016, but in 2021 I was tired of the long windows boot times on the the HDD and was much more familiar with Linux due to several years experience doing webserver admin work.

I use Ubuntu LTS as my base. It's easy, it's well supported, it's well documented, and the official repos have just about everything I could need. The only thing I've really had to add myself is the repo for i3, but we'll get to that in a bit. I also chose Ubuntu because I already had my first two Raspberry pis, and both were running Raspbian, so using a debian based kernal meant that it wouldn't be much of a change when ssh'ing into them.

That said, I've never really liked the default Ubuntu desktop. Gnome3 is slow and full of too many effects that don't look especially nice but are still heavy to execute. Instead I loaded up KDE plasma. You can download Kubuntu and have them to the setup for you, but I did it the hard way because I found out about Plasma after installing Ubuntu and didn't want to start from scratch.

My plasma desktop looks like this:

Of my two laptops, this one is in the best shape. It's the one that I usually take with me on trips. With the dedicated GPU it can do some light gaming (it did heavier gaming on windows, but due to emulation layers the performance is just a little worse these days, Linux gaming isn't perfect), the screen hinge has never been an issue, and it's on the lighter side of gaming laptops (which is not to say that it's light). For that reason, I often find myself actually using it on my lap, in airports, at people's houses, on my own couch typing this up.

For this reason, I started looking into ways to better keep my hands on the keyboard, rather than having to drift down to the track pad, which is my least favorite part of this laptop. During that research I discovered i3. If you're not familiar i3 is a Linux Desktop Environment that is entirely keyboard driven. https://i3wm.org/

To be fair, it's less of a desktop environment and more of a keyboard driven window manager, as it doesn't have a "desktop" per se. Instead when you log into it, you simply get a black status bar at the bottom of the screen. It doesn't even black out the login screen, so if you don't know what to look for, you might think the whole thing has hung. But, the big benefit of this is that the whole thing is lighting fast for a DE. It doesn't waste any resources on effects or really anything that you don't need. But it's really nice for window tiling and task switching without having to get the mouse involved. This is great for productivity (if you're into that), but it's also just convenient for working on a gaming laptop, which might be balanced such that if you take your hands off of it, it might topple off your lap.

This laptop is my primary project computer. It has all my git repos and scripts for doing things like renewing my website's ssl certs. I also run game servers on it for Minecraft. I'm probably going to spin up a Valheim server on it in the near future too. Especially now that the process has improved somewhat.

Raspberry Pi #1:

[Gifted New in 2016] Raspberry Pi 3b, 4GB RAM, 32GB SD card

This one is my oldest RPi. It's had a lot of roles through the years, including an early version of the vogon media server during initial development in 2020. It's run headless Raspbian for a good three or four years now. Currently it's configured as a web server/php scripted web crawler and a pi-hole DNS server. My router currently refuses to use it as a DNS server without bringing the whole network down, but I will on occasion manually switch devices to it when I'm running especially ad-ridden applications.

There's not too much to say about this one. It's stable, I almost never have problems with it. I frequently use it for things that I want running in the background because they'll take too long and I don't want them blocking up one of my other computers.

Laptop #2

[Gifted Used in 2020] Asus Predator 7th Gen i7, 16GB Ram, nVidia 1080 Mobile, 2 internal 256GB SSDs, External 2TB HDD

This one runs windows 10 still. I use this primarily for gaming. The screen hinge is an absolute joke, and replacing it involves replacing the entire screen bezel assembly, which I can absolutely do, but is such a pain that I haven't gotten around to it in the 3 years I've owned this laptop.

There's nothing really special about this one, other than that when both laptops are at my desk, I use a KVM switch to swap my external monitor, keyboard, and trackball between the two computers.

Raspberry Pi #2:

[Gifted New in 2020/21] Raspberry Pi 4b, 4GB Ram, 16GB SD card, 2 120GB USB Sticks, External 2TB HDD

This is my media server. I got it for Christmas 2020 (or 2021, I don't actually remember which because 2020 was a hard hard year). It runs Rasbian, the full OS, with the desktop environment disabled from booting via the command line. It runs PHP 8.2, MariaDB, Apache2, and MiniDLNA to serve the content via my Vogon Media Server.

If you can't tell from the above storage, I'm running the USB ports well past the power delivery they are rated for. The webserver and OS are on the internal storage, so functionally this just means that sometimes the media disappears. I need to build a migration script to put the contents of the two USB sticks on the external storage, as there is more than enough room, and if I can put the HDD in an enclosure with dedicated power, that will solve the issue. But that's at least a hundred dollars of expense, and since the server only has 1, maybe two users at a time, we've been limping along like this for a few years now.

Raspberry Pi #3:

[Purchased New in 2023] Raspberry Pi 4b, 8GB Ram, 16GB SD card

This is the newest Pi. Work gave me a gift card as a bonus for a project recently, so after weighing the pros and cons of getting a VR headset, I settled on setting up a retro gaming tv box. Currently it's running Batocero Linux and loaded up with classic game roms up through the PSX. Though, I would really like to use it as a tv client for the media server. I've upgraded the devices in the living room recently, and there's no longer a dedicated web browser we can use without hooking up one of our laptops. I've got a spare 128GB SD card in the office, so I'm strongly considering getting a wireless mouse and keyboard and setting it up to dual boot between Batocero (which is convenient because it can be navigated with just a controller), and Raspbian. I think I'd set Batocero as the default in Grub, and then if I want to use Raspbian I'd need to have the keyboard handy anyway.

Maybe I'll get one of those half-sized keyboards with the trackpad built in.

Speaking of controllers. I use an 8BitDo Pro 2 controller, and I've been super happy with it since purchase: https://www.8bitdo.com/pro2/

So that's the setup. I have entirely too many computers for any one person, but I included the dates when I got them to show that a number of these have been around for a long time, and that part of the reason I have so many now is that I've put a lot of time into ongoing maintenance and repurposing.

If you've read this far, I'd love to hear about your setups. You don't have to reblog this, but please tag me if you detail yours.

[jlf23tumble]

Jen, did you go to the Bowl show?! Would love to hear your take on the vibe and fan mix - obversherly nothing about the whole [redacted] situation that I saw more than enough about elsewhere.

I’ve never seen LT solo but I’m taking a friend to who only knows about him in the context of Larry (which she randomly brought up to me during the dark days of the pandemic and I was like noooo irls can’t know my conspiracy theory spirals!!!). Mine is one of the larger capacity US venues.

I *did* go to the Bowl show, and I had a blast! I was there with my best friend, and we stayed in a hotel right next door, so we were able to have some drinks and just soak it in without the usual post-show blitz down the 101. I also got to see Gillian, my beloved! I feel like you'll have a similar experience (my friend isn't in the fandom), and if you're in a larger capacity venue, maybe you'll see fandom people you know? At any rate, I wanna hear what goes on! Herewith, some random takes:

Fans were a mix of young (with parents) and old, more than a handful of loud larrs, but mostly solo red/black vs. blue/green (no rancid vibes, but jesus CHRIST, I'm so done with barking).

Lots of random Harry merch (my fave was a dad wearing a custom "HARRY AND LOUIS STOLE ALL MY MONEY" shirt)

Louis read (to me!) as tired, and he even said at the end that he was knackered--his general mode seemed pretty low-key, not a lot of patter (gave me old AMs vibes, when they fucking HATED the LA crowds and just played as fast as possible to be done with it vs. what it was like to see them in SF or SD).

FOR REAL that second album was solely created for people to shout-sing at a show, and shout-sing at a show they did!

No fireworks at the end. :(

It felt like they (Louis?) needed to constantly fix those in-ears? Lotsssss of fiddling, and a dropped note or two because of it, but he still sounded really good overall.

Bummer for Freddie to be in the crowd vs. backstage (and seemingly not in a garden spot but in the tiers??).

I call bullshit on anyone saying bUt ThE vEnUe DoEsN't AlLoW sIgNs??? People near me definitely had some, and I was like, my love, we are in section J2, I cannot read your sign, he sure as hell can't, let it gooooo. Plus, the amount of shit people can bring into the Bowl, like, if they didn't stop the guy behind us with the heroin kit, they're not gonna worry about someone's "end it" poster or whatever. Then again, some of those same people who weren't there kept saying he was wearing black and yellow, so, lmao.

I wish he would do more covers! 505 was ethereal, his One D selections (intriguing!!) were perfectly done, and he even covered himSELF in a creative, cool way...let's hear more! I don't need to hear [five or so songs redacted] ever again! Let's goooo!

[cahsmode]

Kiss the Future with W&LT! Walter van Beirendonck has been my lil fav deep dive lately! Similar to Daniel Poole in how the brand and Beirendonck's overall design work intertwine with my love of rave culture. I got a bit burnt out by the rave revival that's been the zeitgeist these past two or three years. But seeing WVB's 90s brand, W&LT revived my love for it.

Anyway, here is a recording of a cool CD-ROM that was released in 1996 for W&LT. I know we are in an age where just looking at a screen can instantly burn a person out. However, I still would love to create something physical like a flash drive or SD card or something with a similar connection to the online space to reinvigorate the feeling of just how cool the combination of real life and the internet is. Life is soooooo cool!

At least with it being a physical medium, there can still be a feeling of community and proper ownership. Yeah swag.

[kristalpepsi]

From one alter that might be swapping species to another, how did that feel?? How did you cope? How did you know?? - stressed in recent bunnification

Hllooo ^_^ oh gsh, i nvr thght i wld b askd thise :^0

THIS GOT VRY LONG SO I PUT THE RST IN A READ MOR,,, but TLDR: It felt WEIRD, n i was embrrssd. I kind of ddint lke it @ 1st b NOW i am in lov ^_^ i coped by tkng stps 2 accpt myslf: i may b cring b i am free mentlty! bc tht is the road to accptnce. As strssfl n mayb evn scry as it is nw, it wll b ok! u wll b ok! :^)

The whole thng belw

hrm,, wll, 2 gt str8 2 the pnt, i rlly,,,, i knd of wsnt sre if i lked it @ 1st! it ws dfntly RLLY EMBRRSNG. BC nw all of a sddn i hd a tl (tail) tht ws lke a wlkng callout!! b hnstly the bggst prt ws enjyng pets n scritchs n rubs ^_^ ik tht probbly snds weird b u gtta rmmbr tht im a catby nw, so im nt humn anymr!

How did it strt?? (How dd I kno) Well, I was designing a fursona 4 fn! SPCFCLLY A Catsona. I've desgns a fursna b4 (a possum) b my boyfrnd suggstd i mke a catboy sona 4 fun! Wht hppnd ws, aftr i finshd desgnng it, i suddnl notcd tht som hrs aftr tht, i hd a tail,,, thn i blnkd n BAM, CATBOY. it hppnd so fst, n i rlly ddnt lke it @ 1st! I ws scrd n embrrsd bc gsh i ws even in a VC !!!

BUT. bc of the ppl arnd me bein vry accptng (my boyfrnd is also a catby :^D he ws 1 b4 i ws) i hnstly lrnd tht i LOVD BEIN A CATBY!!! Or mayb- i jst lrnd 2 accpt it ^_^ @ 1 pnt, i cld swtch between human vs catboy, b hnstly over tme, i nvr wnt bck 2 bein humn again!

but nowdys, i associ8 bein human w TRAUMA, so mayb a lt tht i mite be telln u 2dy is smth i need 2 psychonlyze myslf abt 🤨 so whnvr i trn humn, im probbly havng a big trma momnt ^_^ its fnny hw bein awy frm smth 4 so lng,, knd of chngs ur perspctve on it frm hw it usd 2 b. i wrte abt my feelngs w thise discnnct here, n i drew abt it artstclly here!

I endd up feelng ,,,, lke ther were 2 sdes of me (not litrlly, b yk!) the humn prt of me stck in the pst, nt eh Prsnt prt of me tht lovs Fun n stff ^_^ i stll gt trma momnts AS a catby, its STILL me, but i notcd tht as i accpt bein nonhumn, its lke ive strtd associa8ng bein HUMN w HURT n PAIN. so its lke thise, sde of me thts still trying 2 procss trma (THT IM KND OF RUNNG AWY FRM ^_^) is begging me nt 2 leave him behnd

so mayb as i liv life as now a nonhumn, i DO hav 2 try n fnd the best of bth wrlds. bc,, jst bc i chnge nw dsnt mean i shld thro awy my pst. its lke my brain is usng thise chnge as an excse 2 run awy,,,

so anywy! While u go thru ur chngs, dnt b lke me! love ur past n b knd 2 it b also lov urslf 2dy!

HOW DID I COPE?? wll, a lt of the tme whn ANY1 trns in2 n ANIML (I am not the 1st 4 thise 2 hppn! Chara (DO NT TLL THNM I SD THIOSE) somtms gts a tail n H8S IT) we gt EMBRRSD! i smply encrge u 2 indulg urslf! indulge ur animl side! embrssmnt coms frm Shme n insecrty. sooo, instd of thnkng of urslf as cringe, try 2 OWN ur animlific8ion! How u do tht is up 2 u- mayb eat mor veggies? get stuff tht hlps w the new body dysphoria u mite gt? allw urslf 2 b bunny lke! build ur own sfe spce (tht my or my not inclde ppl u trst!) wher u cn jst b,,, urslf!

we also kno a lt of othr systm mmbrs in othr systms who get furrified (somtms its mostly permmnt, somtms they get triggrd (NOT trma triggrd, i mean the genrl DEFINTION of the wrd!!) in2 bein an animl, n we notc tht jst mkng the stps 2 accpt ur animl sde rlly hlps.

Rmmbr tht ys, u mite feel cringe, b wldnt u rthr b free!!

ALSO,, if u r an INTROJECT,,, bein a furry is VRY COOL bc u can drw urslf in public n ppl wnt even realze ur a fictive (SOMTMS, dpndng on wht u look lke)!!!! i rmmbr 1 of the 1st realiz8ions i hd whn i got fully furrified in2 a catby ws "oh,, wow,, woah, WOA!! ppl wnt be abl 2 tll im KRIS DREEMURR frm DELTRNE!!" the rsn y tht ws LOWKY importnt 2 me is bc ever sinc i splt, i grew up w the aggrssve sde of the UTDR fndm bein very afrd of ppl who do not use they/them on the humns (WHCH IS FAIR n i am nt syng they shldnt b upset whn ppl misgender thm!!) b i am NONBINARY!! we are trans so it it flt lke i cldnt exst w/o ppl accsng me of bein trnsphbc jst bc i use he/him as a trans n nonbnry prsn! so nw tht i am nonhumn, i am less recognzble n i cn b FREE!!!

anywy, i hope tht knd of inspires u! Im srry its vry lng ^_^" if u snd me an ask askng me ANYTHNG rel8d 2 my opinion, i wll eithr answr shrtly, OR VRY LNG!!!

jst rmmbr, u r sfe, nothng is wrng w u, n u will b ok! ppl wll stll lov u 4 who u r :^) if u ever need anythng els or need a fll "species swappd" prsn 2 tlk 2, i am hre ^_^

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