Tell Me Not In Binary Numbers

i think this can tend to happen when you're not allowed the time/space to learn how to enjoy things at a healthier pace, when you've had a lot of loss in your life, for whatever reason... but i also think that modern day scarcity marketing preys on this fact knowingly.

i'm sure you've probably heard the 'burn the candle, use the nice dishes' phrase before, but my addition to that would be: if you don't ever use something out of fear of losing it, or you focus all your energy into maintaining it, you'll never learn to love it while it's here. candles lose their smell after not being burnt for 1-2 years, and ink dries.

my comments on that post were (sorry for shamelessly copy-pasting them):

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Your finger hovers over the "report" button.

Rocky: Oh cool, this (alien) has a similar bodyplan to mine. 5 protrusions from a carapace. they seem to favor two for manipulating items and another two to steady themselves, while the last one appears for observation and brain storage. interesting! i bet they walk around on all fours instead of eridians on 3 legs. super neat!

I appreciate stick rocky because I never have to figure out how his legs work🙂‍↕️ its vibes and whimsy in this house

everything is more expensive than it used to be. even disregarding trumps horrific tariffs (which you shouldn’t do), inflation will always make things more expensive and in particular the lasting effects of COVID pricing are still ongoing. everything got more expensive, from food to replacement parts for machinery to cotton to lumber to metals that go into making needles and zippers, and so on and that means making things got more expensive.

the only reason you’re not noticing that rising cost in your fast fashion clothing is because shein clothes are made by people being paid pennies per garment, if they’re paid at all, using materials that contain lead and formaldehyde. labor is almost always your highest cost when making clothing unless you’re working with incredibly costly materials or you’re not paying your workers properly.

a single piece of ethically made clothing represents so many materials and so many types of labor. there’s the plant that had to be grown and harvested and then turned into fibers that could then be woven into fabric. the thread, elastic, and any fixings like zippers or buttons or hooks and eyes all have to be made from materials that are mined or grown or made. pigment has to be mined and processed or synthesized for the garment to be dyed or printed and that fabric has to be sewn by humans. not machines. there are many machines involved, from fabric printers to sewing machines to cotton gins to garment presses and more, all of which have to be human operated and/or maintained/inspected/overseen. and most of which have annoying fiddly bits that need to be replaced over and over and over again. all the facilities involved in making the clothing and clothing materials have to be cleaned and maintained and inspected. nearly every time a material or garment changes locations the terms and prices have to be negotiated.

nearly all of this is human work.

Wanted to try my hand at comparing Book Rocky vs Movie Rocky. At first I was much more partial to movie Rocky (having seen it first), but now that I've read the book I think I'm fonder of his design and character in the book more! I thought it would be fun to combine my favorite attributes from both into one design.

Some speculative eridian biology and technology! This started with me trying to explain Rocky's 2 missing claws in the movie, since he has 5 in the book, and it kinda got away from me lmao.

"Oh but a handful of them will be weird puritans who don't understand AO3 policies!" So? Weird puritans don't understand AO3's policies every day. They'll falsely report some fics and the moderators will be like "there's nothing wrong with this fic" and life moves on. A small fraction of them will complain about AO3 on tiktok or something and people who are already complaining about AO3 on tiktok will agree with them and everyone else will ignore them. Who cares.

All the "those silly kids from Wattpad fleeing censorship don't understand just how anti-censorship AO3 is; they don't get that we're the cool big brave people! Look I found two ex-wattpad thirteen year olds complaining about AO3, which proves that they're all a bunch of whiny babies trying to change our awesome website!" just reeks of those "boomer can't get plain coffee in coffee shop from GNC barista" comics.