Bloop

You ask him, as a hypothetical question. He says he doesn't know what that word means, but you said "women" so now he's interested. No, the other word. He doesn't know what "hypothetical" means. He interrupts your explanation to let you know that sounds boring, he doesn't want to know what "hypothetical" means. What was that other word, you said "women".

You try to explain as simply as you can, being frequently interrupted by reminders that he is uninterested in abstract concepts and unfamiliar terminology. He doesn't know what a chromosome is. He doesn't want to know what a chromosome is. He is unsure how any of this subject is related to the ladies but he's optimistic about it.

After about half an hour, he finishes with asking "ok but what's the difference". After a while of unfruitful back and forth, you understand what he's asking what is the difference to him, how does this distinction affect him and his immediate surroundings. You have no idea how to word this in a way that would be understandable to a gerbil with A1 level english skills.

"If... If trans women are women, there's... More women?"

"More women. Nice. Then let's go with that one."

here’s something ive been working on for the past couple weeks. mettaton animatic hours

A lot of people don’t notice this, but there are several major characters in Undertale that are referred to exclusively with they/them pronouns. In this post, I’ll go over them, and I’ll explain why so many non-binary people identify with them.

1. In the Undertale 6th anniversary livestream, Toby refers to Seam with they/them pronouns!

2. In chapter 2 of Deltarune, Kris is referred to with they/them pronouns a SHIT TON, so much so that it almost feels like making up for the fact they’re only referred to with they/them once in chapter 1 lmao. Oh, and also, Toby refers to Kris with they/them in the 6th anniversary livestream too!

Here’s some screenshots of Kris’s own freaking mother referring to them with they/them pronouns, so “Susie and Ralsei don’t know their pronouns” isn’t an excuse anymore! (this is from this easter egg)

You can back up your work at any time. If Neocities goes down, you can take your blog or wiki or what have you and move to a new provider (or even host it yourself).

Free accounts have 1gb of space. You probably won’t hit that unless you’re hosting a lot of images. I’m at 0.5% of that limit, almost all of which is images. Plain-text just doesn’t scale that quickly. (If you can donate, I encourage you to even if you haven’t hit the limit. It’s a great website.)

Neocities has its own tutorial built-in, but I’d recommend checking out other resources as well! Most of what I’ve learned is from googling about specific problems and then moving on from there. I’d also recommend looking around your library or used item stores! I have a HTML/CSS guide I got for 6$, and it helped me fill a lot of gaps in my google education.

For anyone interested in blogging on neocities, I’d recommend checking out zonelets.net. It’s free, and has in-depth video tutorials explaining how to use it. It makes blogging a lot easier, though the way it relies on javascript can make parts of your site inaccessible to those who don’t/can’t use it. If you’re looking to solve that problem and are used to using html, I’d recommend looking at static site generators like Jekyllrb.com (this is the one I use, which is why I’m linking it. I’ve heard good things about gohugo.io too.).

I’d also like to take a moment to shill for forums.sufficientvelocity.com. It’s a writing/worldbuilding/collaborative fiction forum. I really, really recommend that people check it out. There’s a lot more interaction between writers and readers, and the moderators are both elected and incredibly progressive.

Discord and its knock-offs are not easily archived. You can’t find it when using a search engine. You can’t have people read what happened before in the discussion. If you get banned, you can’t reread conversations unless you screenshotted them. I think many communities have been harmed by this lack of history trail. It’s a problem with Twitter and Tumblr too, but I think it’s more apparent on Discord because Discord is impossible to effectively archive. If we want knowledge to survive more than a few months, we need to store it places where people can get to it. 4chan, the website where it literally deletes stuff on purpose, is easier to find old stuff on than Discord is. I’m not eloquent enough to explain, but I have to stress that archiving stuff is very important. Pick apps and websites that let you do it. (Hell, at least Skype lets you download every groupchat you’ve ever been in, pictures included. I had to set up a custom bot to do that for my personal Discord.)