Bonbon

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Yesterday, upon my hair,
perfectionist who's trying to
stop being such a perfectionisthello!!!!!!
finally gave 🍬self a faceI met a Spheal whose head was bare ona li @jan-PonponIts head was bare again today, is excited about bnuny horns rn
(send asks!)I wish, I wish it'd grow astray...🍬

story in   ↑↑↑ top ↑↑↑  link:
‘They're Made out of Meat’
by Terry Bisson, 1991
discord (a lot of bons)
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phantasmaCora
@phantasmaCora

if there's one thing emblematic of what we've enjoyed with previous social media, it would have to be tumblr's "you cannot kill me in a way that matters."

although at first glance merely a shitpost, this actually makes a profound statement on the inevitability of death, but also that, beyond the reckoning of the person with the gun, one can take solace in the inevitability of new life from death.



lutz
@lutz

every night when I get home from work at the glass smashing factory my seven daughters emerge from the back of the house where their chambers are and line up single file in order of their birth which incidentally is also the order of their heights (descending). each one receives from me a brief kiss on her smooth bald head then I reach into my pockets and produce for every one of my darling girls a small sliver of shattered glass that I squirreled away for them at work while Foreman Thomas's watchful eye was turned away, and with every present my daughters are uniformly delighted. "oh papa, you shouldn't have!" "oh really papa, all for me?" "you're the best papa in the village" and so on and so forth. and when we are done my daughters take their glass and scurry back to their chambers and what they do then I do not know for I have never seen within this part of the house. the ritual is repeated but in an imperfect way when my wife gets home from her job at the glass-making factory, except every day she brings our seven little blessings fully pressed windows of either the strongest tempered glass or the most strikingly colored carnival trinkets of the perfectest proportion. our daughters accept this sad trash with good humor rolling their eyes to me over their mother's shoulder as she hugs them each in turn and if I could I would smash those ugly windows then and there. but instead my daughters who are too well behaved to be as rude as i feel take their mother's hateful baubles and creep with them back into their chambers on the side of the house where we are forbidden to go


FauxWren
@FauxWren

I read this entire post out loud on a discord call last night and I'm pretty sure I had a nosebleed at the end




Bonbon
@Bonbon

Uh-oh. The crappy unborn ghosts of Craptober past and less past have come!

doing #craptovertime was something my friend wanted to do and is 10000000000% optional for craptober.
besides, i was planning to do this with day 29 early on but then i missed day 29 so i'd likely have done this anyway aa.
i only drew everything that i missed for fun! i repeat, it's all for funnnnn

Thank you everyone who has, had, and will have/had interest in Craptober!!! There were considerably more eyes on this event than I had expected, and maybe there'll be more interest in it next year!!

I still have a lot of perfectionism to overcome, even while doing this event, but I've definitely eliminated some of my fear of making art so crappy that I can barely look at it, never mind letting other people! So Craptober was definitely a success for me, and I hope that it'll help more people to come, too!!! ✨✨✨




NoelBWrites
@NoelBWrites

It's probably obvious to point out that software in general (and social media in particular) are designed to minimize user agency as much as possible (not only that, they also have an insane amount of data to iterate on and optimize their design to that end). YouTube doesn't want you to think about what you want to do next, it wants you to stay on the website and watch the next video. Twitter doesn't want you to decide what you want to do with your time, it wants you to keep scrolling and retweet as much as possible.

I was wondering why cohost felt different and like an "older" website and it's not just the lack of a recommendation algorithm, the UX design plays into this as well



Bonbon
@Bonbon

All the extra steps just to share a post originally mildly annoyed me, but you're totally right about it making us more mindful about sharing.

I'd still prefer if I didn't lose my spot in the feed after sharing not sure if the case for everyone??, but at least the feeds are finite, rather than being hopelessly lost in the pile.

I still struggle with deciding between leaving my thoughts as a comment or as a "quote rechost"(?), though.
(i began typing this as a comment, for example)


NoelBWrites
@NoelBWrites

I think the difference between quote rechosting(?) and leaving a comment is the level of visibility.

People are less likely to see/interact with a comment when the post is shared further. So I guess if I wanted a conversation or simply to leave a "thank you" or something that doesn't add a lot to the original post I would leave a comment. If I wanted to add something to the general conversation, I would rechost?

This is all very vibes-based and I'm not sure how I will approach it in the future lol


Bonbon
@Bonbon

Feels more like a different kind of visibility than a level of visibility, though.

If I quote rechost(?), and the other person doesn't [quote] rechost(?) back, then the only people who'll see this are my followers, and not everyone who happens to find the original chost or follow the original choster.
In contrast, comments in the original chost are visible by everyone who decides to check on the comments, but they won't see the discussion(s) happening in rechosts.

Making this a comment now, since I don't want to clutter my profile feed.
But then my original rechost generated some conversation with someone who follows me, whereas if I had commented originally, it'd have been only been seen by people who find your chost.
so nvm making this a quote rechost(?) for continuity. 😅✨