curiousquail

yes, the one with all the cats



🎮🎸🎤music
📸 photography
🎨 art
🐈🐈accidental cat sanctuary
🐦🔮 magical insurance bureaucrats
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terfs + swerfs get blocked

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posts from @curiousquail tagged #welcome to cohost

also: #introduction post, #welcome post, #introductions, #new to cohost, #intro, #introduction, #new user, #first post, #welcometocohost, #intro post, ##welcome to cohost

nicky
@nicky

if you see a good post, follow whoever made it. then go to their page and see if they've reposted some other good posts. follow those people. repeat until you've got a healthy timeline. you can always unfollow later of course! but without a recommendation algorithm or anything like that, you have to curate your own timeline. check out tags as well! and most importantly, have fun and be yourself


curiousquail
@curiousquail

Nicky's right on the fucken mark, pls listen to them but while I have you for a moment:

  1. There's no Mobile App but you can easily get a nearly 'better than that' version by following the install cohost on your phone instructions
  2. Use tags!! Look up tags!! silence tags you don't wanna see!! I've found so many amazing people through looking at tags of stuff I care about.
  3. Sure you can do
all sorts of css crimes here on cohost

but so called 'low-effort' chosting is very much encouraged as well! Long blog post about a thing you care about? Hell yea, sure. Four word shitchost that's entirely in the subject line? You're goddamn right. An interactive choose your own adventure made with css? All are welcome here!
  1. Get a profile photo and bio set up ASAP, because when you start interacting with people that'll let them know who you are and what you're about. Also consider doing an intro post? During each influx of new users I and others tend to check out the #introductions and #intro post tags to say hi.

Sidenote - @eevee has a great guide for doing CSS stuff if you're interested!


Image of a person looking surprised about a grey and white cat climbing on their shoulder

Hi hello I am msd

I've really enjoyed chosting with you all, and losing Cohost is a huge blow.

Socials:

💻 new blog!

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🐘 mastodon

🦋 bluesky (god fuck this so much lol)

♻ twitter (I will not use this you can't make me, but you can still dm me there I guess)
(Original Bio follows)
I make music and take photos and make art but also run a joint cat rescue / recording studio in southern new england with my partner Della. Please enjoy getting to know me, let's rost together! I'm pretty much only active on Cohost at this point.

Music Stuff

Photo of a person wearing a black shirt with white letters that read BLACK LIVES MATTER. They're performing music on two Nintendo Gameboys

I make music! Predominantly as the frontperson of a band called Curious Quail which started as a solo chiptune / orchestral thing and now has five official members but really sorta expands to anyone I'm working with at any given time. Our highest count on-stage was 8 but hell, you might also be in the band at this point.

Photo of a band playing on a stage, taken from the side. A violinist in the forground and further on, a singer playing guitar and another singer.

(Photo credit: Loni Lonzo)

ABOUT | LISTEN | WATCH | HIRE ME |

Photo Stuff

Animated gif of a band performing on a stage. One singer has a long braid and is wearing a white shirt and patterned skirt, the other is playing a Rock Band keytar. A drummer and bassist are also visible.

I take photos! Pre-Covid I primarily covered live music and events (with an emphasis on making animated gifs) but these days I kinda just do whatever. I'm available for hire for portraits and (provided safety precautions are in place) events in the southern New England area.

photo of two people holding hands in the desert - their faces aren't in the frame

LIVE MUSIC STILLS | LIVE MUSIC GIFS | PORTRAITS | PLACES | THE MOON |

Art Stuff

3x3 grid of 3D renders featuring a bird-beaked wizard wearing a green hooded tunic with glowing green eyes exploring various locations

In 2020 during the height of the first lockdown, we took in a kitten who had an awful sleep schedule which in turn meant I had an awful sleep schedule. On the bright side, I turned my delirium into 'learn Blender and start drawing' and have been making stuff ever since. Current project is a series called The Ongoing Adventures of Magical Insurance Bureaucrats in a World Recovering from a Failed Alien Invasion.
(Square enix I'm available for title consultation btw)

3D render of a series of guitar pedals, all with various images of cats on them

I also do weird stuff like make fictional guitar pedals based on my cats

| ARTSTATION | PORTFOLIO | MAGICAL INSURANCE BUREAUCRATS |

Cat Stuff

Photo of a group of kittens climbing out of a bush

In 2016 my partner and I found 5 newborn kittens in our yard. In some cosmic joke, this process would repeat every few months until we accepted our fate.

Photo of a group of newborn kittens taken from above

We've turned our home into a fully functional cat rescue where we take in ferals, fix / vax and attempt to rehome, while also keeping in high risk or 'undatopable' cats. We also run a recording studio out of the same building which leads to amazing antics.

animated gif of a person wearing a purple shirt trying to play acoustic guitar but a grey and white cat keeps getting in the way

| PATREON |