Sylvia Lilith

Hot girl dinner (Zesty Italian Cheese noodles)

If there's a post I'm proud of but no one sees it, I can just...wait a couple weeks and repost it at a better time. There's no algorithm to appease, there's no timer, it's just a chance to give an idea fresh life without needing to worry about silly little games to appease bots and just like...give humans a chance to see it with their eyes.

This is probably one of the biggest strengths of cohost, imo. The decentralization/outright removal of numbers from the process. The only chance I get to see numbers are when I click on the notifications tab the first time - but once we're in there, it's not numbers. Cohost counts "One, Several." If you want to know how much people like a thing, what you have to see are profile pictures and usernames and actual words they wrote.

In short, you would have to make yourself reduce them to data points. And that's not what our brains actually want to do! Human brains are able to do numbers better than most animals¹ that we know of, but it's not our default mode of operation, so if you take away the numbers, our brains focus on what they're best at. Photos, names, the words.

It means even seeing a "like" reaction feels more human here. It's not just another number, it's "Ah yes, the person with the gray dragon PFP, who has the name "FartingFromADick", liked my post. FartingFromADick is someone I have seen before with that PFP, and they are friend shaped. Seeing a new PFP inspires "Ooo, who's this? New person? Friend with new photo? I want to know?!"

By decentralizing the numbers, it becomes so much easier to remember every person on here is a human with their own complex inner world and hopes and dreams and butt jokes and I love that.

1. I can think of like 12 possible exceptions right after I type that, mostly from eusocial insects, but the point remains.

I'm sick of all these fucking cottagecore feel-good morally unproblematic queer fantasy novels and comics I keep seeing. I want a queer story about bitter, horrible people. Just remake John Wick or Taxi Driver and make the protagonist a lesbian. Please, that's all I want. My favorite trans movie is Assassination Nation, not because it's that good (it's passable at best) but because Hari Nef has a gun and she kills people. More of that. It's 2023 and I want VIOLENCE

My bibliography includes 2 separate sentient lesbian buildings that make monsters that eat people, an aroace half dragon that wants to avenge her father on the aliens who killed him, and a trans woman who’s greatest ambition in life is to be the best at punching people. There’s also a bi cis man who really just wants to play with trains but gods keep trying to stop so he chooses to fight back with the power of friendship and mechanized violence.

Most of them are going to be gathered together by absolute gremlin of an elf who hasn’t figured out she’s gay yet, and together they are going to battle a capitalist on the moon.

Please, I’m all ears