andréa/andi - 26 - 🇵🇭🇪🇸


queer trans dragoness from the sunny tropics, figurehead monarch of a kingdom of kobolds,
ace flier both in the cockpit and on the wing,
typically found sipping a cup of vietnamese coffee atop a hoard of plushies.
☕🐉🌴


Big nerd about SF/F, aviation, tabletop, mech media, and much, much more.
Far too many hobbies. Mostly SFW.


One of them therian creature folk 🐉 ΘΔ
Keeps turning people into dragons, if it happens to you, you're welcome.


"the Chuck Tingle of dragon TF fiction" - @apoapsis


CESA's high altitude atmospherics research platform dragon


Certified fries enjoyer 🍟 🐉


she/her; other pronouns are secret unlockables ;3


dragon of many shapes; often anthro, often a dragon-jakkai (the horns stay on)


officially mocha flavored


possesses Eel Magnetism


friend to yinglets everywhere


"only" the size of a small plane


too many forms and too many chuuni ass fighting styles


horny for being the hot robot girl


tail ornament enthusiast


NRX-044 Asshimar my beloved


sword lesbian, alternately of the agile, lightweight one-handed blade or fuckoff zweihander variety


battle theme DEFINITELY has flamenco guitar


reviews:
"the most dragon to ever dragon"
"dresses like a touhou character"
"horns were fun to draw"
"tailfan is some of the best in the business"
"came for the worldbuilding, stayed for the dergposting"
"exceptionally kissable"


❤️ 🌟 starlight @Ehksidian 🌟 ❤️
❤️ ⛈️ little spark @bolibob2 ⛈️ ❤️


asks open; please ask me questions i like it :3


icon by princessnapped


bluesky
@lorenziniforce.bsky.social

kukkurovaca
@kukkurovaca

Because it has truly broken a lot of valuable social connections and channels of absolutely vital information. A lot of which will never come over to spaces like Cohost or Mastodon for a variety of reasons, some of which are extremely valid.

There's a lot of virulent anti-twitter sentiment on here in terms of, not the company, but the platform itself, and, I get it, there's a lot to hate about twitter top to bottom, but if you didn't find life-changing/horizon-broadening shit on there in its heydey you weren't looking, and I don't think I can say that about Cohost or the fediverse in the same way.

Anyway, it just sucks, you know? And I'm not out here to judge people for when they do or don't pull the plug.


kukkurovaca
@kukkurovaca

if a fascist burned a city down and people were blaming the folks there for not moving to a suburb fast enough


lorenziniforce
@lorenziniforce

this is also part of why I find the attitude about bluesky on here so frustrating tbh. In my experience, most folks on there are people just trying to keep up continuity on the most similar platform for when musk eventually either makes the site completely unusable or outright bankrupts the company. People who didn't or don't actually want to leave Twitter and people who were continuing to have, for whatever reason, good experiences on there, but feel like the end is neigh.

To continue the analogy: it's like getting mad at the people fleeing the burning city settling in a new neighborhood nearby, because that neighborhood is not as nicely planned.


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I will say for me personally I have never encountered as many Blind folks as just casually browsing fedi on any other platform, which is very cool

unrelated, I do think folks talking about this sometimes lose the idea of social media being composed of its users. if you build a great platform and none of your friends use it, how useful is it? people used to say this all the time about google plus, have we just… forgotten? and of course if it’s actually viewable without being logged in it has some value, but it’s still not… social. or if you have a platform that itself is ‘ethical’ (no ads or tracking) but the user base sucks, how useful is that either?

and like nothing but respect for people who are willing to sever social connections for their ethics (i will for plenty of things too) - but some of us want to talk to people who are on facebook or instagram or whatever…

Yeah, I haven't used facebook or instagram in many years and for very good reason, and I pay a price for that in terms what information and what people I can/cannot reach. I'm able to pay that price, but I don't pretend it's not there.

A lot of "better off without twitter" takes deny what we're losing and that sucks because these costs are very real.

a somewhat wholesome anecdote, one my family friends fully stopped using Facebook/WhatsApp and my mum - despite an initial “how are we going to talk??” (normal texting/phone not being a great option due to frequent international travel by both parties) - worked out that they now just … email each other. It’s very sweet.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the take you're making here, but I do feel the need to point out making a comparison like "if you didn't find life-changing/horizon-broadening shit on there in its heydey you weren't looking, and I don't think I can say that about Cohost" while Cohost just over a year old, whereas Twitter had several years under its belt before it even became popular let alone reach a ubiquitous "heydey" ignores the historical context of how these platforms and communities grow and change over time and isn't super fair to say X isn't reading at the same grade-level as Y. Especially when Cohost isn't trying to be a new Twitter, it's just absorbing a share of the diaspora.

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