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Elden Thing | Back & Body Hurts Platinugggggh Rewards Member
Profile pic and banner credits: sharkaeopteryx art by @superkiak! eggbug by eggbug! Mash-up by me!
[Alt-text for pfp: a cute sharkaeopteryx sat on the ground with legs out, wings down, jaw ajar, and hed empty, looking at eggbug and eggbug's enigmatic smile.]
[Alt-text for banner: a Spirit Halloween banner with eggbug and the sharkaeopteryx that Superkiak drew for me looking at it with inscrutable expressions]
I'm a Vietnamese cis woman born and currently living in the U.S. You may know me from Sandwich, from Twitter or Mastodon (same username), or on Twitch as Sharkaeopteryx. I do not have a Discord or Bluesky account.
Ask me about language learning/teaching, cooking/eating food, late diagnosis ADHD, and volunteer small business mentoring. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you.
I think people deserve to be young, make mistakes, and grow without being held to standards they don't know about yet and are still learning. So, if you are under 22, please don't try to strike up a friendship or get involved in discussions on my posts.
Please don't automatically assume I follow/know/co-sign someone just because I reposted something from them—sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Also, if you think being removed as a follower when we're not mutuals is a cardinal sin, please do not follow me.
strange missives received from Other Websites
like i don't know who this person is following on the chostiverse but clearly they need to find some new people
mastodon: please cw selfies
cohost: taurposting will continue until matt damon is carbonized again
oh wait it was ryan reynolds!! shit.
let's get matt next.
✨ Okay but, what does this mean, though...? In what manner is its posting culture obsequious and insincere? I can accuse both sites of a lot of things, but 'poisonously insincere lovebombing' is, uh. Not what I'd call a predominant mood.
"they like the website they're using and tbh that's a red flag" is what im hearing lmao
you could I guess say that about mastodon too, but I think there's a big difference in how moralized one's choice of social network is perceived to be. part of what has driven me away from mastodon repeatedly for years is the combination of suffocating expectations of posting etiquette combined with intense moralizing about how federated social media, or a specific subcategory of federated social media, is the only ethical social media to use ever or whatever. I don't really think anybody on cohost cares what social media networks other people use, or how other people on cohost use cohost generally speaking
The general complaints I see from outside cohost are:
I can kinda get this about Mastodon; there are a lot people there would love to get sanctimonious about social media platforms but Cohost? Outside our initial "we're so much better; this place is immune to drama" phase it's been pretty chill here...
Wait I thought it was Ryan Reynolds we carbonized? Did we do it again? Is there a like, a committee I can join to pick the next person???
oh damn it was him!! i forgot who got zapped. time for jail.
I think this is the site with the LEAST amount of sycophantic people, as far as modern social media is concerned.
People seem way more open to just Chill Talks here.
