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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.
Someone who's into anime/video games/ whatever etc calling people who aren't into that kind of stuff "normies" : Acceptable, I understand completely.
Someone who's into anime/ video games/ whatever etc calling people who aren't into that kind of stuff "NPCs" : i'm going to assume you're a fucking freak and i will not associate with you
Clearly if a person doesn't share my encyclopedic knowledge of wojaks and Halo lore then they're just not a person /s
I totally get this. I feel like the first one is pointing to your own freak status, while the second one is a big sign that says "I see people around me as less than human."
It makes sense, even beyond the cultural implications because like... "normie" implies that I'm the weird one, like saying you're "extremely online" or whatever, and those other people are just normal. But "NPC" is both dismissive and setting up an excuse to treat them badly. Like "oh they don't really have interiority/feel pain/care about anything, they're just NPCs".
Yeah, "normies" has a sort of humble self-deprecation about it.
It's certainly preferable to the 2000s-era "mundanes" which just came off as so unbearably pretentious it just gave me the mental sensation of biting into a lemon every time I heard someone say it
