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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.


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search for @sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net and hit follow if you want
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sharksonaplane
@sharksonaplane

I don't post enough content here about the things I am really into. While typing this I thought, "and I don't know if I'm gonna," but literally midsentence I started getting ideas, so. We'll see. I did microblogvember and that was I think the first time I had ever completed a 30-day challenge like that. The other time it was a "journaling" challenge for a group I was in and it only reinforced how much I hate journaling and the way most people say to do it just Does Not Work For Me.

…did I ever post that thing I wrote about how that type of journaling doesn't work for me, or is it still siting around in drafts? I should check up on that.

Anyway, some ideas I have that might get me to post more of the things I'm into:


sharksonaplane
@sharksonaplane

I typed the original post at like 04:30 and went to sleep without checking to make sure the markdown had parsed correctly, which as we know is a sin. I did not realize that 2 extra hyphens and forgetting the blank lines on either side would create a header instead of a readmore, I apologize for the error that probably nobody noticed or was put out by.

At least Cohost's html + markdown interactions work better than Buttondown's (which is, mm, I was going to say a little sad until I remembered that Buttondown's staff is at least 33% smaller than Cohost). (I know it's publicized as Just One Guy but I have received an e-mail from another staff member there, though idk if they were temporary or not)

(That in itself is a whole story about why you should be better with boundaries as a small biz owner but I digress. Bottom line is it was everyone's fault so therefore it's no one's fault and Buttondown is fine as long as you don't expect it to be more than what it is. also I'm apparently better at html than I think I am.)


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