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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.


🐘Mastodon
search for @sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net and hit follow if you want
Hang out with me on the Auldnoir forum! (you can DM there!)
discourse.auldnoir.org/
Follow me on Twitch
twitch.tv/sharkaeopteryx
Add my RSS feed (not working yet but I'll get to it!)
sharkaeopteryx.neocities.org/rss.xml

I've found that not overexplaining can also help me feel less ashamed about whatever the reason is. It helps remind me that in most cases, I myself do not need these details from someone in order to show them understanding and respect their boundaries*, so why bother assuming others need them from me to go about their day?

It's important for me to know my limits and reasons so that I can more realistically gauge what I can actually do without accidentally saying yes just to people-please, but on a casual basis, people say no without giving details all the time, it's fine.

Often in these cases the person who we (general we, not speaking for Lam) are trying to please/appease by overexplaining isn't even the person we are talking to, but a projection of our internalized shame/guilt/fear. And RSD can make that worse if we aren't aware of what's causing our feelings and what we can do about them.

*exceptions exist, the most obvious being that I cannot mindread someone else's boundaries, I do need to know what they are (though not why!) in order to account for them


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