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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.
everyone should sail 300 miles off the coast to remember what the night sky used to look like
everyone should drive 300 miles into the desert to remember what the night sky used to look like
everyone should drive 300 miles... [checks a map of Ireland] ...to the coast and into the ocean, whichever direction you pick
everyone should drive 480km in a random direction in europe and try to escape signs of human civilization
One time I went with a bunch of people to climb some mountain in the middle of nowhere and we ended up heading back really late and I still often think about how the level of darkness was almost as fascinating as the way the night sky looked.
"real, country dark" is something I think about a lot (Alex describes it thus in Clockwork Orange)
Seeing the night sky without light pollution with the sounds of a forest at midnight around me made me understand how religions came to be
I remember telling a previous Irish friend that I was, at the time, commuting 165 miles each way on a weekly basis. (that was an unusually bad commute)
(I am doing a bit, I didn't even look up the lyrics for that song, I haven't heard it in ages and I (probably) don't have any beef with The Proclaimers)
#dah DAH dah
