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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.
Maya Fey: Nick! Nick! We've got a client!
Phoenix Wright: Who is it?
Maya: Hugh Zonfurst, the baseball player!
Phoenix: i don't think thats how this bit works.
Maya: he's been arrested for killing Watson Second, but I know he would never do something like that
Phoenix: you're making these people up
Maya: this is serious Nick! Hugh's fiance is gonna be neartbroken.
Phoenix: is her name Ida No?
Maya (grinning) and Phoenix (groaning): Third base!
I've had a screenshot of the original The Sniler post on Tumblr saved with other notable media for a little while, but it had not occurred to me to research the origins of the image until I have encountered another photo (image 1) and thought "Wait a minute, that's the cat".
Direct image search for either hasn't been particularly fruitful (mostly memes), but it did bring up a Pinterest result with another photo (image 2) among the "similar images" that had the same blanket backdrop as the original and a watermark in a corner.
From there I found that the number (954459180) is the ID of the owner on RED/Xiaohongshu, which is a Chinese Instagram-like social media.
Just like with regular Instagram, you can't do a whole lot on RED without registering, but I did find two dozen more photos of The Sniler uploaded on Facebook.
So there you have it
Sniler is on Instagram at fortuneisacat also!
On second thought perhaps tag bookmarking is just broken bc that didn't work?
ok IF I'm right it was the apostrophe that broke the bookmarking so…we'll do it without, then. Good thing I just came up with it a couple days ago, I only have to scroll through 200 of my reposts instead of 2000 😂
Taken in combination with the fact that trying to navigate the past feed in the PWA sucks ASS and the support forums don't seem to have anything other than bug reports on this…I'm gonna log out for a bit bc this is actually making me legitimately frustrated and angry at Cohost and my whole feed is very "we are supposed to be on our best behavior with all the new people right now".