Notices by Léto le Gaosaure (legaosaure@blorbo.social)

@lookitmychicken My first attempt with double-pointed needles looks better than this wtf x'D

@lookitmychicken Well, I'd say yes but I don't think I've ever met a dance that I didn't have fun with so take that with a grain of salt I guess xD

@lookitmychicken Oh thank you, I was *so sure* I knew that phrase despite not knowing Portuguese and I couldn't put my finger on it, but of course, I learnt the choreography for that at some point x'D

@lookitmychicken I have no clue, and I do mean *no damn clue* what my yarns are x') I basically have three stashes right now:
- cotton for amigurumi
- leftovers from the two blankets I gifted (I still have the tags so I could look what it is)
- MAJOR. CHAOS. aka stuff I got from my mother who herself probably got half of these from who knows where, and I have a tag for maybe two skeins out of like, 50 different bits of diverse sizes and lengths x')

So yeah, that does make things tricky ='D

Not helping is the fact that I never had my own space to decorate and I'm now living with an ultra minimalist who could probably fit all his belongings in a suitcase if his parents stopped gifting him furniture, so I already feel guilty for owning like 80% of the volume we have to move when we change flat and so I don't feel comfortable trying to learn how to decorate when I know it'll just be useless clutter to him... ^^"""

I guess I could try to make cushion covers though. Not that we own cushions, but I suppose it could happen in the future =')

Thank you for taking the time to type all this, though ♥ It's genuinely appreciated and I'll try to remember it if I ever get the occasion to use your advice!

@lookitmychicken This looks nice... I've honestly been flip-flopping about going the "make squares, blanket will happen at some point" route because I feel that I don't have any use for a blanket (not even a spot to just showcase it) but you're tempting me x')

@lookitmychicken ... gosh. Of course. But still, GODDAMN.

(I used to see that for friendship bracelets, not the "made from beads and shared at concerts" type, the "knotted with thread" kind. Some years they get mainstream and we see Big Brands slapping a charm with their logo on a badly made basic pattern and sell it 100+ euros, while all the fabulous makers around me are told 16€ is too expensive for bracelets that are way more complex, with a better quality, and personalized to the buyer... We tried to laugh about it but it's still facepalm inducing.)

@lookitmychicken It always make me want to facepalm when Big Brands sell items that are super basic patterns but they put a huge price tag... Bonus when someone with experience in the specific craft can look and go "this part is done badly". (But hey, it means you can do better at least ^^b)

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@lookitmychicken Looks like you're having fun with these! You're starting to have a nice stash =)

@lookitmychicken One day I'll stop being thrown by the fact "friendship bracelet" can mean two extremely different kinds of craft, but that day is not today x')

For the bottle lids I've heard that it's so you can't throw the bottle at the performers in a way that could hurt (without the lid it'll empty itself while flying and land harmlessly), but I have no clue if that's the true reason or just an urban legend =')

@lookitmychicken I was reading from the adult section at 8-9 yo too lol (with parents blessings too) (which is why I'm chronically unable to know if something is Gen or T), but I still get the impression that I should be extremely careful about how people interpret the meta information I put around my fics. And technically you're saying it: if it's not "intended" for kids, isn't it easy for a reader to imagine it means things shown in it are things no "normal" kid should understand or relate to?

I happen to have several friends who grew up with kinks they discovered before their puberty and absolutely no positive (or even neutral) representation, be it in fiction or real life, so this might be why I'm thinking that hard about this topic. I'm probably overthinking it I suppose, but well, that's how I work ^^""

And thank you for being so kind in your questioning ♥ It's really good for me to have that opportunity to explain myself without being preemptively dunked on ^^"""

@lookitmychicken Me being me, I overthought my answer to you for hours after posting it so maybe this could be a clearer explanation: in my mind tags are purely descriptive, they say what's in a fic in a neutral way, but ratings are not purely descriptive, they have a prescriptive function too, a "you shouldn't open this if you were being a good person" meaning, because they say "at your age this is what you should be reading", which is why I tag everything all the time with no more question than "what's the canonical form of this tag?" but ratings are more difficult for me. Rating a fic about a character discovering all by herself that she enjoys something "unusual" Mature makes me afraid it's sending the message "if you were a normal minor you wouldn't experience this kind of thing". Hope it makes more sense =S

@lookitmychicken It's the same reason I think blocking minors from acceding *any* sexual content is dangerous: this is a reality of life and some of them might already be experiencing it, and forbidding them from having representation is "at best" keeping them from education that could be useful for them, and at worst making them feel like monsters for experiencing things they don't know are human. Some kinks manifest in quite young kids, and thus treating them as something that only happens to adults is not a reflection of reality.

I agree that participating in kink *with someone else* should be an adult thing, but *having* kinks? That doesn't wait for you to be of legal age.

@lookitmychicken @goldgust Very different use case than me, and indeed in the situation you describe I can see how it would be a welcome help =)

@lookitmychicken @xieliansbignaturals I'm known for my catchphrase "eating is useful" and I also regularly say "breathing is useful", I shall add "blood circulating is useful" to my list =')

@lookitmychicken Oh yes the capitalist propaganda who has no idea who the people on the Fediverse are and thinks it's just another soulless website ripe for monetization! This is a good joke piece if you manage to not facepalm too hard ♥

@lookitmychicken Oh yeah I feel you, that's very much why I'm stuck with discord for now and matrix is useless to me =/

I hope you can find a compromise that works for you!

@lookitmychicken (Oh and because that can be useful, here's a beginner's guide to Matrix, because when I tried to find info on my own it was all "yeah choose an instance and an app, no I won't explain, fuck you" x'D

https://joinmatrix.org/guide/ )

@lookitmychicken As far as I can tell it really depends on what version of the phone OS you're running, my flatmate has no real problem but oh boy it's apocalyptic for me. It was already freezing all the time before but now it's even worse.

I'll stay on discord for now because I've been there for years so that's where my friends and communities are, but I've heard Matrix is growing (and it has lots of apps to choose from).

@lookitmychicken @xieliansbignaturals Wishing you smooth sailing with that change!