✨Ben Hamill✨ @benhamill@witches.town

The Internet of 10 Things I Hate About You

I have Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra stuck in my head, but I don't actually know it, so it's freakin' torture. So now I'mma headphones it up and listen to the Life is Strange: Before the Storm soundtrack.

The Internet of Where the Wild Things Are

So recently in discussion, @lindar pitched an idea I really liked. Here it is, with an addition by me, so it's not hidden in threads. Please share and use if you like it.

The idea is that interacting with other folks' selfies can be somewhat fraught because you don't know where their boundaries are. And asking, "Can I compliment your appearance?" sort of short-circuits consent.

So when you post a #selfie, add tags:
• nocom (no comments/compliments)
• okcom (comments/compliments OK)
• rqcom (comments/compliments requested)

Also, if you want to specify the difference, you could replace -com with -flirt and/or use them in combination like [rqcom, noflirt].

Uh. Should I have CWed this post? I didn't think too hard ahead of time, but after a couple minutes thought maybe? IDK what I woulda put in there, but… if you think I shoulda: Sorry and if your comfortable, I'd appreciate hearing what you'd expect the warning to be.

Good morning, witches and wicks.

I'm reading Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan right now and somehow just not super into it. I'm at chapter 11, which is maybe 1/3 of the way through. I think it's that he (it's told in first person) talks about his junk and women's bodies a lot? I'm not sure why the main character is such a horn dog? It's distracting from the cool rest of the story. I'll probably finish it, and I'll give my thoughts at the end, but it's slower going than I like.

It also might be suffering just because Among Others directly preceded it and that book was so incredible.

Here's me being a baby about the cold (about 50 F) on my way to the bus stop. Also, I didn't really intend to be a walking Under Armour commercial; I work there and our cold gear is unreasonably effective. Sometimes I think we don't employ materials engineers, but dark wizards.

New idea on the whole [okcom] front: Same prefixes, but with flirt, e.g. [okflirt] or [noflirt]. Use both. The distinction is subtle, though. What do y'all think?

CW: selfie, eye contact
[okcom, noflirt]

If you have chocolate syrup and milk what's the best way to make hot chocolate? Do you heat the milk, then stir in the chocolate? Make chocolate milk, then heat it? Does it matter?

OK. There was a bunch of talk of selfies and I realized how I never take any, so here's a staying-up-too-late-on-a-school-night selfie. Sans hat, even.

You have to put up with the random busy background full of crap because that's how the lighting was best. And the strange glasses shadow. 🤷🏻‍♂️

CW: Eye contact.
[okcom]
https://witches.town/media/3GKcWFXU6-g1lCBkPFk

xkcd.com/now is pretty useful, y'all.

People post selfies and sometimes I wanna compliment them about it, but I get self-conscious. Like, I don't wanna be that creeper rando telling ladies on the internet they got a nice smile or whatever. So often I compose it, then delete. I feel like it's better to err on the side of caution there.

Well, now I owe @dboyfajardo some kind of debt. Because he introduced me to Butterfly Soup which if you like awkward teen lesbian romance story games you should check out IMMEDIATELY. It is so pure and good. I just finished it and it made me really happy. It's free on itch.io.