✨Ben Hamill✨ @benhamill@witches.town

I'm moving my account over to @benhamill. I don't wanna get into the details, but if you're really interested, I guess DM me over there. I'll import my follows momentarily. A bit sad to go because I love a lot of people on this instance.

#introductions

Uh. I like to kindpost, I guess. It's a new skill I'm learning, anyway. Also real bad joaks.

I try to learn about intersectional social justice and am trying to develop the habit of taking concrete, real world action about it more often.

I've got a linguistics degree that I don't use professionally (I'm in software), but I love to talk about words and things.

I think play and playfulness are super important. I enjoy roleplaying, board and video games.

I'm a mod on #WitchesTown. Ask me if you have questions (though I only speak English, do I'm not much help to our large population of French speakers).

My family afforded me a brief nap today. I dreamed I was playing a game a bit like Journey, but there was voice chat and more people playing together than 2. I fell in with a gang of unbearably cool French anarchist kids who all mostly knew each other IRL. We got to a part where you skate/boarded downhill in twilight and they were doing all sorts of awesome tricks while making up raps about the black block and shit in a mix of English and French. I was amazed they tolerated my presence, but they were so nice.

I'm pretty sure this was a dream about #WitchesTown.

Mornin', witches and wicks.

🎶
I'm a dork, yeah, and she's so cool.
I'm ugly. She's beautiful.
She's so smart. I'm just a fool.
I can't figure it out.
I just don't understand:
Why does she love me?
🎶 #TootSinging

I mean--it doesn't seem unreasonable to ASK that people CW some topic or class of posts. That's, like, a negotiation or whatever between friends. If you ask nicely and they refuse or tell you off... maybe that's a statement on your relationship and unfollowing or muting them makes sense to me. But if you like someone and interact with them a lot it seems absolutist to just be like 🙅 without talking to them. Or, similarly, if you just post a general, "I'd appreciate it if people CWed $WHATEVER", that seems reasonable, too.

IDK. TELLING someone what to do is kinda butts, but I've only ever seen people using the word "please" or whatever.

OK I guess it was even just one post. Heh.

Mornin', y'all! 💖

I'mma self-boost some stuff from last night so maybe more people see it. Sorry if that means you see it twice. It's only a couplefew posts, so hopefully not too annoying.

NOBACON.

Hey, help me out, frens. If you liked playing #LifeIstStrangeBeforeTheStorm, you might like to read X. What's some books (ideally in paper editions) that fit into X?

Well, now what the fuck am I going to do with my evening? I was all geared up to play a bunch of Life is Strange, but I finished it and I've just been clicking aimlessly around the web for longer than is reasonable. Damnit, someone hand me another heart wrenching lesbian romance story game.

@srol I forgot to @ you on this and thread it properly, oops. But here's some books you might should look into based on gut checking your Good Reads and my shelves.

Since it ended before I expected, they actually sort of had a happy ending with C & R cuddling and getting closer and loving each other and I thought, "Oh this is almost worse, not acknowledging it." But then after the credits and after showing your choices, they just show R's phone on the desk in the dungeon ringing and ringing with 17 missed calls from Chloe and the camera flash going off over and over off screen and my stomach literally hurt. I was wrong. That was way worse. Oh god. This fuckin' game. Why do I like it when a game hurts me like this? #LifeIsStrange #LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm

Well. I'm back. Apparently I had saved and quit right before the end! And also I THOUGHT THERE WERE GONNA BE FIVE EPISODES, so I was entirely unprepared for that the BE the ending. #LifeIsStrange #LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm

OK. I'mma go finish episode 3 of Life is Strange: Before the Storm. I am SUPER invested in this game, y'all. And I am not sure if I'm ready for the ending that I know must come because Chloe and Rachael are so good. #LifeIsStrange #LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm #HowDoITagThis #DesperatelyAddingTagsSoPeopleCanFindThingsButHavingNoIdeaWhatYoureDoing

- The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps (novella)
- Oryx and Crake (novel, the first of a trilogy)
- Fortune's Pawn (novel, first of trilogy)
- Binti (novella, first of two ongoing?)
- The Dispossessed (novel)
- Among Others (novel)
- Leviathan Wakes (novel, first of 7 ongoing)
- History of English Podcast (podcast about the history of the English language)

I double checked that these are all on Audible.com or whatever, so hopefully they're available on whatever your source of choice is. Happy to answer questions about any of them, if you want.