Molly Noise 🌙 @MollyNoise@shrike.club

i don't normally talk about this stuff because, honestly, being trans isn't even in the top 10most interesting things about me, but its coming up on 6yrs hrt so I'm reflecting on things

spinning my wheels because its not like you can just *tell* someone this directly

"you can't forcibly crack an egg, too early and it just hurts the chick"

(attrib. me)

"well, she couldn't be saying this to me"

maybe i am!

would you like to be a magical girl? tifa? buffy? utena? sarah connor? some cool girl you saw out walking about with the coolest look that you were attracted to in a way that wasn't (just) sexual attraction?

(no-one in particular except several people i have high hopes for figuring their shit out)

jesus christ girl, there's never any absolute certainty you can have in advance, there isn't a *test*

if it seems appealing just *try* a new name out w friends and see how you like people calling you "she"

need to get an ultrasonic cleaner, want to take perfectly cleaned glasses out of the liquid jiggler

oh no, the oirish accent

what game do you choose to defeat Death and prolong your life?

for me : UT99 deathmatch

now you

bandcamp friday!

i have horrors to birth, but for now feast on that already lain before you

https://mollynoise.bandcamp.com/album/profane-feminine

sleepwalked into making it, didn't know if it was "a thing"

ty for the affirmation

this (homemade) iced oat milk espresso-matcha boba drink(?) is rather nice

do you find this

rewatching Buffy, 3 episodes in I've realised Angel is Tuxedo Mask

also, if you'd like a media player you can set up EXACTLY how you'd like (thats super light on system resources, v extendible etc) become friends with https://www.foobar2000.org/

https://stacher.io/

i like to watch some vis at 2x + so having a way to download those files without being reliant on online tools is nice, can do conversions, supports different formats, embedding subtitles etc , you can give it your browser cookies to download from sites that need a login (like nebula), so far its handled everything ive thrown at it

got into downloading vids *in general* because you dont know if/when they will go away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtYEgKE1tZs was removed for a long while

just going to rec https://www.voidtools.com/ "everything" again for windows users who like to search files, quite often i need to find a specific thing and its way faster than using a file manager, saved me a lot of time with re-org'ing all my "media" (idk a better term but im not calling it "content")

because i live with a technomancer they set it up so i can access everything with a secure login from anywhere in the world, so no more using syncthing to transfer a lot of files when at my computer (this is easier than self-hosting FTP or similar options)

even if you just want to have a library of your stuff laid out nice, its... nice

would recommend syncthing (with syncthing tray for windows users) to have a shared folder between computers / phone or whatever (good w keepassxc)

https://komga.org/

its like plex for manga/books/magazines etc

i got into searching archive.org for old gaming mags while me and my gf replay some ps2 games (the original resident evils, silent hill 1-3 and others). they can be weird and misogynistic and very 90's ("re****d" is used with wild abandon) theres something utterly vibrant and alive compared to non indie games journalism, it has a chaotic "seven guys, two called paul, let loose in an office with a playstation and jolt cola"

https://www.freac.org/

i download flac/wav and convert to .ogg for portability (vbr "7.0" quality, i cant hear the difference between this and lossless)

given that stuff goes missing online / deleted from streaming / spotify is just fucking over artists / bandcamp brings in more money on 1 bandcamp friday for an artist than a year of streaming (which costs some artists more than its worth) etc etc etc
i maintain my own media library