I had two dreams involving this forum recently, so I figure that means my subconscious really wants me to sign up. So hey, here I am, ready and excited to be weird at a bunch of people on the internet. I'm Minty. I am a college student studying biology with some kinda altruistic inspiration but no idea what I'm gonna end up doing for the world. I want to learn about a bunch of stuff like programming and knitting and space and science in general and the things my friends write and etc etc etc, but the only hobby I do consistently, in between schoolwork and procrastinating on schoolwork, is drawing. I do fanart and lately have taken up making lots of pixelly icons like the one I'm using for this site. (Like it? It's got gold in cracks because kintsugi......) Random interests include nature, weird science facts, other people's worldbuilding (I dream of putting work into my own), things like memes and spontaneous culture generation, stories about characters with more power than emotional ability to handle it as well as ones who have this ability and are terrifying for it, superpowers (following discovery of Worm and the Geneverse), ambient music (as well as the stuff with the bass and the guitars), and laughing too hard to properly say the bad puns I make. Brain problems include depression; social anxiety with really disordered fear of judgment; general perfectionism and avoidance; maybe possibly potentially ADHD which was something I was gonna ask Seebs about but I guess I'll end up posting here. I'm shy as fuck in real life, and sort of hoping that it'll be easier to come out my shell in a forum format, where I can compose things I want to say, and seek out discussions on things that interest me more easily. I'm highly interested in analyzing how my thought patterns work and figuring out how to make them work more properly. I want to someday engage with politics and social justice and have opinions on things without getting all stressed and despairing like happens now. I'm female; I've considered whether I'd be better described as something like agender but come to the conclusion that, like social justice and the existence of God, thinking about it takes too much energy for too little result. Use any pronouns you want for me, though; I've always been curious how it'd feel to be called "he"or "they". So, uh, that's me. Thanks for reading; hope you're doing well today.
Hello! I love your avatar, and I probably spent longer than was strictly necessary staring at it and trying to figure out if it was representative or abstract. /facepalm
Nice icon! I'm also depressed and potentially ADHD (going through assessment right now), with a weird insistence on studying my own brain patterns, so if you ever want to bounce ideas back and forth, I am awake at weird hours of the night. Also: I'm a nonprofit minor, and perpetually trying to drag others in with me. I have connections.
Oh hey sweet! Wasn't really expecting to see much knowledge of that off mspaf, although I suppose the author does do a lot of tumblr stuff. #surreptitiously checks mspaf to make sure youre not actually on there #relies way too much on avatars for identifying people
Oh wow, hello all you people! :D @unknownanonymous: Which bit are you ":D" -ing at? There's a lot there. @bramblepatch: Thanks! I'm not sure what you mean by representative, but it doesn't mean much other than I like plants, the idea of kintsugi and the color green. @budgie: Nah, have you ever heard a really good pun? Like one of the ones that's three puns at once? Those are the best puns. That, or accidental ones, because it's like the universe made a joke at you. @boyacrossthestreet: (Un)fortunately, I've been pretty good at having a sleep schedule recently, so I can only converse with you at reasonable times of day. Would certainly be interested in comparing brains notes, though. And hearing your sales pitch on nonprofit things. What kind of connections? @Wiwaxia: I KNEW I'd seen that turtley icon somewhere; I just assumed it was on Seebs' blog! But yeah, I go by an unrelated username and avatar on MSPAF (AScWCC), and do most of my Geneversing on my tumblr of same username I have here.
I mean like, if it was supposed to be a picture of something in particular, or an abstract composition of shapes? I guess it's the latter. It's really nicely done!
It's a Wiwaxia, not a turtle! *grump* And not this particular avatar, because I've used a whole bunch of other Wiwaxia avatars over there. I have a lot of them. :P
Well done on actual sleep schedules! Luckily I talk best through the PM system thingy on here and emails, which are fortunately not dependent on timing and/or similar sleep schedules. Largely I know a few people in Americorps (which I deeply love because it will allow me to do hands-on-work instead of millions of papers. It is my fifth year in school and I am donnnnne). I also have this great website called idealist.org, which is really great for nonprof careers. Ooh, and I intern for my local Habitat for Humanity.
oh man, those are my favourite. i tend to rank 'worst' based off the groans i get when i make them, and the multilayered ones always get the loudest. it's been a long time since i've run into one in the wild, though.
http://hellotailor.tumblr.com/post/86675939293/battlereadyprince-monk-of-space-a-motorcycle #I found dis
