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Hi! I'm rax. I ended up in a conversation with seebs (http://raxlraxlraxl.tumblr.com/post/112210764292/pulling-this-out-of-the-shitstorm-to-point-it-out) about trans history and such, and seebs suggested I come here. I'm probably going to make a thread in the gender-stuff place about the gender-stuff-things but I figured I'd also introduce myself. Y'all seem cool.

I'm rax. My pronoun is they and my gender history is hilarious. I live in the desert with my cats. I spent a while in academia doing research on human/animality (loosely focused around "why are so many furries trans what is going on here") and currently split my time between doing tech work, being an Actual Pokemon Professor, playing card games, and living at airports. I also DJ parties with names like "Catgirl Goth Rave." I'm @raxvulpine on twitter and rax on LJ/DW if you're into that.

Stuff that seems relevant to this forum: I'm an abuse survivor and fairly loud about it on the internet, I'm into homestuck and very quiet about it on the internet (though I've been roped into doing organizational fandomy things in the past), my moirail and my shrink have convinced me I'm autistic but I'm not sure how useful that information is to me at this point in my life, and... I don't actually have a good enough sense of this space to say more?

...Where did this forum come from, anyway? Did I accidentally stumble into one of the secret parts of the internet where all the conversations went? :P

 

Oh hey, I saw your conversation with seebs on her blog and I was hoping you might come over here on account of you seemed pretty cool!

This forum is basically "seebs's inbox: the forum" on account of the load on his tumblr inbox got too much for them to keep up with, I believe. It's also like only a week old.

#goin for the pronoun sweepstakes

 

Hi, and thanks! That's... an intense tumblr inbox, oof. This is certainly better for discussion than tumblr so far!

 

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#also, discussion culture

 

@Wiwaxia that was hideous. I thought for one horrifying second that that could actually happen here. (well done)

@rax WELCOME! I saw the post too, and was also hoping. You sound cool and also like you'll fit in pretty well here. Your research sounds really interesting, too :D

 

Hello there! I think I've read some of your posts someplace or other online, because your introduction sounds somewhat familiar.

 

@boyacrossthestreet thanks! :D It was... I hope to find some way of resuming it without engaging the academic complex, but we'll see.

@Morven Hi! It's possible --- I have a lot of friends around the location in your profile, touch a lot of different social groups, and I'm moderately known among people who play roguelike games.

 

Also, general rules question (because I'm bad at undocumented social expectations): Is it okay to just jump into threads here involving people I don't know, which is pretty much everyone?

 

I've been doing it without being stomped on that I've noticed, so I guess it's fine!

 

I have a feeling that if we want threads that are invitation-only, they should be in a separate subforum with explicit rules.

 

@rax: ooh, what roguelikes?
I've been playing a lot of Sil (an Angband derivative) lately.

 

Thanks! I have proceeded to jump into a conversation. :)

@Wiwaxia: I grew up on NetHack, got to the point where it was too easy, moved on to Crawl (DCSS), set up a public server for it (crawl.akrasiac.org! :D), played a bunch, then got distracted by card games and haven't rogueliked much lately. Does Sil have a public server? I do really enjoy watching people play roguelikes even though I don't play much anymore.

 

Oh hey, you were my mod liason for the HSWC one year, weren't you?

Nice to see ya here. :D

 

Sil does not appear to have a public server, alas.

 

@seebs: daaaaaaaang I have been creds-crushed. :P rogue. nice! And a post about why the forum exists would be awesome, thank you.

crawl is sort of like if someone liked angband having better controls and visuals than nethack but preferred level permanence, and then decided to take as a design principle "I prefer a percentage of unwinnable games to things being too cheesable," and then iterated over the design space for a long time.

@Acey: Yup, I suspected that was you! :D Good to see you again.

 

aaand apparently I haven't been paying much attention to the intros forum.

Glad to see you've decided to come hang out with us, Rax! I was kind of hoping you might, after you dropped that excellent sourcebomb on us on tumblr.