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In Brief: A Sharlayan native finally establishing herself on her own away from seven loving but overbearing mothers, Angeline Carax is a white mage with a mission: make the most of her life in Eorzea!

In Depth: Angeline has the following: her trusty weathervane staff, a collection of huge and varied headwear, a linkpearl with more concerned voicemails from home than entries of friends, her beloved menagerie of mounts, and her dream house overlooking the beach at Mist. Angeline does not have: a job, a direction, or a healthy sense of fear. Wait, that’s not much longer than the brief?!

So I, Me, The Player, am Coming From: going from learning how to type roleplaying on Neopets forums to roleplaying with only one other person for two decades while going to school for screenwriting to realizing I got A Little Shrompthin’ Wrong With Me and now I am 30, it’s left me in a very unique position: I’m old hat at a bunch of shit and brand new at a bunch of shit and to be honest trying to prepare this kind of Introductory Roleplay Materiel is really difficult for me! I love and care a lot about stories and making up cool things for our little dollies to do together, so truly I’m most comfortable talking one on one to have our characters grow in interesting ways. If that’s something you’re at all interested in, drop me a line!!

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roselalonde

wheres that one quote about the guy obsessively downloading media and staying up all night to do it and saying “its like all my birthdays have come at once” and its about like.. attachment in the digital age where archiving is easy as fuck. i havent given enough consideration nor read enough on the topic to have well formed opinions but the wording of it is so good it plays in my mind without warning

roselalonde

FOUND IT

“Experiments in attachment. My friend has just had his PC wired for broadband. I meet him in the cafe; he looks terrible - his face puffy and pale, his eyes bloodshot… He tells me he is now detained, night and day, in downloading every album he ever owned, lost, desired, or was casually intrigued by; he has now stopped even listening to them, and spends his time sleeplessly monitoring a progress bar… He says it’s like all my birthdays have come at once, by which I can see he means, precisely, that he feels he is going to die.”

—Don Paterson, The Blind Eye: A Book of Late Advice

centrally-unplanned

This is absolutely aspirational

centrally-unplanned

Gonna go off this for a sec because that’s what I do here, but this book was written in 2007. At that time (or well, a few years before that time) the idea of ownership on the internet seemed almost quaint. Hoarding for its own sake has always been a human vice, but the internet threw its contradictions into stark relief - the songs were *always there*, waiting, on the internet. If you wanted to listen to them, you could just find them! You no longer *had* to own, you could simply need, and dip into the collective to sake the thirst. And of course, the ability of the internet to serve as that collective was only growing, connection speeds and server clusters expanding piece by piece to form the Akashic Record of human creative output.

And it always would continue to expand…right?

Hah. Even back then the idea was a bit of a smokescreen, the dumping of endless streams of anime torrents and ‘zine pdf’s not done by a digital weltgeist but instead by a disparate groups of like 20 guys in Lvov or Hong Kong, who time and boredom could easily destroy. But of course far more sinister in the past twenty years has been the brick-by-brick dismantling of the digital commons to erect paywalled fiefdoms of exclusive DRM’d content. In the face of the dual forces of greed and entropy, your saved links have rotted, your go-to torrent sites flit from registry to registry if they don’t die entirely, your favourite alt-rock AMV from middle school that first got you into Inuyasha got DCM-striked in 2014 and you didn’t even *notice* until 2018. The Akashic Record turned out to not be a monument, but a front in a war - one that hasn’t been lost yet, sure, but *could be lost* at any time, and you won’t receive any more warning than you already have. And once you know this, not by reading words but the only way one can - from the first time you look for something you thought was always there only to find it locked away forever - you can’t regain the innocence lost. Now you download out of fear.

The man above is man fully embodying an ethos of a time and place. Not simply because he is obtaining free songs; in the end, if you want the song, you can buy the song, or use spotify, you can find a way to listen! But precisely because he does not care, in the moment, to listen, he has achieved enlightenment; to take with reckless abandon from a moment in history, a moment of spatial infinity and infinitesimal temporality, is worth the sleep deprivation. Maybe you should too, if you still can, while the moment lasts.

miquellakind

the bird fights its way out of the egg. awww. awwww. aw. the egg is the world So Cute. so so So cute.

terramythos

little-light-bulb

prev tags ^^^^^^

honestly I think venat was just high as balls and thought it would be funny to make little fluffballs and give them the concept of bureaucracy

dailydoseofdoto

Daily Dose(s) of Doto day 21/22 because I forgot yesterday

nongunktional

panna cotta heaven. panna cotta hell. sacrifice your brethren for the panna cotta smell. sweet vanilla flavor. sweet vanilla cream. panna cotta sweet vanilla life is like a dream.