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About Me

Hello! I'm Eika, a geek with 30 years experience who's fleeing Twitter's dumpster fire. If there's a way to break, misunderstand, or confuse myself involving technology, I usually find it. In fact, on a regular basis I get to hear 'I've never seen that before' and 'I thought I fixed that already.' Actually, that describes life in general. If you want car trunks freezing open when in another state, a new computer that decides to load everything on the monitor one inch to the left, and the most ridiculous non-swears in the history of not swearing, you may wanna talk to me.

I play a lot of video games; top two franchises ever are the Sly Cooper and Splatoon series.

You can find me on AO3, https://archiveofourown.org/users/EikaPrime/profile , where I've written a handful of Sly Cooper fics and a much larger number of Splatoon fics, including a oneshot collection, two completed series, and a just-started series. I think they're all pretty good, and I suspect others agree, since if you sort Splat fics by comments, 5 of them are on the front page (and that's without excluding crossovers!). (I don't want to brag, but I suspect if I don't at least a little, someone is going to track me down and brag about me FOR me, and that's embarrassing.)

I can also be seen on Twitch occasionally, http://twitch.tv/EikaPrime . Current living circumstances have paused my streaming career, but it was all for fun anyway.

Anyway, nice to meet you all, and I hope to see some great art, read some great writing, and see some amazing interactions on here!

(my awesome avatar's from Rove https://www.tumblr.com/rovearts )

#splatoon #ao3 #writing #fleeing twitter #introductory post #introductions are hard #introvert #tumblr why are you recommending the tag therapy #what do you know that I don't tumblr

life-on-our-planet

eepy mourning dove cupping its wings under its belly for cushion ©Ella

Every time I try to like a post with any pride tags, the post disappears from my timeline. I do not get animation I get Post Vanishment. Pride does not exist for me.

#pride month #or lack thereof

agnesmontague

ive invented (note: dubious claim) something i call the bear diet which is mostly fruits and vegetables with fish as the main protein source and something like once a month you eat a few hyperprocessed foods of your liking because that is when you, the bear, raid a dumpster in the suburbs

stellarskyes

after the hyperprocessed foods, do you take tranquilizers to simulate getting captured by animal control and returned to the wild?

agnesmontague

i would settle for melatonin gummies but well. knock yourself out

existennialmemes

A man records himself torching his work place while saying "All you had to do was pay us enough to live. Or at least enough not to do this."

And news reports are officially saying his motive is undetermined because they don't want to admit that they know exactly what his motive is.

"Nothing to see here folks. Just a truly baffling event that came completely out of nowhere and can't be understood. Please don't think about it and start rambling about workers' rights again."

odyver

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem to) view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

for clarification, AI here is referring to generative AI, rather than closed or custom-made LLMs

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 3 days 11 hours

estefany-art

🧡 💥 💙

blumineck

How to spring-load your bow!

This information is freely given. What you do with it is up to you! 🏹💐🧚🏼

blumineck

Archery x flower arranging

This was actually really fun!

Anyway, don’t forget I’m still raising money to test a bunch of things in a suit of armour:

Blumineck is trying to fun a video series doing fun and serious historical and fantasy testing in fitted plate armour.

overthinkingao3

We write for ourselves, but we post for others.

(this came out of a conversation in the comments on a previous post about an author threatening to stop updating a fic because of lack of engagement)

So there’s this idea that fic writers should write for themselves and not care too much about stats or engagement,

and i totally get the sentiment behind that. if writing becomes entirely about stats and external validation, something important does get lost - creative freedom and joy, conviction in your own writing

but i also think:

“i write for myself, but i post for others.”

because posting fic is not only self-expression. it’s social. ao3 is called an archive, but emotionally it often functions as a community space.

people post for connection, for participation, for others to bear witness to their pain and trauma and grief,

and i don’t think most people are asking to be admired so much as acknowledged. there’s something deeply human about wanting another person to encounter something that mattered to you and go:

“ok, yeah, I see what you were trying to say. I see you.”

especially because fanfic is often people processing very real feelings through fictional characters at a safe distance, one step removed,

and then uploading that deeply personal thing into a shared archive and hoping somebody else might connect with it.

And i think that’s why it hurts so much when you summon up the courage and post a fic into the void and you get nothing back,

and then it’s like,

does anyone see me? does anyone even care?

microsff

"You have improved," the swordmaster said.

"Thanks to my new sword," said the student.

The swordmaster studied the blade and frowned. "This is enchanted?"

"You know about cursed swords that whisper that you should kill?"

"Yes?"

"This tells me I'm loved and valid."

"Ah. Well. It's not wrong."

mangled-by-disuse

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

lgbtlaughs

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”