erithacus

23 || he/him || Neurodivergent || Software Tester that programs and does fibre art in his free time

[multidimensionalsock]

Hi, welcome, have some fun facts about me:

I'm a software tester, I write and maintain automation tests for Payments APIs in Gherkin. I also do manually testing of backoffice tools and UI.

I have a degree in Games Design and Programming, I can program in C# and C++ and have experience with Unity and Unreal as well as Non-Engine based programming work.

My favorite games are: Nier, Horizon, Night in the Woods

I once had a special interest in Danish for two years and I'm now vaguely conversational.

GitHub

[deactivated-this-account-deacti]

I ended up having a really interesting conversation with some people at the bus stop today. They were getting out of some sort of ‘clean and sober’ meeting and had starting saying how they were so bored because they didn’t have anything to do, and had to stay at home because all their old friends would pull them back. So I said something like, ‘So this is the time to do all the stuff your parents told you they didn’t have money/time for!’ “Whatcha mean?” “You know, like when you were five and you REALLY wanted to have that toy or do that thing and you were like, ‘Please mom please I gotta have this I gotta go do this’ and they went ‘Hell no you think I’m paying for that do you want to goddamn EAT?’ “ And this light went on in their eyes. The lady is going to go check thrift stores for an Easybake Oven and I told her about Wilton cake decorating classes. The dude is going to Griffith Park and ride horses, because, ‘I always wanted to be a cowboy, and you can’t drink when you’re on a horse ‘cause you’ll fucking die!’ Fuck it. This is what being an adult is. Sure it’s bills and work and relationships, but damn it, it’s also time to do the things you LIKE. I signed up for a free class/lecture on Water Gardens. I’m going. It’s time.

[ruthfully]

Jill. Jill you are wonderful.

[lostwolfling]

no joke, this is such an important aspect of overcoming trauma. I mean the trauma of abusive parents, the trauma of broke ass parents who got toxic because of it, the trauma of capitalism. Like fuck it. Go to Wrestlemania. Build a shit ton of terrariums.

[daikaiju-arts]

Having OCD in the Digital Circus would make me abstract probably

[prokopetz]

If nothing else, you have to give Gooseworx and the Amazing Digital Circus crew credit because they're all very online people and 100% had to know that making a show whose basic premise is "what if a bunch of people who are all fundamentally a bit exhausting to hang out with were forced to hang out with each other at gunpoint" was a fandom discourse bomb waiting to happen, and they did it anyway.

[445ties]

the gloves stay ON when sleeping together

[doodlepom]

ep 6 alternative ending

[ikimaru]

trying to get my friends into this ship like

[ikimaru]

she'll figure it out (this is in ref to ep 5 when Jax pretended the Breaking Bad plot was his origin story during the bar scene)

[ikimaru]

I wanted to do solo pics for the others too! 👀

[captainamericaa]

BRO THIS IS NOT BASKETBALL

[kumagawa]

this is literally the 92 bulls

[captainamericaa]

MICHAEL JORDAN DID NOT HAVE DEATH RAYS COME OUTTA HIS HAND

[kumagawa]

it’s called a fade away jumper

[stellerfly]

[multidimensionalsock]

Half one and I have work tomorrow but all I can think about is a house I'm looking into buying lol

[onemanscienceband]

lain's dad had a pretty sick setup

[paper-mario-wiki]

in case you're wondering what the greatest AMV of all time is, it's this one from 2008.

[strawberry-macchiato]

Day 94

[wizardarchetypes]

funniest convo ever with a guy who said 2 me "nobody uses journalism degrees" and i said "my mom has a bachelors in journalism" and he smiled like knowingly and said "yeah, but what does she do?" and i said "she runs a newspaper and publishes romance novels on the side." and he literally said "oh" and nothing else. like he ended the whole conversation there.

[wizardarchetypes]

i've just been informed he has a trombone degree. like the study of playing trombone. which is all well and good, i genuinely think we should all have the opportunity to chase our academic bliss but i do think the trombone studies guy should hesitate to judge the economic value of other people's degrees no

[wizardarchetypes]

i love the tags on this post because there’s other music/instrument majors implying niche field-specific drama like “of course it was a trombone player 😒” and then there’s trombone majors like “this was NOT me for the record”

[multidimensionalsock]

I keep looking at my cats and crying, because I failed. 4 and a half months into moving out properly for the first time, I was so happy, I got two cats, I thought it was perfect, and I get served a no fault eviction notice.

The government had been talking about banning them since they came into power, I started renting in September when it was almost basically certain, I thought I was safe. Obviously my landlord would know about the changes, was putting the house back up for rent with that knowledge, being prepared and willing to work with it. Apparently I was wrong.

I was about to go out, I'd just got ready and put my shoes on, I was going to go to the charity shop, and the pharmacy, and buy sock wool so I could knit myself some socks when my boyfriend told me to pick up a letter that had fallen by the door three days ago. I'd been working from home, I hadn't gone near the front door since it came. A hand delivered letter reading section 21 on the front, I had to Google it to make sure I was correct that it was what I thought and inside legal documentation and a letter from the landlord that we had two months to leave because she's selling the house due to the very regulation I thought would make us safer.

I bought furniture for this house, I only got a new washer a couple months ago, I thought I was safe. I spent my teenage years being moved around, I thought being an adult and having a job and having money saved I would be safe. I'm not safe, maybe I never was or will be.

My options are to try and buy the house from her, which I hope I can do, but I cant guarantee, or move back to my grandparents house, and I don't know where all my stuff will go. And the cats will go back to my boyfriends house where I adopted them from originally. They won't stay with me. And I feel like such a bad cat parent I feel so awful, my first attempt at being an adult and 2 weeks after the minimum you can get served a section 21 notice, I got served it. And people keep telling me they'll be safe there and better but I won't have them, and maybe I'm selfish, infact I know I am, but I wanted them to be mine to look after.

I go to work and think I'm proving for them and it makes me happy. I was happy I could provide this little house where we were all safe and I feel so stupid for ever thinking that