#not miniatures

[glitch-doctor]

INDIE PRO TIP: infodumping about your cool mecha figurines or a cool wargame setting for several hours ISN'T a domesticable offence, it's just that affini find terrans hyperfixating on things very cute. be careful who you ramble at and where you do your rambling, folks.

[so-many-minis]

New Admin

Hello everyone!

You might have seen the admin’s post looking for a new admin and well... It’s me! Please call me admin Minish.

A note about me

As you can imagine, i’m a fan of miniatures of all kinds! I personally work in (or as close as I can get to) 1:12 scale, but I will make sure to showcase the spectrum of miniature work just as the original admin intended.

~admin Minish

[glitch-doctor]

INDIE PRO TIPS returns with: some facts relevant to our situation.

FACT: 90% of wardships end in florethood.

FACT: that previous statistic is by design, not coincidence. many wardships are sabotaged, and many healthy, competent individuals are lied to and told they are unfit to care for themselves.

FACT: your warden is not required to tell you either of the above, and is likely to lie about them if asked.

FACT: I will be part of the 10% or I will die trying.

[glitch-doctor]

INDIE PRO TIPS presents: secrets.

it's near-impossible to keep any. it's just that simple; we live in a surveillance state, with an ai built into every home whose explicit purpose is to rat on your every action. the only way to keep a secret is to keep it in your head, and that only works if you manage to not catch an affini's interest, because if one of them likes you enough, they will just drug you until you spill the beans on everything you've ever done in your life, your deepest fears, and dearest hopes.

we live in a prettied-up panopticon, and once you notice it, you'll never stop noticing it. in your every waking moment, the chances are good that someone is watching you, either to ensure you're performing well-enough, or simply because they find you cute. the reasoning may sound nice, but it still means that any form of privacy is forbidden to you from here on out, into eternity.

is this fair? not particularly. upsetting? absolutely. but, you'll just have to deal with it. this is the world we live in.

[glitch-doctor]

INDIE PRO TIPS proudly presents: THINGS YOU SHOULDN'T SAY TO YOUR WARDEN

"Don't worry about it, petal." cathartic and funny to give them their favorite non-answer, but also likely to immediately get you drugged senseless.

"Can you go away? Your biorhythm is setting off my tinnitus." gets you taken in to the vet to have your tinnitus "fixed," rendering you more vulnerable to affini biorhythms.

"Don't you have offs to fuck?" confrontational, rude, and likely to get you reprimanded.

"I want to peel your core like a potato." violent thoughts like that get you into a compulsory domestication.

"If your doggirl glomps me again I'm throwing her out the attic window." see above. (just parry the grab anyway, and have something to throw to distract her.)

"(name), I find you personally grating, your florets annoying, and your friends to be abominably irritating. Our personalities are wholly incompatible, and every moment I spend in your presence is like sandpaper on my soul. I would rather be lowered head-first into a volcano that spend the rest of my life as your pet." while healthy to lay out your grievances, this only might get you a new warden. it definitely gets you marked as having "feralist sympathies" and you end up getting grilled about it later

[glitch-doctor]

feralist mecha pilot who's taking their final battle very seriously ("I'm a Raven. No more, no less," etc.) VS an affini who's treating this like it's an excellent enrichment activity for her floret-to-be. is this anything.

[glitch-doctor]

hey i think something is wrong with my copy of dwarf fortress