Her own stolen Trinket

[mortalcity]

Oh hey I just realized I didn't ever introduce Trinket over here.



He is a lab/pyrenees mix (I suspect, like, maybe 3/4 of one and a quarter of the other), he is probably at or approaching 5 months old, and with any luck he is going to be my service dog!

At the moment, though, he is just a Naughty Soot Demon with an injured paw who is only just now allowed to be around strange dogs (and therefore in training) bc now he has the most important shots.

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[iamshadow]

As a social media platform, Dreamwidth is far, far better for actually TALKING to people than tumblr ever was, but as a news source, it was really useful. There are just a bunch of things that media outlets don't report on properly, if at all. And I just really loved getting NEW!BOOK!INFO! straight on my dash, about books that were small, indie, or self-published alongside major publishers with no bias towards the big money.

I'm also really worried about the autistic community. The dual usage of the word 'stimming' by both autistic people and kink communities has pretty much doomed all the autistic users and content. Autistic communities take time to develop and evolve, and, in general, autistic people don't deal well with change this catastrophic.

[ruffboimags]

Yeah. Twitter can be good for the new book stuff if you find the right accounts to follow? But it's not as good overall. That was like. One sort of thing that tumblr did well - also news that was a breakdown of what was going on with links to multiple articles, which is basically impossible to do well on twitter.

God, yeah. Autistic blogs and shit were a thing before tumblr was a big deal, but they're very decentralized and don't help foster a community the way tumblr did, even if it was a HORRIBLE platform for it.

[iamshadow]

I know places like Wrong Planet existed, but I never really used it, because when I went there, there was a lot of Aspie/HFA elitist BULLSHIT, and I wasn't interested in some of the 'we're more evolved humans' eugenicist crap some of them seemed to believe. I just want to be able to read disability/neurodiverse blogs and news and see some wholesome pro-stimming content without all the drama, y'know? I want there to be somewhere safe baby queers and baby neurodiverse folks can congregate without the terfs, bots, and paederasts ruining it for everybody, AGAIN.

[ruffboimags]

I'm just really pulling for people to gravitate back to dw and open communities that can be that sort of place.

[iamshadow]

I really hope so too.