I’ve been happily posting away here on two accounts since just before the Great Migration, and have no problem being openly a woman on the internet. Up to and including correcting people who assume I’m a guy, and even occasionally acknowledging the existence of periods.

Which, honestly that was a bad tactic back on Reddit, my inbox was a nightmare. But here it’s gone much better, so thank you to anyone who ever received one of my corrections with good grace!

It’s also brought quite a few DMs my way from other women who try to stay more anonymous with their posts, a choice I can completely understand.

So today on International Women’s Day I just want to wave hello to the other women out there, even if you don’t want to break cover and wave back. Anonymous or not, cis or trans, I see you out there and you’re killing it.

This may break the community rule on encouraging discussion, if nobody wants to out themselves to say hello back. So I guess I should also ask a question.

Um…anyone else using it as an excuse to treat themselves today? I’ve given myself the day (mostly) off work and am doing some fun gamedev all afternoon instead, then we’re planning a takeaway tonight. Easily pleased, perhaps, but sounds good to me 😄

  • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeOPEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    Hah, yeah I run two accounts on most things to keep my feeds more on-theme. This is the craft account, as you have noticed!

    This is also me, I’m mainly making a minimalist city builder thing. Or trying to, anyway. But today I’m just working on a silly little minigame that is in fact about protecting yarn from moths!

    • HjalmarEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Well, there is nothing wrong with yarn games! There is that one with the red guy made from yarn unrolling himself while platforming. I can’t remember the name though. (EDIT: it wasn’t that hard to find. It’s called unravel)

      Also Solaria looks nice, solarpunk is a new concept for me. But I probably won’t play it, it’s not really my type of game

      • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Hah, that’s ok it’s not exactly calculated to have mass appeal. Just a project small enough to complete on my own, and I love city builders, so… 😄

        There’s a whole Lemmy instance dedicated to solarpunk (https://slrpnk.net) so if you ever want to learn more about it, that’s your place!