I write science fiction, draw, paint, photobash, do woodworking, and dabble in 2d videogames design. Big fan of reducing waste, and of building community

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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • I’m so glad! And I’m glad you took a look at Harbour!

    I’m not sure how seriously I’m going about promoting my work, exactly. I’m not trying to make money or anything, but I do want it to reach any audience that seems like a good fit, and I’ve found Lemmy and Mastodon to be great and encouraging spaces so far! I use a mix of federated and corporate sites for sharing the stuff I make. I’ve found that I have good conversations on both, but the corporate sites are much more aggressive at getting my stuff to the top of the search engine results. Some of them seem to have much less community though.

    When I was regularly working on my Postcards from a Solarpunk Future series, I was very much trying to hit as many solarpunk communities as I could, as well as influence the first impressions people from outside the movement get of the genre, if possible, so I posted all over the place, my wordpress site, reddit, imgur, artstation, deviantart, as well as Lemmy, mastodon, and pixelfed. Even discord, occasionally. When you search relevant keywords, the reddit, deviantart, and artstation posts pop right up.

    For ol’ President Deer, I’m not as aggressive about trying to get it seen, it was more just a for-fun project. I post it weekly on my wordpress website, deviantart, Mastodon, and pixelfed, and occasionally to Lemmy and reddit when it seems like a good fit for a specific community, but that’s not too often. It seems to be finding it’s audience (some old pages recently got some interest from a bunch of folks on Mastodon) though it’s obvious still quite small.

    I’m not sure if that helps, but I hope it does. I’d say from what I’ve seen, I feel like I get more real interactions with other people on federated spaces, and I appreciate that I don’t feel like I’m getting buried by the whims of the algorithm. Though on the small subreddits I still use (/r/solarpunk and /r/CoreCyberpunk) it still seems okay?











  • Yeah I generally don’t love these extension cord / splitter combination because they make it too easy to casually plug in lots of stuff. I’ve been using this one but just for a box fan (old building, retrofitted for electricity with the absolute minimum number of outlets). When I do hook multiple things to one extension cord, I make sure it’s something like power tools, where I know I can only use one at a time anyways, and that I’ll always be there when its in use. I also check my cords for heat when they’ve been in use for awhile (I once found a daisy chained set of rack-mount power strips in a server room, where one of the plugs had melted to the socket it was plugged into, fusing them together. Pulling them apart broke the plastic outlet. I’ve been a little cautious ever since).






  • I mean, the place is so absurdly big and spans so much time there’s room for variances in procedure and tradition, even inside the same organizations. Especially the inquisition which seems to grant its members an unusual degree of autonomy (from the few books I’ve read that featured them). But even the guard fields a wide variety of regiments with different specializations and ways of doing things. I just sort of assume the mechanicus and administratum and others all see a fair bit of variety, if only because the empire is so huge and poorly coordinated. The variety of tones in different stories is also something I like, for some reason - it seems to help show the scale, I think?