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Hello everyone! It's check-in time to see how we're all getting along with our meta importing.

Comment below with any of the following:

1) Anything unexpected you've discovered as you got started?

2) If you have a lot to archive/copy over, have you figured out how you'll organize it?

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Less Nothing Right Now

Mar. 4th, 2026 06:31 pm
lb_lee: A skeleton wearing a crown of blooming roses (the bony lady)
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Rogan: A friend of mine is dead but I’m not ready to talk about that yet, so instead I’m distracting myself with Adam Becker’s More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity.

I’m failing and I miss my dead friend. )

funny

Mar. 4th, 2026 01:07 pm
kossai: masculine form of kossai, cute wink (Default)
[personal profile] kossai
in tutorials about how to use minecraft data and resource pack features , some people really like to show off code generators with dropdowns that provide all of fields and options , apparently make super simple and easy .

personally , absolutely hate generators like that . for some reason , find much harder to use than if just type everything out by hand . which must sound like absolute nonsense - generators can come with all kinds of useful information , previews , and pretty much guarantee no more brace and bracket mistakes . 

maybe that is problem for kossai - too much information . if need to figure out how to do something , would rather just dig into whole example files and piece together from that ...

plural minecraft suggestions

Mar. 3rd, 2026 12:47 pm
kossai: masculine form of kossai, cute wink (Default)
[personal profile] kossai
resource packs in minecraft allow for some really fun personal changes . these ideas could be used by anyone , but of course have plural specific angle to look at here :)
  • change splash texts to collective inside jokes , or nice messages for each other 
  • split clouds texture into square grids - would suggest 64x64 - and claim squares to doodle in ! if need more room for more people , just increase canvas size 
  • change paintings into collective artworks , or pictures of each other - if prefer to keep original in-game paintings , there is datapack tutorial to add whole new ones instead
  • retexture applicable animals and monsters to resemble each other's fursonas
  • ( this one require json noodles ) create new custom item textures that will apply based on specific item names or time and date , so that lacey's mace is easily distinguishable from todd's mace , or cookies will look different on someone's birthday
unfortunately as of right now , there is still no way without mods to apply variant textures to entities or blocks based on things like custom name or current time and date - would love to see that change in future , which would open up ability to personalise cake blocks on birthdays , or for people to have chests that look unique . still , love this kind of stuff and want to share some of love !
lb_lee: A brown leather collar, decorated with the Texas flag and the name ROGAN. (kink)
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(Title comes from Pat Califia’s highly relevant essay, “The Limits of S/M Relationship, or Mr. Benson Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.”)

Rogan: Mac has been wanting a date night since Boskone, and we chose the gay leather biker flick, Pillion! We saw it on a triple date with other kinky queer friends of ours, and it generated many conversations!

My initial biggest question was, can Alexander Skarsgard convince me he’s a gay leather biker? SPOILERS )

princess in pain

Mar. 2nd, 2026 11:26 am
kossai: feminine form of kossai, cute wink (feminine winky)
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so , accidentally get hurt during clocktower game ... very fun game and no regrets beyond injury , just need to be more careful next time . then accidentally hurt wrist really badly , which is still not in good shape . and now have headache for unknown reason . wow this body is not happy to exist right now .

March Meta Matters

Mar. 1st, 2026 09:08 pm
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[community profile] marchmetamatterschallenge is now open. \o/ Visit MARCH META MATTERS CHALLENGE, CHECK-IN NO. 1 to introduce yourself and lay out your goals. This event is basically about archiving your meta -- which you can do by crossposting it to Dreamwidth or using an archive site -- and writing new meta if you wish.  Hoard ALL the things!

LB's favorite zines!

Feb. 28th, 2026 05:53 pm
lb_lee: A magazine on a table with the title Nubile Maidens and a pretty girl on it. (nubile)
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Mori: [personal profile] witchpoetdreamer asked us about a list of our favorite zines. FOOLISH FOOL HAS ACTIVATED MY TRAP!

For this post, we are using "zine" here to mean "a floppy booklet (lacking a spine) that is either self- or small-published, and also NOT from an academic journal NOR just a comic." It can have comics IN it, or mash-up image and text in other, more experimental ways (such as the classic cut-and-paste style of zine), but it can't be primarily comics or we will be here for all eternity.

HERE WE GO! ALL ABOARD THE ZINE MACHINE, Y'ALL!

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Welcome to year 6 of the Meta Matters Challenge! I'm your moderator, [personal profile] yourlibrarian.

These posts will be used for us all to check-in with one another, offer encouragement and answers to questions, and maybe tips we come up with as we copy our work to another location.

Before we begin, some reminders. Please look over the FAQ as there are some important bits for everyone to follow, namely: Read more... )

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2026 March Fan Poll

Feb. 28th, 2026 05:51 pm
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Hey everybody, it's that time again: time to vote for which stuff gets the LiberaPay/Patreon money this month!

As always, anyone can vote (please do!), but LiberaPay and Patreon patrons get double weight for their votes.  (Due to Patreon's porn purges, I really encourage you to use LiberaPay, if you get a choice.) If you want to see the blurbs for any of these works, those are here!  (You can also leave your requests there; requesting a story or essay is always free!) If you don't have a DW and so can't do the poll, that's okay; just leave your vote in the comments below; anon comments are turned on.

Which works gets the money, and thus posted this month?  YOU CHOOSE, readers!
Poll #34303 2026 March Fan Poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22


Did you toss LiberaPay/Patreon money my way last month?

View Answers

Yes (my votes count double)
5 (100.0%)

What writing gets posted this month?

View Answers

Infinity Smashed: Born Lucky
5 (22.7%)

Reverend Alpert: the Traveling Exorcist
1 (4.5%)

Henchwench for Hire (F/F supervillainy)
2 (9.1%)

Rutless (trans omegaverse porno)
5 (22.7%)

Kayfabe in the Coliseum (psuedo-Greco-Roman gladiator fights)
4 (18.2%)

Psychodrama and Realitymashing (essay)
19 (86.4%)

What art/comic/zine gets posted this month?

View Answers

Cult Comix (doodle strips of Cultiples BS)
3 (15.0%)

Death Watch (bony lady comic)
7 (35.0%)

Protection (one-page dark side of protector duty)
4 (20.0%)

Thrown Away
3 (15.0%)

Sneak Attack! (cutesilly Mori/Rawlin one-page comic)
11 (55.0%)

Possessions (text-only poetry zine of haunting incompetently)
9 (45.0%)

kossai: feminine form of kossai, cute wink (feminine winky)
[personal profile] kossai
other adult alterhumans talk about difficulties in indulge and express alterhuman identity as , well , adult who need to work and move through society . teenage descriptions of how to embrace during school hours , or how to find places to hang out safely and signal to potential friends , still important but no longer resonate - in some part due to differences in school and work environments , as well as different obligations and freedoms or lack thereof . 

but kossai have different perspective , as disabled and unable to work . have all of this " free time " to do anything that wish with , but have to fight against things like chronic pain , low energy , and weakness . usually easy measures of indulgence and expression can actually be quite hard - always love to sit outside or to get driven around , but ability to do even that depend on levels of pain and weakness . sometimes just have to settle for open window and wistful gaze . 

also have to deal with medical systems and clinical eyes on more regular basis than most others - actually part of shower aide program , as unable to do that alone . in similar way to work environments , even small expression of alterhuman identity can be unsafe . in this case , would risk lose position in program if any of workers make choice to say not really disabled . 

see , consensus of kossai is that many struggles this body deal with stem from nonhumanity , from faerie traits that stretch and squish to try and fit boxes of what human body should do . this is well and good for " private opinion " , but not exactly safe to express clinically . at best , might treat like also have schizophrenia on top of everything ... and that is very loose at best , given intense amounts of control at play with this diagnosis . at worst , would strip away all of help , under assumption of no real physical struggles at all . 

this is why also push so hard that , no matter how unrealistic identity seem to others , need to have spaces to express this without constantly tag and make disclaimers , even if this put at odds with those who need to avoid triggers . already need to do that enough in private parts of life , to always medicalise experiences so others will decide whether or not to give help and respect . absolutely need breaks to just say thoughts and feelings as exist , not to filter through what others will find medically acceptable - otherwise , internal sense of personhood and/or reality can genuinely shatter and leave in far worse state . 

as for general public expression ... honestly , already very used to dirty looks , on basis of visible disabilities and gender-sex variance . while kossai do not really have wearable gear aside from some game night accessories , in theory would not be much different from what experience now . people judgmental enough to give dirty looks in first place would continue to do so , and others generally would not . at worst , those less-judgmental people accept as " another cute quirk " to giggle about - at best , outrightly compliment and praise . 

not really any good way to end this post , just ... in some ways struggle to relate to even other adult alterhumans about this subject . which is fair , everyone is different , but can still feel somewhat lonesome .

Becoming Someone I Like

Feb. 26th, 2026 10:42 pm
lb_lee: A clay sculpture of a heart, with a black interior containing little red, brown, white, green, and blue figures. (plural)
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Rogan: You know, it's funny. I was looking back through some of the old entries in this blog, about my ridiculous experiences at the 2019 Straight Pride protest and the 2025 Clown March, how I ended up writing my own future with Send In the Clowns. and it just dawned on me: I've become someone I really like and respect.

very silly thought

Feb. 26th, 2026 08:23 pm
kossai: masculine form of kossai, cute wink (Default)
[personal profile] kossai
sometimes feel inexplicable urge to death drop for no reason other than to death drop . unfortunately , spine . still occasionally flop over anyway , but just not same .

minecraft ~ happy

Feb. 25th, 2026 07:30 pm
kossai: feminine form of kossai, cute wink (feminine winky)
[personal profile] kossai
14 month anniversary of this minecraft world ! not that count to this specifically , but happen to start on 2024/12/24 , so basically 14 month anniversary right about now . this world is genuinely so much fun to build and play in . right now work on some fairly big projects - forest of hunt and oakhurst memorial - but also start to play around with little candy island project .

this world was inactive for several months actually , but vampires SMP in september 2025 really kick inspiration back into gear - most of work in this world come from these past few months , with road networks that reach across total of 4k by 4k world , 2k for each direction . also learn more about how to code command functions and resource pack json , and just ... have so much fun again . 

would love to be able to put some sort of interactive map on website , but have no clue what kind of setup that would take ... way too much ? :P

The Importance of History

Feb. 25th, 2026 11:57 am
lb_lee: A clay sculpture of a heart, with a black interior containing little red, brown, white, green, and blue figures. (plural)
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Rogan: we grabbed Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder Harry Hay from the library because Hay said some things that caught my eye in the 1987 anthology Gay Spirit: Myth and Meaning in his piece “A Separate People Whose Time Has Come”:

Read more... )

(LOL I totally wrote a similar post about this last year: https://lb-lee.dreamwidth.org/1396350.html)

small gripe

Feb. 24th, 2026 11:59 am
kossai: masculine form of kossai, cute wink (Default)
[personal profile] kossai
several times now , see complaints from non-physical nonhumans that physical nonhumans say things which inherently invalidate non-physical experiences . try to look for any of that , and always come up with ... nothing . some of this stuff would honestly be " generic therian post " if not for also include physical nonhuman and other community tags - which , crosstag is whole annoyance in self , given some of this come from non-physical nonhumans .

like ... where is this at , genuinely ? is this something that fail to see because just not in right spaces , or do some of these people take existence of physical nonhumans as personal threat ? feel like there is no way to ask anyone directly without seem like aggressor , so might never really get answer to that . 

Pluralstories Hits 300!

Feb. 24th, 2026 11:07 am
lb_lee: Sneak smiling (sneak)
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Sneak: we have 301 entries on [community profile] pluralstories now! I’m really happy and proud of that! I feel like it’s becoming a nice mix of us finding older books, readers submitting the new stuff we don’t hear about and some really neat surprises! It’s especially the “weird” submissions I feel most excited about!

When I started the project three and a half years ago, I didn’t know how it would go. I’m very pleased with it!

... I also want to make a user poll to see how people use the catalog, but that’ll have to wait until we’re less sick.

minecraft ~ redstone

Feb. 23rd, 2026 02:39 pm
kossai: masculine form of kossai, cute wink (Default)
[personal profile] kossai
hate redstone , post over .

... OK , not quite , but just can not understand how this stuff work . sometimes have ideas that feel incredibly simple , and yet can not even figure out how to wire up . know how to use commands , and that make sense - sure there can be awkward limitations even in commands , but actually just learn how to write datapack functions , simple but effective for purposes ! ... could not figure out how to power command blocks that would activate these functions , however .

code make sense , wires do not . not exactly advanced programmer , but certainly more of programmer than engineer . all of these videos that claim to teach redstone do not slow down or explain with depth that personally need . need to be sat down like kindergartener , slowly and carefully go through every single component with all of interactions and use cases , and that is not exactly minecraft redstone demographic . 

struggle to follow " basic " block by block tutorials for specific machines , and especially struggle if need to change something simple like lever placement . understand nothing about this stuff , never have , and feel like never will because just get more and more complex every year . simple , basic , shut up . shut up shut up shut up .

fight to work through simple animation today and could not even feel proud when figure out , just utterly defeated . hate redstone - now post is over .

Oh Come ON!

Feb. 23rd, 2026 01:21 pm
lb_lee: A hand wearing a leather fingerless glove, giving the finger to the camera. (ffffff)
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We’re sick again. :( Third time since Day of the Dead. This is getting really old, guys.
kossai: masculine form of kossai, cute wink (Default)
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just have this nightmare about shezow spinoff in which kelly was part of superheroine ensemble - and say nightmare because obie scott wade was not part of this show , all of characters just so much more mean spirited , and never reference guy as shezow . this was very much network attempt to erase original shezow as story of boy who grow to accept feminine role , and instead make " girl power " show that weaken points of original show , not strengthen . 

like , important thing for kelly's character growth is that kelly realise not suited to be superhero in line of action - this administrative facilitator work is what kelly is best at . while this kind of work may be associated with women , especially in support of men who take that whole line of action , this is not because girl , given whole line of shezow and even other super women known in universe . this is because of personality and internal strengths and weaknesses . when guy take this for granted , kelly throw in towel and make guy realise just how important kelly is - not just anyone could be shezow's facilitator . 

for this nightmare show to put kelly in that spotlight is step in wrong direction . while there still could be interesting commentary on how to operate as superheroine in society full of superheroes ... well ... guy as shezow do that too . what take away here is that facilitator role , and thus commentaries on how this role that is seen as feminine is so important - instead , this push kelly into that more action-based archetype , one that value only certain kinds of femininity . not all women need to be in action-based roles to still be vital to story and to have strong characters , and to think so is misogynistic expectation . 

there was also again , just this general mean spirited tone about everything . these girls gossip and pick fights , and that serve conflicts more than actual premise - like , look at these catty teenage girls , catty like every teenage girl is ! what will these girls talk about next - boys , fashion , whine about chipped nails and ruined mascara ? no attempt at subversion or light hearted humour about these stereotypes , just present as utter truth - girls all mean and vain . 

and yeah , no one in this show mention guy as shezow - guy was just kelly's brother who serve to be annoyance , like revert back to episode 1 , dig in heels and stay there . was so frustrate to have to watch even 1 episode in this nightmare , but feel obligation to try anyway just to show that support franchise , while make all of problems very clear . 

fortunately , as this was just nightmare , do not need to worry about this ! feel so deeply relieved when wake up and realise . 
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