H. Wren D'Arcy @hexwren@cybre.space

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The last of the bullet points in my profile is one of the hardest to outline. Ludomantic Witchcraft is a theory I have been slowly assembling, the work of which I hope to share here as it develops. Simply put, I love games, almost as much as I love music. From the incredibly simple to the obnoxiously complex, simple acts with cards, dice, boards, pawns, et al. allow us to interact with what one might call fate or fortune. Rule sets are rituals. I have experiments and ideas to share.

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I also make mixtapes! It's been a minute since I've done so, but I hope to start up again in the near future.

Here's a link: https://www.mixcloud.com/hexwren/

All that's currently posted are what I call Community Mixtapes, done for the queer gaming discord I often hang out on. Everyone who signs up submits 3 tunes, and I pick 1 out of every set and string a tape together from them. I'll be going back to these soon, and am looking to see how Community Tapemaking works on the fediverse.

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I am a terrible music nerd. I will often speak in obscure references, suggest records you may never have heard of, and generally go nuts for good tunes. I consider myself an amateur pop music historienne.

However, if there's one thing I've learned in learning all I have about music, it's that there is always more to learn and to listen to. I absolutely want to hear what you're into and what is missing from my rotation. I love nostalgic sounds, but I don't want to be defined by them.

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I do many things, and this account is here to share them with you! I also hope to get more social with the fine folx of this instance, but as I work nights and sleep days, it's going to be a work in progress.

One of the things I do is write! I work mainly in prose, which is occasionally smutty, because I am occasionally a crass person. Any 18+ work will be labeled as such.

I have also begun writing my first computer game! As of "now," I am maybe 10% of the way to a finished product.

#introduction

Hi! I'm Hex, or Wren, whichever you feel is best, it's all me. I like birds and bird puns, hence the name.

This is an account where I will be mostly posting the end result of Work. There will be personal elements, of course, but this isn't a personal/vent/AD/etc account. I'll have more (pinnable) introductory posts to describe what those are coming up soon, but in the meantime, I'm going to post something we can interact with while I go to my mundane job on the other side of the city.

closing up shop here, redirect coming momentarily.

no mawkish goodbyes tonight.

I really do wish I didn't have to go, but I'd obviously rather have a happy chr on my timeline than a stressed-out one.

I still might make a post or three here still on the way out, maybe while poking at some of the best of the archive, playin' the hits...but hopefully I'll be able to get everyone on-board and connected to the new account as soon as possible. and we'll continue the business there.

pulled the plug on the avatar color generator so I can more readily tell this account from the new one

I think I need to fuck around with the follows that the new account sent, since a whole bunch of mutuals (here) have followed me (there) but my follow requests to them are still listed as pending?

also I'm just about to walk out the door for an evening with family so I don't have much time to properly troubleshoot it?

It has been an excellent ride, here at cybre.space, but as has been announced, things are winding down for the instance, and while I am often more likely to slip out the door quietly while the party is still going on, it should be announced that I am moving this account to

@hexwren

and, to the people I am currently following from this account, I will be shortly beginning to follow you all again from that new locale.

This may not be my final post before the instance goes down, but we shall see.

going, anyone need any britons while i'm out

already set the archive to go off, still posting anyway

"I could probably _____ by hand" is what we call "famous last words" in the biz, except I do it constantly.

I only follow 90-odd accounts, and a number of those are probably users who have moved on or instances that are no longer here, anyway

I could probably just look them all up by hand

Because I am being careful and slow about the process of moving accounts, I have neither posted an introductory post on my new account nor announced its location on this, my old account, yet.

I feel like I shouldn't run them in parallel during the handover or something? I dunno. The problem of so much of this software is that the functions that move what little information that gets moved from one account to the next all immediately lock you out of the old account, so you have to be SURE that you're done with everything before you hit that button.

upside: closed out 280-odd bookmarks on this account

downside: did so by opening links into tabs

packing my shit (clearing out my bookmarks and preparing to download all my good posts) for the big move

It's been so long since I moved instances that I can't remember what the proper protocol is for the order in which you tell people where you're going, doing the thing where you set one account to refer to the other, start following all the people you were following, etc etc etc

trying a few different additional color palettes, why not

I guess more other differenter queer flags of my particular proclivities would make sense, but most of the flags I'm under generally don't look that great compared to a bunch of the ones I have nothing to do with?

pretty good, could use more palettes

idk what, though

in a perfect world, it'd go on for ages in different iterations - and, really, as long as I can come up with additional palettes, I can do it over and over - each iteration only takes 16 KB in total, slightly less if I reuse colors

testing

turns out, yes, duplicating layers from one project to another actually just works and doesn't have adobe's usual "you think this option does the thing you want it to but it actually does the opposite!" nonsense

photoshop question: can I take a bunch of layers from one project and dump them into another project and have both projects' layers just in a big list all mixed together?

that would probably be the fastest way to do the thing I want to do without having to hunt and peck with the fill tool in individual squares over 12 layers

(yes I am still trying to work on expanding my usericon)