genderqueer chaos hours.

I have had Linux on the brain for a solid two weeks now trying out a new tiling approach and Wayland for the first time, then briefly trying EndeavourOS before going "nah we have rolling release and fancy package management at home", taking the EndeavourOS Sway community edition package list, and booting back into my regular Void Linux box.

I also discovered theming after a quarter century on Linux, and I'm delighted to report I'm just as particular about color schemes as ever and I have landed firmly right back where I started, on Breeze Dark (but I have nice colorful icons and cursors now!)

I had a choir concert last week that I have been preparing hard for for the last two months and am getting a brief breather before the next round of concerts next month (Pride Concerts coming soon to a queer chorus near you!)

I've been experimenting with the Fediverse via wafrn, which is a tumblr-like blogging software interoperable with Fediverse programs and accounts and Bluesky (the link is to the instance of wafrn I'm on, it's self-hostable like any other fediverse program). It's very chaotic and quite fun for me!I've been wanting away to keep up with folks on mastodon and bluesky in particular without having to actually use a Twitter-like micro-blogging site and this fits the bill quite nicely. I'll probably end up self-hosting an instance for Yours Truly and No One Else and migrating my account there. (Long term, I want to be able to host my own social media and federate out to everyone else I want to interact with--I always want to keep my data on my own devices. It's why I've had a tumblr backup running on a cron job for several years now!)

And that's the news from my corner of the internet!

I have achieved a dream years in the making today! My white whale is CAUGHT, Ahab wishes he was me.

Which is all to say: the 2015 reprinting of Delta Rae's 2012 album Carry The Fire suffers from a severe case of "they put After It All (2015) on the Carry The Fire (2012; reprinted 2015) disc" on some amount of the discs. I discovered this by buying the disc at my local record store a couple years ago, getting home and ripping it, and being absolutely baffled as to why I now had two ripped copies of After It All. Upon exchanging it, the record store staff as baffled as I, I ripped the replacement and guess what! After It All again. And so my quest was born: How Many Dang Times Will I Have To Buy This Thing Til The Album On The Disc Art Is The Album On The Disc.

(It's also surprisingly hard to find high quality audio files of this album for sale online, which didn't help!)

The last time I complained about this, one of my tumblr mutuals told me to try Discogs marketplace, which I hadn't realized existed--the site, yes, the marketplace, no! So I bravely ordered another CD, looking for ones that were a certain amount of used that implied that the music present was indeed the music listed, and now, a couple weeks later, it has arrived.

With all twelve songs from Carry The Fire (2012) and none of the fifteen songs from After It All (2015).

WHITE WHALE HARPOONED. It is ripped. It is tested. It is filed away (physically and digitally). My AfterItAll-in-CarryTheFire's-clothing is labeled and set to be given away to someone who knows they are actually getting the most confusing official copy of After It All around. SUCCESS IS MINE

Hello world!

i'm needs-more-duck, also known as possum, they/them.

here to start anew with my new cooler name (needs-more-duck, or needs_more_duck as site requirements dictate). Why needs_more_duck? because what piece of art cannot be improved with the addition of a duck?

Excited to be here, feel free to add me!


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