Alana: the Tootmaker @alana_is_tooting@lgbt.io

#introductions (v3??)
#reintroductions

Hi! I'm Alana and I've been here for a bit.

Things I generally toot about:

- feels (gender and otherwise, way too much, honestly)
- being a parent
- #blacklivesmatter
- software dev (java, python, et al)
- cuteness (kitties, borbs, anything really)
- shitpostery

#StarTrek
I have enjoyed it since I was a kid. Embarrassingly, I am the owner of a Star Trek quilt that my mom made me when I was a teenager.

#FriendsOfDeSoto
Speaking of being embarrassed of being a Star Trek fan, I am also a listener of The Greatest Generation. I'm a little behind at the moment.

#DoctorWho
Classic and Revived. My Dad grew up watching it since the 60s and I enjoyed it growing up, too.

#OldMaps
I have a fascination with old maps and seeing how places and old routes have changed over time.

#WebComics
This is kind of in my profile, but not totally. I used to draw a webcomic. It sucked. I couldn't draw people well so I based it all off of my friend's name sounding kind of like "Toe" and made all the characters body parts and based off of my friends. I suppose this means my fursona is a nose.

I'm sure no one really cares about this and it's really only funny to me most of the time, but I have a bot that toots out randomly-generated sentences. It's not really a markov bot. It uses some code I wrote in Java a long long time ago, whose claim to fame is getting someone kicked out of a poetry reading once for being entirely too vulgar. It's at @sentencemaker

well it's probably the best original-ish thing he's done since Amarok, but meh, I probably won't listen to this again any time soon.

LB It's weird that I know one of the bench ladies from Forrest Gump.

Okay well this feels only sorta remixy but also kinda 80s Oldfieldy and I don't dislike it. I just wish something really cool would happen and it never really does, which is basically my dislike of anything original he has done since Amarok.

Oh wow spoke too soon. Here comes the weird backwards-vocals ripoff of the original Ommadawn drummy thing.

Mike Oldfield released an album last year called "Return to Ommadawn" and it's in the full-LP-side two-part format.

I'm ten minutes in and it doesn't seem as Ommadawn-but-not-really the way Tubular Bells II was Tubular-Bells-but-not-really.

I'm still kind of waiting for something really spectacular to happen, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30tdWDHbSA0

Welp the turnaround between it being turned off, me going downtown to pay the bill, and it being turned back on was all of about 2-3 hours. I really thought this was going to take all day at least.

Why do I suck at adulting?

Fucking fuck I forgot to pay the water bill and it got turned off.