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2:57am 12-17-2023Matt
- Yippee I love you brother :]
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Replied on: 3:14am 12-17-2023
GIVING MY HOMIE A KISS!!!!!!!
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4:44pm 12-15-2023Anonymous follower
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n/a- Hi! I just wanted to say how much I love your website and your openness about your system and the general aesthetic. I hope one day I can be more comfortable with my own system like you c:
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Replied on: 6:24am 12-16-2023
wow!!! thank you so much! i was having a really good night but this made it even better. this means so much to us, really and truly!
i will be honest: some days, less frequently now than before, we feel pretty damn terrible about the whole osdd thing. but i think that building a place where we are extremely out as a system (our website) has helped us be kinder to ourselves! it's still very scary for us to open up about this stuff irl though...
we're out as a system at this open mic venue we go to and the community that congregates there, and that has been one of the most healing experiences ever. like, the times when it's not me, they call us by our actual names, and whoever's fronting gets to perform their own poems. now i'm not saying that you should do all that (it was literally terrifying the first time we outed ourselves that way!! but i think that's the moment of our lives where we fully stopped being ashamed of it), only that it's possible to find a community both online and offline that loves and accepts who and what you are. i sincerely hope this doesn't come off as "look at us, we have it so good" and instead reads like "kind people like your friends will always support you".
we wish you and your system all the best in feeling good about yourselves, and, should you ever choose to, sharing whatever you are comfortable with with whoever you like. i'm sorry that this reply got so long but your message made me really happy and made me reflect on our struggle for and gradual victory of selves-acceptance and i wanted to let you know how i felt.
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3:09am 12-15-2023cooponfreak
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here from status.cafe, u’re kewl. if you can explain uh who you are trewell mereh
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Replied on: 6:08am 12-16-2023
i really have no idea what this means... but thank you for the compliment? - j
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12:21am 12-11-2023jsmith
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Hi! Me again. The toki pona means something like:
'Hello to the many of you. On this website, this often happens]: I see a thing, or talking/writing about that thing, and think/feel "Ah, I know that!" Or "Ah, I've made something similar!" This is fun and interesting.'
(It was a bit of an unconventional use of anu, but I like unconventional, I think it was understandable anyway)
Thanks for the words of encouragement, too — and yeah, it probably will. A lot of art I look up to is long-form or part of something larger — but now that I think of it, it'd be a perfectly fitting natural thing for me to take a kind of scrapbook approach. It's odd I haven't yet, really -
Replied on: 6:20pm 12-13-2023
hello!! the toki pona makes more sense now that you've translated it, thank you for that!! i got the gist of it but was a bit hazy on the details haha
i also think that long-form art is amazing because the dedication is remarkable! but yeah, i tend to take the scrapbook approach myself (as do the rest of us) because adhd is... well, it's adhd! but as i said in the previous reply, everyone develops a sort of style when they've been creating for long, a tell-tale thing that's recognisably theirs... and i think that's all you need for that sense of cohesiveness.
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12:28pm 12-08-2023jsmith
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toki a, sina mute o! ma lipu ni la, tenpo mute li sama ni: mi lukin e ijo e toki pi ijo ni li pilin: a, mi sona e ijo ni! anu: a, mi pali e ijo sama! musi a.
I'm noticing — your art feels alive and organic and vibrant and like pieces of larger things, the way mine often fails to. The poetry's rhythm flows like a fast river over rocks and clicks into very interesting shapes in my mind. ABACBC is such a rhyme scheme (I cound invent a rhyme scheme! Into the pocket of ideas this goes
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Replied on: 3:32pm 12-09-2023
i get the gist of the toki pona enough to vaguely understand what is being said, but i'd appreciate a translation bc it'd help me learn (i'm very very rusty there ahaha) nonetheless thank you so much!!!
wow... what lovely compliments!!! thank you again, that made me smile so much. ABACBC is definitely my favourite rhyme scheme, personally. it's so fun!! and yeah definitely invent one it'll be awesome!!
don't worry about trying to make your art fit in with bigger projects, i think that over time your body of work will gain shape and become a living multicellular organism. as for vibrancy and colour... there are many kinds of life and many expressions of it!! so i am sure that if it doesn't look that way to you, it will look that way to somebody.
- j
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9:39pm 12-06-2023Casey
- i love ur art! are you into mola fiber arts? It could be great with your style if you haven't seen it
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Replied on: 3:28pm 12-09-2023
oh i just looked that up and it's really cool... i think it might be appropriative to do it properly, but i think taking inspiration isn't a bad thing... i might try doing some similar patterns! - j
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7:04pm 12-04-2023calico
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i enjoyed reading all your bios and poetry, and perusing your art and photography!! you have a lot of creativity and talent and a great eye for colors, i hope to see more!
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Replied on: 3:27pm 12-09-2023
thank you so much!!! you're so kind!!! honestly, we're bursting with ideas for site content... it's so exciting!!