Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]

“I am reckoned a horrid brute because I had not been cowardly enough to lie down for them under such trying circumstances, and insults to my people.” - Ned Kelly

Any pronouns but he/they, unless you buy me dinner first.

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Cake day: August 18th, 2023
  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.nettoChapotraphouse@hexbear.net•What your favorite obsolete English letter says about you:English
    1·
    1 day ago
    Browser script for replacing thorns and long S's with th and short S's 
    // ==UserScript==
// @name           Replace Text On Webpages
// @namespace      http://userscripts.org/users/23652
// @description    Replaces text on websites. Now supports wildcards in search queries. Won't replace text in certain tags like links and code blocks
// @include        https://hexbear.net/*
// @copyright      JoeSimmons
// @version        1.1.0
// @license        http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
// @downloadURL https://update.greasyfork.org/scripts/10976/Replace%20Text%20On%20Webpages.user.js
// @updateURL https://update.greasyfork.org/scripts/10976/Replace%20Text%20On%20Webpages.meta.js
// ==/UserScript==
(function () {
    'use strict';


    /*
        NOTE:
            You can use \\* to match actual asterisks instead of using it as a wildcard!
            The examples below show a wildcard in use and a regular asterisk replacement.
    */

    var words = {
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////


        // Syntax: 'Search word' : 'Replace word',
        'þ' : 'th',
        'ſ' : 's',
        'Þ' : 'Th',


    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    '':''};











    //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // This is where the real code is
    // Don't edit below this
    //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

    var regexs = [], replacements = [],
        tagsWhitelist = ['PRE', 'BLOCKQUOTE', 'CODE', 'INPUT', 'BUTTON', 'TEXTAREA'],
        rIsRegexp = /^\/(.+)\/([gim]+)?$/,
        word, text, texts, i, userRegexp;

    // prepareRegex by JoeSimmons
    // used to take a string and ready it for use in new RegExp()
    function prepareRegex(string) {
        return string.replace(/([\[\]\^\&\$\.\(\)\?\/\\\+\{\}\|])/g, '\\$1');
    }

    // function to decide whether a parent tag will have its text replaced or not
    function isTagOk(tag) {
        return tagsWhitelist.indexOf(tag) === -1;
    }

    delete words['']; // so the user can add each entry ending with a comma,
                      // I put an extra empty key/value pair in the object.
                      // so we need to remove it before continuing

    // convert the 'words' JSON object to an Array
    for (word in words) {
        if ( typeof word === 'string' && words.hasOwnProperty(word) ) {
            userRegexp = word.match(rIsRegexp);

            // add the search/needle/query
            if (userRegexp) {
                regexs.push(
                    new RegExp(userRegexp[1], 'g')
                );
            } else {
                regexs.push(
                    new RegExp(prepareRegex(word).replace(/\\?\*/g, function (fullMatch) {
                        return fullMatch === '\\*' ? '*' : '[^ ]*';
                    }), 'g')
                );
            }

            // add the replacement
            replacements.push( words[word] );
        }
    }

    // do the replacement
    texts = document.evaluate('//body//text()[ normalize-space(.) != "" ]', document, null, 6, null);
    for (i = 0; text = texts.snapshotItem(i); i += 1) {
        if ( isTagOk(text.parentNode.tagName) ) {
            regexs.forEach(function (value, index) {
                text.data = text.data.replace( value, replacements[index] );
            });
        }
    }

}());

    Modified from this browser script. You can copy-paste the above script into Tampermonkey, Violentmonkey or a similar browser script extension and it will magically make every archaic letter revivalist you encounter on Hexbear appear to type the same way as you do. If you’d prefer not to use a browser script, then there are a number of free and open source word replacement browser extensions, such as Word Replacer Max for Firefox, that you could use for the same purpose. Or if none of these options seem worthwhile, you can still copy-paste letter revivalists’ comments into e.g. Notepad and use the find and replace function there. Is there any particular reason you haven’t tried any of these solutions already? Normally when people are this bothered by something, they try to find a solution for it, and in this case the solution seems pretty easy and doesn’t require you blocking anybody. It is opting out of seeing archaic letters rather than opting in, but barring a reason I haven’t thought of, it really seems like you either just never thought to try finding a solution to your problem (in which case, why?) or you were in fact choosing on some level to continue to expose yourself to something you found very upsetting (in which case, again, why?)

    I won’t make assumptions about your motives, but how you’re writing reminds me of this one non-binary autistic person I used to know who really hated neopronouns. They used they/them pronouns and basically wanted every other non-binary autistic person to use the same pronouns as them. They made all the exact same points about neopronouns as you’re making about the letter thorn: because they didn’t understand neopronouns, because they found neopronouns “weird”, and because neopronouns are mildly inconvenient, then neopronouns had to be “antisocial attention-seeking behavior.” It’s a problem you see in a lot of autistic spaces in general, speaking as one autistic person to another: the inherent tension between the spectrum encompassing a wide variety of different types of people with different desires and needs, and the individuals on that spectrum strongly desiring routine and predictability. How do you make a coalition out of people who can’t stand each other? Many autistic people want every other autistic person to be exactly the same as them, and are vexed by this being impossible to achieve. But there’s an extra dimension to this issue by the fact that some autistic people are more privileged than others: autistic people with relatively low support needs who are better at masking are privileged over autistic people with relatively high support needs who are worse at masking; hetero-cismasc autistic people are privileged over queer or fem autistic people, even within non-binary autistic people there are some who play the “respectability” game and make fun of xenogenders; unracialized autistic people are privileged over racialized autistic people; rich over poor; et cetera. What this means is that much of the time, autistic people who are themselves pretty “weird” will punch down on “the bigger weirdo” rather than on the genuinely privileged when they complain about other autistic people. I think that complaining about letter revivalism constitutes a form of this phenomenon.

    You know what happens when people let themselves hate others for doing annoying but ultimately harmless things “as a choice”? They just end up declaring themselves the ultimate arbiters of all that is and is not a “choice”, as if they have ESP and can read people’s minds and motivations. You cannot ever trust such people to accurately discriminate between what is and isn’t a choice, since it never was about choices, it was always about giving themselves excuses to be angry about annoying but ultimately harmless things, it was always about them wanting everyone else to be the same as them. This is the same logic that gives us myths like “tics are antisocial, attention-seeking behavior”. Yes, “antisocial” and “attention-seeking” — even setting aside which behaviors are and are not, who taught us that it must always be bad to be “antisocial” and “attention-seeking”, anyways? People who want you to unquestioningly accept a society that hates you without ever complaining or making your presence known? And who taught you that it isn’t worth listening to people if it takes slightly more effort on your part to understand them? I have always tried to write like a neurotypical, but people still put words in my mouth, read intentions into my words, misunderstand me, sometimes to the point where writing intelligibly feels like a complete waste of my time and effort. People who are willing to be inconvenient in front of others understand the fruitlessness of trying to fit in much better than I do, if they’re willing to self-select who listens to them.

    So please, you can change your logic. If, and I emphasize if since I said I wouldn’t make assumptions about your motives, you find that you’re getting mad at inconsequential things “for the sake of it”, then understand that that isn’t good for you. You don’t have to live in a world where deviance must be wilful, antisocial, attention-seeking behavior that must be eliminated. That world is a bad and colorless world that only gives you more things to be mad about than necessary. You can live in a world where some people are just weird and some people just take a little more effort to communicate with, and that’s OK. You don’t even have to stop being annoyed by them.

    christmas-crab-legs You should watch SPARKLE ON RAVEN: The Life of DrillGirl; it is a very good show. CēterumFurthermore cēnseōI think iūs auctōriscopyright esse dēlendummust be destroyed.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.nettoAudiobooks@lemmy.ml•I need some recommendationsEnglish
    41·
    2 days ago

    When it comes to fictional audiobooks, I can recommend Librivox and Nolan Reads as sources. In the case of Nolan Reads, since this is a YouTube channel you will presumably need a way to download the audiobooks into an audio format using something like NewPipe, PipePipe, Yt-Downloader etc. Also, both Librivox and Nolan Reads largely focus on public domain works / classic literature.

    Some Nolan Reads audiobooks I’ve listened to and enjoyed include:

    • The Catcher in the Rye (6 hours) — one of the very few audiobooks he’s made of a copyrighted work, which resulted in it getting removed from YouTube for copyright infringement, hence why I’m linking to a reupload on Bilibili. You can download Bilibili through PipePipe, Yt-Downloader, yt-dlp or other YouTube downloaders.
    • The Great Gatsby (5 hours)
    • A Farewell to Arms (10 hours)

    For Librivox, the only fictional audiobooks from there I’ve listened to aren’t in English, so I can’t really say I’ve vetted any audiobooks for you to listen to — you’ll just have to explore the site and see if you find any audiobooks to your liking. There are a lot of plus sides to Librivox, but since they’re drawing from a large pool of volunteers, one of the big downsides is that the readings themselves can be very hit or miss IMO. Nolan Reads has guaranteed quality, he’s a very skilled voice actor who really embodies the characters, knows when to be loud and when to be quiet for effect, that sort of thing.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.nettoChapotraphouse@hexbear.net•What your favorite obsolete English letter says about you:English
    2·
    3 days ago

    I kinda like it. I don’t do letter revivalism myself, but when I ſee ſomebody typiŋ like þis (for instance), then the text becomes awkward to read, and I hear the words in my head as somebody with a speech impediment. But I don’t think that’s a bad thing, because many of the people who do stuff like archaic letter revivalism probably do have speech impediments! Or they might have difficulties with intonation or otherwise speak in ways that the people around them find “grating”, so they’re used to people saying that they sound really annoying when they talk. Which is to say that I see letter revivalism as a very autistic-coded practice, that whole sort of conlang / etymology / pop historical linguistics subculture it’s rooted in leans pretty neurodivergent on the whole, ask me how I know. And so I can respect these letter revivalists for doing a small thing in writing that I personally find a bit annoying, because that small bit of annoyance makes me think about what sorts of voices people don’t listen to because they’re judged as annoying, right? I’veknownpeoplewithpressuredspespeechandandandandststutters, p’eople who actually ejectivize p’losives at the st’arts of words, pẽõplẽ wĩth ãll sõrts õf dĩffẽrẽnt qũĩrks ĩn thẽĩr spẽẽch, but when people write in this sort of broadly unmarked, standard style as I’m doing now, then what sort of voice do you read that as in your head? Do you hear those voices? Voices that read as obviously neurodivergent, voices that probably got teased in school? Or do you just hear a generic voice that reads as neurotypical? It can be good for neurodivergent people to be able to put on a neurotypical voice through writing, but it can also be good to make writing itself read as neurodivergent; and marked, proscribed, “going against the grain” practices like letter revivalism are exactly how to achieve that effect. Whether the people who engage in the practice consciously realize it or not, “I AM BEING LOUDLY AUTISTIC” is the effect they’re creating by continually rejecting social norms around writing, even when people loudly complain or they get constantly bullied for it.

    Otherwise, letter revivalism also signals belonging to an in-group of people who know about that particular topic. This can be sort of a double-edged sword, since while this sort of signal can help people connect with people with similar interests, it can also make the writer look like a bit of a know-it-all who has to say “look at what I know” to satisfy their ego. But I think it’s best to assume the best from people in these sorts of cases. We can handle people being a little annoying. “All objects in the world come into existence, but the sage does not judge them; they are born, but the sage does not possess them; the sage acts, but relies on nothing; he accomplishes and moves on, and by moving on, he never has to leave.”

    christmas-crab-legs You should watch SPARKLE ON RAVEN: The Life of DrillGirl; it is a very good show. CēterumFurthermore cēnseōI think iūs auctōriscopyright esse dēlendummust be destroyed.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.nettoChapotraphouse@hexbear.net•This is what happens when you date a white boy who is on hexbearEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    Very good comment, thank you. I figured there was some context I was missing. I have to wonder if people might be referring to different things when they talk about having figured themselves out, because either my own case is very similar to yours (“hmm I sure spend a lot of time thinking about being a girl and kissing boys… oh well, I’m sure that’s not significant! just teenage hormones or something! let’s not give into those fantasies under any circumstances!” i-love-not-thinking) or it’s completely dissimilar, because I wouldn’t say I have myself figured out even now that I’m in my mid-20s.

    christmas-crab-legs You should watch SPARKLE ON RAVEN: The Life of DrillGirl; it is a very good show. CēterumFurthermore cēnseōI think iūs auctōriscopyright esse dēlendummust be destroyed.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.nettoChapotraphouse@hexbear.net•This is what happens when you date a white boy who is on hexbearEnglish
    21·
    6 days ago

    Surely there would be a number of different motivations and it can be difficult to tell when an interest in something is genuinely “surface-level” unless you have that interest yourself, so I don’t know if I’d label this as a single broad phenomenon. I also don’t know whether I’d label “suddenly getting into something new” as a guy thing as opposed to just something that I guess stands out more when guys do it. Heck, who knows if it’s even something they “never showed interest in before” versus just something you never noticed them taking interest in before, or they just didn’t tell you in particular, or they did tell you and you just forgot? I’m thinking about all the times when people are like “you never showed signs of being trans”, but actually you showed plenty, it’s just that the possibility of being trans is so far outside of the cis brain that even the eggiest of behavior goes right over their heads. It can be the same for interests/hobbies, especially if people are worried about being judged as cringe for it.

    Not to ascribe motivations to people I don’t know, but if I heard about somebody in my life suddenly converting from atheism to Islam without consulting anybody in their life about it first, then I’d have to wonder if the person was experiencing psychosis. This isn’t to say that people can’t genuinely convert from atheism to a religion, but when that conversion is particularly sudden and accompanied by erratic and irresponsible behavior such as converting without telling your partner of ten years, then the total change of worldview to start believing in supernatural forces becomes a bit concerning. For people who take a sudden interest in the Roman Empire, my first thought would be that it’s a cryptofascist red flag, that the interest is surface-level because it’s more of an aesthetic-based dogwhistle than anything, and actual scholarly knowledge of the Roman Empire would be counterproductive to the fascist worldview. Which isn’t to say that it’s impossible to take an interest in the Roman Empire in a non-fashy way, just that I’d approach with much caution. As for otherkin, then that’s a subculture that skews very autistic, and I would know a thing or two about letting my life suddenly get consumed by a new autistic interest.

    All of this based on people I’ve known who converted to Islam, got into the Roman Empire, or were otherkin, although a few anecdotal experiences aren’t enough to speak for people as a whole. As I’m saying, there are many different motivations behind why people might suddenly change so much, so we should try to be less judgmental on the whole. Even in the cases where it genuinely is just somebody deciding to become a Different Cooler Guy for the sake of being a Different Cooler Guy, then should we really be judging people for finding ways to experiment with their identity? Maybe you’ll feel some second-hand embarrassment from seeing somebody’s seventieth Guy 2.0 debut, but the state of being alive in general is a phase, so why should we devalue the sub-phases that life contains? The problem with suddenly deciding to wear a leather jacket is the leather part, not the change in wardrobe. To be cringe is to be free!

    I dunno.

    christmas-crab-legs You should watch SPARKLE ON RAVEN: The Life of DrillGirl; it is a very good show. CēterumFurthermore cēnseōI think iūs auctōriscopyright esse dēlendummust be destroyed.