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koshka

4 years ago

Curious - does anyone else here use IRC?

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grafovolaverunt 4 years ago

I used to back in the day but returning to IRC would be cool too!

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koshka 4 years ago

Same here. I was a heavy user from ~2002 to ~2015. @lolwut recently started an IRC channel for his website's visitors and I was thinking it'd be nice to have a general Neocities community IRC channel perhaps. It's a objectively superior and freer platform than discord (@spyware has taken pains to explain the problems with it) and a fitting place for a chatroom for this community, IMO.

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fragmentandreflect 4 years ago

that would be aweseom if you set something like that up

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koshka 4 years ago

I'm glad you're interested in the idea! I have a server that's mostly set up for the sole purpose of being connected to IRC 24/7 but has been derelict ever since the network adapter stopped working. I'm going to try to fix that some time this week and then set up a channel somewhere.

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ocean-waves

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Added a "Free Palestine" button to my sidebar. Feel free to use, no credit needed. Please spread the word on the ethnic cleansing currently being perpetrated by Israel. The Nakba never ended.

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ocean-waves updated Ocean Waves

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sadgrl ocean-waves

4 years ago

Whoa, your site is absolutely gorgeous, nice work!

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ocean-waves 4 years ago

Thank you so much!!! <3

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mashsmusings updated Mash's Musings Has Moved

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koshka updated Koshka's Kingdom

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koshka 4 years ago

Added analyses of the Sisters of Mercy songs "Flood II" and "Susanne" to the Reptile House, and replaced the sidebar on the Town of ZZT with a funky custom one that better suits the section's design.

fragmentandreflect 4 years ago

Woa your Sisters of Mercy write up is incredible. And I really feel a vibe in the design that’s faintly reminiscent of the album covers and the MIDI is awesome. I was a big fan of old school goth when I was younger and used to have most of their albums on vinyl though I never did a deep exploration of lyrical content and I love all of the research you did.

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fragmentandreflect 4 years ago

Just in general, your writing is really really good, I really feel a sense of strength and coherency in the way you express yourself. Sorry to read about the loss of your friend :( I love the conversation about the ocean as a living promordial womb.

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fragmentandreflect 4 years ago

just this one seentence was a bit confusing: "I have decided to dedicate this song to my personal interpretations of some of their songs"

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koshka 4 years ago

Thank you so much for your very kind feedback! I'm very grateful both that you read it and that you liked it! Sisters of Mercy definitely has some surprisingly complicated lyrics, and I love how it feels like I'm solving a riddle trying to understand them.

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koshka 4 years ago

It's very cool that you had the vinyl versions of their albums. And here I was thinking that I was old school for still collecting CDs, lol. I'm tempted sometimes to start collecting vinyls too. Thank you for catching that typo! I meant to write "dedicate this site", but screwed up. I appreciate you catching that. I re-read most of what I write many times, but unfortunately I am abysmal at catching my own typos.

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fragmentandreflect 4 years ago

Look forward to reading more lyrical explorations. I've had Sisters songs goign through my head since last night, I love the line "like a healing hand" in This Corrosion, and that music video, so f-ing good. I got a lot of vinyl in the 90's for pennies when it wasn't cool for a while and everyone was buying CD's.

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fragmentandreflect 4 years ago

If you do switch to vinyl it will blow your mind, it's such a deeper and more soulful listening experience..

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holeinmyheart 4 years ago

I am enjoying "Flood II". and i second @fragmentandreflect regarding your comments about the ocean

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koshka 4 years ago

@fragmentandreflect Thank you! I'm glad someone else likes these lyrical explorations! I like to listen to Sisters of Mercy whenever I'm writing/drawing, or just in a melancholic mood. They're very cathartic, but also good at making you think. Trying out vinyl is definitely on my list of things to do eventually, as I've heard many other people make similiar comments about the sound quality.

koshka holeinmyheart

4 years ago

I just thought you might like to know that a small bird has recently taken up residence in our fireplace (which we, thankfully, do not use.) I thought the bird was stuck at first and tried to open the door so that they could return outside via the house, but apparently s/he is capable of flying away. We left the bird some food and they have since returned after it started raining outside!

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holeinmyheart 4 years ago

hahaha. birds find the weirdest (cleverest?) places to hangout/nest

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holeinmyheart 4 years ago

maybe it's a phoenix

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ocean-waves updated Ocean Waves

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koshka updated Koshka's Kingdom

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koshka 4 years ago

I decided to become a "cool kid" like Cyber-Witch, Lolwut, and others, and got a custom domain name for my website. From now on, you can access Koshka's Kingdom by going to "https://koshka.love". I have absolutely NO plans of leaving Neocities, so the old URL should also continue to work.

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holeinmyheart 4 years ago

CUTE

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koshka 4 years ago

I'm glad you like it! I was honestly shocked that it hasn't been taken yet. Love and the default Russian word for "cat" seem like a natural combination...

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koshka 4 years ago

Updated the Somnium with some macabre (and goofy) new dreams I had written down from years past, and updated the old Words/Phrases I Hate article with some new additions. Also renamed the General Griping subsection of articles to Comedy/General Griping to better fit the contents and remind people to not take the articles contained therein too seriously.

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cyberwitch 4 years ago

Your "Words/Phrases That I Hate" page was very cathartic to read, LOL. Your dreams remind me of one I had not too long ago. I was trying a new doughnut place that had the best doughnuts, and I found out the owners were sacrificing people to the old gods in exchange for them. I could've saved the next victims, but instead I was like, "Just one more doughnut..."

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holeinmyheart 4 years ago

"You should smile more!" omfg. the last thing americans need is more smiling. we smile way too much.

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fragmentandreflect 4 years ago

I really enjoy reading bother people's dreams, I also have overwhelmingly strange dreams...

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fragmentandreflect 4 years ago

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koshka 4 years ago

@cyberwitch Thank you! I'm very happy you found that page cathartic. That page and most of the comedy section is me letting off steam over things that have been boiling my blood for ages, so I'm glad someone else feels the same way about some of it! That sounds like a really fun dream. It always intrigues me how we often make such seemingly odd choices in dreams. I too tend to make a lot of callous decisions in mine.

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koshka 4 years ago

@holeinmyheart I fully agree! It just feels insincere and even creepy when people are smiling for no reason. In a number of other countries such as Russia, it's expected for people (including women) to only smile when they have a good reason for doing so.

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koshka 4 years ago

@fragmentandreflect Same here! I think they're an excellent source of creativity. It's amusing what sort of stories our brain can come up with when it's haphazardly reorganising our memories and creating a chaotic quilt made up of decades worth of memories in the process.

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lolwut 4 years ago

I'm delighted to see additions to the "Words/Phrases That I Hate" page -- it's one of my favorites on your site. Being a 2000s nostalgic, I especially dislike the "embrace change, change is inevitable" phrase, for obvious reasons, and it's irritating to think about how much combined time I've lost over the years partaking in the socially obligatory "How are you?" ritual at the beginning of conversations.

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koshka 4 years ago

@lolwut I'm glad you liked the page! I'm not as much of a fan of it anymore as I honestly haphazardly wrote it while drunk because I put far less effort into the website into those early days, but it really needed an update either way. It vexes me how often "change is inevitable" is used as a reason for things (such as abysmal UI changes in operating systems and websites.)

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koshka 4 years ago

Yes, change is inevitable, but using it as the sole/main excuse for doing something is as absurd as murdering something and justifying it by pointing out that death is inevitable. I do not and will never understand it. But, the more I live, the more I realise what a goldmine of comedy there is in just stopping to analyse how little sense many of the things that people say actually are.

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koshka 4 years ago

Regarding the "how are you?" exchanges, I remember getting reprimanded by my father as a child for starting conversations with people by just getting straight to the point, and I still don't know what's so wrong about that. At least I'm not wasting people's time with meaningless interactions! The "how are you?" stuff is essentially equivalent to screaming "HELLO!! I CARE ABOUT YOUR WELFARE!! Anyway..." at people.

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