Version 2 archive
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0.1 antisocial
the last time sian had a blog, everything was linked up with the socials. sian was an early adopter of this: facebook, twitter, flickr, even plurk (plurk is a weird one, being an also-ran twitter competitor from the far east that’s literally only used west of singapore by people in secondlife, but which is also,
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xx.xy tryouts
it took a long time for a lot of us to realise it, but one of the unexpected, unintended niches of secondlife has been its use as a testing ground for trans identity, for the sexuality of unaccustomed bodies, a relief from a dysphoria we might not even have known we had. We wanted to
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9.0 visitor
sian logged in this morning to find someone standing in their virtual home. this is a thing that sometimes happens in secondlife, but it’s doubly unexpected because the person had wound up there quite by accident, and should have been booted anyway, because the land is group access only. but here they were. they were
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0.0 expendable
there is a moral calculus often made by supposedly progressive communities that considers the wrong sort of queer people expendable. so you get situations like the one with isabel fall, where a trans person wrote a thing that was powerful and angry and provocative and transgressive and paid for it. because she was not performing
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1.3 third person
it has been noted by more than a few people in and out of second life that sian’s player refers to sian in the third person. they sometimes hold conversations with sian, and hold different ideological and religious views – sian is an atheist, for example, while their meatspace analogue is not. someone asked the
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8.0 immunity
sian had their second covid-19 vaccination this weekend gone, and no doubt is now fully implanted with all the tracking and control chips. sian is not terribly bothered by this, because fuck it, how much difference is one more neural implant going to make? (featured clothing .shi bionic artistry/ azoury judgment helmet, ember boots/ cerberus
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7.0 purity
what does it mean to be good? sian struggles with this; their neurodiverse self-perception in both worlds as a hollow mannequin imperfectly aping human affect (and their horror of that) combines with the fact that they have in the past done some terrible things. they produced a large body of work that was racist, for
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6.0 transverbal
this morning sian’s rlv chat redirect stopped working altogether, and because it’s locked, they couldn’t do anything about it. to their own surprise, rather than just talk normally, they decided not to talk at all, only using their communications implant light for yes and no. a friend stepped in who was wearing an avatar charm,
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5.0 neural
the thing is, most people who find that they are autistic when they are adults are expecting it. they may have suspected for a long time; they may even have sought the diagnosis. it wasn’t like this for sian’s flesh counterpart. they were caught entirely off guard, it only clicking after the fact that most