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Taylor McCue

Update: Didn't really get much done this week but I'm posting anyways to just be like hi.

@taylormccue Not too bad - I was away for a bit and exorcised some stuff with a friend, and now we're feeling creative about our game project, so that's good.

It's nice to see you come around here, even when you don't have anything immediate to show off.

@HauntedOwlbear That's awesome!

Also yeah it's nice to be here. I sometimes forget I don't have to justify my existence to just be social online.

Getting over the American forced labor mindset guilt thing is weird. x_x

@taylormccue
Honestly, I'm very European, and I get that "have to be doing something productive to justify my presence" urge, too.

Which is particularly weird in the context of artistic, craft, and creative work, where ambient inspiration is easily half the task.

That protestant work ethic / capitalist survival needs thing has a body count, but also does its best to keep people from stopping to breathe and think.

@HauntedOwlbear Yeah, I get that. At a certain point I was like eugghhhh I'm just going to enjoy the holidays instead of trying to be all working.

Art stuff is weird. It just is.

@taylormccue i'm doing okay what about you?
Btw do you remember when you sent me a copy of HFTGOOM and it got Lost in the mail so you had to send another copy? Well the first copy just arrived. A year and a half later lmao

@touloutoumou I got really distracted with holiday stuff but I'm okay.

I'm genuinely shocked that it arrived, I had written that cartridge of as totally lost forever.

I don't know what you can do with two hftgoom cartridges but please be kind to that second one since there aren't many of those in the world.

@taylormccue i never expected it too I totally forgot about that. I'm taking good care of it, I don't want to send it back because I'm too afraid it might be lost again. But if you ever come to France I'll be happy to give it back to you.

@touloutoumou If you know someone who might want it please don't hesitate to give it to them as well.

I don't know if I'll ever end up in France but anything is possible. I never thought I'd go to a lot of places and sometimes life is weird.

@taylormccue oh that's right. I'll be a A.MAZE next year if I meet cool people I might give them. I know your game inspired @Schlossgespenst i could give her the game

@touloutoumou

I wanted to do superfest this year but my mental health just wasn't right so I ended up just passively watching it.

@taylormccue I get it, I hope things are better now <3 I am a bit scared to go to AMAZE, it's a bit far from my home and I want to go as a woman but I'm still pretty closeted I hope I'll be brave enough by that point

@touloutoumou That's legit. I always used to dream of Europe as a paradise to escape to compared to the horrors of Florida but it seems like everywhere there is struggle.

I can't make promises you'll be okay but I think you should consider trying anyway even if it turns out to be super awkward or sucks.

@taylormccue thanks a lot, it actually helps <3

@touloutoumou @taylormccue sry to drop that deep into your conversation you two. I was at last amaze and it’s a really welcoming supportive event (and I would say a lot of queer / allies around). I am sure you will love it there just as much as I did.

@kai @touloutoumou

No worries, I appreciate you saying that. I have trust issues (trauma) so I don't like to promise people things are safe if I don't know for sure so I'm glad someone on the ground could provide better advice.

@taylormccue pretty well considering I think! Got a few things done, just day job stuff left then I'm going to mostly relax at home. Trying to get my website more in shape

@TheZeldaZone That sounds nice. I hope you have a relaxing night and make your website nice.

I haven't updated mine in a very long time and I kinda shudder to think how bad it's probably gotten.

@taylormccue I'm not too sure what to do with it just want to flesh out ~sections~ better and like... a nice big front page I'll probably have to pay someone else to make. Like videos, cats, selfies/modeling..I never know what to show I do too many little things

@TheZeldaZone That all sounds fun.

I sometimes really enjoy browsing neocities sites like that and getting to kinda know someone even if I never end up talking to them.

That is cool.