Local Dad, Ben Hamill @benhamill@eldritch.cafe

New account, time for an #introductions.

I'm a white guy, more or less living at the top of Privilege Mountain, trying to learn to dismantle and undermine that privilege.

Things I'm into:
• #Roleplaying
• #Linguistics
• #SocialJustice
• #Software
• #Parenting
• #Reading
• #Videogames
• #Kindposting
• #Lego
• #Comics
• #Argyle

Things I'm (interested in?) learning about:
• #Socialism
• #Coops
• #UrbanPlanning
• And all the stuff above, naturally.

This is, of course, incomplete. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Continuing #introductions:

In 2018 (at 36), I realized my sexuality wasn't as straightforward (or straight) as I'd previously thought. It's more complicated because of course it is, but I generally consider myself bi/pan .

And then somehow we were thinking about, like, what would be a LOWER tech cottagecore and it's obviously "meadowcore". Now you've moved entirely outside and are just living in a meadow. It's like trying to make extreme paleo stuff seem cute and quaint.

My coworker and I were testing this by inventing new -wave and -core words. And, like, "naturewave" is clearly very chill electronic music that heavily samples waves and wind-through-trees and frog song and shit.

And, like, -wave also means something. Like, a new musical genre with -wave is some kind of electronic thing to me. Which is weird because AFAIK the original -wave genre was New Wave, which isn't particularly beep-boopy.

This morning I have become obsessed with the semantics of the -wave and -core suffixes for, like, genres of music or ✨aesthetics✨ or whatever.

Like... -core implies some level of badassness to me (borrowed from "hardcore", I guess, where "hard" is doing all of that semantic work), which makes "cottagecore" a pleasantly amusing word.

"Well, mostly it is shitposting, so... the continuity is a bit muddled."

Good morning, gentles all. 🌇

As of today, I have been a father for a _decade_, which us fuckin’ wild.

Anyway, the 9yo is now the 10yo.

Good morning, gentles all. 🌇

We bought this filing cabinet thing and haven’t put it together yet. And every time I look at it—… Like, this us a word for people who can’t bring themselves to say “vagina”, right?

Sayonara, Wild Hearts. 💖

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I finished reading a book with the 6yo and asked, “OK. You ready to go to bed?”

They just looked at me for a second and then farted SO LOUDLY. 🤦🏻‍♂️

It was hilarious, though.

TIL that today is the International Day of Friendship. Maybe tomorrow is the International Day of Enmity?

Good morning, gentles all. 🌇