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about me

as you probably figured out my name is winter
i go by she/they pronouns most of the time
i am very much not cis ! idk about sexual orientation though it's hard to figure out
i live on the land mass people like to call "great" britain

contact info

this page is a LOT of info about me please no stalkers ty

personality

i'm not very social and often get too overwhelmed if i have to talk to someone i don't know already. also i've learned i find it very difficult to talk to "authority figures" (not necessarily authorities but people my brain decided are more powerful than me in whatever way)
apparently i'm isfj (ir-sp-fw-jt) personality type but idk how much i trust that (did you know the 16 type personality test is mainly relevant for getting hired by corpos? pretty dystopian if you ask me)
i love platonic relationships and platonic affection i love my friends<3 (EXCEPT for the ones i don't, you know who you are (dw it's not as dramatic as it sounds))
very likely autistic but no professional dx
favourite season autumn (despite my name), favourite colour uhhhh idk theres too many

politics

theoretically i'm an anarchist but i'm always too tired/unmotivated to actually do anything meaningful
i hate the monarchy, the tory party, starmer's labour, capitalism, and authority/*archy in general
don't like stallman(rms) or raymond(esr) very uncool people who should not be as influential as they are
political compass says i'm extremely lib-left
i'm interested in social issues that affect marginalised groups, especially various *normativities (cis-, hetero-, neuro-)

interests

i don't like computers but also spend a fair bit of time using/programming them so i end up being tech support for my friends a lot
regarding above, i use various linux distros (void currently and gentoo previously) on my laptop and i run freebsd on a slow and creaky old computer as a server for mumble, dokuwiki and minecraft for friends
i'm learning russian(русский) and french(français) fairly mediocre at them, although i can speak toki pona (except for most nimi ku lili which i haven't bothered to learn). one of my friends wants me to learn cherokee(ᏣᎳᎩ) we will see how that goes
can play piano, currently learning to dj and also occasionally try to produce music but the hassle of bullying ableton into starting on wine is a lot and i can't be bothered to learn how to use lmms or whatever plus i have no ideas
occasional drawing, apparently i'm not bad at it but i hardly ever get motivated

in specific categories

music, copied from spacehey: jungle/dnb (camo & krooked <3, koven, calibre, ruth royall, protostar), some synthwave, chiptune and tracker music, c418, lena raine, alex g, lamp
games, copied from spacehey: minecraft, 0ad, celeste until i ragequit on farewell for the 1344532th time, nitw, baba is you, oquonie

misc

Sometimes, I write in a formal style, especially in my open-source projects' READMEs and commit messages, or e-mail exchanges with unknown and/or Professional™ people. This is to ensure that I do not come across as immature or uneducated in situations where that might be otherwise assumed and frowned upon. [also cause it removes some aspect of personality which makes it less stressful] [people should be immature and uneducated more often imo but thats another story for another day]
you might possibly remember me from a year or two ago when i wrote like 2 articles (about a c418 album and a cgi script for surveys iirc) over on tilde.cafe