I kinda regret my username, but I've been here 3 years so it's stuck. Hi everyone. I lurked around on the old subreddit, but never posted anything. I was always too shy since everyone seemed so high energy and more interesting than me. But then I came here and learned y'all are super nice and helpful. Most pleasant internet community I've ever been a part of, including all the way back to the IRC days. About me:

I'm nonbinary and I've been calling myself a communist since the Iraq War. I try to stay well read but I get lazy about it sometimes. I come from a deeply racist, reactionary small town in America and it's liberating to talk about how I escaped all of that. Sometimes I tell y'all stories about my family and how bad they can get, like one cousin is in the Klan, another is an Ayn Rand worshiping small business guy who keeps getting caught doing wage theft.

I'm an amateur musician/producer and tinker with electronics. I play guitar, flute, I fiddle with modular synths, sampling, etc. I read a lot, I really like horror and magical realism. I like Jorge Luis Borges a lot even though he was a bit of a liberal. I play a lot of video games, I have a soft spot for Touhou, Yakuza, Silent Hill, and early 90s point and click games (Sam and Max especially).

I really like movies too, especially really surreal artsy stuff from directors like David Lynch, Jodorosky, Tartovksy, Suzan Pitt.

Thanks everyone for tolerating me when I get mopey or aggressive sometimes. I sometimes feel like I'm annoying here but everyone's super cool. Hope I can spend more time with everyone and continue to learn stuff.