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A re #introduction post with all the new folks around :) We're Exilian, based at https://exilian.co.uk - we're a collective/society...

A re #introduction post with all the new folks around :) We're Exilian, based at https://exilian.co.uk - we're a collective/society for creative geekery, currently chaired by @JubalBarca and dedicated to building open, democratic, inclusive space for people around the world to do indie/hobby creative works. We toot articles from our article section, virtual meetup announcements, and other interesting curiosities. Followers/boosts/questions welcome!

#introductions #newhere #creativetoots

It's our monthly meetup this evening! If you'd like to drop by a small and friendly space of nerdish and creative types, new faces...

It's our monthly meetup this evening! If you'd like to drop by a small and friendly space of nerdish and creative types, new faces are always very welcome. We'll be going for the next few hours, just shout for the link. It's a jitsi video call, people are welcome to go voice-only or just talk in the chat too :)

Let us know if you'd like to come along! Boosts welcome!

#creativetoots #gamedev #gaming #indiedev #mastoart #writing

Our Autumn newsletter of creative geek projects and resources, Updates from the Forge #47, is now out! In it you can find links to recent...

Our Autumn newsletter of creative geek projects and resources, Updates from the Forge #47, is now out! In it you can find links to recent releases, articles, and devlogs from a lovely range of indie and hobbyist creative works.

Please let us know what you think, and support us and the independent creative folk we work with by boosting and sharing this toot and/or the newsletter link :)

https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=6550.msg149059#msg149059

#gamedev #creativetoots #writing #gaming

It's our monthly virtual meetup this evening! If you'd like to hang out with some friendly nerds for a while, do give us a shout and...

It's our monthly virtual meetup this evening! If you'd like to hang out with some friendly nerds for a while, do give us a shout and we'll send the link over :)

It's our monthly video call meetup this evening! If you'd like to join us for friendly creative geekery chatter, all are very...

It's our monthly video call meetup this evening! If you'd like to join us for friendly creative geekery chatter, all are very welcome - we meet on jitsi, and you're welcome to lurk, do voice-only, or use the text chat if you'd like to join without the stress of video. Please do join, and boost if you think your friends might enjoy coming along!

Our latest newsletter, Updates from the Forge 46, is now out! Please read and boost to help share the cool creative projects therein...

Our latest newsletter, Updates from the Forge 46, is now out! Please read and boost to help share the cool creative projects therein :)

https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=6523.msg148300#msg148300

#CreativeToots #Writing #Gamedev

Where are people getting web hosting these days? We might need to move, given our provider shifted us to a cpanel system that won't give...

Where are people getting web hosting these days? We might need to move, given our provider shifted us to a cpanel system that won't give us proper access to Let's Encrypt.

We're currently with Tsohost, paying about 8.50 (GBP) per month, and we could do without much of an increase on that given we're solely donation-funded (and we do not have many regular donations coming in).

Thoughts welcome!

#tech #webhosting #webdev

Ah yes, the three really important races of Tolkienesque fantasy:

Ah yes, the three really important races of Tolkienesque fantasy:

Did you hear about how hard it is to get published in the Journal of French Masculine Nomenclature?They have a very robust Pierre Review...

Did you hear about how hard it is to get published in the Journal of French Masculine Nomenclature?

They have a very robust Pierre Review process.

#joke #humour

To give more format details, these meetups are monthly video calls (no compulsion to be on video, some people keep cameras off or just hang...

To give more format details, these meetups are monthly video calls (no compulsion to be on video, some people keep cameras off or just hang out solely in the chat, whatever you're comfier with) - it's a little gathering of game devs, writers, TTRPG masters, academics, and other folks putting various real and fictional worlds to rights.

We're always happy to have new faces stop by anytime during the meet - please do let us know if you'd like the link :)

#creativetoots #mastoart #gamedev

This evening it's our monthly virtual meetup, which we have on jitsi - it'll be starting in 10 mins and going on for about 4 hours...

This evening it's our monthly virtual meetup, which we have on jitsi - it'll be starting in 10 mins and going on for about 4 hours or so, you can drop in any time and if you'd like the link to join please just shout.

You can drop in any time during the meetup, it's very relaxed, just a time to have a drink and hear some friendly voices nattering about creativity, geekery, and the world :)

(Boosts welcome, the more the merrier and all that.)

Oh gosh, we've had a good number new people follow in the last day or so - hello, welcome to seeing our toots, and we hope to bring you...

Oh gosh, we've had a good number new people follow in the last day or so - hello, welcome to seeing our toots, and we hope to bring you more creative geekery and such excellences in the near future :)

(OK, another break definitely needed as I should do some actual work today).

(OK, another break definitely needed as I should do some actual work today).

20. The gazebo tent, with openings on all sides, was originally set up as a way to allow ladies at some more risque and fashionable...

20. The gazebo tent, with openings on all sides, was originally set up as a way to allow ladies at some more risque and fashionable sixteenth century jousts to get a better view of the knights as they headed out to the lists, rather than just seeing them from the front whilst they fought - hence, a gaze-your-beau tent, and the modern gazebo was born.

#FakeEtymology

19. One North African legend about the hoopoe, upupa epops, was that if you could get it to sit within a circle it would tell you who you...

19. One North African legend about the hoopoe, upupa epops, was that if you could get it to sit within a circle it would tell you who you were going to marry. People and especially young women thus brought loop-shaped perches to entice the birds and these "hoopoe rings" or "hoops" became a general term for larger ring-shaped loops of metal: the term was carried back to Europe both through trade and through an early 18th century Italian fashion trend for "hoop" earrings.

#FakeEtymology

18. "Eyaaaa" used to be the standard English way to write a shout of pain or frustration. The modern, more familiar...

18. "Eyaaaa" used to be the standard English way to write a shout of pain or frustration. The modern, more familiar "Aaaagh", derives from British Imperial rule in India and "aag", the Hindi word for fire: it became widely known and popularised after a number of colonial administrators died due to failing to realise that locals were telling them about a fire that had started, which led subsequently to an increased awareness of the term among the colonisers.

#FakeEtymology

17. To have "aspirations" comes from the asper, a medieval silver coin type especially used in the late Byzantine world of the...

17. To have "aspirations" comes from the asper, a medieval silver coin type especially used in the late Byzantine world of the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. Someone who wanted "to seek aspers" - that is, to go and find their fortune as a mercenary or trader in the wealth - was seen as implying a willingness to take high risks for potentially great rewards.

#FakeEtymology

16. Contrary to popular belief, "feeling down" doesn't refer to the direction, but to the soft feathers of baby birds. The...

16. Contrary to popular belief, "feeling down" doesn't refer to the direction, but to the soft feathers of baby birds. The phrase was originally "feeling downy", and implies that one is like a baby bird: limited in ability to interact with the world, and frowning all the time (a look that baby birds tend to have due to the "gape" skin structures on either side of the mouth that help the adults feed them).

#FakeEtymology

15. In the north of England in the 19th century, tools were often loaned or lent to poorer workers, some of whom relied on these...

15. In the north of England in the 19th century, tools were often loaned or lent to poorer workers, some of whom relied on these tool-loansmen to ply their trades. One part of this practice was that is the worker picked the same tool ten times running, the loansman would keep it reserved for them thereafter: liking a tool enough to give it its tenth use then became known as "tenth-use-ing", which is why we now "enthuse" about things we like.

#FakeEtymology

14. Using a carpet for flooring was originally something practiced in marsh and fenland villages of northern Europe, where old or broken...

14. Using a carpet for flooring was originally something practiced in marsh and fenland villages of northern Europe, where old or broken fishing nets - literally, carp nets - would be piled on the floor to avoid some of the damp and risk of bare mud floors. Aristocrats from the fifteenth century onwards later referred to piling middle-eastern rugs in similar fashion as "carp-net" in reference, and the modern carpet was born

#FakeEtymology