Milannial @Colophonscrawl@monads.online

New folks who are a few hundred posts or fewer into Mastodon: There are some unspoken or spoken tonal things to consider.

Edgy jokes need to punch up if you're going to be making them at all. "Ironic" punching down is going to go over like a lead balloon. Instances have died because the admin made comments like this.

Gage the situation before making a reply, especially to a stranger. When in doubt, don't give advice, corrections, or requests of specific people unless they are requested. Being overly chummy with people you are not familiar with may be taken as pestering. Random flirting is a quick way to get reported and largely shut out, even if it's "not serious."

CWs are your friend. Although there are times where they are egregious, and although CW requests specifically have been weaponized against primarily users of color (don't weaponize CW requests please), if it's lewd, rude, or food, better safe than sorry until you pick up on the general tone.

If you are a member of a new wave of posters, I want to assure you that I will work hard to keep my content just as incomprehensible and alienating to you, the viewing public, as it is to my inner circle of mutuals. This is the Colophon Promise.

#introduction

Things people are saying about Colophon:

"It's too true, Colophon."
-- Sel

"Max fucker and max shagger energy is just who you are."
-- Julles

"If Colophon is Morgan, that means I'm Colophon."
-- esvrld

"Heretical, but interesting."
-- anonymous Illuminati satrap

I'm so tired of playing
Playing with this bow and arrow
Gonna give diamonds away
Leave it to the other griefers to play
For I've been in gold armor too long
Just...

Give me a reason to mine you
Give me a reason to be on hardcore
I just wanna be on hardcore

This
creep
er's
taking its toll on me,
blown up my house
too many times before
and my
gear
is
dropping in front of me
and I have no choice
looks like I will be mining some more

Nanchuan saw the monks of the eastern and western halls fighting over a lizard. Seizing the lizard, he told the monks: “If any of you can say a word of Zen, you will save the lizard.” No one answered. Nanchuan put the lizard on a cold rock. That evening Zhaozho returned to the monastery and Nanchuan told him what had happened. Zhaozho removed his CW, placed it on his profile, and walked out. Nanchuan said: “If you had been there, you would have saved the lizard.”

A monk asked, "Does a lizard have a Buddha-nature or not?"
The master said, "Not [Mu]!"

The monk said, "Above to all the Buddhas, below to the crawling bugs, all have Buddha-nature. Why is it that the lizard has not?"

The master said, "Because lizer has the nature of ectothermic delusions".