Alexis, whomst 🦠 @alexis@tilde.zone

Semiotic Standard: the icons from Alien

Following on from our Solar System transit map, we settled on this as our next vector art project: recreating the "Semiotic Standard" icons used to decorate the Nostromo spaceship sets in the 1979 film Alien.

We also thought it'd be fun to make them usable as fediverse emoji, so we did that.

Find the full set in emojo form here: https://lexie.space/post/blogstuff/2019/12/16/semiotic-standard.html

See the attached image, or https://noisy.lexie.space/@alexis/103322172832060183, for examples.

We'll be publishing large SVG files of these, too - as soon as we get the source file sorted out so we can export them easily. (we still suck at illustrator lol) In the meantime, we hope you enjoy these, and watch this space for more!

The Solar System: A Transit Map

Ever wanted to take a bus from Earth to another planet entirely? Us too! If we could, this is the map we’d use to get from here to there. Now you can use it to do that, too!

Physical things that have this on them: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/p/43181011.C3TL5.strewn-joey?ref=artist_shop_grid

Different sizes, transparent backgrounds: https://lexie.space/assets/posts/2019-12-12-the-solar-system/The%20Solar%20System-%20A%20Transit%20Map.zip

We want to make this into a depiction of a solarpunk future, designed by consensus, that we'd all love to see! If you have ideas or thoughts on that, please add them to this thread: https://tilde.zone/@alexis/103294731882121379

More at our website: https://lexie.space/post/blogstuff/2019/12/12/the-solar-system.html

Special thanks and 💜 : @anarchiv @RedFuture @velexiraptor

We hope you enjoy it, and please feel free to boost and share with anyone you think might like it!

legitimately horrifying to think that the adorable upstart nerd pile of our early adulthood has become so vast and potent by our early middle age that the next challenge it's chosen for itself is that of reshaping a city in its own image

what will it have become by the time we've grown old? we call ourself a monster but honestly we're a joke, everybody thinks the future is cyberpunk but look at yog-sothoth aborning over here and tell us lovecraft wasn't writing cautionary tales after all

a new disney ceo realizes how much influence the company's products has had on people developing furry interests, moves to establish ownership of the cultural commons via the courts in order to license and monetize

It's probably about time for an #introduction, isn't it?

So, hi, I'm Alexis. At my day job, I'm a fullstack engineer for a company you've heard of. If that interests you, it shouldn't, and I won't, and that's really best.

When I'm doing what I choose to, I'm an sf/weirdtales writer, a wildlife photographer, and a doer of helpful stuff for people.

I've never said this out loud before: I'm intersex and genderqueer. I don't know how I feel about saying it now, but I guess I know how to find out.

haven't gotten worse. probably gonna end up being glad to have got it so early, as having developed endogenous immunity seems like being able to help in ways not available to people who haven't got sick. getting to that point is taking longer than we'd like, though

[frustrated ill person noises]

feels weird to be sleeping so much but it seems to be helping, we're feeling a little better today! haven't really coughed a lot and breathing feels easier, so that's nice, and the muscle aches from sunday's foolishness have mostly subsided

definitely overworked my abdominal muscles with all the pictures yesterday, amazing how much they're involved in macro work. but otherwise not worse and a little better so that's good!

definitely a struggle to hold my breath as long as i'm used to for handheld macro shots but it got easier with practice this one came out OK!

and this is the first time we've felt up to going out in the yard to take pictures since before we got sick, so that's got to be a good sign

still doing about the same, which is fine! we'll take "not worse" until "better" starts happening

still here, still sucks, still scared but not physically worse so that's good

we suppose everyone is to some extent a solipsist. we also suspect this tendency will come considerably less to the fore among the survivors, for a while at least, but maybe that's foolish of us.

it'd be nice to hope for some good to come of all this

re the numbfucks, we oscillate between rueful acknowledgement of the fact that no one realizes life in general has irrevocably changed until it does so for them personally, and a genuinely shocking depth of anger at the thought that anyone dare pretend life as it was can continue in the face of the fact that we personally might soon die.

we would also like their taste in loud and shitty music to be less loud and shitty

irrationally enraged by the presence of the numbfucks next door who have very intelligently decided to get together for a renovation party and complain loudly about contractors, just as if the world were not on fire

our condition hasn't immediately worsened, but based on what we hear from our medical adjacent friends, it'll be another week minimum before we're out of mortal danger, likely with some degree of permanent lung injury even so

doing about the same. still sleeping a lot, could do with a little less in the way of wildly horny fever dreams and then waking up with no energy and all the aches, but it does at least liven things up somewhat, so there's that

tbh the worst part so far is this is boring as hell and we only feel decent until we try to do anything, so there's not much we can relieve the boredom with 😕

still feel like crap, still basically OK, still breathing just fine. been sleeping a lot, so that's nice~

still here. feelin like hell but breathing just fine

got it, symptomatic as of today, everything but shortness of breath; that is *not* happening as of now. consider this proof of being alive and well enough to operate a phone, we'll do one of these at about this time every day from now until we don't need to any more.

y'all stop worrying. stop that! we're fine and what this really means is, if serum transfusion for immunity sharing becomes a thing then we get to volunteer early

not gone, all good, just havin' a time lately