Happy Almost Birthday Me

Hello. C J here. We’ve started birthday preparations here at the Mcpherson household. Birthdays are a big even around here and mine is soon. Me and my family just finished unboxing a new mattress and we’re debating the benefits of Pokemon sheets on team morale. Considering our team is mostly Pokemon squishmallows I think they’ll approve. I’m currently sipping an iced coffee and it seemed like a good day for a personal life update. Find my iced coffee recipe in my Heat Wave Survival Guide post.

I’m meeting up with one of my friends from Facebook Dating later today for coffee and maybe lunch. This is good. I’ve also found that there is a website called Furry Events Ontario that manages all of the furry fandom events in the region and also works with people to host and promote events. I’ve always figured all the furry fandom in this city know each other somehow and now I think I’ve found how that happened. Time to resume doing house party planning.

I’m putting the things I’ve learned from Facebook Dating about social media into Five Million Strong in Quantum. See more about Five Million Strong on the Quantum page. I’ve figured out there are four steps to using social media for friendship. Pick a social media platform. I’ve learned what I’m looking for. The application needs to be LGBTQ+ friendly or it’s not worth anything to anyone regardless of their gender or sexual orientation. It needs to let you pick who you chat with. It needs to show common interests so the users knows what they have in common with each other. Bluesky might also meet these conditions. I’m looking into Bluesky next.

Then it’s sorting profiles and sending likes or chat requests. Then it’s saying hello and establishing contact. Then it’s meeting in person. These four steps will be on cards. Craft all four of them together and you get a legendary card that allows you to pay the card to permanently recruit any one hero by name into your personal team of friends. This set of five cards will have a Shadowed gem colour. Shadowed deals with colours, emotions and life force as its crafting materials. Back to my coffee.

C J Mcpherson

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