The Cadence Collective

Greetings again everyone, this is one of the first longer posts we'll likely be doing on here. We haven't quite gotten this much into a #fediverse #introduction before, but we're going to try today. This page will be pinned once we're done with it, but until then I believe it will be at the top unless we manage to post a third post for today. First, apologies in advance for any typos, we're on the MacBook , and that keyboard is significantly smaller than that which we use with our other computer. Someone seeing this will probably ask, “Well, um, you have a MacBook, , why can't you use that?” the answer to that is simple.

Why we can't use the MacBook for everything

This will be discussed in a longer post later, perhaps later today even, depending on how motivated we are about it, but in short, the MacBook doesn't have all the things on it that the windows machine does. I cannot go on a website easily and efficiently yet, or easily play most of my games that help me to cope with daily life and whatnot. I also can't access the xbox game bar on it. And lastly, it's a lot easier to write when your cursor doesn't randomly jump to your notifications bar every fifteen minutes, begging you to upgrade to Mac OS Monterey. I don't really want to right now, I'm trying to use the computer. This has been a tangent brought to you by Kayla.

Back to Business

Apologies for the tangent everyone, that can sometimes happen when we get caught up in the act of writing. Maybe we'll go into that later, but for right now, onward to the #introduction.

Who Are We

As the description at the top states, we are the Cadence Collective, a system of ... like ... a shit ton. It fluctuates constantly, our brain is a melty tunnel of interconnecting bubbles and gaps and rips in the spacetime continuom. Not even joking ... it genuinely seems that way. Our body is totally blind and suffers from a whole host of seemingly inexplicable conditions, including chronic pain, which make it difficult for us to work a standard office job or one where intensive labor is required. So we write, though again, we've never really gotten this into it before. blogger was hard to deal with, ko-fi is kinda a crunchy squelchy mind maze ... and all the other easy things are like 500 characters or less. That doesn't quite fit with what we need. See the tangent about rant.li in one of yesterday's posts. Since we're on the MacBook we can't as easily link to it.

What do We do

As mentioned above, we do a whole lot of writing. We write in our personal journal. We write in our mastodon, all the time, engaging with people from a lot of places. We write text messages and telegram messages, yet another reason we refuse to switch to fully Mac OS, the telegram app on there isn't accessible and tweesecake won't work with this computer. We also tangent, a whole lot. If you enjoy reading our content, get used to tangents cropping up a lot. As part of one of our conditions, at least we think, we have very little focus and don't stay on one topic for long. We also sing, though we're really shy about this so you won't likely see us sharing audio clips very often unless they've been edited by z first, assuming of course that Z is willing to edit tracks for us. Z is a DJ and mixes a lot, also on mastodon. We also run a podcast, though it doesn't have very many episodes on it as of yet. We are slowly making it available on all the platforms, and wish to record some new episodes. Most of the current ones are our streams. Speaking of which, we also run a stream, both on Twitch and Audon, the fediverse streaming equivalent that doesn't do video.

Our Interests

We'll try to separate these into groups, but our interests are wide and varied. Let's start with what to us is obvious. We enjoy singing as we mentioned above, but are really shy about it. We also enjoy playing the piano, but haven't done so since 2018 before we left. We naturally had to leave a piano at our mother's house, because it wouldn't fit on a plane, or for that matter in the apartment I lived in for months. Not to mention my ex-boyfriend would have probably destroyed it. Sorry, another tangent. In regards to music, our tasts are what we would consider eclectic. We enjoy smooth jazz, some country, some, and by some I mean very little, pop, some rap, mostly the more reflective things by Eminem, NF, and Tech N9ne. We also enjoy some opera, classical piano things, violin-based music, harpsichord-based music which is a bit more rare apparently, and a few Melanie Martinez and Halsey songs just because. Outside of music, our interests are also widely varied, including technology, accessibility, accessible gaming, some audio games, video games, including forza motors port and mortal kombat 1, figuring out how technology works, text-based gaming, muds, attempting but ultimately struggling to learn python, ditto with html, same with most code-related topics actually. We identify as some variant of neurodiverse, but neurodiverse doesn't mean that I can't learn. Just means that I sometimes struggle to do so. To me and the rest of the system, neurodiverse doesn't mean avoidance. It doesn't mean running away from a problem. It means working around things and learning to adapt them to our needs without harming anyone else or the world around us. When we say we identify as neurodiverse, to us it simply means that we adapt things slightly different than others, and occasionally it takes us a while to get the point. We vastly prefer blunt, direct speech, as discussed in a ko-fi post we made a while ago about boundaries. You cannot have this because we do not have the money. You cannot do this because it's dangerous and you'll hurt yourself and others. Just two examples. This concludes our tangent-filled introduction page. We all hope you have enjoyed reading and learning a little bit more about us ... in fact possibly more than you may have cared to know in the first place. Introduction mostly written by Kayla. Word misspellings and typos were edited and managed by Farren. Elena did required research to find the names of artists to properly spell them correctly. Alene and Nicole collaborated to help explain our variant of neurodiversity. This credits bit written by System social media manager Cascadia. Why she chose to call herself Cascadia, none of us will ever know.