Private Thoughts - Revision history

https://shifti.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Private_Thoughts Private Thoughts - Revision history 2026-08-25T01:19:03Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.46.0-alpha https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Private_Thoughts&diff=3613&oldid=prev Devin: just a bit of minor editing 2007-10-24T08:04:30Z

<p>just a bit of minor editing</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:04, 24 October 2007</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l29">Line 29:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 29:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"Neigh," Eric replied. Well, he just said 'no', but I liked to imagine the pun anyway. "Boring day. Some kid smeared up my glass, nothing interesting happened other than that."</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"Neigh," Eric replied. Well, he just said 'no', but I liked to imagine the pun anyway. "Boring day. Some kid smeared up my glass, nothing interesting happened other than that."</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I chuckled silently. Both Eric and the museum curators hated it when people touched the tanks, but I sometimes wound up encouraging it myself by placing my own palms against the inside to let the patrons try to 'touch' me back. I wasn't sure if it counted as misbehavior on my part, but what the hell; nobody seemed overly upset at me about it. I waited for a moment to see if Eric had anything else he wanted to talk about <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">anything else </del>tonight then when he didn't I turned to face east.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I chuckled silently. Both Eric and the museum curators hated it when people touched the tanks, but I sometimes wound up encouraging it myself by placing my own palms against the inside to let the patrons try to 'touch' me back. I wasn't sure if it counted as misbehavior on my part, but what the hell; nobody seemed overly upset at me about it. I waited for a moment to see if Eric had anything else he wanted to talk about tonight then when he didn't I turned to face east.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This exhibit had the title "Ocean Flowers", and whenever self-pity threatened to overwhelm me I would think of it to remind myself how it could be worse. There were two people in this tank, both very far from human; a huge black sea slug with fleshy neon orange 'leaves' on her back and an equally huge sea anemone with pastel green and orange in her skin. Each had humanoid chests and faces blended with great skill into such otherwise alien forms.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This exhibit had the title "Ocean Flowers", and whenever self-pity threatened to overwhelm me I would think of it to remind myself how it could be worse. There were two people in this tank, both very far from human; a huge black sea slug with fleshy neon orange 'leaves' on her back and an equally huge sea anemone with pastel green and orange in her skin. Each had humanoid chests and faces blended with great skill into such otherwise alien forms.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l43">Line 43:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 43:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>My first few weeks had been very rough. I'd nearly died hiding at home while I had transformed, responding to my condition with sheer denial, and when Dr. MacIntosh had finally 'rescued' me I continued trying to climb out of the transport tank despite my inability at that point to breathe air anymore. They'd given me my first dose of psychotropics before the truck had even reached the museum and I spent the next few days just lying on the bottom of the tank recuperating from the whole ordeal.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>My first few weeks had been very rough. I'd nearly died hiding at home while I had transformed, responding to my condition with sheer denial, and when Dr. MacIntosh had finally 'rescued' me I continued trying to climb out of the transport tank despite my inability at that point to breathe air anymore. They'd given me my first dose of psychotropics before the truck had even reached the museum and I spent the next few days just lying on the bottom of the tank recuperating from the whole ordeal.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Dr. MacIntosh had talked to me a little back then. He'd murmured reassuringly how the change had gone perfectly, that I was a masterpiece of his craft, and that I shouldn't worry that my 'delusional' state <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wouldn't </del>detract from my beauty. A well-known side effect that he accommodated for in his designs, accommodations that even enhanced the artistic statement he wanted to make. I had no vocal cords and even attempting to breathe air was painful. My lungs had been reduced to a pair of sacs meant solely for pumping water, my larynx a simple valve to direct the flow out through the gill slits in the sides of my neck. I wouldn't be telling anyone how I really felt any time soon.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Dr. MacIntosh had talked to me a little back then. He'd murmured reassuringly how the change had gone perfectly, that I was a masterpiece of his craft, and that I shouldn't worry that my 'delusional' state <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">would </ins>detract from my beauty. A well-known side effect that he accommodated for in his designs, accommodations that even enhanced the artistic statement he wanted to make. I had no vocal cords and even attempting to breathe air was painful. My lungs had been reduced to a pair of sacs meant solely for pumping water, my larynx a simple valve to direct the flow out through the gill slits in the sides of my neck. I wouldn't be telling anyone how I really felt any time soon.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I gave a small watery snort, turning away from Ray's tank and idly swimming a circuit of my small bowl. I doubted I could tell anyone how I really felt even with the clearest voice in the world, words failed and anyone who'd shared an experience similar enough to understand was now incommunicado too. My body image was all wrong, with phantom legs bound up within the flesh of my shapely tail and new finny appendages moving independently where I'd had none before. My scaly skin sent a constant stream of strange sensations that even now I hadn't become entirely used to, and I tingled...</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I gave a small watery snort, turning away from Ray's tank and idly swimming a circuit of my small bowl. I doubted I could tell anyone how I really felt even with the clearest voice in the world, words failed and anyone who'd shared an experience similar enough to understand was now incommunicado too. My body image was all wrong, with phantom legs bound up within the flesh of my shapely tail and new finny appendages moving independently where I'd had none before. My scaly skin sent a constant stream of strange sensations that even now I hadn't become entirely used to, and I tingled...</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l85">Line 85:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 85:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Dearest Oranda,</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Dearest Oranda,</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:I've thought long and hard about what I should write on this, and whether I should write anything at all. Your dedication to your solitary art, to your solitary ''being'', is what I love you for most of all, and I hate to think I'm making it harder for you by offering this contact. If <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I </del>you discard the rest of this letter unread I will understand, and never trouble you again. But since I love you so, I felt I must try...</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:I've thought long and hard about what I should write on this, and whether I should write anything at all. Your dedication to your solitary art, to your solitary ''being'', is what I love you for most of all, and I hate to think I'm making it harder for you by offering this contact. If you discard the rest of this letter unread I will understand, and never trouble you again. But since I love you so, I felt I must try...</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It was fan mail. I felt an incredible mix of emotional reactions surging through me as I hungrily read onward, most of them good ones. I knew there were at least ''some'' people out there who wanted to communicate with me, every once in a while a visitor would whip out a note or sign to hold up to my tank before they were dragged away by security or by other angry patrons who preferred me to remain as isolated as I was intended. But this was the most meaningful contact I'd had since I'd become trapped here.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It was fan mail. I felt an incredible mix of emotional reactions surging through me as I hungrily read onward, most of them good ones. I knew there were at least ''some'' people out there who wanted to communicate with me, every once in a while a visitor would whip out a note or sign to hold up to my tank before they were dragged away by security or by other angry patrons who preferred me to remain as isolated as I was intended. But this was the most meaningful contact I'd had since I'd become trapped here.</div></td></tr>  </table>

Devin https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Private_Thoughts&diff=2326&oldid=prev Bryan: Category:Aquatic 2007-09-09T04:16:53Z

<p><a href="/wiki/Category:Aquatic" title="Category:Aquatic">Category:Aquatic</a></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:16, 8 September 2007</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Story]] [[Category:Bryan]] [[Category:Anthropomorphic]] [[Category:Transgender]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Story]] [[Category:Bryan]] [[Category:Anthropomorphic]] [[Category:Transgender<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] [[Category:Aquatic</ins>]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{series box|previous=[[User:Rabbit/Public Domain|Public Domain]]}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{series box|previous=[[User:Rabbit/Public Domain|Public Domain]]}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{byline|author=Bryan|user=Bryan}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{byline|author=Bryan|user=Bryan}}</div></td></tr> </table>

Bryan https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Private_Thoughts&diff=2183&oldid=prev Bryan: Sequel to Phil's "Public Domain" 2007-09-06T01:31:34Z

<p>Sequel to Phil's "Public Domain"</p> <a href="https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Private_Thoughts&diff=2183">Show changes</a>

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