My profile description already covers some of this, but:

• I live in Michigan and work in tech. I probably won't be answering questions about my job.

• I'm demisexual/biromantic and polyamorous. I'm not especially looking for new partners at this time but I'm open to the possibility of meeting someone especially awesome.

  • I have one partner; that partner has one cat. I sometimes post pictures of the cat.

• I'm AuDHD.

• I have multiple chronic illnesses.

  • Looping animations can trigger migraines for me, so I have animation/GIF/video autoplay turned off on both Bluesky and Discord. 

    • If you ever see me posting about "fucking GIFs" it probably means my settings are being disrespected again. Probably by Discord.

• I had cancer but it hasn't been long enough yet for me to technically be called a survivor. I'm going to be okay and the odds of recurrence are low.

• I identified as nonbinary but then detransitioned for safety reasons. My gender has been boiled for safety.

  • That said, I don't react well to being called sir, ma'am, or comrade, but that's because I don't like formality. (In English, directed toward me. In Spanish I would probably be that person usted-ing everybody, but I'm not conversationally fluent yet.)

• I was raised Roman Catholic; now I'm primarily Universalist Heathen but also doing some other stuff under the Pagan umbrella.

  • You don't need to educate me about the Roman Catholic Church being awful on trans rights; I already frickin' know. 

    • It sucked just to be a bi person in a Catholic school in the 90s.

    • I don't know everything about Evangelicalism but I know it's also generally against trans people.

  • I'm also a baby Kemetic and an art witch.

• If you're curious about my handle, yes, I'm familiar with the Alleyman and Publishing Goblin. I'm not affiliated. I see the side of me that engages in divination as somewhere between the Alleyman and the Cornerwitch from a short comic that got passed around Facebook at one point - sort of a suburban cryptid who offers you insight and possibly change if you're in the right place at the right time and open to the possibility. I figured I might as well own that.

• I practice multiple forms of divination and my side business is devoted to that.

• I paint (acrylic and watercolor), do mixed media and collage, draw sigils and knotwork designs, design casting maps for charm casting and other divination tools, and knit.

• I mostly listen to metal, but like at least a little bit of all genres. Metal is just what makes me most happy, most of the time. I don't have one favorite band at the moment; there are too many good ones.

• I mostly watch and read speculative fiction; my favorite shows are Babylon 5 and (the rare case where I enjoy a relatively realistic setting) Community.

• I play Final Fantasy XIV (Zalera) and City of Heroes: Homecoming (Everlasting/Victory). I'm interested in friends in both places, and the casual Free Company I belong to is always looking for more chill people. 

• On Bluesky, I'm trying to reduce my reposting to only what's valuable if signal boosted, as well as making more original posts.

  • I mostly post about the interests I mentioned in this section, disability stuff, neurodiversity stuff, and of course Partner's cat.

My notifications reached escape velocity so I don't go through all of my followers anymore. I follow people who post interesting original content, have a filled-out profile, and don't engage in follow farming - if we end up interacting. So please comment substantively on one or more of my posts if you want to get my attention, especially if you know me from elsewhere. 

I probably won't follow back if you mostly repost others (unless you're an art account), if you post AI generated content, or if you mostly post memes. I'm not interested in that. 

I block if I get a bad feeling from someone or notice they're follow farming, I subscribe to a few blocklists, and I'm open to re-evaluating if you think you got caught up in a blocklist indiscriminately. But follow farming means that bad actors can slip disinformation onto your timeline and you may repost it without realizing; someone I trust on this subject has seen it happening on Bluesky. I'm not going to change my stance on follow farming.

I won't disclose other handles I've used in public but you can reach me at alleywitch17@gmail.com to ping me about whether we know/knew each other through some other community. I'm reluctant to put personal information in DMs if I don't have to.

I'm on Bluesky because it's fun and if that stops being the case, I'm out. 

The only other social media venues I use are Discord and DreamWidth. I'm happy to have new friends on Discord if I know the friend request is coming and who it is. I only add people from a particular community on DreamWidth and that's a part of my life I share only after I really trust someone.