hi its cozy!!!
A long time ahead, in a galaxy exactly like ours, there lived a people known as Lamians, who were known by their neighbors as great communicators, facilitators, and healers. As a part of their membership in the Galactic Commons, Lamians often hosted offworlders for the purposes of healing and diplomacy. One day, a renmant of humanity entered Lamian space, sent by the commons for rest and recouperation. Their homeworld had been destroyed by their own outsized resource consumption, but their lives there had been sabotaged by a species from many galaxies over--and their request of the Lamian people went far beyond their initial promise to help the humans with respite and time to rebuild. Despite having a strong policy of non-interference, the Lamians accepted the human request to cast their collective psychic power back in time, to help turn the tide against their homeworlds destruction, and in doing so found that there were other species interested in helping humanity as well.
One lamian pirate, who'd been sucked into a tear in time before the humans had arrived at her homeworld, found herself tapped to execute one of the most ludicrous attempts at species conservation in all the known galaxy. Conveniently located in the timestream imminent to their homeworlds destruction, Xavia finds herself linking with a earthside human to create the bridge necessary for the combined powers of her species to aid theirs. This is the story of the link, and of all the people--alien and human--who helped to turn the tide.
Link updates to lamiaworld found exclusively on Patreon (graphic, text) -- members receive monthly postcards from the earthside link, keeping you in real time as the collective powers of human and alien minds works to save us from ourselves.
[Pod]cast(s) and Youtube ~enter the visual layer and soundverse~
Cozy's Casts - anything is possible when we work together (non-rss link)
Casting Together - interviewing others about their labors and their loves, for motivation and improved understanding of others (non-rss link)
Workscapes - okay! lets work together! - I will provide some space :)
Corelore - me reading you short stories I like - because they're good (: non rss link
Daze of tha Week - my 2024 compressed by weekday (currently unavailable)
Kitchen Magic (video recipes) - discussing fooooood, our relationships with it, and its preparation (audio)
who's at the door? - clips from my living reality
The sound-and-video-verse was created to allow anyone earthside--or nearby!!--to immerse themselves psychologically in the world of Lamian culture, using the connection to Xavia as a bridge to her homeworld. This soundverse is designed to allow the listener an increased amount of 'headspace' for topics relating to the recouperation and restoration of humanity and their living, ecological, and social environments. Once humanity has been freed from their oppressively small mental spaces, they will be able to save themselves and their homeworld. However, the biggest challenge humanity faces in freeing their headspace is the forward rush of time and the pacing of their current socio-political and economic lives. Towards that end, these podcasts are released on a schedule designed to encourage a slower place, as a blueprint for a new tempo in their worlds' rush through space.
Cozy's Casts - Tuesday-Thursday, to suggest a three-day workweek that all could follow easily, leaving more room for personal hobbies, community care, and wellness activities.
Casting Together - Released asap interviews are recorded and approved by intervieweee
Workscapes - released weekly or semi-weekly in large chunks; designed to create an atmosphere of working together
Corelore - released as-needed depending on content of the above podcasts
Kitchen Magic - I try to do something kitchen related every week, hoping fortnightly recipes resume sooon!
Daze of tha Week - released yearly around Februaryish ... trying to figure out where, probably YT TBH
who's at the door? - random, entirely linked to our earthside folks as they go about their days :)
Hello! I am, obviously, the earthside link ;) CozyCheri is my name and psychically communicating with aliens and humans is my game.
You can join my creative process in real time via ko-fi, and purchase hand-made postcards, stickers, and trading cards relating to this project, as my life is quite literally and open book. I encourage you to dig, research, and work to unearth anything you want to know about me, but please respect my privacy and my boundaries according to the common courtesty modalities established by our speices the world over when it comes to social interpersonal relating via digital or in person environments (read the room).
Social Media:
I am on all major platforms as cozycheri or cozyycheri, though of course like everyone I have alt accounts :3 I don't mind being found!!! I love easter egg hunts and all the culture of early 80's, 90's, and 2000's technology, so my digital presence is a bit of an online treasure map...though, again, I wouldn't take anything I put online too seriously unless it really resonates with you. I don't think it's fair to treat internet content as face-value intel when there's so much catastrophically biased or intentionally misleading machinery out there working to ensure the internet is not a free and open space as it was meant to be. Along with my commitment to transparency and my love of open and honest communication, I am a huge fan of ANONYMOUS and ANONYMITY and believe it should be a protected right in digital environments, along with your right to data privacy and reasonable expectations of fairness and commercial behaviors--something categorically lacking in todays Web--.05, no? I am also, like most people, a huge supporter of both piracy and paying your artists--it is okay to steal something made by the soulless, but not the souled. okay? it is also okay to steal something if you really need it and if there will be a net positive effect of your theft. Digital Piracy is not interchangeable with Physical Theft--something our legal system is woefully incapable of addressing appropriately. The New World Order requires people who will steal things thoughtfully and ethically. Is that you? i hope so. A free an open net is vital to our progress as people, and our ability to communicate honestly and openly with one-another needs to be a protected, inaeliable right across borders if we are to work together.
(ps when i talk about digital piracy I am including malware makers too although I know that is hotly contested. usually breaking things isn't the point but sometimes you just have one of those days)
Note on my PLATFORM use: I am an avid advokat for the fediverse (federated universe), or rather for the free and open net, and net neutrality. In my digital Utiopia, everyone has their own website (designed by and for themselves), networked with their friends in the 'digital gardens' sense, and from there traveling through the 'space' of digital environments as free "netziens", unhindered by the patronizing and often tyrannical behaviors of platform owners/the digital emperors of ecommerce. This creates a much more diverse digital ecology, and just like our earthside ecology, diversity is absolutely necessary for a healthy environment. This is why, in my opinion, our current digital environments are so unhealthy. Platforms as they stand today are built with the biases of their (many, many, MANY) creators and reflect the living realities of our world. They are inherently racist and transmisogynistic. They are designed to commodify the human experience, rather than facilitate or reflect the human mind. They are, in short, psychological prisons for people already living in physically restricted areas. They also assume a certain amount of complete incompetency and apathy on behalf of the end-user. The solution to this is better-educated and intrinsically, internally motivated end-users, and that is exactly what I hope to foster in my discussions of ecology, sociability, and digital and physical space. My presence on/within platform-style environments, or anything built with the assumption of operationalized or monetized end-user data, is one of protest towards that status quo, and often this appears as an intentional eggateration of the implicit social norms of the platforms design, in order to highlight things like bias or exploitation. (I am, also, ironically, HUMAN so am capable of plenty of bias and error, as well. please consume my presence critically). I love instagram despite how much I hate instagram. the tension of that duality occasionally keeps me up at night, but if you would like to show me your world, please follow me there, or allow me to follow you.
If you would like to join me in social environments designed to facilitate true communication rather than exploitation, please consider microblogging with me on mastodon. Choose a server that seems right for you, and look for CozyCheri. If you don't see me, send me an invite!! I am always looking for new servers to join :) it is like reddit communities with less spez :p
can't wait to meet u!
Core values and call to aciton:
Lastly--and I shouldn't have to say this--I am passionately opposed to the sexual exploitation of children and minors. If you are as violently opposed to this as I am, please consider supporting the cause by talking about it verbally and in writing with both strangers and loved ones, and in all other ways working to acknowledge the existence of the current situation, and how close to home it really is. It is the stigmatization and the effects of taboo that continue to support the gross violation of mind and body of the young and vulnerable. As we have seen across various subcultures such as kink and queerness, shredding the stigma and speaking the taboo into reality is the surest way to hasten change. Please join me in speaking and writing and THINKING about this particularly atrocious (in)human behavior, as I truly believe that in doing so we can collectively force its demise.
I center most of my calls to action for activism around this particular premise.Towards that end, I believe sex work should be legalized, and we should treat the legalization and protection of sex workers as a form of public health and wellness. In a similar vein, I believe immigrants should have increased protection in our communities and be given sanctuary against deportation measures without due process and legally protected rights to health and safety during that time(or just consider anyone living in the land as being subject to those laws and thus posessing some integral human rights under a JUSTice system or WHATEVER). Similarly, prisoners should NOT have their rights to vote revoked, and the prison industrial complex needs to be dismantled and redesigned along lines of rehabilitation rather than punishment (read: not for profit, not for sale, human bodies made hearty and hale). Immigrants, feminine labor, and slavery have consistently been the invisible laborforce(s) upon which my country (United States of America) has relied upon to become "great" without payment or acknowledgement--the exploitation of these laborforces have allowed a gross miscarriage of justice, misuse of power, and misallocation of resources (hoarding) to occur. I believe its time to not only acknowledge those powerful communities in their own right, but ensure further protection of their bodies, time, and energy. Children enter the sex trafficking market because other flesh markets go unregulated or are designed intentionally to exploit the vulnerable (cough, elder care, cough). One cannot be ended without the other--it's time to actually focus on our family.
If you didn't listen to the PODCAST you might be missing the POINT>
If you made it this far, thanks again for reading.
I hope you will think of me as a friend.