A couple of weeks ago, maybe, I took a screenshot from the top of a Reddit thread because I figured I’d get around to answering it:
“What’s something you’re pretty sure only you do?”
Now, here are two answers and one answer has two parts because I’m me.
FIRST ANSWER: We Do A Lot of Unique Things
Just a shout out to all us Space Pilgrims: when we look at specifics a lot of what we do is actually fairly unique. Absolutely no one else is in that cafe at that table and eating that donut but you. In cafes? Sure. At tables? Sure. Eating donuts? Sure.
And I suspect, but have no idea what kind of chaos computing super mainframe would be required to know, that it only takes a few facets of our activities before a significant number of everything we do is unique.
A lot of people might grow roses. A much smaller amount by specialize in a particular type of roses. Arranging them into patterns based on, I don’t know, famous Shakespeare plays?
I am deeply suspicious of a growing trend that tries to paint uniqueness as being cringe while also judging folks for being basic.
That being said, this is about me…
SECOND ANSWER: My “Unique” Stuff
To keep this lighter, let me say there are two things that come to mind.
“No Digs for Satan”
Not truly unique since both Kaz and I say this on a regular basis, and I think I got this from somewhere, but the phrase “No digs for Satan” shows up a lot in our household.
What does it mean? We generally use it to mean, “This topic is so off-the-table we won’t even consider it.” 0-stars is a review. “Did not like,” is an opinion. This is something below consideration.
As always when I think this hard about it, I try looking it up to see if there is any other references to it and got this from the “helpful” AI summary:
heh.
At any rate, I updated that older post today to point out it might have been, “No ribbits for Satan” but at any rate, I’m sticking to my own thing.
The Alabama Weird // GLOW // etc
Here’s one I’m more sure is definitely unique to me. Over on The Doug Alone, I play out multiple long-term solo RPGs set in alternate history Alabamas including a long running history of characters and locations cribbed from dozens of sources.
There are newspaper articles, fiction book series within the series, and multiple timelines that diverge depending on the campaign.
Some of those characters, like Amy Patel and Eustace Delmont, show up in different time lines as slightly different but interlinked characters. When stuff happens in a “future” timeline, it might get referenced and added to the lore to a “past” timeline, etc.
Eustace, by the way, is effectively a way for me to play a parody of myself and while in the cyberpunk-infused “The GLOW” version he is much more an angry, muscular guy, in the more “normal” Alabama Weird version, I simply just use my one photos modified in whatever style of art that fits that particular campaign arc:
He’s sort of like me if self-doubt was replaced with the simple bravado to fight all the strange things going on down in the swamps and small streets of lower Alabama.