Website Launch and Self-Introduction!

12-25-2023 edited 11-27-2024

"You don't get it. The internet used to feel like an adventure, now it feels like a city block." To those acquaintances of mine, I said, "you just aren't imaginative anymore."

The older we get, the more important our imagination becomes. When we were all kids on the internet, socially isolated as we were, we had lots of imagination. We just went places and found things. Lonely? Maybe. Adventurous? Beyond a doubt.

If the 2000s were defined by experimental CG music videos and post-90s pop music, the 2010s were defined by twenty year old dudes on YouTube playing video games and just killing time. It was an optimistic time. I'd know it quite well, because this twenty year period was my childhood, and remains my home.

For added context, I also spent a lot of time as a teenager on flash game websites, ROBLOX, and as an adolescent, Disney's ToonTown Online. These experiences, both social yet shallow, built the foundation beneath my understanding of people. It was very urban in spirit— and I might agree in that sense that the internet was always like "a city block." With so many people in one place, how could it ever be anything but?

That's where things tie back to being a matter of imagination. As a child without standards, I stumbled into everything. It was not to escape boredom, but to embrace it. In the words of William Blake, "if the fool would persist in their folly, they would become wise." But I could never ask other people to fuck around and find out the way I did. I only did it because that's where I was in life.

That's why I want to write stories that are high in contrast. Something that captures that spontaneous element for others, without people having to change themselves. Maybe adventurous, maybe funny, maybe tragic, and maybe weird! Contrast doesn't write itself. So I'm also gonna be blogging about all kinds of stuff. There'll probably be a focus on the internet and writing.

Be on the look-out for my video game and fanfiction blog!

Alright ramblers, let's get ramblin'!

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