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You're probably here for one of three reasons: you wanna read stories, you wanna read blog posts (usually about stories or video games) or you have literally no idea how you got here.
In any of these three incredibly specific scenarios, I've got you. Looking for dark mode? You have to earn it. It's a privilige only for enlightened individuals. ...Nah I'm just playin', click the plant hanger in the upper left corner. It lets you swap back and forth. But I do gotta add, maybe give light mode a try for a change. Every box is partially colored with natural colors. We aren't Wikipedia!
The story section has a bunch of cool options for you to customize your viewing experience. I care about your eyes, and also your aesthetic preferences. You can find more of my rambling in the blog section, and you can learn way too much about me in the about section. Internet security hazard? Maybe. Stylish? Definitely.
Oh, and you can learn about my very-produced super projects under the books section. I'm still kinda figuring out what exactly I want my professional writing repetoire to look like, and it'll be a hot minute 'till it's populated... I'll make sure to update this description when I get that ball rolling.
I figured I'd write a news post that wasn't my somewhat lengthy and abstract one about the nature of self-fulfilling prophecies, expectations and the coming global distrust epidemic. I don't know that last one for sure, but I've got a mighty big hunch!
We're approaching enough polish on the story system for me to slap together a fan blog website. But I'm not sure how I wanna style it...
"You don't get it. The internet used to feel like an adventure, now it feels like a city block." This was another of many defensive excuses I used to hear from my acquaintances who wanted excuses to feel bad about today's world.
I always told 'em they assumed too much. But really I was saying, "I don't share your frustration," and after thirty miuntes of back-and-forth that I'll spare you here, they came to one conclusion:
"You should, though."
"Why?"
They'd scoff in disgust that I'd dragged the conversation on for even this long. "Because it's true. It's just so obviously true. Where've you been?"
"It's really not." And it really wasn't. Things change, and with enough optimism, one could easily afford the patience to find or create what they wanted to see from the internet in the future. Nothing lasts forever, but we can always update and re-imagine what we remembered. Have we ever asked ourselves why exactly we (and by "we" I mean specific isolated demographics of readers, movie-goers and gamers) frequent content platforms now instead of scouring blogs or, god forbid, reading literature?
These old pals of mine suffered from learned helplessness. I'd define it as, "the erosion of trust in one's self." Self-trust isn't about confidence, because people can believe whatever they want. It's about being able to retrace your memories and actions. If needed, you should be able to explain them to yourself or someone else. Whether people believe you or not is a different story, but there's a difference between explaining yourself poorly and the other person being bad at listening.
One of my goals in all of my writing, funny or thoughtful or both, is to provide experiences that help illustrate how people behave. Because only by embracing and patiently collecting a lot of these observations can we truly trust the world or ourselves. Provided, I'm really big on collecting data before making judgments which is why what I write also has a focus on being funny or at least witty. Little somethin' for everyone.
That besides, writing for me and my readers is also about adventure. Meeting new people, seeing new places and on a certain level just killing time in a stimulating way. Without over-consuming anything in particular, that is.
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?
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. This process taught me about all the choices I have the power to make, and for a time I used this knowledge as social leverage. It's very easy to be confident about your own ability to learn things.
That's why I want to write stories that are high in contrast. Something that captures that spontaneous and experimental element for others, without people having to change themselves just to get it. Sad, happy, normal and 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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