junk-tech aesthetics

i was up on the bluff tonight and remembered writing this. it has been eight years now in this place, which i still love with a loud voice, my home.

can you believe it: it's been nearly 11 years since I moved to this proud city on the river. I still remember vividly seeing that little boy, who is now probably a teenager, running across the streets we call home. I still feel the same. I still feel in awe of how time passes. six years. and now tomorrow is the sixth anniversary of the passing of my dear friend, who I miss every day, who I miss more and more as the gulf has widened between her life and mine. I have so many questions for her that will never be answered. this week I've kept springing into tears and spiraling into anxiety and it took me a few days to realize what my body was remembering. I miss you, I miss you, I miss you! I would have loved to have shown you where I made my home. I think you would have loved it.

i was up on the bluff tonight and remembered writing this. it has been eight years now in this place, which i still love with a loud voice, my home.

I know a ton of people have said this before but for the love everything PLEASE stop treating AO3 like instagram. It is NOT cringe to comment on an old story. It’s an archive old stories are still meant to be found and read. Please think about interacting with the fic you read: at least kudos if you read it, a comment would be ideal. The authors will be over the moon. I guarantee you not a single author is going to ask why someone is commenting on an older fic.

AO3 is a library. That's the point of libraries. Please kudos and comment!

I recently got a comment on a fic I posted in 2015 and I spent the rest of the day smiling.

I occasionally get kudos on ancient harry potter fic I wrote almost twenty years ago. Before the saga had finished... Long before it got problems. It makes me so happy

All my fic is old! Old fic comments are the only kind o get and I am pleased to have them!

shout out to every kind of curry dish ..... indian curry....thai curry.......japanese curry ... the kind with coconut milk and the kind without.......from the light yellow curry to the bodacious red to the rich brown ....... to the ones more soup like and the ones more gravy like.... to the ones with potatoes and to the ones with chickpeas.........this post is for you

the best part about polls is that by now most poll takers are on some level aware of the... the meta of polls. i'm aware that the fourth option out of five or six is most commonly chosen; i know that the final selection of polls with options that are all the same word are most likely to be chosen; i know that people like to be goofy, and will choose the silliest option. no one's voting blindly anymore because the prevalence of these polls is manipulating how we approach them. we're all playing a game together, trying to guess public consensus, trying to contribute. its just another aspect of this website thats defined by collaboration and its fascinating and so so so cool