Marathon = Run, Social Media = Quit
Oct. 12th, 2025 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
corpsebrigadierSo, I ran a marathon and ditched reddit and bluesky the first week of October (my account on the latter remains undeleted, but I anticipate axing it next month unless I have a sudden change of heart). I am officially through every New Year's resolution I had for 2025 and finally taking some time to savor Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, which is delivering pretty much what I wanted the majority of the time (tolerable to good voice acting for most characters, additional clarifications and lore I can be a huge losernerd about, and the ability to undo movement command... GOD!). My opinions may sour as I push onward and more added text emerges, but I'm a stalwart soul who does their best to ignore creators revisions/redactions/twitter posts/etc... to works already presented as complete.
In light of the socmed abandonment, I'm also trying to think through how I wish to proceed with having an Internet presence, and it may be that I become--as I was for much of the first decade of my Internet-using life--more a lurker than a poster, although I do dearly love my personal sites and will try to keep up with them. I hope, as I always hope, to post more here, but I'm realizing that in a lot of ways I'm a sort of antsy person who really leaned into the mechanics of likes/hearts/kudos and the quippy, brief statements post 2010s social media trades in to get over the awkwardity of more sustained social interactions, and it may be hard to find my footing. It's alright, however it pans out. I have a pretty rich and active social life in a lot of dimensions now, and my gradual detachment from and eventual cessation of most social media has--as far as I can tell--been nothing but a positive. I'm not sure precisely what I want to be doing in this space in the future, but I'm pretty sure that Dreamwidth isn't really going to have the effects on my life that more contemporary sites do. I'll figure it out in time.
In other news, I'm watching a lot of horror films in light of the season (Andrzej Żuławski's Possession stands out in particular as deeply memorable and uncomfortable), I'm rocking out at ignoring anti-choice protestors tell me about how deeply I feed the evil within me at my escorting gig, and I'm making a lot of fun/dumb food and sewing Halloween costumes. I'm hopeful it'll be a pretty nice autumn going forward.
In light of the socmed abandonment, I'm also trying to think through how I wish to proceed with having an Internet presence, and it may be that I become--as I was for much of the first decade of my Internet-using life--more a lurker than a poster, although I do dearly love my personal sites and will try to keep up with them. I hope, as I always hope, to post more here, but I'm realizing that in a lot of ways I'm a sort of antsy person who really leaned into the mechanics of likes/hearts/kudos and the quippy, brief statements post 2010s social media trades in to get over the awkwardity of more sustained social interactions, and it may be hard to find my footing. It's alright, however it pans out. I have a pretty rich and active social life in a lot of dimensions now, and my gradual detachment from and eventual cessation of most social media has--as far as I can tell--been nothing but a positive. I'm not sure precisely what I want to be doing in this space in the future, but I'm pretty sure that Dreamwidth isn't really going to have the effects on my life that more contemporary sites do. I'll figure it out in time.
In other news, I'm watching a lot of horror films in light of the season (Andrzej Żuławski's Possession stands out in particular as deeply memorable and uncomfortable), I'm rocking out at ignoring anti-choice protestors tell me about how deeply I feed the evil within me at my escorting gig, and I'm making a lot of fun/dumb food and sewing Halloween costumes. I'm hopeful it'll be a pretty nice autumn going forward.
