Right now I’m in a stage of my life where identifying myself proves to be a bit difficult. It’s a product of my chronic dissociation, I fear. Rest assured, I do have an identity somewhere buried within me, even if I can’t verbalize it.

If we’re going off of pure facts, I am a 20 year old female living in the US (in this political climate?!) and I’m really resenting the fact that I can’t change that at the moment. I do happen to be a part of the alphabet mafia, so if women kissing women scares you start running immediately. There will be no shortage of sapphic pining in these parts.

Aside from that, I’m perfectly content keeping any remaining identifiable personal details strictly to myself. One thing I cannot stand on the internet is oversharing. Well, not the kind of “oversharing” that really just consists of ranting about things that upset you, I actually like that because I’m nosy. But like… not too nosy. Go ahead and rant about your drama, but nobody needs to know your best friend’s social security number and the exact coordinates where you met last Tuesday. And of course, if you really have to act messy online, don’t tie your face to it. That should go without saying.

(I’m not condoning being messy online btw, in fact I think it’s kinda pathetic.)

I’m a long time lurker who’s honestly so fed up and tired with social media. What happened to all the fun colors? The customization? The community? Watching the internet slowly get stripped of all its personality to become a corporate husk has honestly been a deeply frustrating experience. I absolutely know I’m not alone in this, but as long as there remains no substitute for the eye bleeding custom widgets littered with stamps on the deviantArt I grew up on, this will be my home.

I’m okay with that honestly, I don’t need anyone to see me or know I exist. I like the idea of my site being something you have to seek out intentionally, or stumbled across randomly during some late night internet excursion with seemingly no connections to the modern internet ecosystem... Because personally, those are my very favorite internet experiences.