on pseudonyms and networks
I've given myself some time between the last few entries on this blog (mostly to sleep, because apparently some of the best decisions are made when I'm lacking that) to think on how I'd want to handle it, and after admittedly a short period of reflection and reading this post from dog brain's blog, I decided that it'd be best for me to work under an alias, because no matter how safe a site may proclaim itself to be, the modern internet is kind of nightmarish when it comes to personal privacy and security.
henceforth, instead of using an Actual Name that Human People refer to me as in the Flesh World, I shall go by a new moniker, one inspired by stories of old (2008), one whose formatting strikes fear and anguish into the hearts of those who cringe at the mere mention of a young man in his bedroom, on his birthday:
logorrheicScribe.
or just "T", whatever's most convenient to you. Probably the latter option, honestly.
names and old webcomics aside, I'm genuinely surprised at how much I'm actually enjoying the process of blogging on this platform. After years and years of sanitized, advertiser-friendly social media networking, bare-bones profiles, and infinite-scroll dopamine farming, I'd genuinely forgotten how fun it is to learn a new system and really carve out my own niche in a more focused and communal environment.
I'm genuinely appalled at myself for forgetting that such unique platforms exist and are actively maintained, considering a substantial amount of my childhood was spent blogging with others on the internet about whatever topics interested me the most at the time (reminiscing on the horrors of being obsessed with Five Nights at Freddy's as a kid. so many sleepless nights), yet at the same time I'm glad to have discovered Bear Blog and its community, since I'm finally giving myself a chance to have fun with writing and sharing what I write with other people.
(I don't really know how to end this entry, so here's a link to a Hatsune Miku cover of Be Nice 2 Me by Bladee. This extra line of text is here because I accidentally broke this post by having two closed parentheses next to each other.)