"Damn bitch you live like this?"

Yeah, for the most part.

"So, who is the rat man?"

My real life isn't much to write home about, and I like to keep it that way. All this lunacy fits in when I'm not on the clock.

“Okay, but what about online?”

Still nothing special. I regret to admit that I used to be Amino. when I was a kid. It's where I had encounters such as this one:

These days, Tumblr's about the only social media I'm active on. Used to be on Twitter, but I learned a lesson and left. I post to AO3 for maybe 3 people to read. Like most people, my digital footprint is unflattering and problematic. Open apology to "Big C".

Personal shrines!

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Manifestos

C'mon, you didn't think I wouldn't have shitty takes, did you?

Actual political manifesto

There's not much to say here. Left. I'm sure I'm bigoted in some way. I hope to overcome as much of that as I can. Them's the breaks of being born and raised in capitalist hell. And I'm one of the lucky ones.

Website manifesto

Social media sucks dick and balls. We get it by now. We all have our horror stories. Personally, I'm sick of it. Tumblr's alright, and even that sucks. So yeah, I want to carve out my own little corner as much as I can.

But beyond that. I don't know where the world will take me tomorrow. Despite my many privileges, there's still people out there who want me and my siblings to detransition or die. For all I know, they might try to make the latter a reality. Gods forbid, obviously. But let's say it does. I want something of me to survive. And I don't want it to just be a Tumblr blog, or my time on Twitter, or my old years on Amino. I'd like to leave something I cobbled together myself, according to my whims. Some weirdo lunatic with ghosts in his brain and fanfics of his past lives. That's all I am. And that matters. I matter, we matter. My weirdo lunatic freak traits, they all matter too. And if this little corner of Neocities is the only monument to that, I'll go to the next life at least somewhat happy.

Fandom manifesto

It's toxic. You didn't need me to tell you that. We all know that. Some places are better than others. But looking at it realistically… Yeah, shit sucks. There's not one sole or primary source of the problems. It's definitely changed ever since online fandom fully broke into the mainstream. But I'm not gonna act like there were any true "good old days", because the old days were bad in a different way.

Some words of advice though. Liking or disliking something isn't activism, but where your money goes absolutely matters. DNIs don't stop people from interacting with you, a block button does. Cut any and all variants of "proship" and "anti" out of your vocabulary as much as you possibly can. Realistically, a callout won't do much but give you a nasty headache and keep you upset. If you can't handle weirdo freaks or "snot-nosed minors", maybe you need to find a different community. When in doubt, shut the fuck up. Many things that younger-me could have taken to heart.