get normal
I haven't said much since the end of Cohost. I've not been entirely pleased with the Internet. I eased back into Tumblr, but it's not the same. I opened a Bluesky account, and it's definitely not the same. I'm still mourning its loss.
And since the 2024 General Election, I haven't been back on Tumblr. I had stopped going to Tumblr in August because there was so many people trying to convince people not to vote, or to vote 3rd party, or that both parties are the same. And though blocked some of those people, I didn't block all of them. It just soured the whole experience to me.
I'm not sure what we're going to do, my partner and I. We're trying to decide where to go; the blue area of the red state we live in has been okay, but the red state for sure hates us, and we saw in the last four years it'd try to hurt the people we love, if not us all together, if it had the chance. And now those people have carte blanche, and we want to get away from that. If feel like I'm betraying the city, the home where I grew up. But it's hard to okay in a place that does not love you back.
I have decided, though, that I've got to get hotter and weirder out of spite. I need to continue to make art, because those fuckers hate art and they hate me, and why would I stop before they make me?
Things are going to get really dark again. Find the things in the darkness you can see and go to them. And if you can't see anything, become the beacon.