If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch

So I have sort of followed the exodus back out of Twitter/Eggs. Back before Twitter became a thing, I used LiveJournal a lot, but I had a shitposting style that was more suited to a microblog than than a social blogging site like LJ. I also had a Myspace account back then, but didn't really know what to do with it (except shitpost) and I also joined Facebook back when you had to have a university email to join. That was also full of shitposts until recently. But on LJ I did occasionally post something more longform and sincere like my worries that I was broken and not whole... feelings I now recognize as my slow realization I was ace, back before I accepted it was ok not to be attracted to anyone and to not yearn for relationships. Some people are just like that. Building some relationships is a necessity because everyone will need help from someone else eventually, but I am glad I took it slow and never felt pressure to force myself to be "normal". Lustful infatuation and romance aren't the only types of love out there, anyhow.

But of course, no one ever tried to "fix" me. I had one couple try to take me to a topless bar but the bar had been shut down for a while. Oh well. And being male, there was less societal pressure to be normal. I could just be a sexless loser and that was fine. People are really weird about ace women, though.

Anyways, back to happier topics.

Back on LJ, I did eventually start doing more longer form posts, like journaling about last night's dreams etc. Somewhere along the line I even joined a collaborative fan fiction writing community. Problem was, I am not the kind of person that falls into fandoms. But I made my contributions with side characters to which no one gives a second thought. I was mostly fascinated by how much other people got into their characters and developing backstory and how we were building an alternate syncretic lore. Some machinations at the upper echelons of LJ eventually lead to the mass exodus of that community to Dreamwidth in an event we called the Allpocalypse, and that is how this account came to be. It was never intended to be a personal journal, and I never imported my old LiveJournal into this account or any account on Dreamwidth. But maybe it can become one.

Now that I have been searching for alternatives to Twitter/Eggs, I may return to longform journaling rather than microblog shitposting. Of course, I have joined Bluesky, but I also grabbed an account on Cohost.org. I was lured to it by the promise of CSS crimes, the type I hadn't played with since the domain squatter on 99.com quit trying to figure out how to sanitize inputs on his weird quirky chat. But coming up with posts on Cohost reminded me of the stuff I did on LJ and here on DW. In a way, Cohost is an odd hybrid of Tumblr and LJ/DW. But it has gotten me back in the habit of thinking about more composed thoughts and ideas that I might want to share with the void. Instead of short intrusive thoughts I might want to shout out for shits and giggles.

That stuff will still come, but now I can confine it to Eggs and Bluesky and put more thought out stuff on here and Cohost. And Facebook? Eh... Pictures maybe and waging war against CyberJesus.

Seriously, CyberJesus is a PROBLEM on Facebook.