nooo I didn't realise how much I missed the particular flavour of
embittered misery, sarcasm and utter childishness until I came back 🖤
( vladimir, Tue 22 Apr 2025, 17:19, archived)

here kind of died for a bit a while ago and I went off and hung out on a prissy, up itself, boring bit of the internet for far too long (I now realise) (NOT facebook). One has different writing selves, don't you think? I'd forgotten how much here was a former of my writing self, or one of them I'd lost touch with, anyway. I'm writing an essay about it, I don't mean this reply either, a proper essay of at least five thousand words that I will put here sometime.
( vladimir, Tue 22 Apr 2025, 17:26, archived)

the high likelihood of replies to this kind of self-indulgent shit being something along the lines of
lol piss
lol cocks
lol u wot m8
and
fuck off you utter cunt
is, I now realise, the only way to fly
( vladimir, Tue 22 Apr 2025, 17:32, archived)

helps to keep one grounded eh

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Tue 22 Apr 2025, 17:47, archived)

exactly

( vladimir, Tue 22 Apr 2025, 17:58, archived)

the rest of the internet is even more shit and boring
at least this place knows what it is
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 22 Apr 2025, 18:33, archived)

THIS

( vladimir, Tue 22 Apr 2025, 19:13, archived)

also, and I'm sorry to go on so much (what mongy would call insisting on myself) but because here was pre a lot of the innovations of later sm, it is not so prone to the deeply unhealthy interactive patterns that actually reward insisting on oneself
( vladimir, Tue 22 Apr 2025, 19:16, archived)

as a for-example, I vaguely remember horrified outrage when the popular page happened, and it subsequently being used sarcastically forever after (maybe it was always here but I think it might have been bolted onto /talk at some point)
( vladimir, Tue 22 Apr 2025, 19:18, archived)