LOLOLOL hi it's me and here we are
What is this niche website?
I know everyone uses letterloopt or subdstak or miidium these days to publish their somewhat longform personal writing, but I wanted a platform that was more minimalist, anonymous, and less corporate to share the same (NOT TUMBLR!!!! I'M DONE!!)
Thanks Alta for introducing me to this.
Why are you here?
Early 2020s, Floey used to share these old journal entries with me. From what I can tell, she used them for catharsis / venting / processing something big that had been taking over her life. But from a writerly standpoint they were so interesting! They each had a unique narrative and structure and recurring themes, and also just this earnest (often pained) ephemeral energy to them that I can only find now in a specific few novels or screenplays.
As someone who usually has no patience for personal thinkpieces, I was delighted to read something online that could both:
- break the mold of the inconclusive Stubstack philosophizing
- deepen my understanding of a friend (however you interpret that)
I hope to do the same with my blogs on this website. It'll look a lot different from my bestie's ways of reaching out to others. After all, I'm not a songwriter and I also don't wear my heart on my sleeve like that, so deeply personal writing will be less frequent and more intentional. But I am painstaking and precise, and I say exactly how much I think needs to be said.
I hope you still like this blog, and that you can feel similarly dazzled / enlightened / tickled like I do when I read my bestie's work.
What's the manifesto?
Be Lovingly Cerebral - see home page
Post whatever I write for fun But....Be Serious Even When I'm Joking
Do not give into internal or external pressure to curate this site to perfection
Embody / dive deeply into my likes: complexity, humor, surprise, suspense, irony, genre-bending, eroticism, distinct narrative voice, immersive settings, fully fleshed-out characters, snappy / realistic dialogue, intentional motifs & symbolism, commitment to intensity, calls to action
Avoid / critically engage with dislikes: wallowing, ennui and inertia*, melancholy, hand-wringing, empty virtue signaling, writing for a deadline / contract / audience you otherwise don't care about, uncritical western or otherwise imperialist perspectives, half-assed criticism, unnecessarily obscure and inaccessible prose, entertainment without nuance, mindless participation in trends
* Unfortunately, my life contains ennui and inertia and therefore so will my posts. My frontal lobe hit its so-called peak of development not too long ago, so I'm still dealing with the backlog of angst and decisions both made and not made.