the end of a chapter

[reluctance]

(LiveJournal post started, from the looks of things, in January, and incrementally added to over months of coffee breaks without ever getting any closer to being "finished" -- likely because, as an arbitrary dip into the stream of consciousness with no beginning and no end, it didn't need to be said at all. (But I like writing it, the same way

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[glowing_fish]

I feel so statistically important that I read all of this, except I skipped a bit of the super hero pastiche in the middle, something that you perhaps can understand.

I don't know if my mind has been ruined by tumblr, but many of those words are hard to string together in my mind. I can perhaps blame the transitory target of my current state of fatigue (and what can I blame that on? the heat? the vicissitude of life?) or the humorous target of the Canadianisms scattered through there.

I don't know where people go to write. I haven't seen much of it on reddit. I have seen some sharp thinking on tumblr, as long as it doesn't take more than three sentences to describe the idea (such as my popular post describing similarities between the characters in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Steven Universe). Most of the online reading I do seems to be on Somethingawful, which gets better the more obscure it gets: while the general discussions devolve into "ironic" repeating of catchphrases, the discussion of say, Basketball (its a little like hockey, only the puck is round and bounces) are usually pretty engaging.

Anyway...do you get sad when you see crossed-out names? I do, especially when I can't remember who they belong to, and then remember that in 2006 I had two weeks where I felt total connection with that person.

[reluctance]

I skipped a bit of the super hero pastiche in the middle, something that you perhaps can understand.

It's, uh, a bishoujo senshi pastiche from a couple of Sailor Moon fans. Even I don't really understand the ending; I guess it was a dig at our high school's administration. A pity after such a strong start! Of course, if you didn't know us (or further, WEREN'T us) it's really pretty much empty signifying.

I don't know if my mind has been ruined by tumblr

(note: the answer is "yes", but continue)

but many of those words are hard to string together in my mind.

You mean long-form freestyle perblogging, or is there something particular to my diction? If the latter, can you give me a sample phrase causing you trouble? I'm unaware of relying heavily on Canadianism -- just switch out "Chapters" for "Barnes & Noble" and I think we're level.

I don't know where people go to write.

It's becoming the domain of professionals: if we're not obligated to use the upworthy headline formula or only assigned material based on calculated virality, we can't compete. Also, the transition to mobile devices really has functionally cut a lot of us and a lot of our online time out of the contribution equation. We used to use swiss army knives to go online, but now we just use corkscrews.

do you get sad when you see crossed-out names?

I can never appreciate the Grand Exit. You had to jump through hoops to get into LiveJournal, so it's a weird, dramatic grand gesture to burn it all down on your way out. I kept my Everything2 account! But, y'know, if people really don't want me keeping up with them (or care about keeping up with me), I can gain nothing by wishing I could be back in the inner circle; I can take it graciously or choose to stick my finger in the broken heart and wiggle it around, but ... blah blah blah, wisdom to accept what I can't change. My tradition is to hang on to a situation until well after everyone else has moved on, and so I have come to see abandonment and rejection as the normal way of things.

[glowing_fish]

I think my mind was just not working last night.

Also, LJ isn't reporting comments! It didn't report your comments on my entry, and neither your comments to my comments here.