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Here We Go Again?
26 January 2025 18:08After LJ mostly died and DW never took over properly, I never really found myself at home at FB even in its better days. Yet maybe now it is time to go back and try it one more time with DW, this old-fashioned blog style always being so very dear to me. Or not "one more time", but the first proper time, since I've never posted here anything that weren't an LJ cross-post (moreover, I even did not move over one or two—my latest—LJ posts, back from 2019). I have used any social media as a blog platform very rarely in 2016-2018, "hardly ever" from 2019 on (when I, for better or for worse, moved to the US), and I haven't posted anything anywhere at all since early 2022 (for understandable reasons for those who know I am Ukrainian). And yet I need badly a safe space to relax, to review books, movies and shows and anime, visual novels, larps I've been to and larps I am organizing, I need a place to speak about small things that bring me comfort, even if some people may despise me for my escapism and trying to hide in books, visual novels, and larps from the horrors of the way the world is right now.
Also, at this point, I'm old enough (say, older than ANY Shinsengumi leader at the time of their death, save for Inoue, but I'm dangerously close to that age too) to let myself indulge in anything that gives me that fleeting dosage of serotonin and/or dopamine; at this point whenever I get a hyperfixation on something that gives me those neurotransmitter molecules, I will ride the wave of this hyperfixation all the way through, having no shame at all. As of January 2025, my biggest hyperfixation is Bakumatsu history, which grew out of Hakuōki. In a short period of time I restarted learning Japanese (self-learned for a couple of months in the middle of the lockdown and then dropped), started doing shodō and eventually even iaidō — have been doing the latter for two months already, the sempais have already dragged the truth out of me, and I begged them not to tell sensei that I started doing it all because of Hakuōki))))))))
Here I am, I guess. Now I'll try to find out who out of my real life friends are here or willing to move to DW, plus make some new friends. Will probably make a better introduction post at some point. Maybe.
Also, at this point, I'm old enough (say, older than ANY Shinsengumi leader at the time of their death, save for Inoue, but I'm dangerously close to that age too) to let myself indulge in anything that gives me that fleeting dosage of serotonin and/or dopamine; at this point whenever I get a hyperfixation on something that gives me those neurotransmitter molecules, I will ride the wave of this hyperfixation all the way through, having no shame at all. As of January 2025, my biggest hyperfixation is Bakumatsu history, which grew out of Hakuōki. In a short period of time I restarted learning Japanese (self-learned for a couple of months in the middle of the lockdown and then dropped), started doing shodō and eventually even iaidō — have been doing the latter for two months already, the sempais have already dragged the truth out of me, and I begged them not to tell sensei that I started doing it all because of Hakuōki))))))))
Here I am, I guess. Now I'll try to find out who out of my real life friends are here or willing to move to DW, plus make some new friends. Will probably make a better introduction post at some point. Maybe.
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