oh yeah cohost is dead now and i havent actively used twitter in ages so it's just cecirobin on bluesky (or any of the places listed on neocities). also i dont actually remember who half of my mutuals on here are sorry but ill probably look to see who else has moved over there
@dallystaygold this is the first response i've seen that makes me hopeful cause it's from someone depressed since young childhood, most of the others who got better say it started in their teens and i was worried inability to remember/imagine without before depression left an insurmountable gap
@serialswaghaver having been to both a bunch i would definitely describe asheville as nicer to visit than richmond, but pretty touristy. richmond has more important historical stuff than asheville but otherwise sort of sucks imo
@femme_seme i usually just read BL but i decided to maybe start checking out some yuri recently. when i asked around for "something fucked up and toxic" most of the stuff i got recommended was tamer than Given. like am i right that that's nothing or are my standards just too high now
@girboytwinkussy pre transition but she broke my egg and it took me 2 years to get over it and 4 years later i still have to talk to an imaginary version of her in my head to work through my issues
@chromalescence@AryaTheOpossum@Leonbringer i think the aesthetic focus of some of the '10s indie scene was another example of putting the insecure desire to have the medium be viewed with the respect of art before before actual artistic engagement with the medium. even some actually very creative games got caught in it
@chromalescence@AryaTheOpossum@Leonbringer i remember ~10 years ago when the indie game scene was getting big and everyone was trying to prove how artistic games could be, so many people kept hedging their arguments with "sure, of course dumb commercial stuff like call of duty isn't art..."
@chromalescence@AryaTheOpossum@Leonbringer that kind of person who claims to want games to be recognized as art but actually just wants the status that comes with it is often openly hostile to attempts to analyze games as art, too! they aren't willing to have the stuff they face serious artistic criticism like other art