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Kirr I miss you
Nemo, I'd do something about it if I knew who you were.
Have you ever pet an otter?
No. Not sure I'd like to; I saw some at Australia Zoo way back in the day, and they were...kinda stinky. Cute, but stinky!
Is it just nostalgia or was the early web really that much better? (something I ask myself too)
Oof. This is gonna be a long one. As a short answer, yes and no. In a slightly more update long answer...
I would say 90% of it is what I call second-hand nostalgia, and the rest of it is legit. Second-hand nostalgia because the majority of the people who are "nostalgic" for Web 1.0 never experienced it, and thus don't really understand what they think they're missing/wanting back, and because their efforts to "bring back" the oldweb are sometimes completely contradictory to what the oldweb WAS. It wasn't gifvomit websites and button walls, it wasn't only linking to 'affiliates', and it certainly wasn't the same goddamn boring 3-column-layout with an unreadable font. It also seems incredibly ironic to me that most communities trying to bring back the "yesterweb" rely on bloody Discord, of all things. The fantasy of what the old web used to be as presented by bloody Neocities/Nekoweb is nothing but another social network dressed up in an uwu cute bean lie.
But there were aspects of the old web that definitely were better -- fansites, in particular. (Or shrines, as they were sometimes called, depending on the fandom!) You could surf for hours and find amazing, individual, original places, even if you were just searching within a single theme. You'd have sites about characters, sites just for artwork, sites about series in general, sites about anything else that fit beneath the umbrella of [your fandom here], and that was a normal thing. Personal sites were also far more interesting -- wonderfully varied designs, people's actual thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, not a link for a self-insert webring and a DNI page.
What is your favourite season?
Winter.
What is your first memory?
White? White everywhere. Warm white.
Just here as an eternal reminder to not give up, never give up!
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Do your friends know too much about your hobbies?
...probably not? I'm not sure how you can know "too much" about a thing, unless you mean it in the, like, NSFW way. O.<;
What was the last song you listened to on repeat?
Faouzia's live cover of Sting's Desert Rose. I'm including it in a playlist I'm trying to put together, and it really hits different when performed by a woman.
You know who.
Obviously I don't, sparkles.
Why didn't you marry her?
...wait, which 'her'? Throw me a frickin' bone here!
what're some things online you've been enjoying recently?
Eh. Not a lot (unless FFXIV counts?). Although kobolds arguing over moss literally made me laugh so hard I almost choked. Excellent A+++ 10/10 would choke again.
but otherkin are cringe lol
Psst. I have the solution to ALL things you find cringe, ever: don't engage with it. Don't look at it. Don't interact with it. Don't even think about it. Pass that shit by. Just nope the hell out of there. Doing otherwise is pretty cringe, bro.
do u hate fictionkin tho
Uh? No? (I would love to know where these questions are coming from.) I don't like "I literally am X so you can't be a fan of X/write fic about X"-type behaviour, but I'm usually ambivalent about the person behaving that way themselves. And if someone doesn't behave in that manner, I really don't mind who or what they identify as, providing it isn't hurting anyone else -- and ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it's not. If not nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand, even.
do u hate kinnies
Er, no? I think the most of them are overdramatic and too silly for words, and I don't like this whole "you can't write/draw X because I kin them/they're my comfort character/they're literally me" BS, but a) most of them are pretty young and God knows I look back at shit I did when I was sixteen and wince, and b) if you have a robust mental and emotional connection to a fictional character, I ain't gonna judge. Got plenty of those myself, but I call it something different, that's all.
What do you think about cats?
They're...okay? I don't dislike them. I dislike weirdo "my soul is feline!" cat people, but cats themselves are okay. Dogs are better, though.
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