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cohost! - "Skykomish Never Sleeps: A Preliminary Report on The Esterb…
archived 21 Sep 2024 03:14:04 UTC

A very strong work of original fiction that I enjoyed. "Archeologists find things they aught not" is a well-trod concept, but the implied future setting adds a sense of deep time. Our moment is not the present, but the past as well.

cohost! - "Aquazone - Expensive Digital Fish"
archived 21 Sep 2024 03:24:31 UTC

An essay on a virtual pet product, Aquazone, that was contemporaneous with my own favorite virtual pets, but which seems to have far less survival in its online presence than Petz has. Ahead of its time in the worst ways (paid DLC microtransactions), and yet so thorough as a fishtank simulator, in a quintessentially of-its-era way, that no modern equivalent scatches the itch.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

>> I remember when a lot of people moved to Twitter in the late 00's to early 2010's, and I immediately broke out in metaphorical hives from how antithetical it was to my preferred blogging and conversation style. <<

Yeah, Twitter is unusable for me.

>> Alas, I was never really much of a shipper. <<

That's okay, not everyone is.

>> My fandom interests have always leaned more towards meta! I like analyzing character motivations, themes and symbolism, world-building and lore, how older media's influences relate to the work... and for ongoing series, theorycraft and speculation about what will happen next. <<

We need meta too! I enjoy reading meta.

>> I swear, newer series' fandoms die too fast <<

True. There are many reasons. One is that earlier, there wasn't as much material so people were motivated to become attached and stick with favorites. Now there's such a glut, they can binge one and then binge another tomorrow. And bingeing contributes to the problem because when you go through something fast, you don't have as much time to form a relationship with it and think about it.

>> The main thing making me shy about starting my own communities is that I don't think I have what it takes to be a moderator... <<

Not everyone is, and that's fine.

>> My current strategy has been to see if a dead community's moderator is active, then message them asking if they'd be ok with new people posting<<

Good idea. I've tried it but it hasn't worked often.