Sorry this still isn't an actually substantial post.

This is partially taken from a Cohost post where I listed some topics that had been sitting in my drafts, in various states of completion, that I either didn't have time to or didn't want to finish in the last few days before the site closed. Cohost was the only place I was on the web where I could write like that, in depth about things that interested me or my opinions on certain topics (though I only sometimes actually did). Honestly, I don't think it was great for that, either - the site's design very much wanted to have it both ways, where people could publish longform pieces but most engagement was driven by small microblogging-style posts. It did that better than Tumblr, at least, but I still take some issue with it conceptually - but that's a topic for another post.

This is essentially a list of pieces that I want to publish on my blog at some point. I have drafts of all of these at least somewhat written already, though many are old enough that I wouldn't write about them now the same way as I would have when they were fresh in my mind. I intend to add new things when I decide I want to write about them on here; this whole post is largely for my benefit. I feel in a way like putting these where other people can see them makes them more real in a way (even if for all I know no one will read this), and gives me a reason to finish writing them. Something which I find rewarding on its own, but struggle to motivate myself to do. But once again, that's a topic for another post.


The drafts from Cohost:

About social media (and how it feels like it saps away my very being. And more broadly, about my relationships with social interaction and media separately)
(this is the first one I'm doing, I have been alternating between this document and that one as I write)

About AI (and how I consider it entirely a labor issue and don't give a shit about any of the other arguments for or against it. And how in particular I am entirely against any attempt or ideological push to expand copyright)

About drugs (and why I like getting high. Most of these drafts were written while high and are kind of hard to decipher)

About suicide (and how miserably deficient the public discourse around it is due to the stigmatization of talking about it openly. Usually in the name of safety, but, in my opinion, actually rooted in conservative moralism)

About depression (and how I always forget most people can remember not being depressed, often identify a cause, and imagine a life without it)

About video games (and the nature of virtual worlds and their approach to the necessary element of unreality therein. And in particular, my adoration for the work of Lilith Zone)

About weird sex shit (and the elaborate occult cyberpunk fetish setting I constructed in my head months ago and half-wrote a few stories in)

About art (and its audiences, and about the fragmentation of online culture, and about queer and independent art communities)

About gender (and how I am nonbinary but want to be seen publicly as a woman. And about the position of nonbinary transfems under patriarchy and the inability of liberal feminism to grapple with that)

About online politics (and the tendency to build a culture of posturing as politics)

About yaoi (and its role in queer spaces and my love for it)


I also found some unfinished pieces I wrote elsewhere, mostly my notes app:

About another world (and the desire to go there, or to go create one, or to remember it)

About my favorite artists (and how I don't even mean to always get obsessed with the work of trans artists specifically, it just keeps happening)

About tea (and how I really like it)

About dreams (and my desire to communicate a dream not as it is remembered but as it is dreamt)

About toki pona (and how it's neat)

Various stuff I might write about: indie comics, not indie comics, BL, indie games, music, anarchism, feminism, linguistics, conlangs, cartography, birds, whatever else I get really into but those are some longstanding interests.