a furl in the dirt ⋆.˚☾⭒ ⋆｡˚☀︎｡

Kat, thirties, queer, consummate lurker. Scuttling through life on the east coast.

This is my gentle push against the intense self-consciousness I have about expressing myself and being perceived online. As you can imagine, the current state of internet surveillance via companies and moral scrutiny via other people makes this super easy.

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✔️ short stories, listmaking, horror, archival & proper sourcing, anatomical art^{?Highly recommend the Morbid Anatomy blog and their publications, esp. The Anatomical Venus.}

❌ video essays (I want to read.), "life optimization", walled info gardens, modern fandom culture^{?Alan Moore: "I believe that fandom is a wonderful and vital organ of contemporary culture [...] At the same time, I’m sure that fandom is sometimes a grotesque blight that poisons the society surrounding it with its mean-spirited obsessions and ridiculous, unearned sense of entitlement."}