for anyone reading this who hasn’t seen the staff post, cohost is going read-only on october 1st and will be fully shutting down by the end of the year. everything will be deleted after that.
as cohost was my only social media, this also means i will no longer be on social media.
first of all, i know a lot of people who follow me here joined this website specifically to see my posts. thank you! i feel so honored that my games are so dear to people that they would do something like that. it’s how i feel about disgaea, and making games that make other people feel how i feel about disgaea is my #1 goal. i’m happy i could give people that feeling.
where to find me next
i’m not ready to be on a larger social media site, or even an alternative social media site. i still run my art blog on tumblr, but i don’t browse the site or even log in very often. i don’t really check comments or anything. i think if i actively posted there, people would start drama. it’s a very dramatic website. i don’t ever want to become popular on tumblr, because i don’t want to see people fight each other about whether it’s morally acceptable to follow me in comments/reblogs.
i’m currently keeping an eye out for other websites that the people i want to follow frequent, but i haven’t seen any that i think i would enjoy using. that could change one day! if it does, i will resume Posting. but for now i will stick to my personal website, which conveniently also has a blog. i’ll be migrating more of my longer posts there. i’m not sure if i should make a separate section for my disgaea posts… i think it’s kinda fun if they’re mixed in :)
so now the question is, as a fan, how can you stay updated on my work?! well, neocities has an activity feed where you can see when someone’s updated their website. if you make an account, you can follow my page from here. even if you don’t make a site of your own, it might be more convenient than an rss feed. but i also have an rss feed if you want it.
i know that neocities is probably a big ask, but i do really recommend it because it’s fun to make your own page. it doesn’t have to be good, and you don’t have to code it well. it’s nice because it’s yours and a thing you made that you can be a little bit proud of, even as a complete beginner. i really love seeing people’s personal websites, and i will be writing posts in the future to help make it easier to get into making them. for now, there is this one.
some feelings about cohost
i really love it here. i love the posts, the vibe, and the fact that i got to talk to lots of other cool artists and game developers because i was posting here.
it took me a while to decide to start using cohost under the name of nomnomnami. i’ve had a stealth account you guys don’t know about that i’d been using for like 6 months before i made this page! wahaha!! it helped me feel out the vibe of the site and whether or not i’d enjoy being on social media again.
i thought i could never post publicly again after the twitter callout, and i was prepared not to. but i genuinely enjoyed spending time on cohost, and there were a lot of fans who really missed seeing my posts… so i wanted to compromise.
i wanted a place to post that felt out of the way enough that i wouldn’t bother anyone just by existing on it. cohost has a lot of controls over the content you see, and it doesn’t force posts into peoples' feeds via algorithms. you can follow or block people at your leisure. it’s a slower moving and more thoughtful website… the userbase skews a bit older as well, so i feel right at home with the crowd. it’s pretty staunchly anti-harassment too, although no community can ever be fully free of it. that’s just humans. cohost just felt like the perfect place for me, especially in a time where any other option felt dangerous. i’m glad i got to live here for a while.
i’m doing a lot better now in terms of mental health, but i feel like cohost was an important stepping stone on the path to getting there. i’m grateful for that, so cohost will always have a special place in my heart. not to mention all the fun i’ve had answering asks here. i truly never thought i’d be able to have fun like that online ever again. seriously, thank you guys so much for having fun with me and loving my characters as much as you do.
that’s it for the goodbye post
i’ll open asks when i have time to answer them, and i’ll be posting to the end! i’m super busy this week (which is why this post is coming so late at night) but i’m pinning it, so whatever. let’s keep having fun the rest of this month, and after that, who knows?
<3 nami
