i have a compulsion to post and a compulsion to write. you know, inside everyone there are two wolves, and all that.
upon initially discovering cohost, i intended to satisfy both urges simultaneously, by writing what i would eventually (now) call chosts, and posting them. however, i have run into a hiccup in the plan:
rebugging slakes the posting urge.
if you're asking me how i didn't realize earlier that this could happen, then my answer to you is, i am very good at misunderstanding things. for instance, i've been using twitter incorrectly for over a decade. but anyway. we need to asses the consequences of the knowledge that rebugging slakes the posting urge.
so, okay, first of all, to be completely pedantic, rebugging does not entirely slake the posting urge; after too long i start to accumulate posting sediments that can only be flushed by an act of true creation. but effectively, i can exœrcise the writing demons by just filling my drafts with unfiltered brain soup most of the time, because i don't feel the subsequent and previously necessary need to clean any of it up into a post, because the posting demons are already contented from the drip feed of easy rebugs.
and it's not that i am complaining or anything. it is very relaxing, allowing myself to write nonsense and keep it around and really stare at it. and other people's chosts tend to be very good, so sharing them is not only self-expression, but arguably a public service? not to mention, it meshes quite well with my wikiwalking habit, which was itself encouraged by cohost's laconic approach to chost discovery. rebugging is simply lowkey goated when cohost is the vibe, ya know?
however. ya girl cannot help but think: maybe there is a better way. a healthier cycle, in which i am chosting regularly instead of maintaining cataclysmically long drafts.
maybe the strat is to use reply-style chosts, to serially publish a long post as a thread of shorter installments? i don't like some of the aesthetic constraints that i expect to develop from embracing this, but it would make it easier to push out thought fragments, and it would sync with the rebugging lifestyle that i just got done defending. so i think this is what eggbug would want for me.
second opinion: maybe i just need to get sillier. i don't know what being silly looks like. in my head, cohost is still somehow a blogging platform and not a chill web zone, so i feel like the chosts i write need to be about things. but maybe there is room for me to try not doing that. maybe i can just complain about video games, or my coworkers, or something.
i'll have to think about it