The Wheel of Cohost turns, and ages of posting come and pass, leaving memories of CSS crimes that become legend. Legends fade to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the fourth age by some, an Age yet to come, an age long past, a wind rose in the Fourth Website. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings or endings to the turning of the Wheel of Cohost. But it was a beginning.
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roughly 30 transwoman trying to live her best life
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Slipping out the back a little early, as is my way.
I can be found.
...No, that's not right. This would be a Cool thing to do, but I'm here to be sincere, not cool. If cohost has meant anything to me, that's the only choice.
What can I say? This was my home. I loved it here, and I'm quite picky. cohost shutting down hurts, and it's good that it hurts - it hurts because I let myself believe, and I was able to open up, and I got to know people in a way that I don't think I would have on Twitter or Tumblr, where we're all more guarded. Will this happen again? I hope so, and I think enough people have tasted blood here for that hope to be reasonable. If it does, I'll be there.
...Well, and it still is my home for a little while, so let's do this. I still have some drafts left.
Final day. Post for the future. Here together.
Thank you so much to everyone who made me feel welcome here. Cohost healed my Twitter sickness, and made me confront the way I've been interacting with the Internet overall.
I went through a phase on here where I would see posts or comments I disagreed with, start to type up a reply that was very heated and full of assumptions about the other person... then I'd take a deep breath and delete it. Even if I was right, what was there to gain? What game was I playing, what points did it award? Did I think that if I was mean enough, I could purge the Wrong Opinion from existence? Did I want the world to work that way?
Cohost was the first place in a long time that let me slow down enough to take that perspective. It's absolutely not an exaggeration to say it changed me as a person.
I call Cohost a "place," but of course it isn't really; Cohost is a series of bits. But even more, Cohost is people. It's @amagire and @sudo-eatpant and @anschel and @doodlemancy and @punstar and @lupi and @beige-alert and @atomheart and @discodeerdiary and @sedge and @bootjack and @webster and @introdile and @staff and I'm stopping before I just read out my entire following list... but thank you all for making Cohost what it was. Thank you for your good faith and good posts and good companionship.
My new online home will be Pervocracy.com (RSS) and my other contact information is on my carrd.
Goodbye, Cohost, and once again, thank you.