laurentheflute

Not actually a flute

I write too many words, talk too much, and have very big feelings. Storyteller, VGM flutist and singer, Twitch affiliate, fanfic writer, Texan-Canadian.


In true ADHD fashion I completely forgot I signed up for cohost a few weeks ago. Joke's on me! Thanks, past Lauren, for looking out for me.

Most folks are here to run away from Twitter before it finishes imploding, and I've heard that it is more like a Tumblr replacement, but I am enough of an Old that I just want something I can use like LiveJournal. (I've been trying to use every single social media platform since 2001 like it's LiveJournal, but not even LiveJournal really is LiveJournal anymore...)

OBLIGATORY INTRODUCTION:

Photo of a smiling Lauren wearing glasses, with hair in a pixie cut, wearing a light blue Sans hoodie from Undertale, sticking her tongue out, and holding a striped tabby cat on her lap

Hi, I'm Lauren. You might know me from my video game cover band The Returners, or my LaurentheFlute covers on YouTube (you can also find my music on Spotify and places like that).

Or maybe you've watched me cry while streaming video games like Deltarune!

If you enjoy reading stories, I am contractually obligated to beg you to read my fanfiction, especially my novelization of Final Fantasy VI, Darkness and Starlight.

Cover art for Darkness and Starlight, showing Locke Cole and Celes Chere looking angsty against a starry background

I also make art, especially fanart and/or pinups of pretty girls, and I will probably share some of that here.

Oh, and that acapella MGS track I mentioned? If you want, you can watch my band's performance of it from PAX South 2015 if you're so inclined. Thumbnail from that performance

Hoping to make some new friends, I guess, and share what I'm up to with existing friends ♥



I'm sorry I didn't stick around here during the time that it's been up - it sounds like it's been a great space for the folks who stayed here. I just can't seem to remember things exist anymore, and whenever I was reminded and checked back it seemed almost none of my friends were still here, and I couldn't find a sub-community group that seemed like I'd fit in, so I just ... drifted off for good.

I don't even know whether anyone is going to see this post! I don't know if anyone still follows me!

But even just coming back here and clicking the "post" button and seeing this lovely familiar LJ-esque box (which has a lot more features than I remember from the last time I was here)... man, this reminds me of a time when the internet didn't feel like poison, and our online community sites ("social media" wasn't yet a thing) actually provided community and a space to just be yourself and make friends and try things out and share what you made and not worry about Creating Content or Getting Ahead.

A lot of things sucked in my life at that time, but I miss that internet. And I'm sorry that the people who tried to bring it back through Cohost wound up so hurt and burned out by the experience.

And I'm really sorry for all of you who built a beautiful community here and will now have to find another place to relocate to. I wish you luck with that ♥



I think I'm just never going to consistently remember that this place exists, am I? I get such a weird claustrophobic feeling when I do come here because I think only three or four of the people I follow actually ever post. Maybe I'm just doomed because I'm not the right kind of cool for this...