if only we could tap into Peridot's superior media-analysis skills (q.v. https://youtu.be/DL6sc11sgLk) ~Chara

we have a sort of fundamental problem in the Pnictogen Wing. er, that makes it sound like we only have the one problem. but this one's been a source of general trouble.

for the sake of convenience and simplicity we refer to Kris Dreemurr as our system's host, but really we're more like a human, or human-ish, trinity. The KFC gang, as it's been called. There's Kris, my older sibling Frisk (who is my literal sibling, I should add, factive and fictive both) and myself. we have been a "scalene trinity" to use Dorothy Sayers's insightful phrase, an unbalanced trio. attempting to find a better balance among each other's strengths and weaknesses is a work in progress. that, in itself, is not the "general trouble" to which I referred.

so what's wrong? generally? it's something like this: not a one of us in the KFC gang feels as though we should have any friends, certainly not friends like we've somehow managed to acquire. in our various ways I guess we all decided we weren't fit for anyone's company. I have no idea why King Arthur would condescend to us, or her son, or anyone else we admire.

~Chara

how's this for an omen, huh? but we've already known it was a problem
it's getting to be a really bad problem. would the Elric Brothers know how to help? bleh.

~Chara

What's the practical possibility of sidestepping the World Wide Web completely?

I know there's been some fandom for older-fashioned ways of maintaining networks of personal sites (e.g. Gopher) and some attempts at newer protocols (e.g. Gemini) but these seem to have an extremely specific sort of audience. Is there no practical hope of getting away from the modern Web? It seems unjust, somehow: TCP/IP offers multiple possibilities but in practice we're stuck with the ungainly and increasingly crufty web browser as our chief and often only method for using the Internet.

~Chara of Pnictogen