Fandom nonsense: wuxia, xianxia, danmei, baihe, Kinnporsche. Also languages, writing, history, orchids. Yi Citizen. In my 30s.
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/katzenfabrik/pseuds/villainousfriend


Currently, I'm quite enjoying myself here on cohost. Quite a few friends from Twitter have opened accounts here, and it seems plausible that more will do so and we'll continue to use the site.

There will inevitably be friends who won't jump ship in this direction, but I think it's likely that I'll be able to keep contact with the close ones via Discord. (For all that I'm bad at Discord. Ahaha.)

What's really upsetting me right now is the informational channels I'll lose if I leave Twitter entirely, or if it truly crashes and burns. I have a dear and continuously curated list there of factual accounts (there's got to be a better descriptor than that): people who tweet about Chinese history, material and religious culture, current-day Chinese affairs, linguistics, and so on. There's also the public OTW list, and the other list I've built up of LAY fan accounts—though I prefer to get my information about him filtered through the friend who got me interested in his work, because it's more fun this way.

It might be possible to recreate these channels with Mastodon, though my current feeling about Mastodon is mostly ugh, I guess I'll have to deal with it. Cohost doesn't seem like the place where people would publish this kind of thing. Perhaps I could subscribe to blogs in my RSS reader again? That was great before, and then it gave me anxiety. 🤷


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