Communities gather and disperse. This is inevitable, an organic law of Brownian movement. The original dispossessed had forgotten or overlooked the other communities that preceded them, communities bound by dial-up bulletin board systems and older communities connected by ink and paper. Each generation of dispossessed forgot or overlooked the previous. Each glowered down at the [...]
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The forums grew. Fragments from some merged with fragments of others. Across the wide, black plain of the Internet glinted the lights of the various communities of the dispossessed. Mosaics rearranged themselves or were rearranged. Restructuring happened forcibly or accidentally or deliberately. Mosaics grew in bursts, slowly or quickly. Survival was not guaranteed.
The vast world is filled with people. Some are closely affiliated to friends and kin, others are distanced from their fellows. Some keep close ties and others cultivate no or few ties at all. Those who had no connections sought electronic connections to ground themselves. In the silence of the Internet, their small voices carried [...]
I wrote previously about leaving a forum. That was a few weeks ago and I’ve had some time to think. No, I’m not going back. I’m much better off without it. Nevertheless, I cannot honestly say I am not angry at the situation. The anger has been hard to work through, but empowering. I’m understanding [...]
Bittersweet
I was cleaning out some of my bookmarks and came across the final installment of Queen of Wands. I’m not certain why I’ve hung on to it. I’m not even sure when I bookmarked it–there have been so many endings and beginnings in the last few years for me. Elsewhere I posted links to just [...]
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