Heya, Folks

Bit of necessary opening work. I kind of have some ground to make up since I felt the need to open on a weird unedited textual meditation.

I kind of had an embarrassing shouty moment, not too long ago. If you haven't had one, I'm not sure I quite recommend it. It's liberating to really flex your swearing muscles and to post all the obnoxious anime trash you like and to dispense with your political opinions, but in the midst of the embarrassing shouty moment—a polite, derpy way to phrase "nervous fucking breakdown"—it doesn't really translate as well as you'd like.

Anyway...ha. I did it on my social media, with my face attached to it. I learned that one of the perks to anonymity is that no one can call you up to yell at you for minutes at a time about some of the stuff you say. So I thought that it would be healthy and useful for me to do things like that on here. I haven't quite figured out what the theme of this blog will be; it could be a place for unnecessary meditations on my family, for dense and angry political opinions about a world I don't understand, my own sparse and boring autobiography, or writing bits from actual works I genuinely want lots of people to see.

I think, for the time being, the theme will be: whatever I want to say on any given day. That's something I don't do as much as I should and it will provide a nice antidote to how politely I tend to live my daily life. And how non...like...embarrassingly enthusiastically.

I'll cap this off with a footnote I forgot to place on my first post and that should give you a good idea of the type of culture I'm much too embedded in:

chuunibyou: literally translated as something like "eighth-grader syndrome." Often abbreviated as "chuuni." I'm not well-versed enough in Japanese culture to tell you what it actually looks like, but the personal definition I've always attached to it is: something so earnestly and embarrassingly attempting to be cool that it would make any sensible adult cringe a lot. If you follow me for any length of time, you will see me try unbelievably hard to make up cool things and you will probably cringe if you have any more sense than me.