I... think I'm caught up with Dreamwidth? If you were expecting a reply from me, let me know because I missed it! The exception is the replies to my latest K-9 translation post because I'm saving them for the next time I'm bursting with the need to talk about K-9 with someone and can't find any victim gentleperson to satisfy the hunger.

( Whoops ended up talking about K-9 anyway. How does this keep happening??? )

Anyway, writing! WIPs! Status!! I met my GYWO goal in January and February, but sacrificed March to the editing gods. So I've written... 288 words so far 😤😤 Unless I get possessed I am NOT meeting my monthly goal, but that's okay. I've got more stuff to edit!! And some fics ready to post, too.

Edited and ready to go (except for maybe a grammar check and/or... a title orz):

• Wind Breaker OT4, Chapter 4
• Chapter 1 for the K-9 LeopardTree fic (it got LONG!)
• K-9 triple drabble about Ren, because in canon she always seems to wait for injured teenage girls to wake up at the hospital, even at great personal cost (that is, nicotine withdrawal), and I find that interesting
• Spring Thunder rescue fic about Kagaribi & Co going to Mozu's rescue, together with Mozu's super smart cat :D
• A BNHA NagantMiruko fic I wrote nearly 3 years ago for an event that turned out not to happen, and I think it might be time to move on

Written, needs editing:

• Wind Breaker OT5, final chapter
• K-9 LeopardTree, chapters 2-5

Half-written:

• Blaaah a bunch but this is a month of editing and I'm not particularly thinking about them

( Posting order and life in tiny fandoms )

( Original projects )

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Reading: Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite [Goodreads][Storygraph]

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Current Fanfic: N/A
Last Watched: Natural Science - Mount Rainier
Last song listened to: Sleep Token ~ Infinite Baths

Dumbass crew newbie hides in the vents and makes a friend. In unrelated news, local impostor is having a really weird day.

"You've got something there," Green motions to Black's chest, which has a splat of dark liquid across it. 

"It's… oil. From the, you know. The rear axial. Distributor." He waves at a panel on the wall, a panel which Green thought was an extra trash chute, but evidently not.

"Thanks," Green says, and means it. "Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one who actually cares about getting us all out of here alive, you know?"

This all started with Shellsharks sharing thoughts on what the "human web" is. This then led to Brennan Day attempting to redefine the indie web based on a separate set of principles. Both articles are really good and absolutely worth reading, nor can I say that either them are wrong (or right!) in their posts.

But they did get me thinking... How do I want to see "indie web" and the like defined?

After seeing so many different ways people have used indieweb, smallweb, ect. I think I have come to a conclusion.

And that conclusion is we are over-thinking this and providing too narrow of definitions.

The fact that "indieweb/smallweb/etc." (henceforth just "indieweb") has no solid meaning across groups of people means it is not currently all that useful as a term. Everyone will end up reading and interpreting it differently when it's used to describe a site or community or whatever. And so many definitions I come across ultimately end up excluding sites that also describe themselves as indie. But of course, there must be something that makes the indieweb the indieweb when compared to stuff like YouTube and Facebook.

To me, what counts as indieweb is very simple and very broad: a web independent from capitalistic interests, based on personal websites, reference sites, and small project sites (and similar sites that I'm probably failing to think of!). A web independent from shareholders, sensational algorithms, surveillance, etc. That's all. If you host your website with a service like Neocities, cool! You're indie. Use a VPS? Fully self host? Just as indie! Hand code every last bit? Use a static site generator? Or a content management system? All indie, and all fair ways to make a site. Use traditional HTTPS? Use Gopher or Gemini protocol instead? All equally indie. The indieweb simply exists as a opposite (but not nessisarily the only opposite) to the corporate web.

As Brennan mentioned, there will always be dependencies. We will always be reliant on registrars for our domains. Some VPSs are more corporate than others. So on and so forth. But getting away from the corporate web itself does so much for people that I think making that the core of it is plenty enough.

And the only reason I specify "based on personal websites, reference sites, small project sites, etc." is because, while generally opposite to the corporate web (if managed properly), forums and fediverse are more social focused and thus not indie in my opinion.

Of course, these are all just my thoughts. I recognize my definition is fairly broad and the one exception fairly arbitrary. I think this is something the indie web is still trying to figure out, so I'd be very curious what everyone else thinks!

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Trying to Read: You Deserve Good Gelato by Kacie Rose [Goodreads][Storygraph]

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Current Fanfic: N/A
In the Background: ASMRMagic - ASMR Pure Ear to Ear Lid Sounds (one of my fave OG ASMRtists)
Last song listened to: cut hands - deftones (Trigger warning for flashing and snakes)

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Trying to Read: You Deserve Good Gelato by Kacie Rose [Goodreads][Storygraph]

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Current Fanfic: N/A
In the Background: N/A
Last song listened to: burn down my house ~ Architects
 

• 4 Hannibal
• 3 Star Trek
• 1 VLD
• 1 Supernatural
• 1 Pride and Prejudice
• 1 SVSSS
• 1 Original fic
• 1 Heated Rivalry (Game Changers)
• 1 Riddick