The Garden of Eris
I’ve always wanted to be a webmaster. I have fond memories of finding random teenagers with their own websites dedicated to pokemon or mario, and they were my main form of online entertainment besides flash games until I found the internet forums there were attached to, and eventually we all got siphoned onto tumblr and facebook and twitter and discord and I want the old internet back. And I swear it’s not just just boomer nostalgia, but I genuinely think the internet used to be better. We had more control over how our spaces worked, there were less nazis trying to radicalize 13 year olds, everything was less corporate, and everything felt like an actual community.
So there are a lot of reasons I decided to open a blog, and I’m doing my best to ape the style of The Cave of Dragonflies. It’s a DIY ethic that the internet has lost when sites like Twitter silence anything that links off their site, and Tumblr tries its best to pretend that personalized blogs don't exist on its platform. I want a hub for my artistic outputs, I want the endless customizability, and I want everyone who visits to feel like they’re stopping at a garage sale instead of a megamall. While this will mostly be a spot for me to talk about and review music (and hopefully release some of my own), I also would like to make personality quizzes and maybe some other web games, or dish out some Pixar movie hot takes, or be a part of a webring or something.
Because even though I know I’m just claiming a small patch of dirt by the Walmart parking lot, and that anything I plant here will probably die much sooner than I want it to (just like anything I plant in real life,) I would like this to be some sort of a community garden. I want to use my limited voice to amplify the creative outputs of other people I know, and other people who are doing cool things and don’t have the audience. I’d love to be open to promoting other’s work and I’d love to offer collabs and guest posts. I know that this type of website died because we’ll never match the pace of social media’s content vomit, but I’m here trying to make the best of it, and I’m sure like minded people are doing the same.
