13 june 2025
I'm typing this down from within a terminal. Oh boy! It's intimidating; feeling like those hackers in the American movies. I wonder if anybody is going to read this, and if they do, if they're going to find my lack of technical proficiency funny. I mean, if you sign up for a pubnix, shouldn't it be because you know how to navigate a terminal?
I've had to look over tilde.club's wiki to find out how to navigate a lot of things. I could've sworn I was reading other people's Feels on a web interface yesterday, but I can't find it anymore. Ah well, it doesn't look like there's a lot of people blogging to make ocassionally visiting through the terminal that much of a hassle. It's nice to be in such a quiet place.
Tomorrow, I want to keep working on the long-overdue update for my webcomic BreadAVOTA. I feel like I'm 'wasting time' by being here, but I feel like I'm wasting time any time I'm not drawing.. I haven't updated my webcomic in one and a half years, so it makes me anxious. I try to tell myself these sorts of niche experiences that are mildly relevant to my characters is 'research', and that if other authors spend hours into researching then so can I.
I've enabled this to post on Gopher, although I don't know how Gopher works. Maybe I'll try to learn about it. I use a Windows computer, and that makes these sorts of things inconvenient, when most resources are for Linux.
Although I imagine the purpose of this community is less about any technical services and more about the community, admittedly I wouldn't know how that works. Socialisation is difficult no matter where you do it, even in niche internet communities that require a terminal to use. I saw the BBJ forum but posts are really rare. I made three different forums for BreadAVOTA throughout its lifespan (FC2, then NNF, then my own code), and it's active enough to get one post every few days. It's difficult to express appreciation for one's community in a way that sticks, for me, at least.
Sayonara for now.