When I was 18 years old, my brother asked me what I wanted for my birthday. I said I wanted a .com domain. I didn’t have a credit card, so he bought it for me.
I’ve been writing there for 22 years. Long chunks of time in the ‘10s where I barely wrote at all, but I always maintained an archive of some sort. I was able to move it through different systems, because I owned the files.
One day I will write about how being one of the first visibly queer bloggers in my region at the time was an incredible and also incredibly weird time.
I was writing about being queer as a teenager in a time when no one else around me was talking about it. People thought I was brave. I was just autistic. I had no idea I wasn’t supposed to be out.
Being one of the first bloggers there, and one of the first queer ones, got me a lot of things: I got published in things, people wrote about me, I got speaking opportunities.
But I also got.. parasocial relationships. A lot of it.
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