Things have been getting better, folks. Posting that last post on its own helped, but shortly thereafter, I got this really lovely, long email from an anon who lurks somnol.net and the journal encouraging me to keep going and to keep up the stuff I love doing, because people are out there looking. I don't know if they read my reply (I don't even know if my reply made it there, my email client was being a little sketchy), but to say it again: thank you. They also had some requests to see some
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I've had something of a crisis of faith recently. For the entire time I've been mariteaux, I've been a full-throated supporter of the idea that whatever your niche interest is, you should share it loud and proud. I still get emailed about the Passion essay, most recently a couple days ago. People to this day tell me that what I said back then, what upset a bunch of people who aren't even around Neocities anymore, is still resonating with them, and that those words are what they couldn't say, or
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