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non serviam

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quoting the-syreth-clan:

Not my post but something I saw on sizeof.cat.

I find this quite funny given Wani released this year. Someone in /freak/ is spinning up an idea for his own male VTuber with the feedback of other anons. People are still active in /dig/ and posting their illustrations and giving feedback too (I saw a cute goblin). As much as I would love to see 4chan becoming a dump where trying to find a community is futile, it still has some neat nooks one just cannot find elsewhere.

I'm not sure that sizeof.cat ever understood that 4chan -- like Twitter -- has always been a shithole, the sort of wretched virtual hive of scum and villainy that made Mos Eisley look classy. Maybe it wasn't the internet equivalent of a sacrifice zone to them because for a time they felt like they belonged there. And now they no longer do.

And 4chan has always had porn: /s/, /e/, and /h/ are among its oldest and most active boards. So I'm not sure sizeof.cat knows WTF they're on about.

posted 5/20/2024, 8:25 pm

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To me the whole premise of esoteric adult content and originality being mutually exclusive is just plain false. There were red board generals I followed made almost entirely out of OC even. Most are gone now, sadly.

edited 5/21/2024, 6:41 am

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joined jun 10, 2024

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joined jun 10, 2024

quoting starbreaker:

Reminds me of the Agora Road forum.

Was bit inspired by that forum yes UwU

posted 6/13/2024, 3:55 pm

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posted 6/13/2024, 6:56 pm

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do you have many asian groceries in the balkans? we have a lot in the US and I exclusively buy things like salmon, pork butt, sirachia, chili oil, etc, etc, etc there. They also have all the staples like Pocky Sticks too.

i was underwhelmed when i tried them for the first time. people go nuts for them, but they're kinda mid

edited 6/14/2024, 10:31 pm

joined jun 12, 2024

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quoting orchids:

do you have many asian groceries in the balkans? we have a lot in the US and I exclusively buy things like salmon, pork butt, sirachia, chili oil, etc, etc, etc there. They also have all the staples like Pocky Sticks too.

i was underwhelmed when i tried them for the first time. people go nuts for them, but they're kinda mid

id assume there are some in Belgrade now (back then I don't think so) however I live in a small town back home so I've never seen one.

even here, abroad, it was a regular supermarket not a "specialty" one. i guess that's why it was kinda pricy.

asian markets back home are like physical AliExpress lol. cheap-ish stuff of questionable origin

posted 6/15/2024, 10:31 am

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Wrote a post about me finally pulling the plug on my DeviantART account. It's been sitting there abandoned for a very long time as I hoped for the good days to return again, but it only got worse and worse and now I don't even care about redacting my decade old comments anymore to keep it going.

edited 7/18/2024, 3:13 pm

joined jan 27, 2023

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joined jan 27, 2023

quoting the-syreth-clan:

Wrote a post about me finally pulling the plug on my DeviantART account. It's been sitting there abandoned for a very long time as I hoped for the good days to return again, but it only got worse and worse and now I don't even care about redacting my decade old comments anymore to keep it going.

Interesting read. I'm no artist and so was never into DeviantART culture, but even I could tell, between the handful of times I'd visited, how awful its gotten. A shame how natural it seems for this to happen to platforms, reddit in particular is the one I hate the most, though that at least seems to have its eventual successor: https://join-lemmy.org/instances

Anyways, for any other artists interested, here are a couple more DA alternatives:

posted 8/18/2024, 9:03 pm

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Anyways, been converting old family home video tapes recently and decided to write about it. It's tied to 32-Bit Cafe's 'Back to School' code-jam and the IndieWeb Carnival 'Rituals' themes.

VHS to Digital

First Paragraph:

"Do you know what VHS really stands for, traveler? It’s: “Various Hurdles and Suffering”. That ain’t no contemporary definition neither. My father recently spoke to me of his experience with his home video collection from the late 70s / early 80s. He dealt with a big move and, alongside the business of everyday life, had ended up leaving the tapes unattended for over a year. When he finally returned to them, he tried to play each one to no avail. To his surprise, they’d been covered in mold and when he took the matter to a repair shop they told him he’d lost everything, including the player, and that he should throw it all away; out of concern for his, and his family’s, health. Naturally, the loss of mementos such as, but not limited to: tenderly captured fragments of my brothers’ childhoods, lead to considerable sadness..."

edited 8/18/2024, 9:19 pm

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quoting Eternity:

Anyways, been converting old family home video tapes recently and decided to write about it. It's tied to 32-Bit Cafe's 'Back to School' code-jam and the IndieWeb Carnival 'Rituals' themes. VHS to Digital

Copying my comment over from BlueDwarf: I was extremely lucky to have worked a summer for a TV station where my job was archiving old VHS tapes, editing them and burning them into DVD-s for storage. I didn't even finish asking but my boss already said "Yeah, sure, just don't come in with a giant stack of them.", and so our old family tapes are all digitalized now... or rather, the "family" part of our old tapes to be more accurate.

quoting Eternity:

Anyways, for any other artists interested, here are a couple more DA alternatives:

Bookmarked them, thank you very much. Fun thing about the DeviantART thing, turns out a deactivated account is still functional — you can log in, you can change your e-mail and passwords, you can delete comments, you can even post art to your Sta.sh, unpublished to the wider site but shareable via links. You might be able to buy membership even, that would be funny.

edited 8/20/2024, 8:58 am

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@starbreaker hosted September's IndieWeb Carnival:

I feel like starbreaker fugging mastered using anger as a life-force and I'm jelly as hell. For the most part at least, as I also know that anger / hate / defiance isn't all sunshine and butterflies, despite being more likely to accomplish what you want.


@the-syreth-clan also participated with their entry:

The power another can have on us, our well-being, our will to live is, life-changing. A ride or die partner can mean so much. I didn't touch on relationship(s) particularly strongly in my own as I really wanted to encourage as much autonomy in a struggler's headspace / situation as possible. But powerful for sure.


@andreixyz as well:

Man, I'm very close to my parents, so I know anything negative is going to hit me like a train, but in relation to dogs. What a powerful force of good they can be! Dogs, they live on such a simpler, more straightforward plain of existence. Incredibly good at grounding us, at telling us reminding us: "Yo. Bich. Water, now! Food, now! Walk, now! Love, now!" Just their very being can get us back to moving (on), doing, living.


And I think I'm the last from this forum to contribute:

I commented mildly on each post, but if you're at all interested in this topic (Suicide and its ilk), look forward to starbreaker's Wrap-Up. I'll link it here once it's posted.

posted 10/5/2024, 1:27 am

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quoting Eternity:

@starbreaker hosted September's IndieWeb Carnival:

I feel like starbreaker fugging mastered using anger as a life-force and I'm jelly as hell. For the most part at least, as I also know that anger / hate / defiance isn't all sunshine and butterflies, despite being more likely to accomplish what you want.

I'm flattered, but I wouldn't go that far. And I will touch on this when I get to your post in the round-up. But anger is a sword. It doesn't care who it cuts; the guilty and the innocent bleed the same red as easily as the other. Even when I cut the guilty, innocent people still suffer because even the most egregious assholes still manage to have people who love them. And it's a hiltless blade that cuts me when I grasp it, too, so I'm hesitant to draw that sword without good cause. Fortunately, simply having it on my hip is usually enough.

quoting Eternity:

I commented mildly on each post, but if you're at all interested in this topic (Suicide and its ilk), look forward to starbreaker's Wrap-Up. I'll link it here once it's posted.

I'm still working on it. I hope to have it done tomorrow. If not then, then possibly Monday.

posted 10/6/2024, 2:51 am

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quoting Eternity:

The power another can have on us, our well-being, our will to live is, life-changing. A ride or die partner can mean so much. I didn't touch on relationship(s) particularly strongly in my own as I really wanted to encourage as much autonomy in a struggler's headspace / situation as possible. But powerful for sure.

Thank you. I wanted focus on the "what saved you" part rather than the "darkest hour" part for this challenge. My opinion on suicide (and thus suicide prevention), ego-death, psychosomatic death and all of non-existence's other shades is unconventional at best and controversial at worst, so I didn't mention specifics. I did add "I really did not want to go on, and wished I could just… disappear." into it in post after some consideration — it was a time of me re-evaluating what "life" and "death" really meant to me (in lieu of witnessing the destruction of Koomer and Oguigi) and it felt in-line with what I'd imagine my true emotions were back in the day succintly enough.

edited 10/6/2024, 8:13 am

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Here's the Power Underneath Despair roundup post

It might have been less than 5,000 words if not for the excerpts.

posted 10/7/2024, 4:39 am

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quoting starbreaker:

However, I don't think it's the same thing as having dissociative identity disorder. Even if I wasn't reluctant to insult somebody who claimed to have a tulpa by implying that they had DID, I am not qualified to make such a diagnosis, and even if I was I'd like to think I have more sense than to do so on the basis of a single blog post.

Martina's reply in jest was, I quote "I'm too orderly to be considered a disorder.", which I thought was funny enough to mention given she is a "maid of my mind" of sorts.

quoting starbreaker:

Furthermore, the cultivation of personalities separate from one's own via deliberate imaginative practice is a skill any writer of fiction must develop. The likes of Isaac Magnin, Morgan Cooper, Naomi Bradleigh, and Claire Ashecroft are real to me, and when I'm at my best I can make them temporarily real to other people reading my fiction. Sometimes they regale me with their misadventures, and sometimes I can imagine what they're thinking and feeling. That doesn't seem so different from what Amelia's doing.

It is only different in the sense of… well, I'm living inside my own story first, the writing comes after (with plentiful of artistic license and symbolism). I'd like to thank you for the opportunity once again in that regard: it was a good chance to revisit those emotions and thoughts and make another chapter out of a "dialogue" I had with, uh… myself? A part of myself? Or just simply "Sophia"?

edited 10/7/2024, 11:05 am

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quoting starbreaker:

Here's the Power Underneath Despair roundup post

It might have been less than 5,000 words if not for the excerpts.

Bravo, incredible work. Well done, yo.

posted 10/8/2024, 2:27 am

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Can you tell the difference between a post on r/spicy or r/nosleep? This one made my friends really mad at me shrug smiley

This was actually a technical pain, I had to code a quiz script from scratch now that I've gotten tired of Wordpress and Photomatt's bullshit. I guess in the end it's fairly simple but I've been coasting off drag-and-drop software for years.

posted 10/9/2024, 1:45 pm

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