There's a certain joy in chancing upon a fully free username in the year 2025. I think you get to an age where your standard username is as familiar as your legal name. It's your email, your insta handle, your youtube account before it was bought by google. And so you get locked into that persona online, too. But now, bit by bit, I've become bb.strawbebe. It was free on tumblr, first. Then on google. Next, instagram. They're not connected to my name, my face, my history, but they all belong to ME. I was nervous each time I went to sign up. There are so many people online, and so many usernames have been taken. But yet! Each time it's free!

 And now here. I feel like I did when the internet first came out. Like, was real and useable in a way we'd recognize today. I was maybe 10? 12? The perfect time to practice being a real person with strangers on the internet. I don't think I thought about it this deeply, but every different username was a way to explore a different side of myself, free from the view of people who knew me in real life. 

 I still section off my online personas. I like having multiple accounts that can house the different sides of myself. That way I never have to be fully open with the people in my life. Some stuff is PRIVATE, right? /But other stuff is just... the stuff I'm into at the moment. Is it bad for people to know about that? 

 

Anyways. That's not what I came here for.

 

I think if there were only five artists I could listen to for the rest of my life -- like, I would have access to their entire past and future catalogue but nothing else -- I would choose these five, in no particular order:

1. Harry Styles (this does mean the 1D canon is included, but the solo works of all other members are not)
2. Seventeen
3. Ateez
4. Christopher Tin
5. Stromae

I'd have a great variation of song densities and moods, and so much of it is incredibly detailed. You can find new elements every listen. It's a bummer there isn't more women, but maybe I can make them their own list. #feminism.