Why are the standard blog headers on here so hideous. I have a cute one from tumblr but noooo can't use that one. Sometimes I do find myself wondering why I decided to make a whole new thing on probably another dying platform. I should check into substack though. Just checked. The handle was free there, too. Look at meeeeeee
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 expl...
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