>> For a while their, all the freaks were goths. If the Victorian romanticism of the macabre doesn't bong your gong, you can ignore it without blowing your cover. It's just a morbid kind of steampunk. <<
I don't mind it, but well, I'd probably scare them. The scenery would make me forget that most people are far less fluent with death than I am.
>>I don't understand the obsession with celebrities.<<
It seems to be a form of escapism favored by people whose own life is boring and unfulfilling, so they fantasize about other people's lives. Mine is more interesting, so I'm bored by celebrities.
>>The freaks are congregating on TikTok and YouTube. Or maybe among the people who play MMORPGs. <<
Ah, that would explain it; those aren't places I frequent or would be interested in. The most that catches my interest on YouTube is craft videos; I don't think of it as a social space, but as a reference library.
>> Or here on DreamWidth (after LJ stopped being weirdo-friendly).<<
I have had some good luck on DW.
>> I just wander around being freaky because I can't help it, and hope to meet other weirdos.<<
I used to do more of that. Now I don't go out much, because there is so little left that is worth going to do. Our last attempt at catching a street fair? They had canceled the Friday part and everyone in town was viciously unhappy about it.
There are still parts of my nature that I can't hide easily, especially in talking to people, but I no longer tend to advertise with the intent of attracting attention, and I'm less often inclined to stop and chat. Most of the people are just in a different world. Once in a while, someone will catch my interest and we'll talk and there's no distance just like it used to be -- but that's gotten rare enough that it's startling now.
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Date: 2023-09-05 04:08 am (UTC)I don't mind it, but well, I'd probably scare them. The scenery would make me forget that most people are far less fluent with death than I am.
>>I don't understand the obsession with celebrities.<<
It seems to be a form of escapism favored by people whose own life is boring and unfulfilling, so they fantasize about other people's lives. Mine is more interesting, so I'm bored by celebrities.
>>The freaks are congregating on TikTok and YouTube. Or maybe among the people who play MMORPGs. <<
Ah, that would explain it; those aren't places I frequent or would be interested in. The most that catches my interest on YouTube is craft videos; I don't think of it as a social space, but as a reference library.
>> Or here on DreamWidth (after LJ stopped being weirdo-friendly).<<
I have had some good luck on DW.
>> I just wander around being freaky because I can't help it, and hope to meet other weirdos.<<
I used to do more of that. Now I don't go out much, because there is so little left that is worth going to do. Our last attempt at catching a street fair? They had canceled the Friday part and everyone in town was viciously unhappy about it.
There are still parts of my nature that I can't hide easily, especially in talking to people, but I no longer tend to advertise with the intent of attracting attention, and I'm less often inclined to stop and chat. Most of the people are just in a different world. Once in a while, someone will catch my interest and we'll talk and there's no distance just like it used to be -- but that's gotten rare enough that it's startling now.