Personal blog of Steady Gaze, where I discuss my thoughts about the world. And sometimes ponies.
So it’s been awhile, eh? I feel a bit of nostalgia at that familiar feeling of staring at a blank page/screen. I’m kind of not happy about my writing skills atrophying after finishing school. My main writing consists of commenting in quests ( d20 Pony , Esquestria), which I wouldn’t necessarily consider a path to rhetorical greatness. And that feeling of knowing there’s a word you want but not…
In this post, I sic my urge to classify things on a particular genre of frequently multimodal literature, a form of interactive fiction born out of the Internet: the quest. My journey One day in August 2022 while idly scrolling, I came across an extremely pretty pixel art of Moondancer (the character from My Little Pony). To my surprise, there was an entire story in the description, and as I…
Mastodon and its Fediverse alternatives [1] have been all the rage since the major loss of user trust (the breaching of a “ trust thermocline ” [2] if you will) brought on by a change in ownership in a previously dominant centralized competitor (Twitter). Today, we join the universe of fractalized, contradictory voices arguing about how to do Mastodon the Right Way™. Specifically, we consider the…
In this post, I discuss why I created this blog, as well as the different options I considered for where to put it. Yes, after procrastinating as long as possible tweaking the CSS, it’s finally time to make my first post. I won’t be talking about me much, however; instead there is the About Me page which I’ll be keeping updated. Why write? I’m sure there are myriad reasons for why people like to…