so i figured it was about time i crack my knuckles and break into the indie web.
like any guy who's making a website in 2026 you can probably guess i have fond memories of the internet back when it was more of a net and less of a cat's cradle situation. yeah, yeah, we're all here, we're all sick of the big sites, we've all heard the pitch. "Come to the indie web! You can have your own site! It's up to you what goes on it! Be free!" the fact that i've spent several sentences explaining it already feels maybe insulting to you as the reader?
but maybe you're someone who's never heard of any of that that i'm showing my cool and awesome site off to. in which case my constant urge to contextualize everything has finally borne fruit!
oh, god, wait, don't tell me i was born to be that guy who has a blog. i'm not sure if i could bear that being my legacy. that's why i called it the blag! like the xkcd guy did! it's subversive, yet referential! the two horsemen of awkward, self-effacing presentation! and, yep, that's right, there's "self-awareness", their ever-present third. he gets to sit in the chair.
i dunno, though, this is pretty cool, isn't it? look upon my page, built meticulously, piece-by-piece, by an instruction set someone else wrote. breathe in that refreshing minimalistic CSS i didn't write that i use under the MIT license from a very kind github project. dear god. my natural cadence is exactly what you'd expect from some guy with a blog. i'm blossoming into a beautiful nerdy butterfly. i'm erupting from my chrysalis as we speak. none of you told me how awesome this is for a guy who likes to talk.
alright let's cut the crap and get back to brass tacks. welcome to my website! if you're reading this then i think it's incredible that you're even here. like... how? am i actually showing this to people? have i joined, perhaps, a webring? does my site, perhaps, actually have attractions that are worth visiting for? does this blog count as one of those?
normally i'd roll my eyes and say 'chyeah right' and grin and do finger guns and let the terrifying specter of any expectations whatsoever wash off me like water off a duck's back. but i'm saying this to the hypothetical person who's actually read this far, and that individual (which right now is you) isn't going anywhere. you're like a quantum captive audience. you can leave whenever you want, but you're still here. i finally get it.
but it'd probably do to actually let on some of the other junk i wanna put here. i have a broad and scattershot series of hobbies that i pick up and drop at a bunch of different times, like a very disorganized child would do with a lot of loose video game CDs and cartridges. there they lie, discarded all over the floor. the preservationist's nightmare. and you can bet they won't be handled with care at cleanup time.
anyway i do art. and music. sometimes. i'm okay at them. i'd like to get better at them. one day they might have their own pages here. i played a lot of browser games as a youngun. i wanna put more of those in the world, so you might see some of those here later too. i'm known to play other video games. i think talking about those'll probably be a major feature of THE BLAG, if i'm being honest.
like, i've been collecting SNES games recently. i've been getting back into Final Fantasy XIV even more recently. these interests crossed over yesterday when i picked up Final Fantasy II (the one for the SNES that's actually Final Fantasy IV) from my local retrogameshop. i oughta actually start it soon. i also saw a copy of Final Fantasy XI (XIV's younger cousin in the MMO genre) being sold for $20. i got a kick outta that, since it was the PS2 version and i know those servers are long dead. i wonder if someone's got a private server running?
oh, and i saw a copy of Cubic Ninja for the 3DS, behind glass, which i also got a kick out of. if i was more forward thinking, maybe i woulda taken pictures to share here... c'est la vie. there'll be other opportunities.
i could probably keep going but this post is good enough as an introduction to the site by now. i mean, you made it here. i feel like we've learned a lot about each other. i feel like i could call you... a friend. well, okay, not a friend. but an acquaintance.
... a neighbor. i could call you a neighbor. i could maybe borrow a cup of sugar from you. maybe. congrats! i don't have a lot of neighbors anyway so really i'm just guessing how that whole thing works.
anyway welcome to my cool freaking webpagesite and the associated blag. it's nice to have you here. call me Luma.
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