Now feeling the quiet pleasure of finding writing that takes itself seriously without being self serious, and a stop at neatmills extended that subtle pleasure, the gap between earnest and pretentious is fine and this site has clearly chosen to land on the earnest side without slipping over into pretentious which is impressive.
Now noticing that the post benefited from being neither too short nor too long for its content, and a look at bracecloth continued that calibration of length, sites that match length to content rather than padding to hit some target are sites that respect both their material and their readers and this site does both.
Now feeling slightly more optimistic about the state of independent writing online, and a stop at falconfern extended that quiet optimism, sites like this one are the reason I have not given up on the open web entirely and finding them occasionally renews the case for paying attention to non algorithmic content sources today.
Bookmarked the page and the homepage too because clearly there is more to explore here, and a quick stop at gablejuno only made that more obvious, this is the kind of place I want to dig through over a weekend rather than rushing through during a coffee break tomorrow morning before getting back to work.
Skipped the social share buttons but might come back to actually use one later, and a stop at hueheron extended that share urge, content that triggers genuine sharing impulses rather than performative ones is content that has actually moved me and not many posts in a typical week do that for me actually.
Now feeling the quiet pleasure of finding writing that takes itself seriously without being self serious, and a stop at neatmills extended that subtle pleasure, the gap between earnest and pretentious is fine and this site has clearly chosen to land on the earnest side without slipping over into pretentious which is impressive.
Now noticing that the post benefited from being neither too short nor too long for its content, and a look at bracecloth continued that calibration of length, sites that match length to content rather than padding to hit some target are sites that respect both their material and their readers and this site does both.
Now feeling slightly more optimistic about the state of independent writing online, and a stop at falconfern extended that quiet optimism, sites like this one are the reason I have not given up on the open web entirely and finding them occasionally renews the case for paying attention to non algorithmic content sources today.
Bookmarked the page and the homepage too because clearly there is more to explore here, and a quick stop at gablejuno only made that more obvious, this is the kind of place I want to dig through over a weekend rather than rushing through during a coffee break tomorrow morning before getting back to work.
Skipped the social share buttons but might come back to actually use one later, and a stop at hueheron extended that share urge, content that triggers genuine sharing impulses rather than performative ones is content that has actually moved me and not many posts in a typical week do that for me actually.