First ever entry.

 good evening. :) my name is Jo, though sometimes i go by Radi, Yasha, or Cat online. i am fifteen years old as of november 2023, and i am what you may call "always online." i am autistic, and i enjoy writing about fiction and being present online.

in the past i have tried to keep online journals, such as on blogspot or spacehey, with very little success. i'm not usually one to talk about myself publicly, because i find the things i do more important than myself as a person. writing about me is difficult, because it is hard for me to visualize myself in terms that most others can understand. i consider myself to be 'complicated,' but not in the way that is palatable to people, not in the 'sexy' or 'mysterious' sense, moreso in the 'exhausting' or 'draining' sense. so journaling publicly has been a struggle. i hope dreamwidth will provide me with the motivation to write more about myself, because myself does not need to be palatable to others for it to be important.

i work extensively in media archival, i have a dedicated tumblr blog to archiving an obscure manga series that me and a trusted collaborator hold dear, and i often find myself downloading strange things off the web in hopes that, should that something ever go lost, i will always have a copy of it in case anyone ever needs it again. i most like archiving videos and books, but i have a somewhat extensive collection of obscure music, as well.

in the past i have lost immensely important things due to hard-drive deterioration, changing devices without considering to back things up, and general stupidity, both from me and from others. the web is not always forever, as we all painfully learn sooner or later. 

i hope to post more soon. for now, this is Radi, and i'll see you later. :)

ghost towns

 it seems that there are few communities on this site that are still active, and the few that i've found only have a post or two from this year... seems that i've joined at a weird time in the site's userbase. that's alright though, the main function, making posts, still appeals to me.