After about a year of enjoying Cohost.org, it's become clear from recent history the website wasn't going to make it. They're looking right now at running out of funding in April, have no realistic alternatives beyond selling off or going gentle into the good night. Worse though is that Cohost's staff just lied by omission constantly, branding themselves as the good guys while practicing the same start-up techbro nonsense that other tech startups practice. Reading their report this month made it so much worse, they have less than 30 days I imagine before the site goes offline.
They talk a big talk about end-of-life for the site, but I know better. I have a Zoopquest coming up, and the transparency report to finish while I'm up there, but I want to comment on this before I do a busy two days of last minute to-do items and travel. Since May of last year when Furaffinity changed its policy, Cohost has been the only true vessel I've been comfortable discussing the topics I've discussed. I'm writing Queer Essays about pornography, Skeptical Essays about geopolitics, and Short Stories about whatever the fuck I want. I've interacted with some incredible writers on Cohost, and the number of Queer, Neurodivergent, and Trans people who have concentrated on the website is genuinely shocking. It'll be hard to watch it sink over the horizon like Tumblr before it, but its fate was decided by some of the most moronic decision making you can imagine, stuff that is even dumber than how Furaffinity is a For-Profit LLC illegally making use of unpaid moderators.
I'm too broke and brain-broken to be valuable to much of anyone for the things I used to be valued for. Art gets harder and harder, only coming back when I'm around my husband and I have a lot more hormones and neurotransmitters in my system because of known phenomena involved with being around a romantic/sexual partner and stable living situation. It might be as many as six more months before I can move in with him to the little box in Canada he's in. The problems with my health don't go away, they just change, and they've been changing a lot. I bleed every month inexplicably out of my ass, and the colonoscopy was inconclusive as it found no evidence of injury. The intersex condition I've got going on is pervasive and represents a full body disorder more complicated than the U.S., and maybe even Canadian, medical systems are able to handle. I'm scared I've lost a permanent part of myself here.
I'm badly indebted to crowdfunding supporters past and present. Gracious for the opportunity, the community, and the groceries and uber rides to doctors appointments covering support that exists to this day. I have so much more I want to do and say but my faculties are so variable it feels like nothing will ever get finished. Sorry about that. I am trying. People have seen bits and bobs of my writing, my continued work on the Zevash Codex, plans for Cold Empty, and I even started an off-the-cuff writing exercise called Ratgirl Isekai that I will port over here to Inkbunny in some capacity if I can. You might even like it, but the protagonist Z is my most divisive character I have ever written, so maybe you won't.
Another post later when I'm in Canada working on stuff.
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