#digital ghost

[jaybirdhitman]

May or may not have been dragged into making an au with a friend. @starwardchaos this is all your fault

We're thinkin on calling it Digital Ghost. Maybe it'll be somethin, maybe not. But the conept has me in a chokehold so have this wip I guess

[body-poetic]

"u cant save smth that doesnt want to be saved"

I Dreamt of Something Lost is a fake desktop game about data, grief, and memory. It is about the Facebook profiles of dead friends, about parts of yourself still stuck in a particular social media profile like a fossil stuck beneath layers and layers and layers of sediment, about the fragility of digital storage, about what it feels like to have your world shrink to the breadth of a computer screen. I made it back in 2023, during a particularly difficult time in my life. I was convinced it wouldn't come to anything; instead, it won a New Media Writing Prize and more-or-less launched my career. Funny how things work out.

I'm trying to grow my writing to the point where it can financially support me - crazy difficult, I know, but I believe in my work and what it can do. I Dreamt of Something Lost is possibly the best thing I've ever made - it would mean the world if you could check it out on itch.io HERE.

You can also buy it as a cassette game (with bonus creator commentary) or postcard HERE!

[the-most-humble-blog]

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MINDFUCK: THEY WARNED YOU ABOUT LIVING FOREVER

They warned you about living forever. You ignored them. Laughed in their faces. Told them you’d conquer time.

They said immortality wasn’t a gift -- it was a sentence. You told them that’s what cowards say when they’re afraid of greatness.

They tried philosophy. Told you you’d outlive everyone you loved. You said love was a distraction.

They tried ethics. Told you your mind wasn’t built to withstand eternity. You smirked.

They tried fear. Told you you’d see things that don’t belong in sanity. Things older than gods. Things that blink when galaxies die.

You scoffed. Called it “cosmic bedtime stories.”

But time kept going. And now you’re here.

The Earth isn’t the Earth anymore. The moon cracked open 300 years ago. No one fixed it. The sun is pale and mean. The wind howls in numbers. You haven’t seen a mammal in decades. Not even yourself.

You can’t die. But you can rot. And you have. Mentally. Emotionally. Spiritually. A living fungus of who you used to be. Trying to remember what warmth meant. Trying to remember why you wanted this.

You belong to no era. No one remembers your language. You outlived names. You outlived gravity. You outlived meaning.

The universe has changed physics three times since the last time you cried. And now crying feels like a punchline to a joke you no longer understand.

You told them you wanted to see everything. You said that like it was brave. Now you stare out at a universe that doesn’t blink anymore. A black sky that yawns open like a wound and whispers new elements into existence.

And none of them are love.

You told them death was for the weak. But you were wrong. Death was release. Death was mercy. Death was the right to belong to a time.

Now you drift through centuries like trash stuck in a wind tunnel. You live in museums made of regret, haunted by the bones of everything you outlasted.

You are not wise. You are not powerful. You are not a legend.

You are a rotting god in a broken simulation. And you have no one left to blame but yourself.

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[AUTO-WIPE IN: ∞ -- IDENTITY UNSYNCED FROM REALITY.]

[grand-zammy]

Happy Ghostbusters Day

(during Pride Month)

[not-fun-dot-com]

nothing i can keep,

but my love…

•.

[thiswasarealplace]

You don’t remember what the joke was. Just that the sun was setting, your heart was light, and for once, being a little cringe felt like freedom.

[derangedrhythms]

take a closer look at what it is that’s really haunting you 

Tori Amos, Digital Ghost

[digitalspectres]

If social media is a costume party, can we wear our real faces?

It’s strange—even on this blog, where I can be a n o n y m o u s, I still find myself thinking about how I come across. I want to be honest, but there’s this subtle pull to craft a version of myself that feels more polished. I catch myself editing my words, curating the vibe of my blog, and choosing the aesthetic that feels just right. It’s not about how I look—more about how I m o v e through the world, the parts of me I show, and the parts I keep to myself.

In a world that’s increasingly filtered through screens, I sometimes wonder how much of myself is actually me. Digital spaces offer this strange power: I can choose how I present myself, how I engage, and what pieces of me I want to share. F r e e d o m comes with it, but so does a quiet uncertainty. Even with all this control, I’m still navigating the same internal landscape. The only difference is that now, it’s through a screen.

These s p a c e s draw me in because they let me express things I might not say out loud—thoughts that feel too complicated or vulnerable in the real world. It’s comforting to know that if someone resonates with me, it’s not because I’ve bared every detail of myself, but because I’ve been honest in the way I’ve chosen to show up.

But even with that, I still hold back. I don’t take photos or videos at concerts or music festivals, even though those are some of my favorite places. To me, those experiences are too pure to be filtered through the lens of social media, turned into something for clout. So, while I show up in digital spaces, there’s still a piece of me that stays off-screen—not because I’m hiding it, but because I want to keep some things just for me.

Maybe that’s the real tension I’m trying to navigate: in a world that asks for curated selves, how do we balance showing up authentically while keeping what’s ours—what’s p r i v a t e—and what’s worth keeping to ourselves?

In the end, it’s about connection, right? I crave that moment when someone truly resonates with me. Maybe that’s what it means to be real: showing up with your imperfections and contradictions, even if they’re left unspoken. It’s not about having everything figured out, but about being willing to explore who you are—digitally or not.

As Kafka once said, “I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face.” Maybe that’s the hardest part—finding the courage to show up as you are, even when everyone else is hiding behind their own masks. In this digital space, maybe showing up with your real face is the truest act of rebellion.