Ah Shit, Here We Go Again

I didn't think I'd be doing this again, writing. But when I closed down Facebook and Twitter (it's not X, thank you) I felt like I needed to do something else besides just stay on BlueSky. Social media in 2026 is weird. Back when I joined social media for the first time when MySpace (I know, I'm old) started getting popular, it made so much sense to me. You had top 8 spaces for your favorite friends (what a disastrous idea in retrospect), you could have music on your homepage (why don't more sites do this?), and everything I posted felt like I had meaning to it.

Did I mention I was a teenager?

Anyways, over the years social media has lost its luster to me. I don't know if it's the constant arguing, the dumb shit people post online (including myself), the friend drama, losing people, getting harassed, getting doxxed, getting death threats, you get the point, it's been a wild ride and I'm not sure if I want to be on it anymore. That said, here I am. Sure I'm blogging but I don't want to be talking to no one right? There's a social aspect. Plus I'm on BlueSky, Discord, etc. I'm not interested in being a digital recluse or hermit, at least not yet, but I'm way less social by any barometer over the last 10 years then I used to be.

Maybe it's the enshittification of social media. The use of ads, making it harder to find options (I swear I feel like I'm 80 sometimes online), making it tougher to leave your given social media platform of choice, making search engines worse, adding AI (generative specifically), basically corporations are putting their profits ahead of the people they allegedly serve. What a shocker, right?

I could also be more honest and say maybe it's me. I've seen a lot of things on the internet at this point. I've been using the internet consistently for maybe 20 years, which I know, is rookie numbers to folks who have been using the old forums when I was an infant or some military vet who used it back in the 70s for pong. But regardless I've seen a lot and I'm just not sure I want to see much more. I'm not sure there is a lot more for me to see on social media that I couldn't just see via one type of social media instead of several. Add on to that the Facebook leak back in 2021 (and this one about FB favoring profits over the safety of its users) and allegedly Facebook having to do with helping incite violence, and Twitter being owned by a literal Nazi, and no, I'm not hyperlinking for that claim.

That leaves BlueSky which, I have no illusions of (also see this). It's the best choice on a table full of enshittification and sometimes I wonder how close BlueSky is to falling off with the rest of the platforms I used to enjoy. Especially when there were recently proposals to make blocking people more like Twitter which, no thanks!

So what am I doing here?

That's a great question random citizen!

I'm still figuring that out but all I know is I want to write more in 2026 and focus on things I have to say in long-form style. If you want to follow along, I'd love that as I yap about various things that matter to me like pro-wrestling, video games, politics (ideally not often), anime, books I'm reading, and whatever else.

What's the title of this blog though, what's up with that?

For anyone who knows me, you'll know I love Kingdom Hearts. Actually, as I'm writing this someone I know through Discord is streaming Kingdom Hearts 1 so this feels like a nice moment to be writing this. Regardless, Second Chance and Once more are both features in the Kingdom Hearts video game series. Second Chance allows Sora (the main character) to survive an attack that would be a one-hit kill while Once More allows him to survive a flurry that would kill him.

"Yeah, that's cool Dory...what the fuck does that have to do with anything?"

Alright, fair.

First off, it's just a cool name I've been thinking of for a while. I like the sound of it, I think it's catchy and makes for a compelling title to a blog.

But more importantly, I love Kingdom Hearts.

...Okay and also I've needed a lot of second chances in life.

Suffice it to say if mistakes are the way we make real life experience points then I should be level 99 by now, or whatever the max is. Instead, I'm frustratingly human and under-leveled for many of the things set in my path, and being autistic probably doesn't help things either when it comes to navigating life.

So in the spirit of self-improvement, journaling, getting my thoughts out there, and trying to make up for the lack of Facebook and Twitter (good riddance) in my life currently I'm going to try this whole blogging things, again. For like the third time.

Will it work? No idea! But I'm not going to get anywhere in life if I don't take risks and try new (old) things. I'll be thinking up what to write next but hopefully this does for right now as a nice little intro to what I'm about:

My name is Doreen/Dory, I live in New Hampshire with my partner and our dog, and I'm hoping to cultivate a cool audience of friendly and inclusive nerds who like engaging with a whole bunch of nerdy nonsense.

To quote Sora, "See ya!"