Grendel's Mere

dispatches from the mire

  • To begin at the beginning: I used to love the internet. As a kid, browsing blogs and fansites was so much fun (RIP Mugglenet & company); here we are in 2025 and the internet has instead become, in many ways, something to dread–the endless scroll, the 24-hour news, inescapable social media platforms, the constant presence of someone trying to sell you something. There are of course a number of bastions against this onslaught (Wikipedia my beloved <3), but they are few and far between. But I love connecting with people!…

    a photograph of a brick wall with a semicircular niche carved out of it. the structure is old (roman) and crumbling