In March of this year (2026) I created a new account on Letterboxd, and since then it has been the main place (or really the only place) on the Internet that I’ve personally shared any ‘content’ (as I have published several reviews and lists there), or to any extent actively engaged with other humans via social media (by way of liking others’ reviews and lists and following a bunch of people there.) I don’t have any connection to the people I follow on Letterboxd outside of Letterboxd, and I’m not aware of any people in my physical life (family, friends, co-workers) who have accounts on Letterboxd, except one former co-worker and maybe friend who moved away and I haven’t seen or talked to her in years. Maybe this is why I have felt some freedom to post there.

Other than Letterboxd, my social media activity of late has consisted entirely of subscribing to and reading blog RSS feeds (mainly people and blogs I’ve found around the indieweb and micro.blog communities) and email newsletters (mainly from susbstack and some scattered subscriptions via a now-defunct meta-newsletter discovery service that would send me a new random suggested newsletter issue every day.) I am a true lurker; I have no interaction with the authors of these feeds and newsletters. The newsletter people do have my email, and on most platforms used they likely get analytics about whether I open or look or click, but in the case of the RSS feeds, I think there is likely no transparency or indication to the authors that I even exist and follow or read their posts. So I feel like kind of a parasocial creep for that, despite engaging in the indieweb value of open feeds and protocols. I should probably make myself known somehow to these people. but I’m not ready yet. I always feel like I should get this website in better order before I draw any attention to it or to myself. Also, I think I have disabused myself of an earlier fantasy or illusion that, if/when I do start revealing myself to these people and commenting on their blogs or emailing them, or set up webmentions, or do whatever it is that makes one truly part of the “indieweb” community, that they will want to hear from me and follow what I do, and I will have some sort of instant community and flourishing friendships from what is right now very much parasocial.

But I’ve been a bit active on Letterboxd, and I’m consistently watching movies. I’ve logged 66 films watched this year on letterboxd, and I’ve watched maybe 6 more in the past week or two that I haven’t even logged yet. I don’t know that I’m getting any better at thinking about movies or writing about movies, but I am at least getting better at ingesting them and experiencing them?

I think I’m going to port my Letterboxd reviews and diary/watch logs of the last few months onto this website, and going forward I want to try to post things here first so that I feel like I own them and they have a permanent and open home, and are in the shared context of the others things I do here or might share here. I also will probably make a post for each of my 3-Film Mini Challenges, and for other challenges or lists I am engaging in or might engage in on Letterboxd in the future. It’s maybe overkill duplication but I just want to do it both places. This will be the first phase of the retroactive web logging process I mentioned in my prior post, Guess I should write and blog and stuff.