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Drægon 飛龍

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Drægon 飛龍

@flyingdraegon.bsky.social

A poem about the early internet:
A Past that isn't Mine

A Past that isn’t Mine

Browsing the internet, I slip into a backrooms-esque space,
Filled with disconnected isles, with life gone without a trace.
Indexes of artifacts gathered from galleries long gone,
Snippets and pieces of past lives, written and drawn.
My wayback machine, the only way to explore,
Through many closed portals, and dead links galore.
Some monuments stand still despite time,
Someone’s homepage, marked copyright 1999.
How I wish to be here, over two decades ago,
To talk in these forums, seeing users move to and fro,
To follow the blogs of pioneer internet writers,
This archaeological dig, for me an all nighter.

But I know my time here, simply can’t last.
To me it feels like now, but reality keeps it in the past.
A past that isn’t mine, how I wish it weren’t so,
IRC and abandoned webservers, many places I can’t go.
Usenet and newsgroups, formerly bustling with life,
Now filled with spam, or closed from drama and strife.
To think all of this data, from before I was born,
What can I do with these remnants, except just mourn?
Because as time goes on, I know more will be forgotten,
Especially now, with AI making human work trodden.

So here I sit still at my desk, the sun rising behind me,
Knowing that someday I too will be part of this history.
And eventually forgotten, as all things will be,
So let us enjoy the present of writing this grand story.

December 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Drægon 飛龍

@flyingdraegon.bsky.social

deadzone

My phone is dying, the two sections are literally where my phone's screen stopped responding, now the whole top half is dead hah. The bottom bar is also the same dead pixels and corresponding cracks. What better way to celebrate than to make one final piece before it expires? :P

this is also a semi vent art so kuddos if you see this, ill be fine... ill get by... surely.

November 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM

Drægon 飛龍

@flyingdraegon.bsky.social

A pattern of 3 sets of 3 parallel lines, and all it's combinations, one set constrained to a hexagon and the other where each line is constrained to the same length.