A blog which is community-owned (right now, just me) and operated. Non-Profit. Exists purely for the sake of providing a safe space to write for the community.
What Community?
The Queer community. Focusing on the trans experience of their world.
How do you know who is queer?
I don’t. That’s why the blog will always stay invite-based. I invited queer people I know. Next, users get to decide who they let in. You will be inviting people in. I trust your judgement.
Do the members need to maintain a tone or something?
Nope. Unless you put in your legal name, who will know it is you? Use that anonymity wisely. Maybe make seventeen blogs for all seventeen of your personalities with different languages, dialects, and word associations. The sky is the limit. I always wanted to start a mysterious blog where I’ll talk only in binary and Morse code. Maybe I’ll do that now once I’m free.
What is your vision for the blog?
None. The community members get to decide that. I am a facilitator. I had the know-how, so I did it. I needed a blog for myself, so I decided, why not make it available for others? You are the writer, dream up a vision and make other writers agree with you.
What about hosting costs?
It’s currently about INR 3500 to host all services minus the human labour cost. This specific blog is hosted on a 2 CPU + 2 GB RAM system, with 60 GB of storage. We have 1000 GB of Bandwidth for data. I host this blog on Digital Ocean, and I pay for extra protection. The cost is expected to go up when the blog needs more storage. I also intend to host an image-sharing service later if there is a demand. That will drive up the cost as well.
How will you pay for it?
So far, I am paying for it out of my pocket. But I have some ideas. I am also publishing books, and profits from that will be diverted to maintain the blog. I also intend to sell merchandise to recoup some of the costs as well. And beyond that, I am collecting subscriptions and donations via https://wree.quest. I have another website, which can be accessed at https://daxayoni.com, that exists to aggregate all my official publications. However, https://daxayoni.com/ will never post any article from https://daxayoni.blog.
How about the writers?
Glad you asked. You should be able to edit the styling of the blog and add custom headers and footers that stay the same in all your posts. Add your UPI address or QR code so people are able to support you directly. You can also set up Patreon or buy me a coffee to collect donations as well.
All the blogs also have web monetisation enabled. Web monetisation ensures that every time someone visits your blog, you get paid a small amount of money. It’s in its early days, so not a lot of users, but this is being proposed as a web standard. Once that happens, you can get paid without ads. You can be an early adopter with us to ensure your right to get paid for your honest work. We are also not Google searchable or trackable, and we also have no trackers beyond as stated in the privacy policy. We also can’t see anything about a user except their username, the physical space their content is consuming, and their public blogs. That’s it.
That’s it?
That’s it. If you wanna know more, you can always reach out to me. My socials are available at https://wree.quest
It's one of those dumb August nights again
Not a wind in the sky, and the power's out
I thought about you again today
It isnt something you do.
Is your memory of mine just a wisp of smoke?
Sweet as the honey I taste, but overshadowed nonetheless?
I am your cigarette butt
You kiss me like your life depends on it
Every breath
Every kiss is one
It delights you, it refreshes you
As i burn
Burn bright at your lips
But when i can burn no more
You throw my ashes away
I truly am your spectator in the lowlights
I know you love me, whatever that confounded idea of love you have in your mind
I hate you for making me love you so deeply.
I hate you for leaving me here with these people who won't let me sleep any more.
If I could just close my eyes the world would disappear and I could stop hurting.
I want to sleep.
Make those people down stairs leave me alone and let me sleep.
They gave me drugs to sleep once when I first knew, and in disbelief called them liars.
They gave me more drugs to keep me calm and awake as I faced your body
And saw it engulfed by flames and ashes spilled from fingers to the winds on this mountain we both once called home, in more innocent times.
There are no drugs now to numb the pain
Sleep which beckons me deeper into oblivion has been withdrawn by constant company and chatter that goes on around me.
I do not truly hear it, or understand it as I sit and stare at the macabre forced smiles.
Their smiles and consoling words, like blades
some blades are funny
some cause history
And history is every second in time.
but the others, they have this tendency
they lurk in the shadows
a phantom of a shadow
you don't know if you have them
or if you need them
or that it is a part of you.
Where are you I wonder,
will you still come for me?
I would go happily just now,
Even though the vital and living hands of so many try to hold me to this place,
I would fly to you my love just to feel your embrace.
I have read too much poetry of late.
Perhaps I should share with you...
Maybe you would find me there
Just like we used to.
I'm sorry I haven't created a den
in the aisle
of that la la land
in your mind
It is hard for me to tend
to your tense
pretense
of the boujee
of your kind
I cannot smile and nod
when you set yourself up
with the premise
for my punchline
feels like crossing paths with a troll
under the shade of a post
that generalizes my gender's position
in the world as nothing but a tool
You say the main purpose of a woman's life is to have children and wish you were aborted
You'd rather give benefit of doubt to Andrew Tate than to all the women he hurt
You'd rather believe Eve was “made” for Adam than believe they are one being seperated by loneliness
When the padestel we built for people isn't strong enough to hold their humanity and they fall
We must not strangle them with the garland of fantasy,
frame them, hang them
with the accusation of not being “woman enough”
Protyaborton; A tale of change, transition, reclamation and homecoming
তোমার নামে আমার যত উল্লাস
তোমার নামে আমার হাথেখরি
তোমার নামে আমার গালাগাল দেওয়া
তোমার নামে আমার চিৎকার করে হুংকার দেওয়া
তোমার নামে আমার মা এর কাছে কান্না
তোমার নামে আমার ভয় পাওয়া বেদনা |
তোমার নামে আমার জন্ম
তোমার নামে আমার মৃত্যু
আমার ভালবাসা, আমার উচ্ছনে যাওয়া স্মৃতি
আমার পড়ে যাওয়া, আমার উঠে দাড়ানো
আমার বাড়ি তোমার কাছে, আমার বাড়ি তোমার নামে
আমার ফেরত হওয়া তুমি |
তুমি হলে আমার কাঠগড়ায় দাড়ানো
তুমি আমার না ঝুঁকে দাড়ানো
তুমি আমার রক্তাক্ত শরীরের মিথ্যে
তুমি আমার প্রেমের আদরের কাহিনী
তুমি আমার বুকের পাথর
তুমি আমার জলসার ছবি।
তুমি মাইকেল এর মধুসূদন হয়ে বাড়ি ফেরত
তুমি সত্যজিৎ এর চা এর কাপ
তুমি টেরেসার নীল শাড়ি
তুমি দীঘার সমুদ্রের ভীড়
তুমি কবির প্রথম প্রেম
তুমি তো মা,
তুমি আমার ট্রান্সিশন
তুমি আমার রক্ষাকবচ
তুমি আমার তলোয়ার
তুমি আমার লাল আকাশের নিচে ছুটে বেড়ানোর লাইসেন্স,
তুমি আমার লাল রক্তের ভাষা।
তুমি আমার রক্ত,
তুমি আমার কান্নার কবিতা।
তুমি আমার বন্ধুর ডাক,
তুমি আমার মৃত্যুর গান,
তুমি আমার আকাঙ্ক্ষা,
তুমি আমার সময়ের ঘড়ি।
আমি তোমার কাছেই ফিরি,
তুমিই আমার মা।
This blog is supposed to be a pure writing experience. I am using writefreely for the exact same reason. Writefreely supports markdown. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that was created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz in 2004. Its primary objective is to provide a simple and human-readable syntax to format text without the need for complex HTML or formatting tools. Markdown files can be easily converted to other formats, such as HTML, making it ideal for writing content that will be published online or in various documents.
Do you know you can use markdown in the WhatsApp chat, to make text bold, italic, strikethrough, or monospace?
How to use Markdown?
Markdown is human-readable. Which means, you just need to use symbols that we regularly use in our daily digital conversations, but not necessarily while writing ideas. You can use other text editors or note apps before writing on here, to practice.
We can see how it works below:
Headings
You can create six variations of headings using the Pound (#) symbol. You need to use it once before the sentence followed by a space. The number of Pounds determine their hierarchy. For example:
To create bold, italic, or strikethrough text, you need to use three symbols. Asterisks (*), Underscores (_), and Tilde (~). Using a single asterisk or underscore makes the text italics, whereas using double asterisks or underscores makes the text bold. For example:
*This is in Italics*
_This is also in Italics_
**This is in Bold**
__This is also in Bold__
_This is in **Bold** and Italics_
The above will be rendered as:
This is in ItalicsThis is also in ItalicsThis is in BoldThis is also in BoldThis is in Bold and Italics
To use strikethrough, you need to use two Tildes
~~This is Strikethrough~~
As usual, it will render as:
This is Strikethrough
Note that if you do not close the emphasising like a bracket, the style will continue.
Lists
We have a few options to create different kinds of Lists. For Ordered lists, you can use Numbers followed by a period like so:
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Item 4
For an Unordered list, you can use single Asterisk (*), single Hyphen (–), or a single Plus (+) sign followed by a space to create unordered lists. You can see example below:
List number 1
List number 2
List Number 3
To create a nested list, you use indentation by pressing the tab key in the next line where you need to nest the item. Other syntaxes follow as usual. An example is as follows:
Top Item 1
Nested Item 1
Sub-Nested Item 1
Sub-Sub-Nested Item 1
Sub-Sub-Nested Item 2
Sub-Sub-Nested Item 3
Sub-Nested Item 2
Sub Nested Item 3
Nested Item 2
Sub-Nested Item 4
Sub-Nested Item 5
Top Item 2
Top Item 3
You can keep them nested as much as you want.
Links
To be honest there are three kinds of links we will be dealing with, and two ways of showcasing them. Any text links can be put as a link as long as they're accompanied with the 'https://'. They will render as clickable links. We encourage this as it shows the complete link, making it transparent.
As this is a writing platform, we do not allow Image and Video uploads. However using the link feature you can embed Images and Videos using the link syntax.
for an image, You need to use the link syntax followed by an Exclamation mark (!). The syntax is as followed:
Which will render as
Another example could be:
The Alt-Text here exists as an accessible feature. In case the images do not load, or a blind person is navigating the website, they have a context of what is being shown.
To use images, you need to upload your images on imgur or imgbb or unsplash or similar photo hosting services that allow you to open your images separately on a new tab. You need to copy the link address to the separate image tab to use the image. Markdown images are rendered directly from the file, so you need to put in the correct address in the link. Otherwise the images will not render. We know this is an issue. We will implement a separate image sharing service in the near future if everything goes okay.
Videos are added as an embed link. You can't really add them as a regular link and it uses html. You can embed any video from YouTube as long as they are public. Here is a video about the Fediverse:
In YouTube you can click on the share button and copy the embed link and just paste it as html code just like the example below.
Quotes or most commonly known as blockquotes can be created by using the greater than (>) symbol with followed by a space.
> This is a block quote
This is a block quote
Press Enter twice to get out of the block quote editor. You can also nest quotes within quotes.
Code Blocks
To showcase codes or functions, we use the backtick (`) symbol. To showcase an inline code, we use triple backticks. These are also open ended like the emphatic syntax, so you need to close them. Example is as follows:
` ` `
This is a code block
` ` `
Which will be rendered as follows:
this is a code block
I have been using code blocks to showcase markdown syntaxes this whole time. Except the code block example itself. I nullified the syntax effect by adding a Forward Slash (\) before each of the backticks.
Tables
You can create tables by using vertical bars (|) to separate columns and hyphens (–) for the header row. For example:
Footnotes let you add additional information or references. To create a footnote, use square brackets with a caret (^) and a unique identifier, then place the content at the bottom of the document using the same identifier inside square brackets. Here's an example:
Here is some text with a footnote[^1].
[^1]: This is the footnote content.
Here is some text with a footnote[^1].
[^1]: This is the footnote content.
You can also add links in the footnotes like below:
Here is a footnote with a link[^1].
[^1]: This is the footnote content with a [link](https://www.daxayoni.com).
For regular writing you would not need more than a few syntaxes. The blog is designed for a distraction free writing experience. Formatting follows the same principle. By being able to format text while typing without using any specialized menu will make some of your writing experience better and minimal. I can't wait to see what sort of things you’ll write.
