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 # hi, my name is cassie.
 
 I'm an English teacher from New York. This is the home of the esoteric bullshit that I am incomprehensibly fixated on, which includes books, video games, music, and thinking way too much about everything.
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 this site is currently built using hugo. I edit my posts in Obsidian (with the help of GitSync on mobile) and sync them to a repo on 32bitcafe. I use Cloudflare Pages to build and serve the site. The current theme is heavily inspired by Joyce Manor&rsquo;s Never Hungover Again, a very good album that everyone should listen to.
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diff --git a/public/finished-lord-of-the-rings/index.html b/public/finished-lord-of-the-rings/index.html
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+  <meta name="description" content="Peter Jackson&rsquo;s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring released in 2001, when I was seven years old. At the time, my media diet consisted mostly of watching The Powerpuff Girls and obsessively reading and re-reading the first four Harry Potter books.1 I would like to say that my father was thoughtful and felt that I would have enjoyed another fantasy series with wizards and magic but knew that a three-plus-hour theater experience was tall ask for a seven year old. Unfortunately, I know him, and I think it more likely that he is cheap and thought the movie looked cool, so when Fellowship released on home media, we trucked to the neighborhood knock-off Blockbuster and rented it on VHS. That night, I crowded with my two older siblings around a (by today&rsquo;s standards) laughably small tube TV and tucked in with no expectations or understanding of what the movie would be about.
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 <title>Climbing my personal Mount Doom (I finished reading Lord of the Rings) | cassie.ink</title>
 
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+    <meta name="description" content="Hi, my name is Cassie. This is my personal blog and home of the esoteric bullshit that I am incomprehensibly fixated on, which includes books, video games, music, and thinking way too much about everything.">
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       <description>&lt;p&gt;Well, I have another blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to &lt;a href=&#34;https://cassie.land&#34;&gt;cassie.land&lt;/a&gt;, the latest (as of writing this) web project that I&amp;rsquo;ve started and may promptly abandon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s the truth: These past few months have shown me the impermanence of online platforms. I have quit reddit with the third-party API shutdowns, and while I am probably better off for it, it does feel like losing one of the bastions of the internet I once knew. I regret to inform that I am officially an old person on the internet; I yearn for the days of hyper-specific Geocities pages with incredibly useful information written by a thirteen year old screaming into the void (and for the days where our search engines actually directed us to that information rather than some circuitous tripe written by AI that packs in every SEO keyword without actually saying anything).&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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