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I don't know how I stumbled on this two-year-old post - ah, the joy of hypertexting your way through Substack! - but I will now be thinking about it every time I see an anime profile pic, a dog, a cat... etc. In other words, every day for the rest of my life, probably. It's a contender for the best thing I've ever read on this website.

(And this is despite finding your concluding thought, about the potential of the fragmented self, to be wrong! Or rather, I think we *are* moving towards fragmented selves, and that is bad - but this is maybe just my perspective from two years on, where stuff like Vtubing and ""alter systems"" are getting increasingly normalized, to my chagrin)

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