Trix

I've had that post title in my head for days now.

Anyways, I have not been very active on this blog over the past *checks notes* eight years, so let's have a bit of catch-up.

The world went to shit, twice, I got into multiple podcasts, made a bunch of new friends on Discord, started participating in Get Your Words Out, Got back into Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, started writing fanfiction for that, and have now written a couple hundred thousand words of published fic for that series alone.

I've also grown up a ton, have far fewer fucks to give about the various bullshit things that have been happening in multiple spheres, and am determined to just create the fic I wanna see in the world, no matter what. And I'm having fun doing it!

That's ... not as long as I thought it was going to be. But it is still accurate.

So I know I've been fairly quiet since the 17th of December. The simple reason is I just ... don't know what to do with myself on four or five different platforms. I just made a Twitter and I don't even know how much use it's going to get. I've had Facebook (under my real name) for over a year, and I have maybe two posts on it. I've hardly posted to my own Livejournal account in ages, although I've kept it going because I like that platform. I don't even know what to do with myself on Pillowfort yet. I'm pretty sure importing my Tumblr blog to Wordpress ain't gonna happen with a free account. And then, of course, there's this place.

I've been logged off Tumblr for a week for Phase 3 of the Logoff Protest, though I didn't participate in Phase 2 and may not outright leave Tumblr because I have a lot of posts I wanna look back on in my blog, stuff that made me laugh, made me cry, made me stop and think, taught me things about minorities that I simply didn't know before, or just resonated with me on some level.

Of course, that means I now have so many platforms at my disposal that I don't know how to manage them all. Do I put things exclusively on one or two, or post everything everywhere? Do I designate what will go where and try and circulate through all the platforms? I don't know, honestly. I'll try and keep abreast of everything, but if I'm silent on here for a while, it's probably because I can't think of something to say over here.

The whole fiasco with Tumblr has me in literal tears, but I don't know what I, an Australian with no money and a small internet presence at the best of times, can do about it.

I know no-one will read this. I'm not going to hide it from anybody. I'm scared. I've spent nearly five years on Tumblr, collected thousands of posts, about a hundred followers that weren't bots, and made some wonderful friends. But I'm so dang scared that's all gonna vanish. I hope the staff is paying attention. I hope they change their approach. I really, really do. But no-one else I've seen on my dash seems to think they will and that's really really sad to me...