I'm checking this platform out because it doesn't feel right to go back to my old blog, the University of Abject Submission.

I still love the old thing. I made it to delight my eyes and it does just that. The tags and 404 page still make me smile. And I love my younger self who was just beginning to discover the kink community and wanted to share what she had learnt.

But it's definitely dated now. The design doesn't matter so much, but the advice does. It's not wrong exactly, but it doesn't speak for me any more.

For a long time it didn't matter, because I didn't have the spoons to blog. Posting on Mastodon was enough. But now I'm starting to have new longform thoughts again!

I thought about starting afresh at my old blog, but even the domain name feels wrong for some of the things I want to say now. And life is very different now that I'm ten years older and have long covid. I don't want to keep updating WordPress plugins and fighting with photo captions every time I have an idea.

So, a new blog. Just as an experiment, to start with.

Let's see how this goes.

#bloggery #TMI