Time for Renewal

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   Well, things have happened.

    I'm going to put this here in writing so that way people know what's up. 

    I have pruned a lot of my social media stuff. I have removed a lot of the people I have followed and also removed a lot of people that are following me. Why? Because I feel like I need to. It is a pruning I do toward the end of every year. It is part of a much larger pruning I do in my life that often includes a period of isolation and minimal effort being put into most things. 

    This year feels a little different though. This year feels more like a good time for me to take stock of where I have been putting my energies and what I need to do to get stuff done. 

    So I am going to take a year of minimal social media outreach. A Minimal Media year, now that I am coining this season of my life. I have three main areas I want to focus on in my real life, and I cannot do that if I am being pulled by multiple distractions. Here is what I have done:

    - As I said before, I've cut who I'm following and who is following me. Sorry for the culling, but also not sorry for it. I need to focus. Some of y'all are wonderful distractions, and some of y'all are fluff that I kept around out of being nice. Not anymore. 

    - Most of my social media posts, especially on Twitter/X. I don't want to keep a lot of stuff up. I thought about deleting this blog itself, but I am not going to. I'm just going to keep this.


    With this in mind, the only place you are going to see me be active online is here, on this blog, or on Instagram. I am going to try my best to be more regular here for all of 2024 with both life updates and fictional work. If you want to follow me on Instagram, be prepared for random photos. Otherwise, I won't be posting/streaming/making content anywhere. I just can't. Not with all of the stuff I want to get done in 2024. You may see me in certain places, but it will be as a spectator. Nothing more, nothing less.

    I hope you all have a wonderful rest of 2023 and a revolutionary 2024. I hope to catch up with all of you in 2025 when I finally get my shit sorted out. 

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