Hellobiscus

If it matters, a lot of factors went into this, but mostly I just lost interest in "running" the blog vs keeping the blog. I have a life and I have stronger interests outside of this blog's content. But these things are still my interests. I made a good go of trying to be A Blogger and "run a blog," whatever that means, but I hit an engagement wall that ended up being too hard to overcome.

Still, I want to thank everyone who ever followed and reblogged and sent asks and engaged with this blog. When it was active, this was easily the most interaction I've ever gotten out of a side interest blog and it was fun!

Ultimately it just got to be too much of a pain vetting other blogs every time the community went through some toxic shit (the heavy DDLG lean in the very beginning, the endo/exo system arguments that I do not have a single opinion on but had to blog very carefully to stay out of, then the rampant exclusionism/aphobia thing, etc.). I think a lot of this stems from the active stim community skewing young, overall. I felt more and more like I was too old to really be an active part of it.

And I consider myself both lucky and skilled that I managed to gain 5k+ followers and still Stay Out Of It, no matter what "It" was. I've gotten so much more harassment and trolling on blogs that have way fewer followers, so this was overall a very positive experience! I want to keep it like that. The whole community has changed anyway. I've been out of it for too long. I could get back in, but I get very little from putting in the work.