Digital Daydreams

It's my 8 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

pog i suppose.

truth be told i'm only checking in here because i just noticed i couldn't access this blog from public... cringe.

a lot has changed since i was last active here. will i ever be again?

unsure.

Most of you have already seen plenty of these posts by now, but in the event that I, too, go into permanent cryosleep, I’m writing this missive to let you all know where I’ve been, and where I may be headed. To cut it short, regardless of how you feel about Tumblr’s upcoming policy change (in T-minus one hour and five minutes, no less), the loss of David Karp last year and the unmitigated disasters stemming from the rogue anti-adult bot and new CEO have destroyed my faith in Tumblr as a medium, through which I once showcased my work, found aesthetic inspirations, connected with other lovers of cyberpunk, and made friends. The staff claim that literature will not be affected by these sweeping, knee-jerk policies- but if that’s true, why was their very own staff post announcing the changes *also* flagged? I refuse to shy away from certain themes and mature content in order for Tumblr (or should I say, Verizon) to please advertisers. Even a subscription option without any of these restrictions would have been preferable.  That said, I doubt that I’ll be deleting this blog outright. It has a certain amount of history to it, and, as I said earlier, I’ve met some good people through it. But it’s time to move on. I’m currently looking for a blogging platform replacement. I do have a Twitter and Mastodon persona if you’d like to follow me there, however!  https://twitter.com/sunderedstars https://niu.moe/@Stormy For those of you who don’t know what Mastodon is, it’s basically Twitter, but decentralized and without the ad bots... or the promoted posts... etc etc. A decidedly less corporatized approach to microblogging! I tend to live there most of the time, but I maintain the twitter presence, such as it is, since that’s currently more mainstream. For now.  I hope some day soon I’ll return here to link to a new writing blog, whatever service I choose to use. One thing’s for sure, it will be one that won’t so easily endanger creative freedom in the pursuit of profit.

See you all in the Matrix...

Experimenting with a secondary blog to hold all the draft posts/inspiration/references I've always wanted to post but felt were out of place here; especially since this blog is meant to be like, 70% original words, and 30% fancy imagery to break up the text walls. (whoops)

I'm still torn on what to do with the memes, but I'm probably going to make a tertiary blog to fit all of those. Maybe.

Until then, here's a link! stormy-reblogs.tumblr.com

- Insane party members

- Cursed Macguffin

- Insane witch with mind powers defeated and trapped in a cursed macguffin