#I've been thinking of a post about video games as a storytelling device recently in fact

[kyofsonder]

I expected that I would doomscroll and, consequently, doom post for a day or two and make that post apologizing for so much political content on my blog and then be done. It turns out there's been less doom in posts than expected, espwcially in my tags, but this has still been going on longer than I wanted. This is still becoming more of a political blog than intended or desired.

Everyone can block the tag "us politics" and you'll be 99.8% free from seeing what I post about politics -- I'm pretty good about using that tag, but I can't account for occasional slip-ups or issues with Tumblr's block feature.

I'm also gonna try to make more original posts. I don't have enough of a buffer of completed fiction writing to post any of that, which is disappointing when my original purpose for this blog was a place to post my writing (it turns out not everyone can "do it for the followers" their way out of severe burnout and should instead heal and get creative abilities back more privately), but I do have a few topics I can write sort of stream-of-consciousness essays on. Mostly fiction I enjoy, since I enjoy it in so many forms, both in broad categories (things I like about video games as a medium, things I think about TV show season lengths, things I enjoy in narrative vs non-narrative podcasts, ebooks vs physical books, etc. and specific pieces of media) and things I experience. These seem to be what Tumblr has stayed consistently geared toward over all the years I've used it, and they're things I have thoughts about anyway.

I know nobody technically needs an update on what I'm planning to post and I can simply... post things when I want to -- it's my blog, after all -- but I'd like to have a record of my thought process when I go back through my own archive and I'd like people who are sick of my political posting to know that's not all there's gonna be. I'm gonna make an effort to balance things out.