(The above image is CC0. I can’t imagine anyone getting much from it though. There are no other drawings in this post, sorry.)

Not feeling super good.

I shouldn’t be surprised, we’re coming up close on the anniversary of my mother’s passing again. I’m sure some of the mood is just yearly conditioned habit now.

But I’m also really feeling the sense that the only people who believe most in the good in me haven’t seen the worst of me, and the people who have seen the worst of me have quietly decided to avoid me. Or maybe they’re just busy with their own hard times. Hard to tell.

I don’t want to stream. I don’t want to voice chat. I don’t want to Discord. And it’s been more than 5 years since I looked at social media and thought “yeah, this is better than a traditional blog with an RSS feed or some forums.”

So. I’m just gonna unplug a bit to try to find myself again. The anxious thoughts and doubts are coming from *me*. So I have to untangle it within myself.

Besides, I wanted an excuse to drop WordPress and get some other blog engine going. Might be a good excuse for me to learn a new techstack.