Blog Migration!

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I've moved!

 

For many, many, reasons, I'm discontinuing this blog and have started a bearblog instead. 

 

Why?

  1. I don't like the formatting on Blogger
  2. I don't like how Blogger's associated with my Google account
  3. I feel an obligation to post with a certain style and tone, and by migrating to a new space, I can weaken those mental obligations
  4. I only want to tend to one blog at a time. I can't have both it'll make my inability to post worse 
  5. I want to post about things other than TTRPGs
  6. Bearblog's formatting is cuter 

 

The new blog (strawbeary.bearblog.dev) is primarily a personal blog where I tell my friends all about the things I'm thinking about and doing. It's linked to my Instagram (for those who have it), and you can get manual notifications when I post if you have my number (which most of my current readership won't). I'll be posting about gardening, photography, and my day-to-day life, mostly. In that way, it's a lot more personal.

I'll also post about TTRPGs, especially TTRPG design theory, my heartbreaker - Jangli - and some other projects, what a bogblin actually is, and tidbits of OSR-adjacent content. I'm estimating about 50% of the blog will be TTRPGs. So if you want more of that, keep the link handy! I'm using bearblog's free version for now, so you won't be able to search as usual - though I'll still post my TTRPG-related content in the NSR blog roll.

And that's it! Nothing else to really say. Thanks y'all for being so patient about my posting inconsistencies and the immense delay on Jangli (playtests take time, unfortunately). I'll see y'all on the oher side.

Love,

The Original Bogblin 

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