Heya! Yeah I’m alright. Focusing on work, playing Warframe on PS4 in my free time, occasional Homestuck RP, and just generally living self-indulgently it feels like.

So! This blog.

After all this time — years!! — Homestuck proper still gives me butterflies. Sure, there was that new survey half a year(?) or so back with stuff that clues us into radial aspect relationships / wheel neighbors, and Andrew’s hinted with it that there’s still a whole lot to the system to care about, but… as interesting as it’ll probably be to figure out, I don’t think I’ll be participating again in any of that figurin’.

You could see in my Ultimate Riddle theorypost how much stock I put into the idea that these aspects — and classes to a lesser extent — were kind of the vectors through which the ultimate lesson would be told? And together with that, how I was convinced that every loose end would be wrapped up as cleanly and excellently as it felt like they had been throughout the rest of the plot? But that monumental ENDING of his was tailored to brush it all aside as stuff that, while maybe “important” in some respects, ultimately did NOT matter. Lord English focused on complicated loops and plots and loose ends and timeline-spanning catastrophe, but ultimately he was just playing in a little sandbox thinking he was “trolling” the other kids SO HARD when they really don’t even need to give him the time of day in the end. They created a new world that they have their whole lives to tend and enjoy, before they or some offshoots of them feel like taking a break and tying up that stupid Caliborn claymation loop. By every definition that mattered, they WON. They really did get the ultimate reward. And now the essence of their characters live on in both myriad timelines (of both doom and promise) within their universe AND within the minds and hearts and imaginations of all the Homestuck readers who enjoyed these characters so much and got to know them.

And as far as the author was concerned, the aspects were… sure, KIND of neat! But really beside the point.

Which is a valid position! Just… one that I can’t handle well. Not because I think his position is “wrong” or anything, but rather just because I’m “me”. I put too much stock in this stuff. Seeing it torn from the false pedestal I put it on and relegated to the sidelines so dramatically makes it WAY too hard to revisit it and work on refining it again. So… yeah. I’m not gonna do that.

I’ll still read, play, and enjoy pretty much everything Andrew ever makes. I’ll still play through the other Hiveswap’s episodes as they come out! I just won’t, er… go at all in-depth thinking about them and theories and stuff. Cause that’s gonna sting too hard even if I wait for years more, I know now.

So instead of perpetually extending this “break” or “delay” from theorycrafting, you’ll have to take this as my resignation. I can’t promise I’ll never go so ridiculously BALLS DEEP into something theoryways like I did with Homestuck, but given the circumstances it doesn’t seem likely.

So… again! We come back to the question of this blog.

I am NOT gonna delete this dang blog. I put a lot of effort into those years of theorymeandering, people are STILL aspect theorists who can benefit from my past work, and I gather that a lot of people still like my old stuff. *I* like my old stuff! I’m not planning on throwing it away.

But there IS the troubling issue of that whole… “Tumblrpocalypse” dealie threatening to do so whether I want it to happen or not.

SO! First, I need to backup my whole goddamn blog again. That’s something I know how to do already, and plan to do today, or during the week if I can’t today.

Second, and here’s the tricky part, I need to set up ALTERNATIVE HOSTING for this stuff. Somewhere I can upload all this stuff in SOME SORT of readable, searchable form so that you and I can still get at it if Tumblr decides to shit itself. This is something I needed to do anyway, but I’ve been stalling for over a YEAR on it… about a year ago, Dropbox disallowed direct webpage hosting from its public shares, and that broke stuff like the SBaHJ Origin Archive and Wizardology Archive that I’d been hosting there in that format. I’ve been procrastinating and procrastinating on how to re-host those without bothering to set up an entire fucking website, and received SOME suggestions but never put the work in… so, that’s scheduled for this week too.

In the meantime, ANY ADVICE ANY OF YOU HAVE ON ALTERNATIVE HOSTING WOULD BE **WONDERFUL!!!** I have NO idea what the best way to go about this is, alternative-hosting-ways.

Thanks! And, er… sorry for bailing on y’all so hard. If it’s any consolation, I’m living pretty well. :)