Just in a very different world than the one I was in when I last posted here five years ago. (Five years to the day, actually.)

I haven’t been around the Star Trek fandom at all lately. But I did get one of my posts signed by Brent Spiner when Wizard World came to Cleveland a few years back. :) I played STO for a while but lost interest. (Still not sure what to make of that Sela storyline…) The only reason I signed back into Tumblr was because the Picard/Q “in bed together” post got flagged for “adult content” and is now “hidden from public view.” It’s a soft PG-13. It’s mind-boggling just how much Tumblr has changed: anyone else remember the x-rated Trek confessions blogs and the fanart of alien privates?

I haven’t introduced my three-month-old daughter to Star Trek yet, but it’ll happen in due time. Yesterday she stopped playing to stare at the all-female spacewalk on TV. Four generations of space-loving women :)

Right before my daughter was born, I made a photo album of the eight years that made up my young adult, pre-parenthood life. Texts from TNG got a two-page spread. I’d wondered several times over the years how many followers I had left–when the blog went “dormant” (I didn’t have the heart to say “dead” or “done”), I had just over 25,000. I figured I lost thousands because I wasn’t posting anymore and so many people abandoned Tumblr. I clicked on my dashboard with the old Picard-on-the-phone avatar…I still have just over 25,000, and still getting likes, reblogs, and follows, almost daily, even though the last post was five years ago.

So, as always, thank you. :)

