This blog isn't about anything

11 Jul, 2025

Heya! So, a while ago lin asked me if i ever had anyone ask what my blog is about. I found that kind of interesting. Is this blog "about" something? I suppose if it's about anything, it'd be about me. I don't really see the point of having a personal blog be "about" any particular topic.

At least for me, i would probably run out of things to talk about eventually. Having everything in one place just seems so much nicer to me. Why restrict yourself, you know? I like having that creative freedom to just talk about anything. Having a particular topic tends to just get in the way of that. I think the commercial internet has kind of conditioned us to think of our online presence as a brand, to try and fit into a specific box. Because it's easier for the algorithm if a certain profile just does one specific type of thing - and more importantly, it's marketable. But we're on bear here, and let's be honest: Noone is making any money off of this.¹ You don't need a brand. Just do whatever. That's part of the fun, i think.

But hey, we all have a different writing process. Speaking of which, I'm still not quite used to writing again. I tend to get rusty pretty quickly if i don't keep up the habit of posting every two or so days. I'm no longer really in the blogger mindset, i suppose.

To be fair, it probably doesn't help that I'm writing this in the hospital. I did want to get something out since I'm now in the condition to, y'know, write stuff. Also I'm quite bored, so there's that. I should, hopefully, be getting out of here tomorrow. It's always really weird to lose something you took for granted. I haven't been allowed to walk for the last few days and am just now starting to be able to go short distances with crutches. I'm recovering pretty quickly, but still. Rather humbling to get a view into what not being able to walk is like. Just goes to show how important accessibility is. I mean, first and foremost it's important to care about helping other people, but you also never know when you might need that accessibility measure. We're all just temporarily abled, as they say.

I might make another post about accessibility at some point, i feel like that could be interesting.

...And it seems that I've veered off into a completely unrelated side tangent. I'll just pretend that was part of the plan considering the original topic was about this place not being about any one particular thing. It was actually an expertly crafted framing device, you see?

Oh well, thanks for reading!