I’m starting over
It was time to renew my website but I got so fed up with the excessive ads, spam, plugins, high pricing of WordPress, that I just moved my domain here to bearblog.dev. I learned about this site from Inechi’s a kickass Mexican cartoonist, super cool newsletter months ago and I’ve been lurking Discover ever since hehe. You should definitely check out their awesome gatoshop too—a lot of great indie comics, prints, patches, shirts, stickers, and hats galore hehe.
I did download my WordPress site just in case, and though I feel like I should’ve copy my publications list and list of projects I want to do, on the whole I don’t regret it. I haven’t updated that publications list since 2017 lol. I could still try WordPress again and access old blogs and projects. But I believe starting from scratch would be good and better for me. That site had old tags that I would never return to and stuff that became irrelevant. I’ve grown so much in the past year that it was necessary to let that go and start anew.
My wish is to write at least semi-daily here. I’ve been lamenting for years how I would love to have solid documentation of my day to day life. And while I could post on my Instagram, I have a tendency to go four comments deep to complete my caption haha. I missed blogging and doing it simply here would be best.
I think once I have a few posts, and more pages up, I’ll announce on social media and my Substack. But hopefully I won’t wait too long, I have a sometimes debilitating perfectionism which prevents me from posting and sharing. I have finished projects that I’m actually proud of that I oddly don’t share beyond maybe an Instagram story. They deserve a permanent place and this site will be it. But I also have stipulations for posting those, like I need to take more photos, write a thorough description, etc. Useful, but not that necessary really. Maybe I can have a goal of posting at least one project a week. That seems feasible.
Right now I feel optimistic about this site and what’s to come next in my life. I’m meeting my deadlines and I’m at a good pace. I have piled a bunch on my plate which is my tendency, BUT they are all things I want and do of my own accord. I just need to be diligent and not overwhelm nor exhaust myself. And most of all, not allow perfectionism plague me. Sometimes I do really well and pull it off, yet don’t recognize it at all. I’m not always aware of how great I’m doing but at least I see that now.