So I guess I’m blogging now…

After learning my friend Warner has returned to blogging at Life on the Wicked Stage: Act 3, I decided to… write up my thoughts about Willow the series on Disney+ to share on Mastodon. I drafted it up in Notes, pasted it into Mastodon, and exceeded the character limit by 140 something. Ordinarily, I would have spent way too much time revising and editing down to fit. However, this is a new year, so I’m adopting new habits. Now I’m going to lay down the words, and if they don’t fit Mastodon or whatever microblog I use, I will put them here and link it.

Yeah, I know I could split my words across multiple Mastodon posts, but I don’t particularly care for threaded posts. Perhaps in the future, I might draft something intended as a blog post (which this post is, but it’s about the blog, so I’m not counting this as part of the blog description). We shall see.

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