Hello, old friends. It’s been a very long time. And I’m afraid you may not like my news.

I’m starting a new blog because it doesn’t feel right to come back here.

I still love this old place. I made it to delight my eyes and it does just that. The tags and 404 page still make me smile. And I love my younger self who was just beginning to discover the kink community and wanted to share what she had learnt.

But it’s definitely dated now. The design doesn’t matter so much, but the advice does. It’s not wrong exactly, but it doesn’t speak for me any more.

For a long time it didn’t matter, because I didn’t have the spoons to blog. Posting on Twitter and then Mastodon was enough. But now I’m starting to have new longform thoughts again!

I thought about starting afresh here, but even the domain name feels wrong for some of the things I want to say now. And life is very different now that I’m ten years older and have long covid. I don’t want to keep updating WordPress plugins and fighting with photo captions every time I have an idea.

So, a new blog. Just as an experiment, to start with.

Please come visit my new place? I’m calling it Yingtai is Thinking.