I wonder how much I've paid over the past 16 or 17 years to keep the domain name for this, and to what extent it's been subsidizing a place for bot farms to link to their pirate and gambling sites for SEO purposes.  Or do Google and the like no longer take number and quality of links into consideration when sorting things?  Seems like it's closer to pure pay-to-play now, or stealing things to feed their chatbots.  It's going to take a long time to scrub them clean if I post here regularly again.

And I think I'm going to do so, but it's going to be different.  It would have to be, right - nobody picks up right where they left off after 16 years! - but also, being Martina is not that interesting right now.  I've got a laptop job where I work from home, I'm not in a relationship but also not feeling much pressure to be in one, and most of my activities are pretty gender-neutral, so there's not much to say about what was the main thrust of the blog, and I'm kind of over using it for everyday stuff; I've been burned on social media at times on top of not having that much that's unique to share right now.

But, as you might expect from someone who has over twenty years of this stuff online, I am still really interested in gender-bender material, and I was actually considering setting up a DeviantArt account or something to post fanfics, other short stories, or general thoughts about stuff in the genre that I read/watch that are longer than a skeet or three before I remembered that I've been basically squatting on a domain name that's pretty evocative of being in a new body/life for twice as long as I was actively posting on it

So, that's what I'm going to be doing with this from now on:  Occasional reviews, occasional stories, semi-regular roundups of what I'm doing in other forums.  It's going to start with dumb rambling about a piece of YouTube machinima that's so old I was posting regularly here when it came out and probably get sillier and more self-indulgent from there.  Maybe there will be occasional old-school updates, but, honestly, nothing blog-worthy has happened for years, and I'm not expecting it to any time soon.

(Some folks are going to look at links and go "hey, they're breaking kayfabe" or something, and, whatever; most people who read this blog probably figured it was fiction and it's entirely possible I was working with a co-writer or using an alias elsewhere; but either way it's probably worth setting expectations that what you read here isn't really be written from a [conventional] trans person's point of view, but that of someone who is comfortable in their own skin without having had to take a lot in the way of action to mold that skin to their self.  It's for fun, not to try and correct misapprehensions or say how it should be done, beyond wanting execution to be good and entertaining.)

I may find I've scratched this itch sufficiently in a month or two, or maybe not.  Let me know what you think in the comments, which I will do my best to keep clear of spam going forward!

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