Hello there,
It's great to see you here! This feels like letting everyone in my new home. Come in and make yourselves comfortable. I have coffee, snacks, and maybe some good reads. Feel free to look around, and approach me every time you'll need something. I'll just be in the kitchen, or by my usual spot—the coffee table.
I go by Moonfly. I'm not trying to hide my name, but I just feel so whimsical and quirky having a little stage name. As this suggests, I want this blog to be a safe, fun, and whimsical space for my thoughts and romanticizing aspects of my life and being. I work a remote job in digital media and I'm also a student and aspiring creative.
I've always loved blogging. It was since I was introduced to the world wide web at 4th grade, I was hooked with social media and internet culture, and later on got into blogging in my 8th grade. Back then life and the internet seem like less-complicated, I've created some posts and written a bunch of stuff pertaining to my personal life and random thoughts ever since. Being the typical introvert, I did not grow up with a lot of friends and I leaned on writing as a way to make myself sane.
However, I do have a problem with stability and being more confident with my work, deleting my blog post and starting over whenever there's a minor inconvenience. It happens all the time. Whenever I don't post from a certain period of time because of mental blocks and being busy with school, I delete things. Gong through depressing times? I delete things. It keeps on happening to the point that I stopped blogging altogether.
I found solace on being active on social media and be exposed to a wider range of people and real-life friends and acquaintances. But then, sometime in college, we had a project of keeping a blog for our literature subject. I enjoyed it but I deleted it after the semester. I still kept on writing for personal stuff, but I barely publish my work online. Later on, I had a job in digital media where I get exposed to the intricate side of things and learned better. Three to four years ago, I was inspired and picked up on personal blogging again and wished it upon myself to take it more seriously.
With that, I've also become a blog platform nomad and wrote on different places and got familiar with different programs (A good blog idea by the way) and tried each of them. Some were challenging to use, overwhelming, and can be boring too.
I used to write and keep a free blog on WordPress.com, and I love it. However, I tried to transfer it in a new email address. Lo and behold, times passed, and I forgot that email address, I lost access to it, and I lost access to my login altogether. Now I've got the energy, time, and brainpower to somewhat start over here on my new blog, and maybe even amp up my game with a custom domain (out of a whim and I can afford it now so why not?). I chose blogger because it is more simplistic to use in my opinion (More on these on my blog platform reviews) and more affordable to get a custom domain compared to Wordpress' paid plans. (Don't get me started on self-hosting, it's very complicated for me). I just bought a custom domain on Namecheap and got more technical after that until we're here.
Even though I cannot access it anymore, I still want ownership over my past work, so I decided to just link them around here for proper credit and even re-post my written works here.
To be fair, I'm okay with a free blog, but I want to help myself from the commitment issues of it all. Maybe because I used to do free blog that I was ok to take it less seriously and take it for granted. No matter how passionate I was, I was so lazy keeping my blogs because there's nothing huge like money involved. I want to grow as a writer and a creative, and now I am trying to change my mindset. I paid a little amount for domain to give me some drive to produce a lot of blog content and enjoy them.
I know, writing blogs is now considered obsolete with the rise of social media influencers and mobile video. But personally, it doesn't faze me at all. First off, I don't really want to be an influencer, I'm just a silly little girl with a cozy space on the internet. Also, seeing all over social media that so many people are still doing personal blogging and enjoying it. They get to have their safe spaces to romanticize and glamorize their lives, maybe not just in traditional blogging but in other ways to share such as Substack and some social media channels like Instagram and the like.
Also, just an unpopular opinion, we should ditch the algorithm and get into personal blogging this year and make it trendy, I don't know why really but think it's cool, it allows you to have more fun and talk about whatever without pleasing an algorithm, not to mention the nostalgia of it all.
Blogging is still alive and kicking.
See you around,
Moonfly.
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