Hey readers!
There are more of you than I ever really expected, and I think that’s awesome. I know most of you found me through the now-defunct LOLSecretz, or were sent here chasing a phantom Planned Parenthood post, or googled America’s Next Top Model and found my various amusements with Wikipedia. But now… all that is about to change.
I started this blog in April 2007 with a friend of mine who I maybe thought was fated to be a great, great friend, but instead we slowly slipped out of each other’s lives. We created superhero names and an entire concept for this blog that never really came to fruition – we each wrote a few posts in those personae, but then the pressure of creating and maintaining an alternate identity became too much for me, and I ended up writing in my own voice, but under the name Stella Kevlar. And he stopped writing altogether, meaning that our would-be collaboration de facto became my personal blog.
I’ve always been enamored of the idea of having a blog, or before the age of the online diary, of writing regularly, every day, with or without an audience (but really, with an audience because come on.) By now, it’s gotten to the point where I feel funny about writing as myself behind this sort of arbitrary identity — I don’t feel like a superhero, and I’m tripped up by being one-half of what this project was once meant to be.
So, I quit! As of today, there will be no more new posts here, at Superhero Sewing Circle. I will let the domain name lapse when it expires in April, but I guess the large graveyard that is the internet will forever hold my early writings at superherosewingcircle.wordpress.com.
But, good news! I’m actually making good on my promise to myself to write as myself, and more regularly. Starting now, please migrate with me to silentj.wordpress.com, a slightly less elaborate blog where I use my real name (Arija, pronounced like ‘aria’) and adopt a slightly less defensively snarky authorial voice (only slightly). I’ve really, really loved having a little cabal of readers, and I hope that doesn’t fade away. Update your RSS feeds, yo!
So! Thanks for reading thus far, and don’t be afraid to click right through… starting…… now.
