Sigh. 2026 is here. 😒 Who fucking cares? I sure don't—but I am glad for it regardless; all of 2025 was a ripe mess for me. A constant back and forth of attempts to be productive and failing miserably. I wasn't even able to partake in Blaugust 2025 as I had intended. Obviously...
With that out of the awful way...
Social media
I didn't go over this earlier this month or even in November 'cause I was too embarrassed to say or do anything. I'm a failure, after all. But what I want to do before winter ends is get my internet "presence" under some semblance of control. I have a few places I'm eyeing, such as Pillowfort, the Fediverse, and Instagram. Hell, even Tumblr. It's extremely active over there, if you didn't know. 😶
As you can see these are plans, not necessarily intentions. These are things I really do want to do. Fuck things like eating better or losing weight. I have more pertinent things to worry about... 😒
Anyway, sometime in maybe March, I plan to ignite my Canva account, get a subscription, and make some fuckin' awesome things for a new Instagram account. At least that's the plan; if that doesn't work 'cause of account complications, I'll just use my current one. 🤷🏾♂️ I do want to name it something like "Storyteller Mar Qaroll", though. But we'll see!
Ahem, so I'd do things like posting snippets from stories. Might do a LOT of that in February first, if all goes well, but without Canva's prettiness...
- Quotes
- My characters
- My stories
- Something something pretty things?
- ...advertisements?
Pillowfort, Goblin, and Tumblr
These here Tumblr and Tumblr knockoffs will all have the same content. What that content is, I don't know yet. I need to go sniff around and see what works best for writers up here. Otherwise, I might just use it as a glorified repost bin from Insta as well as Tumblr/Pillowfort/Goblin themselves.
- Flash fiction
- Fandom stuff
- Reposts from Instagram
- Original and others'
Bluesky, Indie Authors Social, and Threads
These three are hopefully going to be my "main" socials. Pretty much everything I do online will be reposted or mentioned here alongside reposts/quotes from others. Interacting, too. Especially on Threads, which is like a limited version of Bluesky and IAS.
Asterisk below means it's just for Threads.
- New blog posts (here only)
- Stories posted online (everywhere)
- Pertinent blog posts related to my stories/PNDVS/STRVRS/CNDL.net
- Posts to chapters
- General updates*
- Flash fiction*
- Answers to community questions*
- Story/character quotes
- General reposts from the site*
Honorable mentions
SpaceHey
...I might abandon this site. Or at least just keep it defunct and check up now and then. I really don't know what else to do, so maybe some random crossposts from here might do... 😕
CharacterHub
I am announcing I am still on CharacterHub under an alias (not a very well hidden one) for drawing and drawing only. It'll be a fuck-shit pile of hell, but I do intend to try to draw again. I just need a better PC and a better tablet...
Not sure how this site really works?? I might just keep using it as I have been, what with community responses and quiet activity. I'm also the moderator/owner/?? of two subreddits, r/Candelabrem and r/Paneidoverse! One more will come soon... 👀
...hopefully sooner than later...
Separate mentions
I am also on 4thewords and, as I mentioned once, GaiaOnline, still. They are "game social sites", so they don't really count. I'll just keep doing what I do on 'em... 🤷🏾♂️
Writing
...as I've been saying, this isn't going well. I just want to write, goddammit...
Newsletter (The Rational Organ)
I need a better way to get a newsletter to a greater audience. At the moment, and probably through the winter season, I am stuck with using Patreon and SubscribeStar. Neither of which gets me a wider audience. I've... *grits teeth* CONSIDERED going back to Substack ('cause let's be honest, I can't back out of everything)...but we'll see. Goddammit all to fucking hell...
Stories
The intention and plan for the winter season is to...hmph, TRY to get into a consistent writing schedule that is actually productive, unlike the lack of shit I've been doing since...October. I should have finished Human this year. I am so fucking pissed I didn't. I can forgive The Monkey and The Little Gods in general since I have a completely new version of the entire setting...
- Finish Human
- Finish When the Moon Shines Red OR just...fucking mark it incomplete...
- If all else fails, write small canon and non-canon shit in my settings and worlds... 😒💢
Candelabræm Network
...I don't really even want to talk about this. It's so "nothing" that I'm questioning my sanity with ALL of this, everything I do. Because that's what the Candelabræm Network is: everything I do.
And yet...
20 years of...?
Well. As of tomorrow, conceptually, Candelabræm is 20 years old. To get what I mean by that, to really get the meaning of those words, it's best you just...read about it on the encyclopedia. I'm too...tired to explain. And maybe actually read the whole article if you really care, for the love... 🤦🏾♂️
It just. It's been nothing. No progress, nothing to show...
But starting tomorrow, you will see some changes to symbols and icons related to both myself and CNDL.net online.
As I say, I'm nothing but someone who tries. And don't fucking Yoda me, man.
I'm trying.
And thus, the New Year commences...
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