You thought I’d let the 17th come and not post anything didn’t you? Nope.
Maybe you thought I was too busy, or that I’d forgotten about this blog entirely. Neither of those are the case.
Before I get too deep into this post, I want to answer the question that everyone seems to be wondering: Where next?
For me, that answer is two-fold. It seems like the majority of the users I follow have chosen bdsmlr, and for the porn-side of my Tumblr use, I’ll likely go there as well. But for the blogging side, I don’t think my blog is a good fit for bdsmlr. So, I have chosen to pull my blog out separately.
Since I’m in I.T. I have the fortunate skill of being able to create and manipulate excellent websites. So, I have pulled my blog out to justherguy.com and re-designed it and re-vamped it in the process.
www.justherguy.com
I have spent every day since the announcement building this site, and copying all my posts over. I haven’t even come close to getting all the text posts moved, but enough content is there that I’m okay with posting about it here. The site is a work-in-progress, so some things may be missing, but it is functional overall.
I should mention that this new site won’t feature the images or videos that I posted on Tumblr. A stand-alone blog isn’t really setup for that honestly… but it will have much more in-depth blog posts, and I’ll be getting back into blogging regularly. It’ll transition from mostly images with a side of life updates, to life updates with detail and images to accompany them.
I’ve set it up so that you can either subscribe via email to get email notifications, or you can click “Allow” in your browser to get notifications when new posts are released. I won’t be doing a ton, although I will be doing more than the once a year I’ve been doing lately. My guess would be 1-2 a month max, possible as little as ever few months.
I realize there’s probably nobody left on Tumblr that still is interested in following my blog since I’ve been relatively inactive for the past 4 years, and so the blog will likely just be for me. But as anyone that has followed me from the beginning remembers, that’s all it ever was to begin with. I had the privilege of somehow catching the attention of 125,533 people over the years, and for that I am humbled and grateful… but I started this blog for me and Her, and that has and always will be the primary focus. So if pulling it out to my own website means I lose the 125,000 views, I’m okay with it. I’m posting this here in case someone that used to follow Our story checks back to my URL and finds the new location.
I need to take a moment to thank every follower that may still read this someday. – Tumblr was an avenue for me to share my love for Her, to Her as a wedding gift. I never anticipated getting any followers, let alone 125,000… and although that did change my blogging habits some, it also brought a sense of community and support I never could have expected. This blog was such a huge part of my life for so long, and the support we received up to and around our wedding was incredible. So thank you. If you should so choose to check in on us via the new justherguy.com website, we’d love to hear from you there.
So back to my tangent about Tumblr. – While I am the busiest I’ve ever been in my life, I haven’t not-used Tumblr for even a single day in the past 8 years. The reality is that I’ve been too busy to sit down and blog, but Tumblr has many uses… Tumblr is one of the most unique communities out there. I watched it grow from 2009 on, and it grew into a different beast every year. There’s nothing else like it, and that is the primary reason that I am so sad to see it die. – Now that’s not to say that I don’t think that something else will rise up in its’ place, as it appears bdsmlr already is starting to… but Tumblr is/was in its’ own way a part of history. It rose with the internet, and much like Reddit did in their own way, Tumblr became a subsection of the internet. It was something truly incredible.
However, I would be remiss if I said I didn’t see this day coming. I called this in May of 2013 when Yahoo purchased Tumblr. – In all honesty I thought it would happen before now… but nonetheless it did happen. And while I am sad about that, I am accepting of it at the same time. – Everything has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Tumblr’s beginning was incredible, the middle was exhilarating, and the end is bitter-sweet. I say bitter-sweet because we all saw this end coming.
For the past year or 18 months, Tumblr has been on a deactivating spree that was surely the signs of the beginning of the end. It was so bad in the past 6 months that it was almost sucking the life out of Tumblr, when half the blogs you went to discover from a reblog were deactivated. It was frustrating, and although this move may have been a shock to some, it surely couldn’t have been totally unexpected for those of us that have been following the community closely for a while.
The interim will be rough, between Tumblr’s death tomorrow and whatever takes its’ place, but I am confident that a community like this cannot be killed. We will be back… and like every new re-birth, we’ll be different but possibly even better than before in new ways.
With all of that said, I’m getting back into writing because my life has changed so much over the past couple years that I need this escape. If you choose to subscribe to the website, you’ll get updates on where we’re at, and the long road that got us here that I virtually all-but-skipped posting about for the past few years… and hopefully, you’ll follow us back to where we were in 2011. That’s the goal anyway.
I’m not going to get into my life updates right now… because I have time for that in the next couple weeks given that we’re at the end of the year. This post is about waving goodbye to an era that helped define a TYPE of community for the internet, unlike any other. So with that, I thank you all, and I wish everyone that doesn’t subscribe to my blog the best. It’s been fun traveling this journey together.
justherguy.com
