Overflow of ideas
So Much to Write, So Little Time
I started this blog in October 2025. Prior to that, there were some timid attempts at writing online again after the great depression of the 2010s (started a few tumblrs, tried write.as, attempted to log back into my old blogger.com account and failed). Hopping into Bear Blog -- not only a blogging platform but also a community -- really helped me get back into writing for myself online. I remember how shy and uncertain I was about what I should put out there. The thought that kept rounding me up was: "do I even have anything to say at all?". A lot of my (scarce) early posts were mostly about blogging itself (all very meta). Looking back now, it was like I was almost trying to convince myself into blogging again.
I guess it worked, because a year and a half later, I'm still here.
And now the turns have tabled: I have so much stuff I wanna share here that I can't keep up with my own ideas. I don't want to flood anybody's RSS feed or Bear's feeds, and I also have that little thing called ADHD that looooves to make me postpone/forget what I wanted to write about whenever I can write about it, but yeah.1
You know what's also funny? Before, I would struggle to get to 500 words per post. I had to fight to get to at least this amount -- an arbitrary goal I set to myself to consider something a proper "blog post". Even though I was never very active on Twitter/Instagram before, I got used to very short written content -- hell, even in the Facebook days the written part of it was much more economical than in the early blogging era.
Now? I have to slice 1/3 of my Notesnook drafts when I paste it on the Bear editor bc I also don't want to write a wall of text or feel verbose (which I've (re)learned, I can be). I often share TMI, go on tangents on my early drafts, repeat myself a bunch. There's also the added factor that my mother tongue is Portuguese and I am culturally Brazilian -- in everything we do there's more text than your average anglophone production. An example: when a book is translated from English to Portuguese, there's this rough estimate that it gets 10 to 20% bigger (in word count) when you're done with it. That's not only because we have to adapt certain things but also because it takes literally more words in Portuguese to say/give the same vibe as in English. So me writing in English always end up with this natural Brazilian-Portuguese "excess".2
I know I don't need to revise a post before posting, this is mostly for myself, but I do work in publishing, so I can't help but at least give it a general "clean up" before posting.
So thought I would write this just to list a few things I'd like to post about here (eventually):
List of things to blog about
- Things I've learned recently (you learn the most random stuff when you're an ADHD loose on the internet)
- How we girlies still end up like our grandmothers in a lot of cases (at least around me), even in the 2020s.
- A review on my Boox Palma, which has its pros and cons
- How "downgrading"/turning to retro tech/dedicated devices can be just another juicy form of consumerism
- A post for my friends talking about RSS (there's almost nothing about it in PTBR)
- Ugly texts: a few posts sharing 'ugly feelings' like jealousy, envy, bitterness and other unpleasant feelings I'm not proud of but that do exist
- No-Game-Purchasing Year: how my secret no-new-games year is going (it's been rough buddy) and reflecting on media hoarding
- Talk about the Linux experience so far: what I like, what I found out, what I miss
- A post about my ruminations on migration and immigration, a topic that is very, very common for many a Brazilian
- The Cloud Drama: y'all have no idea what I've been through trying to find the perfect cloud service for my needs
- Talk about money and ADHD: as the poets would say, this one's a doozy.
- The Self-Sabotage-to-Migraine pipeline (ugh)
- The maximalist approach to minimalism (guys I am INSANE)
That's what I can remember from the top of my head. There's probably more but I'll try to write them down on Listography, probably, to have things more organized over there.
As a Brazilian,
So I've just read this post by virtualyellow thanking Herman for practicing purchasing power parity. It's pretty rare to actually encounter this around the web for any service actually, from big tech to small (?) ones, and last year, while checking out Bear Blog's paid options, I was flabbergasted to discover it did, in fact, offer me a special price bc I was in Brazil.
So yeah, I just wanted to add to the chorus: I would not be able to afford a Bear subscription if it wasn't for PPP. I do plan to upgrading to lifetime eventually (gotta save a lot for that lol), but I'm very, very happy to be able to pay for it right now. So thank you as well, Herman. You're truly doing god's work. :)
Quick Updates
- Migraine is back. Day 5, I think. This is a light one, though.
- I've started sharing quotes around here, on my Author's Notes tag (truly a make_discoverable: false kind of post)
- Didn't do a lot of bookmarking recently, but I did add some stuff to the Webweaving category
- Been more active on the 32-Bit Café discourse. It's a real effort for me to interact publicly, but it's been a fun experience :)
- I'm fairly behind updating my Listography, but migraine + social arrangements do take time
- I'm trying to really, really work properly on this latest proofreading gig. Please god don't let the ADHD ruin this for me.
- I'm watching a lot of Smosh comps and Reddit Stories/Smosh Mouth. It's a good background company, something I don't need to really pay attention to but that also provide fun moments... I truly became those ladies I used to make fun of when I was teen, who kept the TV/radio on "to keep them company". Oh well.
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