Probably Leaving Bearblog

I've quite liked hosting my site on Bear, I think it's a great platform. But I think I'll probably leave it for three reasons, all more to do with me than Herman. On the one hand, I feel vaguely like writing my own static site. An internet acquaintance has a very nice-looking static site, and it occurred to me that this is the sort of thing I could build. Michaelmas tests lately over, I have enough time to do so. Currently, the site also just has a lot of tonal whiplash. We have dumb jokes, we have a couple worldbuilding projects, and we have a blog. But the blog is a combination of: (a) a brewlog, (b) shower thoughts from 1:30 AM, and © the the occasional long and actually good essay. I could plausibly put the brewlog on a static site, or I could just keep it to myself, and that seems like a more natural place for my fiction than a blogging platform. In 2026, the natural place for © is a Substack. I mildly dislike Substack as a piece of technology, but that is where people write the…