“I’m back(-ish).”

Okay, well it’s been a while, huh?

No, much to the dismay of the haters and losers, I’m not dead. What basically happened was I had gotten a bit behind on stuff I wanted to do with the site, and as things piled up, it became more and more daunting to restart. Additionally, it felt like the K-pop scene had gone a bit stale, and I found myself being either more negative or simply uninterested while writing articles, which in turn caused me to wonder what the point even was. Then what probably cemented the extended length of the hiatus was that — as I’ve presumed before about any breaks — my quality of life improved (touching grass more, so to speak)* due to my newly freed up time, and that made it easier to just ignore my “duties” here.

*Eight hours of sleep? Talking more with friends? Not feeling rushed through night workouts? Spending an hour disassociating? Playing video games I like? Catching up on my show backlog? What is this devilry?

While I’m certainly not apologizing for doing that, I am sorry I just … uh, left without notice, including to some people who were worried about me and what not. It’s the first time in like … a literal decade* that not only did I not write for the site, but I didn’t even keep up with the news. That’s both remarkable and probably a bit pathetic.

*The last break of this length was during the Great Server Crash around that time, I think.

As far as the path forward, what freed me from my own mental prison and allowed me to return was simply getting it out of my head that I’d have to catch up on literally everything, opting instead to just saying “fuck it” and start moving forward. In that sense, I’ll probably continue the trend from recent years of not trying to be all-encompassing and just prioritizing what I enjoy or am interested in. And if there’s nothing out there at the time or I’m simply just busy, I’ll just let it be instead of forcing myself to write about just anything.

Quite frankly, as I’m getting older and have more IRL responsibilities, I’m usually too occupied nowadays to care a great deal about a lot of comparatively inconsequential celebrity stuff*, and adjusting my output is probably the only sustainable way for me to continue doing this indefinitely. Despite that adjustment, hopefully you’ll still find something you like from the site, though I’m always open to suggestions.

*While I’m thankfully not that old yet, I do now understand how mid-life crises happen, as the family and friends updates start to have a lot more health news, which naturally causes you to ponder about your own mortality more frequently.

So yeah, I’ll slowly get back into the groove … I think.

Let’s go?