Okay. I am going to confess to one thing that I have been wasting way too much time on lately when I should have been working on the Wongery.

That thing as, as mentioned in the title of this post, wizardposting.

What is wizardposting, you might ask, unless you already know what wizardposting is, in which case I'm going to explain anyway because you are probably not representative of most people reading this post.

Well, as I mentioned in my last news post, I've had a personal Tumblr account for more than a decade. I have, however, recently created a few new Tumblr accounts. One is, of course, the official Wongery tumblr account, to which I have not yet posted, and to which I do not plan on posting until January 1, 2024. Another, created less recently but within the last year, is a wizardposting account.

Okay, I still haven't explained what wizardposting is. Well, like most social media sites, Tumblr has myriad subcommunities existing within it. One of these subcommunities is composed of a bunch of users who (most though not all of them using sideblogs for the purpose) take on the personas of wizards and various wizard-adjacent characters such as homunculi and magical cats, and post about... wizard things. Possibly the largest wizardposting account, and possibly the first that helped kickstart the whole thing into existence (though I don't know that for sure and that may very well be incorrect), is @evilwizard, who posts as, well, an evil wizard... but @evilwizard is only peripherally at best a part of the larger wizardposting community, mostly doing their own thing and only very occasionally interacting directly with other wizardposters. Other wizardposters form more tightly-knit groups, frequently replying to each other's posts and engaging in extended roleplay about their wizardsonas having wizard adventures. I'm not going to mention any other wizardposting accounts by name here, mostly because there are so many of them now I wouldn't know which ones to single out, but they're easy to find by searching Tumblr for tags like wizardposting, wizard council, or wizardblogging.

Well, I didn't necessarily set out to join the wizardposting community, somehow it just sort of happened. In fact, I now have multiple wizardposting accounts, though there's one I post on much more than the others. Already my first wizardposting account, which I've had for a matter of months, has almost five and a half times the followers of my main account I've had since the early 2010s, though to be fair I've been more active on my wizardposting account lately than I have on my main. (This does not mean my wizardposting blog is a big blog with lots of followers. It's more than despite how long I've had it my main blog is a very small blog with very few followers. I am bad at social media.) Even my newest wizardposting blog, created less than ten weeks ago, has almost half again as many followers as my main blog.

I am not going to reveal the names of my wizardblogs, naturally; I'm trying to avoid revealing my identity for now (for no particular reason that I can articulate), and that includes revealing ties to other pseudonymous identities elsewhere. (This is why I've been cagey about exactly how long ago I created my wizardblogging accounts; I don't want to give exact dates that would make it too easy to figure out which ones were mine.) Still, I thought I maybe ought to explain one of the extremely stupid reasons that I haven't been making too much progress on the Wongery as of late. I really probably should try to cut back on the wizardposting work more on the Wongery and on... other things that aren't wizardposting. I really probably should, but I probably won't. Sorry.