Not Logging, Just Blogging
I skipped my weekly musings post for the weekend. It should only be my second one here on my main blog, but I've already skipped it, both because I'm too tired from the weekend to bother and also because I didn't really keep up with what I did the past week in any sort of tangible way.
I'm also starting to think that, honestly, I just don't want to keep up with everything I consume. I've tried very hard for so long to do that, and it's clearly not working out for me. I rarely actually post week notes, and I took down my 2026 media log because it was getting too overwhelming. Meticulously logging things is just not how I function, but there are also specific reasons that make it difficult for me, particularly when it comes to games.
I read a post by Laura Michet recently called Why I don't post about everything I play that echoes how I feel about this pretty perfectly. The bottom line is that I play a lot of small indie games. Some of them only take a few minutes to complete, and those can add up. And I don't want to talk about them, or even really mention them, if I didn't love them.
I like recommending small indies, and I try to with things like my zine series, but if I didn't particularly enjoy a small game, I think it does a hell of a lot more harm than good to even mention it. Laura's post explains why, so I'll simply refer you to it.
Laura also points out that this mostly applies to games and not movies or other media, and I agree with that. I've been doing a good job of keeping up with the movies I've watched this year on my Letterboxd and the books I've read on my Goodreads. I don't necessarily feel like I need to rehash those here, as they each have their own place.
Also, I'm old. This is relevant, I promise. I work full-time, and I spend a lot of time with my family. My husband and I like cooking meals together, I have a weekly boardgame night with my parents and other family members, and I have a not-quite-two-year-old dog who needs a lot of exercise and attention. I'm getting ready to start a volunteer position that will take more of my time. I'm grateful for all of these things, but it sometimes means I don't have an excess of time to partake in media consumption, let alone log and write about it.
I rarely watch any series, whether television or anime, because they're a significant time commitment and personal investment, and I'd rather spend my time playing a video game, reading a book, or doing something creative. So I don't have much to share there.
For movies and books, I've already pointed you to the places where I log them.
For music, I have a last.fm profile, which is embedded into my /music page.
Games, though, are the hobby I invest most of my time into, and it's simply overwhelming to try to log them anywhere, whether on a site like Backloggd or here on my blog. I like writing single posts dedicated to games I particularly enjoyed, like my impressions of the Silver Pines demo or my mornings with Cast n Chill.
I think I'd rather just share organically whenever I feel like talking about something I loved, rather than trying to point out every little thing I consumed. There's a plethora of places where you can find some of the games I've played and enjoyed on the web, including my itch.io profile, and I'd still like to try to look back at my gaming habits at the end of the year.
But I play a lot of games -- indie, triple-A, interactive fiction, retro, browser-based, solo tabletop RPGs, and more. It feels impossible to notate them all, and I'm not sure I want to. I'll carry the experiences with me, and maybe they'll come up in conversation in the future if I'm reminded of them. I think the internet has made us all feel like we need to catalog and condense ourselves as much as possible, but ya know, we contain multitudes and all that.
So maybe Weekly Musings is over before it even really began, but I'll still share the songs I love and the games that leave a deep impression on me and the books I can't stop thinking about here, whenever I feel the desire to do so. And don't get me wrong, I think it's great if you want to log your media in whatever way works best for you. Personally, though, my brain keeps resisting me on that front.