Welcome to my new website

Hi, I'm Jediah Sanchez, but you can call me Jedi if you want. Whether you're from DeviantART or if you're an entirely new viewer who's never heard of me or seen me before, welcome to my new website. I decided to call it Jedi the Scribe, since I'm a writer, it was my username on Twitter (now called X for some reason), and I couldn't really think of anything else. I decided to create this website because I wanted to have a place where I could focus solely on my writing.

All of this time, I've just been posting everything I write on DeviantART, as DeviantART journals. But, I started to find that limiting because you know, it's an art website. You mostly go there to see artwork and photographs. You don't necessarily go there to read. 

The journals on DeviantART are more of a side piece, you know, they're something you post for your followers to read, to write about what's on your mind, or give them updates or whatever. But, they're not the main attraction, the deviations are. And I've been treating them as the main attraction since I hardly post any drawings on my DeviantART page anymore. 

The only thing I've posted to my main gallery in the past year or so was a fan fiction rewrite of this hentai OVA 🔞 called Meru the Succubus. I didn't even rewrite the whole thing, I just wrote an episode that I wanted to see, but didn't get to see, and then I rewrote the OVA's entire ending because I didn't like it.

So, all I've been doing all this time is writing journals for all of my long form stuff, and status posts for all the stuff that's too short to post as a journal. But, in addition to that, I feel constrained and restricted on the kinds of things I can write about and post on DeviantART. I've mostly just been posting reviews of movies, shows, and video games that I've seen or played. But, I do write about other things besides movies, shows, and games in my spare time. I also write about history and politics, or more specifically geopolitics; domestic politics don't particularly interest me, and when they do interest me, it's usually in how it relates or ties into geopolitics. 

And every time, every single time that I've gone a little political in my journals, I'll have some jackass post a comment saying something like, "Why you talking about politics? This is an art website! Talk about art!"  Like, for example, I wrote this journal on DeviantART this one time where I was talking about China 🇨🇳, and how it have its territory carved up after a war, and asking how the United States 🇺🇸 would react if they had to give up the same amount of territory. 

I even showed a meme from Reddit to demonstrate my point, in fact, I got the idea to write that journal from seeing that meme. This was still when I was in my pro-China phase 🇨🇳, so the journal skewed heavily in a pro-China point-of-view 🇨🇳. And I got this one asshole who left a comment on that journal saying, "Why you getting so political!? This is DeviantART! You're supposed to be apolitical." That wasn't exactly what the person said, I am paraphrasing, but that is essentially what he was saying. 

He was complaining that I wrote something that was strictly political. He even blocked me soon after he posted his little comment. I didn't get to reply to him, and give him a piece of my mind. I was essentially going to tell him, "Hey, if you don't like what I wrote, then don't read it. Just click away, and read or look at something else." I have since deleted that journal because it doesn't represent my world view anymore, but still, those kinds of comments are still 

So, I mostly stuck to just writing about movies, shows, and video games, and didn't really didn't write any journals that were explicitly political. I did insert some politics and history into my journals about movies, shows, and games because some of the movies and shows I watched were political or were historical. It just couldn't be avoided. But, I feel I've written a lot of good stuff about these topics, history and politics, and I want to have a place to post them if I want to, and DeviantART clearly is not the place. 

So, my only option was to create my own website where I post all of my writings, or at least, all of the ones that I want to post, free from the constraints or expectations of DeviantART. No more people complaining about what I post, or telling me what I can and cannot write. At first, I wanted to wait to create a website or a blog until after I replaced my iMac desktop 🖥️ with the newer 24 inch model. I've had a 27 inch iMac for 8 years or more, and it just kind of got old, broken down, and obsolete. I couldn't alternate between using the iMac and the MacBook 💻 that I had, since the MacBook 💻 was newer and had the latest operating system (OS), and the iMac I had was obsolete technology, and couldn't get the latest OS. 

So, I thought I would wait for that. But, so far, I have not been able to get a new iMac 🖥️. I wrote it down in my Christmas List 🎄, the list of things I want for Christmas 🎄, but I am under no illusions that I'll actually get one for Christmas 🎄 because they're just so damn expensive. To get the iMac 🖥️ that I want, with all the features that I want including 16 GB unified memory and 2 TB SSD storage would cost $2,499 💵. That's a lot of money 💵 for one person to buy, and I'm not expecting that anyone will be able to afford to buy me that as a gift for Christmas 🎄. But, I still want one because it has the new M3 chip, and I'll be able to sync with my phone 📱 and laptop 💻 a lot better, and I won't have to just rely my laptop 💻 for all of my computer needs like I do right now.

In addition to that, I also made a promise that I would have my own website by the end of 2023. It was my New Year's resolution 🥳 for last New Year's Eve 🥳. And I know that a lot of people don't end up following through on their New Year's resolutions 🥳, I mean, just look at all the people who say they're going to lose weight as their New Year's resolution 🥳. But, I really didn't want to be one of those people. I want to follow through with my resolution, and have a website by end of 2023. 

I decided that I shouldn't just wait for some arbitrary time when all the conditions are ideal, or when I deem them ideal. If I do that, then I won't ever have a website. So, I decided today to just do it. I tried using WordPress, but it was too complicated, and I couldn't wrap my head around it. I couldn't figure out how to use it, and all I wanted was a simply blog type format. So, I just gave up, and I decided to open a website using BlogSpot, a platform that I'm way more familiar with. I've created blogs in the past, but none of them really panned out all that much, and I ended up deleting them all. 

So, hopefully this one pans out. Depending on how I like this platform, and depending what the limitations are, this arrangement may be temporary. If an opportunity arises that will allow me to have a website that I can fully customize, and make my own, then I'll move there, and close this down. But, if I end up liking this setup, and if enough people visit my blog, and read my stuff, then maybe I'll stay here. It just depends. BlogSpot certainly has changed a lot since I've last used it, and I'm still trying to get used to the new format, and how to do certain things. I mean, the learning curve isn't as bad as it was on WordPress, but it will take some time to get use to. I still haven't figured it out. 

The same goes for YouTube BTW. I created a new YouTube channel to go along with this new blog, or website, and to completely separate from my Sci-Fi Dragon past. I do plan on closing the Sci-Fi Dragon channel in the near future, once I have everything situation with my new channel, which just has my name, Jediah Sanchez. It will be a more personal channel, and it will represent me a lot better than the Sci-Fi Dragon channel ever did. 

I don't expect to be become a bigger YouTuber or anything, especially most of my focus will be here, but at least I'll be able to post whatever kind of video that I want without being tied down by a single theme or topic (science fiction), and without any of the baggage from the past. There are people on YouTube who I've wanted to disassociate with, and I feel this is my chance. For now though, I probably won't post any videos, and I'll most just use it to like videos, favorite videos, add videos to playlists, add other people's playlists, and of course comment. 

 So, with that long-winded explanation out of the way, I hope you enjoy what I have to offer here on Jedi the Scribe, and you continue reading.  If you don't, then I really don't know what to say to you. You can always click away, and go to a different website that you enjoy better. That's all I can say.