And Another Thing...

The Short Version

OOPS, I DID IT AGAIN

I PLAYED WITH YOUR BLOGROLL

GOT LOST IN THE ‘SPHERE

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The Medium Version

I originally wrote up around a thousand words on this topic (which you can read in all their glory in “the long version” below), but then I read Scamp’s post.  What he said about me struck a chord:

No, because I don’t want to step on people’s toes simply for the sake of step­ping on people’s toes. Mikoto/Fangzhao/Flomu can get away with that because that’s his shtick. His inter­net per­sona is built up so that he can ‘get away’ with doing that (for a given value of ‘get away with’) and I’m glad people like him exist. Someone needs to give vari­ous parts of the blo­go­sphere a kick up the hole every now and then. It’s just I don’t want to be that per­son. I’m too much of a pussy to do that so directly.

You see, my internet persona may have developed into a metablogging prince of drama, but I never intended it to turn out like this!  Although I find anime interesting (and Nichijou orgasm-inducing), I like talking about blogging more.  What goes on in a blogger’s head when they write their posts?  Why can they write something like this and I can’t?

In a way, this has helped me understand what I like and dislike about blogging in general.  I don’t like “academic” blogs.  Blogs thrive on comments.  Posts should have voice.  A blog should be organized.  Episodics need not give a summary.  Things like this.

But if I continue down this path, I can see myself becoming a more outspoken form of Author.  A less oldfag version of lolikitsune.  A less popular and more personal form of the two.  When I started anime blogging, I took a look at those two blogs and wondered why anybody would make a blog about anime blogs.  It just seemed so stupid – and it still does!  So this isn’t a road I want to walk down.

But what else can you do?

Yeah, okay, so maybe the only thing I’m half-decent at is metablogging.  I originally wanted to write many different blogs under different pseudonyms using different styles talking about different things (episodics, editorials, etc.)… but then I realized I would burn out halfway through.  I ain’t got the dedication for that.

Instead, I’ve landed on the “ultimate ‘white base’ blog” http://flomu.wordpress.com, where I’ll be exploring different ways of aniblogging.  I hope you’ll join me on this journey.  And I hope I can last long enough for it to be worthwhile for you.

The Long Version

(aka the second draft of this post)

P.S.: I’ll be at flomu.wordpress.com for the foreseeable future, so it’s safe to blogroll me away!

P.P.S.: I set flomu.wordpress.com as my main blog earlier this week and imported misakithursday.wordpress.com, so sorry for all the trackbacks you people have been receiving.  I’ve been having a hell of a time importing back and forth because some comments on one blog aren’t on the other, and vice versa.  I’ll do one last blog synchronization in a couple of days, but after that whatever you say on one blog won’t be transferred to the other.

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