Amazing... This Is Getting Exciting!

For weeks now, the Aniblog Tourney has raged on. It’s been a great ride, rife with truly intense matches, and many of my brethren have fallen. However, I still stand, and intend to go the distance. The trouble is, I haven’t had a real match yet – all three of my opponents went down with almost no contest. I was beginning to wonder if I was getting a free ride…

Please Enjoy My Pain And Embarrassment As Ghostlightning Reads One Of My First Posts

It’s amazing how much a writer can change in just a few short years – a point that Zzeroparticle and Pontifus decided to drive home with their Aniblog Readings project. The idea is that a group of willing and capable bloggers would toss their name in a hat, and each would be randomly assigned a blogger to read. The reader must choose from one of the author’s earliest posts, preferably in the first ten, and then proceed to read it in an audio or video clip. Each reader had to read exactly what was written, pronouncing spelling mistakes and everything – however, they had the option of reading it in any voice of their choosing. Then, once they had created their clips, they would send them to the blogger whom they read, and that blogger would have to post the clips on their own blog. By some stroke of divine perfection, my frequent co-conspirator and good friend Ghostlightning was assigned to read one of my posts. He did so. Three times.

Baka-Raptor Is My Destined Rival

Baka-Raptor is my destined rival in anime blogging. We stand on opposite sides of a battlefield – a lolicon against an upstanding citizen; a man who demands ‘plot’ against a style hound; a self-depreciator against a self-aggrandizer (hint: I’m the latter). And yet, we are great friends, always offering inspiration and competition to one another.

A New Form of Blogroll, Dedicated to Irreplacable Posts

I grow weary of blogroll convention. You give a list of blogs, and it’s basically just a shout-out to friends. You give an annotated blogroll, but who really cares? How much can you really say in your one little paragraph that actually gives people a sense of the blogger? Not much. I grow weary of this shout-out style of blogroll. I love you guys – you know that. There’s no real meaning in my linking to your blog and trying to say something about it if I don’t really read your blog.

In Which I Propose Marriage To Fellow Anime Bloggers and Then Commit Suicide (Warning: This Post is Offensive to All Senses)

God damn it, Morithiel. Damn you and your thinly veiled good idea designed as a joke. No, there are not supposed to be any women on the internet, because if there were, then a bunch of idiotic lonely guys would pine over them, and it would get ugly. You’ll notice a lack of that shit in the anime blogosphere – guys and gals commenting and talking with no semblance of idiotic wanna-be romantics. Or are there? Wait a minute, this isn’t a bad idea? We are all adults here. This isn’t like when we were twelve and it’s not like we could never meet the person on the other side of the line. Why aren’t anime bloggers hitting on each-other? Oh right. Because we are a bunch of sluts!

Anime Blogging… Like Writing a Textbook?

So, as you may know, I’m taking some online classes right now, and all of them pretty much involve reading tons of textbook. Now, I have never really read a textbook before now, and of the two I’ve been reading so far, one of them reads as boringly as you’d expect, but the other is pretty surprising. I have quickly realized that the book reads like a blog! Of course, with the author’s language, it’s more like a Lelangir or Animanachronism blog than mine, but nonetheless, the style was very familiar. The author uses a conversational tone, loves fun metaphors an meta-tacular examples, and I daresay writes like he’s a fan as much as he is an expert on his subject (business marketing).

Divining Your Fandom - Why Most Blogs Talk About the Wrong Things

There’s been a recent trend in posts about jaded anime bloggers which has all-around rang quite true, and in response to it, drmchsr0 has also made a post asking the reader to really look at their beginnings as a fan and as a blogger and decide if they are really still into the fandom the way that they were, and whether or not they need to continue with it. But more than just figuring out if you should or shouldn’t still be watching anime and blogging, I’m interested in divining what you actually should be watching and what, exactly, you should be blogging.