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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).
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.
I DID. Technically, you could say I got my second 100,000 hits a few weeks ago, because when I made my last post about getting 100,000 hits, it was in the faraway land of Euphoric Field, and when I switched everything over to Fuzakenna! my hit counter was reset. There were about 10,000 hits left in the fjord so I was going to do this post when I hit 90,000 here, but I was lazy, and now with the big day I just had (complete surprise!) I have just crossed the 100,000 hit mark on Fuzakenna!
Usagijen has just made me see something. Her post is long and beautiful and moved me near to tears as I saw something I almost never get to see: a reflection of myself. I think that when a person wants to change their appearance, they first need to look in the mirror. I have often wondered if my beard was okay, if I was too fat, if my hair was funky… but then I see myself in the mirror and, more often than not, I’m pretty happy with the way I look. Usagijen has provided me a thought mirror, and it’s reflective of my thoughts on the grand sport of anime blogging.
Normally, I don’t like to have “this is what is up with my blog” posts (yet they keep happening) because I am fundamentally hopeless when it comes to following plans, however there is SO much stuff going on here on Fuzakenna that I feel it’s necessary for my sake as well as the reader’s to sort out just what the hell is going on here.
Meta-masturbation time. Epic Win anime blog recently did a list of his top 20 favorite anime blogs with fanboying descriptions of why he liked them. This post was made of win for promoting the likes of The Animanachronism (who will notably be absent from my list because he barely posts anymore), We Remember Love, and newcomer 2-d Teleidescope. I will be stealing Epic Win’s ‘holy trinity’ idea. There was also a movement some time ago to promote less heard-of blogs (Memories of Eternity most notably mentioned my blog back when it was called ‘Euphoric Field.’) I have had blogrolls and annotated blogrolls, but never a flat out ‘this is my top 20 anime blogs’ post, so I wanted to do one. Because I need a hit after a long day of script-writing.
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