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).
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.
I have a potentially harmful addiction to anime blogging. High as it gets me, it seems to be metaphorically killing my brain cells, stunting my growth, and making me a failure at life, not unlike your garden-variety street drug would do.