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so, as i pray...| Jul 6 2009 |
So I’ve been aniblogging for… four years? |
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In the “better late than never category,” I started anime blogging on my old livejournal four years ago May. This officially makes me as pro as Jason Miao, and should elicit throngs of fanboys screeching “four more years! four more years!”
I would do a retrospective like lelangir did, but it wouldn’t be too interesting—every few points would be interspersed with “then lolikit gave up aniblogging in an emo rage fit, and closed down notdotq for five months.” Not that I ever stayed away for long, but…
… I do have a habit for, shall we call them, disappearances.
Instead of a retrospective, let’s do a highlights, and without dates, because I care more about the feelings than I do the historical accuracies:
- after one year of animeblogging, notdotq is born on wordpress.com, one of the handful of “first” anime blogs to use wordpress.com, along with jp meyer’s fairy tale of love and courage.
- Jason Miao promises to put notdotq on Blogsuki.
- Jason Miao removes newcomer RIUVA from Blogsuki, refuses to put notdotq on.
- Various bedraggled anibloggers realize that Jason is a cancer.
- Hung builds AnimeNaNo, invites Jason Miao.
- I start spreading my name by creating and maintaining the AnimeNaNo IRC channel. The community is thriving. Mr. Pippers is still an aniblogger.
- Jason still doesn’t join AnimeNaNo.
- So there are no killer lolis in Higurashi, mmmkay?
- Jason says that Japanese anibloggers are better than English-speaking anibloggers. Reason: graphs.
- Beginning of holy anti-Jason crusade.
- Oh by the way Haruhi sucks balls.
- I go to France, where I finish Fate/Stay-night and die a premature death due to suck. While in France, AnimeNaNo takes off like a flock of majestic birds, Japes becomes my friend, and Haruhi 12 blows me away.
- Hung, Japes, and Hinano–later, Japes’ girlfriend, now, his wife–start the AnimeNaNo podcast. Pips and I parody: podcast.dotq.org.
- wait, this is turning into a chronological recounting. SHIT.
Okay. Deep breath.
Here are my top ten moments in animeblogging.
#10. The founding of AnimeNaNo. Shit was so cash.
#9. Blogging Kyoushiro to Towa no Sora, Sola, and Aria the Origination with Shirukii.
#8. That time a newbie added me to her initial blogroll along with the big names–Jason, Jeff, Japes, Omo, etc.
#7. Baka-Raptor informed me that I was the king of trolls. (Or maybe it was ‘trolling king,’ either way.)
#6. Konoe and I enjoy many philosophical discourses over AIM, I publish these discourses (“on disagreement,” etc.), ghostlightning realizes that love needs explanation just the same as hate, various anibloggers begin defending their stances more rigorously, “lolikitean” invented.
#5. Kyousora.com is registered and built. My first exercise in hilarious satirical porn stories, perhaps the genesis of my visual novel project.
#4. Graphs. So fucking many of them. Everywhere. All the fucking time.
#3. When Jason stopped posting for three months. Hell yes. This was also when lots of people (ghostlightning, lolikappa, lelangir) were posting on notdotq. I was being extremely productive and the ’sphere was looking happy.
#2. Miao on My Mind.
#1. So, CCY-senpai, I herd u were maiking a gaem?
I’m going to stop the nostalgia train here because I’m not being very coherent or classy. This was really just a poor excuse to post more.
Love and peace and rock my song,
-Dr. lolikitsune
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man has it been 4 years already. I think I hit my 3 years in June but i didn’t mention anything since that woulda been on my no longer existing blog. sigh time flies. i kinda miss all the 2006 fun we used to have…
Hinano — 7/6/09 @ 10:06 am | #Link
Yeah… we didn’t yet have awesome folks like lelangir or ghostlightning around, but we were all pretty tight-knit. ANO had a nice feel to it and things seem a bit more chaotic these days. Also, fuck Twitter ;3
lolikitsune — 7/6/09 @ 10:28 am | #Link
A shit career that you pissed away every last drop of goodness from.
Go away and never tease my poor, loving heart again.
ghostlightning — 7/6/09 @ 12:09 pm | #Link
@ghostlightning: Well said, ghastly crucifier of mine.
lolikitsune — 7/6/09 @ 12:24 pm | #Link
These past few months don’t count towards the 4 year total. Time stops when you don’t blog.
Baka-Raptor — 7/6/09 @ 5:53 pm | #Link
@Baka-Raptor: “Time stops when I’m around Baka-Raptor!” Guess I’m only two years into my career…
lolikitsune — 7/6/09 @ 5:57 pm | #Link
FOUR MORE YEARS
FOUR MORE YEARS
FOUR MORE YEARS
.lolikappa
lolikappa — 7/6/09 @ 8:15 pm | #Link
Why thank you, Madame.
lolikitsune — 7/6/09 @ 8:22 pm | #Link
All hail the King of Trolls! 4 more years! And fuck more tons of money!
Rakuen — 7/6/09 @ 8:40 pm | #Link
@Rakuen: Shit, money. I need to start raising money to pay Sixten.
lolikitsune — 7/6/09 @ 9:53 pm | #Link
I’m commenting here because ghostlightning told me too.
IcyStorm — 7/6/09 @ 10:24 pm | #Link
Thanks, jay appledecks-kun
lolikitsune — 7/6/09 @ 10:33 pm | #Link
You’re still on the feedreader, so that’s good enough.
Omisyth — 7/7/09 @ 3:22 am | #Link
I missed you. In the sort-of-kind-of-maybe-not-really-but-I’m-just-saying-this-because-I-don’t-really-have-anything-else-to-say way.
Zeroblade — 7/7/09 @ 8:48 am | #Link
@Omisyth: wow, I’m honored. I know I’m still on ANO, ramming my epenis into about 38 subscribers.
@Zeroblade: awwww thx.
lolikitsune — 7/7/09 @ 9:13 am | #Link
I still use twitter cause I need to rage about my work and pangya somewhere…
Hinano — 7/7/09 @ 10:09 am | #Link
@Hinano: I barely read twitter anymore, but I still post a bunch to it I think… not much anime stuff, though.
lolikitsune — 7/7/09 @ 10:34 am | #Link
I’d say you influenced my anime viewing a bit (Aria particularly), so kudos to you. More years to come.
bluemist — 7/8/09 @ 7:08 am | #Link
You influenced me more than you know, bluemist. Back when Lovely Kitsune still blogged, he wrote a vitriolic post about how some idiotic anime blogger had him in his “blogroll” (he seemed angered by the very concept of a “blogroll”). When I e-mailed him, worried that it was I who had invited his ire (I had a link to him on DotQ at the time; this was before notdotq existed), he reassured me that it was not I and provided me with a link to your blog.
Then I read through your archives, and wondered why LK was so angry. You seemed chill enough.
lolikitsune — 7/8/09 @ 7:39 am | #Link
Oh, that? I did the same thing! I e-mailed him too with that same worry, and he replied that actually it was me and my stupid Q&A About page (which was similar to his) that triggered his doubts about me “copying his style”. He said he had problems with another blogger blatantly doing similar blogging gimmicks as his, and so he also had doubts with my content. That’s how he got ticked off I think.
The blogging world was still small back then and so these stuff happens I guess. Some of my posts then may have similar style to his, but rather than copying, I may say that I drew inspiration from him. Well in general terms, I was inspired by all anime bloggers before me anyway.
bluemist — 7/8/09 @ 9:52 am | #Link
Mmm yeah that was back a long ways, around when I was starting (again, on my long-forsaken LJ), back when Miao ruled the world (seas would rise when he gave the word). I obviously drew shittons of inspiration from Lovely Kitsune (stylistically… and otherwise. LK=>LK). I think he stopped caring at some point. He blocked me on AIM years ago because I admired him too much, or something. Guess it creeped him out.
lolikitsune — 7/8/09 @ 9:59 am | #Link
Every once in a while something happens that reminds me that I’ve technically been aniblogging longer than 99% of the scene. This qualifies. I’m not sure how I feel about that. If I had been “in the loop,” would I have been Jason Miao?
Also, four more years.
moritheil — 8/6/09 @ 6:00 pm | #Link
This epic story of Jason Miao’s trainwreck shall become oral tradition one day. Of this I am certain.
Kaioshin Sama — 11/6/09 @ 12:02 pm | #Link
I still wasn’t around during those ‘good old days’ when the ’sphere was tightly knit (thanks to blogsuki (in a lot of ways)) to witness the Legend of the lolikit, but my co-blogger absolute0 and fellow blogger/officemate cuteproxy remembers you, up until this day and age.
usagijen — 11/16/09 @ 8:04 am | #Link
I’m honored.
lolikitsune — 11/16/09 @ 8:15 am | #Link