we're finally notdotq anymore
for now, let's reminisce about a nostalgic future while standing in the hall
sunrise penetrates shirukii
the end| Jul 6 2009 |
So I’ve been aniblogging for… four years? |
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It probably has over nine thousand tags. What a slut.
At least it only has 25 comments and 1,771 views.
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
| Jan 11 2009 |
Maria-sama ga Miteru S04 E02 – Part 1: I’m so fucking lazy. |
This is categorized as Anime, Maria-sama ga Miteru 4th.
It probably has over nine thousand tags. What a slut.
At least it only has 12 comments and 1,651 views.
notdotq brings you this coverage in conjunction with Shirukii. Actually, not much coverage here, because I’m lazy as all hell. I think I’ll just do a comic or something…
| Jan 4 2009 |
Maria-sama ga Miteru S04 E01 – Part 2: Epic Winget |
This is categorized as Anime, Maria-sama ga Miteru 4th.
It probably has over nine thousand tags. What a slut.
At least it only has 11 comments and 2,268 views.
notdotq brings you this coverage in conjunction with Shirukii. You can see Part 1 of my coverage here. Also, yes, I gave into “Owen’s hegemony” and watched subs. Now with 2500% more title attributes.
| Jan 3 2009 |
Maria-sama ga Miteru S04 E01 – Part 1: Epic Failget |
This is categorized as Anime, Maria-sama ga Miteru 4th.
It probably has over nine thousand tags. What a slut.
At least it only has 13 comments and 1,872 views.
notdotq brings you this coverage in conjunction with Shirukii. I’ll real-boot my Raw Delusion and show my PR guy just how powerful my ignorance truly is!!
| Dec 10 2008 |
2009 Winter Season Preview |
This is categorized as Anime.
It probably has over nine thousand tags. What a slut.
At least it only has 12 comments and 29,721 views.
YES YES YES YES!!! The writer’s goldmine known as Maria-sama ga Miteru comes back for a second fourth season! Each episode I write about brings me one step closer to an afterlife of suffering in the fiery depths of the netherworld. Is it worth all that? The answer is a resounding FUCK YES!
Maria-sama ga Miteru (マリア様がみてる) – A show about a bunch of snobby girls who rule an all girls Catholic school with an iron fist and their unambiguous homosexual tendencies.
/me drools a little
Huh? Wha? Other shows? Fuck no there’s no other shows next season. Nothing on my radar, at least. I’m going to watch this show raw and I’m going to blog it raw because I’m like Kuze and yuri… yuri… yuri… oh Maria-sama am I clever! Anyway, I will blog the shit out of this show, and Shirukii, honoring the age-old tradition of tandem Winter blogging, shall join me.
Also, yes, I totally lifted the first two paragraphs of this post directly from Lovely Kitsune.
You should know why.
| Dec 2 2008 |
CCY-senpai wa 17sai 0.04 |
This is categorized as Anime.
It probably has over nine thousand tags. What a slut.
At least it only has 33 comments and 4,003 views.
Twenty-five days ago, I released v0.01 of this “Visual Novel” called CCY-senpai wa 17sai. v0.01 was a text-only playable demo with only three choices to make and a measly 1600 words of text, tutorial included. This is the third release since. There’s a “real” changelog this time around, so check that out if you’re so inclined..
| Oct 24 2008 |
PRESS RELEASE: Miao on My Mind Launch |
This is categorized as Commentary.
It probably has over nine thousand tags. What a slut.
At least it only has 20 comments and 1,998 views.
The last time I talked about notdotq’s transformation was on October 9th, when I’d just put up a new front page for the site. It was a new face for my anime blogging business, and while at first it was just a quick joke, it is now a very permanent joke: it is here to stay.
The Trap of Knowledgethere is, in fact, a penis on this oneCommunity Vitriolyep, these are my readers
Friend or Foe?suzakus to my lelouch
My Credentialsi'm going to save the world?
lolikitsune, twitteredexcept, actually using twitter
myanimelist.neti could make a graph with this data
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