this is almost definitely going to be my last blaugust post this year, and i'm really only making it for the purpose of closure. so in looking back on my blaugust journey, let's all acknowledge that An Effort Was Made... and also that it was not a very good effort lol. oh, well! you never know unless you try! blogging, especially daily blogging, is just not really for me right now. i've still been working on some larger posts, though! so hopefully i'll have a real site update soon.
well that's all from me i guess. farewell blaugust page. sorry i never even ended up styling you very much.
i really did sleep for almost 16 hours after returning from the con, btw, in case you thought i was exaggerating. being extremely chronically ill is actually very annoying, but that's a subject for another post. despite how tired i got, i had a really great time! as the title says, this was actually the first anime convention i've ever been to, but i definitely want to go to another one now!
the one panel i attended was fairly disappointing, and i actually ended up spending most of my time after that shopping, just because there were SO MANY booths to look at, and i am the type of person who has to look at everything, even things i have zero interest in purchasing. i love digging through boxes of random anime merch looking for characters i recognize. sadly although the anime convention did provide this, it was still a poor substitute for shopping in japan, since you get a much more limited selection for much higher prices. of course, there are pretty obvious economic reasons for this... and it's probably important to keep in mind here that there's only like, three anime series that i actually care enough about to want merch of, and all of them are 10+ years old. i did end up buying a bunch of game soundtrack CDs, though.
the real highlight for me was probably just getting to see so many cosplayers. i also got a lot of compliments on my own cosplay, which i wasn't expecting at all, but was a really nice confidence boost since i am still pretty inexperienced at sewing (and 3d modeling)! i was also pleasantly surprised by how many people recognized me in the first place, given that i was a character from a SNES game and not, like, genshin impact (of which there were many, MANY cosplayers). getting such a positive response to my haphazard first attempt at cosplay, and seeing so many people with really amazing costumes (some of whom asked to take pictures with ME?!) has made me really excited about the idea of getting to do so again. next time i go to a con, i will definitely be making another cosplay... and also giving myself more than 3 days to work on it.
i did NOT forget about blaugust. mostly. on monday i finally finished & uploaded my twewy journal, and then i kind of wanted a break for the rest of the day and figured that counted as a daily blog post. to me.
yesterday i was busy LOCKING IN trying to make a cosplay in record time. i've never cosplayed before in my life, but i somehow convinced myself a couple days was enough time to not only finish a cosplay, but also to figure out how to 3d model in order to be able to 3d print pieces of it. this is an insane thing to do, but i did manage to get all of the more complicated pieces modeled and printed in 2 days, so clearly i can do anything. except write daily blog posts.
sadly, since i've already fallen off the daily posting wagon, i'm probably not getting back on. i'm still in cosplay grind mode, and then i have a busy weekend, and then i'll probably sleep for at least 16 hours to recover from all that. after that perhaps the blaugust posting will return.
okay, so i'm cheating today. but listen. seriously, listen. today i wrote up a long final review of twewy on backloggd, finished my entry for beat day 7, and wrote about half of my final conclusion post. that's a lot of writing already, right? so, even though i said i would post both day 7 and my conclusion together...i'm posting day 7 today as my Real blaugust post. i'll only do my official index page + rss update when the conclusion is done. so it's fine. this is a secret update just for you, imaginary person who actually reads these.
...this is silly, right? this isn't actually causing me to write more, just making me post the writing i was doing anyway according to an arbitrary schedule. i suppose i'm not really following the spirit of the event, but right now i care more about finishing up the project i started first! which is twewy! maybe once that's done i can really get in to writing substantial daily posts?
i very nearly forgot to write a post for today. honestly i intended to finally post the last entry of my twewy journal in lieu of writing a real post here, but alas i ended up not finishing it today. i did work on it, though! hopefully it'll be up within the next few days.
i don't really have the inspiration or energy to write about anything else today. so, not exactly off to a strong start. i'll still post this nothing entry though. it pains me to publish stuff that feels meaningless, but it would pain me more to flop at blaugust on only the second day.
goodbye for now, goodnight, and i hope you all have sweet dreams.
hello! for the past however-long-since-i-learned-this-event-exists i've been conflicted over whether or not i want to participate. on one hand, i do really want to post more writing on this site. i want to write more in general, too! on the other hand, i don't know that i particularly want to write shorter daily blog posts. the kind of writing i envision is always longer essays. i love to go on at length about stuff...given enough time to formulate my thoughts. not to mention the time it takes for me to actually sit down and work on it.
while blaugust might not help with the former, it might at least help with the latter. and, i think some of my trepidition about participating is just self consciousness. so, i've decided to push myself out of my comfort zone a bit. and i do just mean a bit. i haven't even officially signed up, and you may have noticed that this page currently has no styling, and no links to it from the rest of my site. my intention is to change that over the course of this month...or to delete this page entirely, if i change my mind. for today my goal is just to write this post, and put it on my website. full stop. we will see how the rest of the month goes from here.
thanks for reading...and see you tomorrow?