Blogiversary Time Again!

Part 1 of the saga here and part 2 here. Once again, it was that time of the year where Aria became introspective about blog stats the yearly record within the spellbook. (Admittedly, this time she'd almost forgotten about the blogiversary when the past few times were a big deal - the biggest priorities, from...

#Controversed Week 2

See Moya's list of prompts here and week 1 here. I'm not doing all the prompts this time. This post is rather large, even without addressing all the prompts... Nobody is (or should be) objective, but how biased do you think you are? What are some biases in your writing, and how do you try...

Must-read Monthly Monday (Aug. ’20 ed.)

Other People's Reads It wouldn't be a round-up post without them. However, since I scour people's archives on a regular basis, these may not even be from the right time period... WordPress Reader — The Double-Edged Sword by Renard Moreau - A rookie mistake on blogging platforms is tag spamming. Blogging is an endeavour that requires...

Must-read Monthly Monday (Jul. ’20 ed.)

 If it's not specified, the time period covered in this post is from the 22nd of June 2020 to the 20th of July 2020.If it's not specified, the time period covered in this post is from the 22nd of June 2020 to the 20th of July 2020.Other People's ReadsOther People's ReadsIt wouldn't be a round-up...

Why I Blog For Myself

It's that question again: who do we blog for? Meta note: This was, for the most part, written about this time last year (for readers in the future, "this time last year" means about July 2019). Therefore, some of the things I say in it may be out of date already, especially with people coming...

Why Do Anime Blogs Insist on Covering Simulcasts?

This topic came up on Jon Spencer’s Discord channel after a convo got massively derailed, so I want to think about why this is the case. A lot of anime blogs have what is basically an obligation to cover simulcasts, to the point where you can roughly define a blog’s reputation by “they cover simulcasts”...

Behind the Visuals

Inspired by K's Space is the Place posts. It probably takes me about as long as it takes to write a post as it does to make one of these visuals, which is why I'm not consistently making them, because I get picky about transparency, artifacting and the like. That said, it's still fun to...

2 Years of the Spellbook! (5th Day of Anime 2019)

Another delayed milestone. Part 1 of the saga here. After suddenly having to write most of the 12 Days of Aniblogging in advance, Aria was pretty tired of writing...but there was still work to do. Specifically, a skipped milestone last month meant that she had to look at the Spellbook's stats for the new year....

A Cynic’s Outlook on Christmas, Plus a Late 1st Year of OWLS (12th Day of Anime 2019)

OWLS is fun, exactly as I thought it would be, but it was also pretty clear when I bent prompts to things I wanted to write about... Here's the drill - I'll open with the more usual OWLS content and then cap it off with the first list of the 12 Days. Basically, all you...

Balancing Blogging with Daily Life

Scott's comment on this 100 Word Anime post made me want to put my own take on things into words. Sometimes I write a post from scratch into the WordPress editor and sometimes I'll have a pre-existing idea ready to go, but I like to have 3 paragraphs' worth of ideas to elaborate on (hence...