Crossing Over with Akane-banashi

Ever since Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu became my top-rated series of all time, I've been dying to read some rakugo manga...but I found what I wanted in an unlikely place: Weekly Shonen Jump. Heads up: If you didn't see my latest update, from this point forward, I'm going to try monetising more sincerely. That means...

Reviewing What to Do With Reviews

Inspired by Lyn. https://twitter.com/Lyn_Journal/status/1517399662394675202 Why are reviews so common? Reviews have their own built-in audience: people who are on the fence about the contentpeople who want to know things like content warnings for themselves or otherspeople who've already consumed the content and want to know others' opinions on it 2. tends to get the least...

Write What You Want (Or, the Not-Very-Stringent Guide to Winning Followers)

You ever heard of the Butterfly Effect? When I read Jane's post on Artiswitch and noticed her hesitance in covering it for a so-called "lack of doing the work justice", I go, "Stuff and nonsense! Write about what you want." For instance (and I promise this is relevant!), I could talk about the package I...

The One With the Podcasts

In which discovering a podcast (on Wikipedia, no less!) helped a blogger put their own identity issues to rest. (...yes, the title is a Friends reference, although I don't watch much of that show in the first place.) I was reading about feminist translation - as one does in a post-grad course about translation -...

The Write Process (2)

The first post is here, although this was also inspired by this Side of Fiction post. Sidenote: This tacking of numbers to the end of post titles seems to be a completely new thing, spurred on by my return to the blogging scene. I don't know if my return will last as long as my...

Looking Back and Moving Forward (Update Post)

4 years can really change a person... When I first thought up this blog in late 2017, I gave myself a schedule which I thought would be sustainable. It was just that...for the years where I made it my priority, enough to write until 2 am for several of the round-up posts. I never saw...

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...