Blaugust

Today’s Blaugust writing prompt comes from Roger at Contains Moderate Peril, who asks: “What type of content do you feel is severely underrated?” And ima answer that, but first, I have to get something off my chest. SoMeOnE called me a curmudgeon yesterday! Is this what I’ve become? Is this just who everyone becomes, eventually? Am I just mad at the world, all the time? No, of course not. I love the world and everyone in it. I have kids and a boyfriend I love. I have three cats who allow me to care for them. I even like most of the games I play. ...

Today’s “Blaugust” writing prompt comes from Mailvatar at “MMOs and Other Stuff”. What are some key sources of media (games/movies/etc) that have shaped your worldview? What a great writing prompt. Because I have the specific answer to that, and it’s stayed with me my entire life. I blame a lot of things on the Uxbridge Public Library. Their kid’s section was really minimal. It was fine if you were truly little and liked story time, but once you got much past Dr. Seuss and Beatrix Potter, there just wasn’t a lot of stuff. ...

Today’s Blaugust prompt is from the blog Azerothian Life: What is some popular piece of content/media that seems to be universally loved that you have never been able to understand? I think it takes a very small person to judge what someone else likes. Everyone is different, and this difference, this diversity, is part of what makes us special. This whole social media phenomenon is so transformative because it allows people to connect in ways impossible in any other era of human history. ...

Do I even need to explain what Blaugust is? I imagine the Venn diagram of the people who read my blog and aren’t already well aware of Blaugust would be an empty circle. But I do love Venn diagrams. Here’s one. The question of the day is, “What would I change about one of my core fandoms?”. Another Venn diagram: I have a lot of interests, but nothing I’m really fanatical about. I mean, I used to be a fan. I used to be a fan of a lot of things. Back in California, I used to go to a lot of conventions – BayCon, SiliCon, Fanime – so I guess that I was a fan back then. ...