{"id":56,"date":"2011-01-11T14:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T22:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/someaniblog.wordpress.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2011-01-11T14:08:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T22:08:12","slug":"why-have-i-written-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/why-have-i-written-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Why have I written first impressions?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is how I feel about all of my posts. So basically if you say my posts are horrible, it doesn't matter because I already assume that they are. Sticks and stones can break my bones, and that would probably cause a great deal of pain so that saying is pretty stupid. I mean, what if somebody actually did break your bones?<\/p><\/div>\n

A post by Sebz<\/a> that I liked but couldn’t find anything to comment on prompted me to think about why I even care to blog. \u00a0The basic idea of Sebz’s post (tl;dr) is: “I suck at blogging but I still love it,” and Sebz goes on to explain why. \u00a0I can emphasize with Sebz, because I, too, suck at blogging. \u00a0The only difference is that I’ve been sucking for more than two years whereas Sebz has only sucked for two months.<\/p>\n

In my two years of aniblogging, I have come up with a variety of ways and excuses to cope with my sucking. \u00a0Early on, I used the standard excuse of “I like blogging and sharing my ideas, even if they suck,” like the one Sebz gives:<\/p>\n

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If writing has\u00a0never<\/em> been my forte at all, why the\u00a0hell<\/em> am I blogging?<\/h3>\n
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  1. I\u00a0like<\/em> writing.<\/strong> I have no intention of staying as a novice. I\u00a0like<\/em> reading anime blogs, and I\u00a0want<\/em> to improve my writing to match their levels.<\/li>\n
  2. I\u00a0like<\/em> anime.<\/strong> As simple as that\u2026or at least, the hobby of watching anime, because there\u00a0are<\/em> anime that make it to the trash bin after the first [few] episode\/s.<\/li>\n
  3. I\u00a0wanted<\/em> to share what my kind of life was like,<\/strong> having a terrible history with anime. I\u2019ve yet to meet another blogger who started anime and got into very recently. I want to turn that horrible regret of missing out on anime into an X-Factor. Somehow.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    But after a few months of this, I realized that none of these three applied to me. \u00a0I hated writing so much that I dropped out of AP English in junior year. \u00a0That’s like the ultimate, lowest thing to do as an Asian high school student (besides dropping out of AP Calculus, of course).<\/p>\n

    I also hate anime. \u00a0Well, a lot of it. \u00a0My “dropped” list on MAL<\/a>\/Anime-Planet<\/a> is enormous, and when you combine that with all the shitty anime I managed to complete, you end up with a lot more “unliked” anime than “liked” anime. \u00a0Thus we can round that up to 100% “unliked” anime, and there you have it – I hate anime.<\/p>\n

    Finally, I don’t want to share what my kind of life is like. \u00a0If I actually shared that, everybody would know that I just sit in front of my computer all day and play games and watch anim- oh shit, look at what you did. \u00a0You made me say it. \u00a0Oh great. \u00a0Damn it. \u00a0Now I am so screwed.<\/p>\n

    Anyway, I moved past that phase and entered the “I’m too good for everybody else” phase. \u00a0I saw the episodic posts on Random Curiosity, THAT, every wannabe aniblog, etc. and decided that was too low for me. \u00a0Episodics are for noobs who can’t write editorials! \u00a0And then I saw the editorials on We Remember Love, Omonomono (which has somehow become a wordpress blog? what the hell is that?), etc. and decided that I could do that. \u00a0The thing is, I suck<\/strong> at editorials because I suck <\/strong>at essays which stems from the fact that I sucked <\/strong>at AP English and ended up in a regular English class where all I did was sleep. \u00a0Our final was worth 5% of our grade, and I had a 95% at the time. \u00a0Therefore I ended up sucking at blogging in general because all I did was post sucky <\/strong>editorials that sucked <\/strong>the living sucks <\/strong>out of the suck<\/strong>. \u00a0And since I’m Asian, I blamed the audience for being too low to understand my deep editorials, which were actually just trashy trash that I typed up in thirty minutes without revision. \u00a0Actually, that has nothing to do with me being Asian or not. \u00a0But the fact still stands. \u00a0I’m Asian.<\/p>\n

    Finally, I arrived at the humor stage. \u00a0Because I found tj_han’s posts at RIUVA funny and interesting and Baka-Raptor’s posts entertaining and 0rion\/Guff’s posts at Epic Win to be really damn good, I decided to develop a sense of humor. \u00a0However, because I had been Asian for so long and knew nothing but how to study effectively (which also ended up failing, since I dropped out of AP English), this was very difficult. \u00a0Of course, at the time, I didn’t think so. \u00a0So thus began my period of humorous posts that can carried over to today. \u00a0Using the three man pillars of comedy, I have eventually managed to form a humor style of my own:<\/p>\n

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    1. Self-deprecation<\/strong>. \u00a0Oh god I suck AP English the horror I suck sucks uskc<\/li>\n
    2. Random references<\/strong>. \u00a0I used to insert lots of references to memes and other anime because it seemed… funny. \u00a0But now I realize that it’s more immature than funny. \u00a0Maybe it’s because you see a bunch of people running around screaming “It’s over nine thousand!!!” both in real life and on the internet. \u00a0Still, lame jokes like RP’s reference to TTGL<\/a> sometimes hit home for me.<\/li>\n
    3. Irony<\/strong>. \u00a0I am such a hipster.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Usually when one of my posts gets more than one comment, I feel as though my witty, high-brow humor has gone across to the masses. \u00a0If it gets less than one comment (that really just means “no comments,” but this sounds a little better), then I feel that my witty humor is simply too witty for my audience. \u00a0Take this post, for instance. \u00a0It’s going to have 0 comments because the humor here is just too high-brow for you guys. \u00a0You know why I can even say that here? \u00a0Because I know that nobody will be reading this paragraph. \u00a0It’s past all of that shit above, and nobody’s going to read through my entire aniblogging autobiography to see this paragraph. \u00a0So basically I can say whatever I want here, and nobody will care because nobody will ever read it. \u00a0That’s the sad, harsh truth of my aniblogging experience. \u00a0N-Nobody ever r-reads my posts…<\/p>\n

      If I were an anime character, I’d be Nagi Sanzenin from Hayate no Gotoku. \u00a0Not only am I a cute, tsundere, blond rich girl voiced by (ugh) Rie Kugimiya, but I also work on stuff that is ultimately useless. \u00a0Nagi has her manga and I have my blog. \u00a0Come to think of it, she’s doing quite a bit better than me. \u00a0At least her manga is helping her draw better. \u00a0My aniblogging doesn’t really do much, since I gave up on editorials because my writing sucks. \u00a0But if I don’t write editorials, my writing won’t ever get better! \u00a0It’s a cycle of sucky <\/strong>writing, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

      tl;dr my life sucks, but this post is pretty good. \u00a0I even inserted lists at random points to make it seem less like a block of text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      A post by Sebz that I liked but couldn’t find anything to comment on prompted me to think about why I even care to blog. \u00a0The basic idea of Sebz’s post (tl;dr) is: “I suck at blogging but I still love it,” and Sebz goes on to explain why. \u00a0I can emphasize with Sebz, because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2zM4X-U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}