Good Morning Folks! However, by the time I actually finish this blog post, it might be afternoon. Today is the very first day of Blaugust 2024, and this year one of our mentors had a pretty great suggestion. Magi thought it might be pretty great if everyone dedicated one of their early posts to introducing themselves to the rest of the Blaugust Community. As a result, I am going to attempt this feat, but I will be honest… introductions are always a challenge. I never know what details someone might be interested in or what I have already said in the past. For the sake of this exercise however, I am going to pretend that you know absolutely nothing about me or my blog.
So with that in mind… Hi, I’m Belghast and welcome to this nonsense that I crank on a regular basis called Tales of the Aggronaut. I’ve been blogging here since April of 2009 and in total including other blogs I created period to this one… I’ve been doing this since around 2000. I am in fact an “internet old” and pretty much arrived on the internet in 1993 and was here for the very early days of the web. For a period of time in college I worked at an Internet Service Provider as a system administrator and webmaster, then worked for a college as a webmaster and computer lab admin… before making my way into the professional world as a web developer turned traditional programmer. These days I live the life of a manager over Development and Data teams. Since a lot of folks participating in Blaugust this year exist on the Fediverse, I also help to administrate Gamepad.club where the Blaugust account resides.
I have a ton of various sundry geek interests. I’ve been a Magic the Gathering junkie since the launch of Revised, have played a lot of tabletop games throughout the years, am a fairly avid reader specifically of science fiction and fantasy, and nerd out about alternative/indie/punk/industrial/metal music. I love Horror films and Monster movies and spent years working at a sports card and comic book shop and while I am not quite the avid collector and reader of comics that I used to be… I still have decades’ worth of nonsense crammed into my skull. I come and go these days in interest levels surrounding Marvel and Star Wars because quite honestly… the modern quality levels vary wildly. Growing up my dad was a professional portrait photographer on the side and I spent a lot of my childhood in the darkroom, so I still have a knack for going out and doing artsy photography every now and then.
Mostly thought… I play a lot of video games… or more so I play a number of video games a lot. There was a period of time where I could with all confidence say that if there was an MMORPG out there I had probably played it. Over the last decade or so there are a number of specifically eastern MMOs that I have not really spent much time with. However, all of the western ones from World of Warcraft to Final Fantasy XIV to Guild Wars 2 and on… I’ve logged multiple hundreds of hours in with many max-level characters. The origins of this blog started with a laser focus on “a world of warcraft warrior tanking blog” and was spun up during the heyday of the Blog Azeroth community. Over the years as my interests have changed this mission statement has also changed to where it is today… that this is just my blog and I make no thematic claims.
What I am probably the most interested in these days are ARPGs or Diablo-likes most specifically Path of Exile and Last Epoch. In the sidebar on the right side is a list labeled “Regularly Playing” and contains the usual suspects that I devote most of my time to. If you mouse over any of the game icons you will see my character information, and if there exists a profile system in that game it will link directly to that. Right now I tend to play MMORPGs very heavily when a new expansion rolls out and ARPGs when a new season starts. Right now I am knee-deep in the Settlers of Kalguur league in Path of Exile, and as a result, you are going to get some deeply in-the-weeds posts from me as I talk about my progress through that league. I am still deeply engaged in Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail and while I have taken a bit of a break have a side project to level alts with a friend on the Kraken server, while we are still doing raids together every week on our Cactuar mains. On the near horizon I am really looking forward to the Janthir Wilds expansion in Guild Wars 2, and at some point when there is a lull I plan on playing through the War Within expansion in World of Warcraft but it is highly unlikely I will be playing at launch.
Watch
Since I called this post “Tour of the Aggronaut” I thought I would also do a bit of a show and tell with this website. Since this website has been active for fifteen years and has over 3500 posts during that time, there is a lot in my backlog. Most of this is accessed through a menu structure at the top of the site. I figured I would take a few sentences to discuss each of the options. So for this first image, it shows off the Watch menu. This largely links to my YouTube page and also has a link to my Twitch page… which rarely if ever gets any use these days. There was a period of time when I streamed to Twitch quite a bit and got affiliate… then just sort of stopped. Youtube however is full of our weekly AggroChat podcast episodes and a number of videos that I have recorded talking about hyper-specific features of video games in my “Bel Bungles” series.
Listen
Next up is the Listen menu that links to AggroChat.com our podcast website. At some point in the future I might be pulling this content into Aggronaut.com because really there is not a lot going on over there and largely serves just to be a clone of Aggronaut. When we first set it up all seven of us hosts were actively blogging on our own platforms, and the goal of AggroChat.com was to coallate all of this together in a single place. Nowadays however I am the only one still actively blogging with any regularity and it is mostly just a carbon copy of the posts here on Aggronaut. Bel Folks Stuff was a really fun interview podcast series that I did with some of my friends. I still really want to get it started back up at some point because they were fun deep dives into a person I am close with. There is also a page of guest appearances I have made on other podcasts and such.
Social
The social menu links to my How to Find Me page with links to various social media and where I play various games with server and character information. There is also a direct link to my primary social media account over on Gamepad.club in the Fediverse as well as links to the Super Dungeon Friends discord and the Blaugust Discord. I really should throw up a link to Spoopy Town which is a discord I run dedicated to horror, cryptids, and good-natured conspiracy theories… though to be perfectly honest it is mostly just Jaedia and I chatting back and forth.
Features
Over the fifteen years of this blog I have decided I was going to start various features… only to abandon them after a while. The Features menu is where a lot of these ideas end up and they are all tied to various categories within WordPress. Probably the one I am most proud of is Mixtape Mondays where every Monday for I think 23 weeks I posted a unique mixtape with some album art that I created for it. I had a lot of fun doing these, and I still listen to most of them… but also it was really hard to keep creative inspiration to keep churning out new ones that also did not sound like anything I had created before. I might revisit it at some point, but it was still a really cool thing that I enjoyed doing.
Game Tools
These are technically a feature of the website but grew into their own thing. Essentially there are a lot of games that I play and in them… there are a lot of third-party tools and websites that I use while playing them. The “Game Tools” section is a place where I keep track of these things, partially for public benefit, but partially because several years might have passed since I last played a specific game and I want to have a good place to jot these things down so I will remember them. There are a few games that I still need to update to the new single-page format specifically FFXIV and Elder Scrolls Online. It is on my todo list, specifically since I am actively playing FFXIV right now and finding lots of useful resources that I did not know about previously.
Core Beliefs
The last area is what I refer to as my “Core Beliefs” and is essentially a page where I state things that I take as true. In this era of negotiable facts, I thought it was important for me to plant my flag in the ground and list out the details that are not negotiable for me. That is not to say that I am not constantly learning and adjusting details in my head and eventually evolving these beliefs, but if you have deep concerns with this page it is unlikely we will ever truly see eye to eye on issues. Essentially this is my page of “this is where I stand on these things” and if you have an issue with my stance on things… then it is cool if you no longer want to read my content. I am very much an acquired taste and it is fine if you never acquire it.
So there you go friends… a bit of a fresh introduction and a tour of the website. It is just about to stop being morning as I am still working on this thing. So I guess my initial comment was truthful as I have continued to get sidetracked and distracted from my task. I hope you all have an amazing Blaugust. I started this nonsense eleven years ago and am still consistently amazed that anyone else out there is down for this thing. I am very afk most of the time in Discord but if you need something specific feel free to page me with an @Belghast and I will try and answer any questions you might have. I am very much the sort of person who creates something… sends it out into the world… and then hopes someone else out there enjoys it. This means I am far more comfortable being behind the scenes than I am getting up close and personal. I will always be an introvert at heart, and most days as I write these blog posts I am pretending that I am just talking to myself. As a result blogging also is rather therapeutic because I am telling myself things I think I need to hear.
Anyways! I am going to hit publish and send another mess of nonsense out into the aether!
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Good Morning Everyone! It is almost time for Blaugust and in fact at the time of writing it… it is probably already Blaugust for our Oceanic participants. Timezones are weird. Anyways as is often the case before the official start of Blaugust I release various bits of information about the event. Namely this morning I updated the Media Kit page to include the Participant List Google Sheet and then created and uploaded an OPML file for those who use feed readers. This morning I had the fun time of trying to find RSS feeds for everyone. Side note, if yours is not prominently displayed you might want to change that because for as belabored as RSS is… it is still the best methodology for reading lots of blogs in a single application. I should also say that this participant list is not updated in realtime. There are various bits of data that I don’t share publicly from the sign-up sheet so generally speaking I update the sheet that I just shared once a day and dump a new OPML file at that same time.
At the time of writing this, we have 74 blogs signed up and ready to participate in Blaugust 2024. What is even more impressive however is of those 74, 34 are folks who have never participated in Blaugust before. I honestly thought that abandoning Twitter would be the death knell for this event, but in truth, it has caused it to find an entirely new life. Last year we had 103 participants which was by far our highest of the last decade. As always I assume the event is just going to be participants drawn from our list of usual suspects, but we keep reaching new audiences and I think a huge part of that has been planting our flag for the official account on Mastodon, specifically Gamepad.club the server I help manage. Blogging is very much alive and well in the Fediverse, and the community of folks that assemble there tend to be way more geeky and way more apt to spin up their own DIY services to fit their needs. As a result, it has been a perfect match for the spirit of Blaugust and I am extremely happy to see new faces rolling into our community discord.
Here is the list of blogs participating this year as of the time of writing this:
As I said above I am keeping an OPML file updated which should make it easy for you to import the entire batch into your feed reader of choice. I will also be updating my blogroll to include all of these folks.
In other news, I provided a version of this year’s logo without the checkerboard backing on it. This might fit your particular blog style or needs a bit better. I uploaded it yesterday on the discord, but also added it to the media kit page this morning. In this year’s information post, I threw out the idea of the “First Post of Blaugust” being one that introduces yourself to the community. I often have the false belief that everyone already knows me and that no one wants to know more information about me… since I pour so much of myself into the blog. However, in the spirit of the event, I plan on participating in the introductory post tomorrow and hope you will join me in this new tradition. Even though I have written countless introduction paragraphs over the years as I have joined many different communities on the internet, each time they end up being a little different. The benefit of writing it on my blog is that I can actually backlink further details if I have written a post about a specific topic in the past.
I hope this coming month is an amazing time for everyone participating in Blaugust 2024. I rarely go for the highest award and tend to just post on weekdays, save for Sunday when I post our podcast. I hope you take all of this assembled apparatus and make an event out of it that best suits your needs. While the core of the contest has always been “do 31 posts”, over the years it has become way less about that and more about mingling with your peers. Get out there, read a ton of posts, and get active in some conversations. As always I will be here lurking in the background if anyone needs anything. I am far from the most charismatic leader, and often get overwhelmed by large-scale social situations… but I appreciate each and every one of you that are joining in this nonsense.
Happy Blaugust Eve!
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Good Morning Folks! As is often the case in the lead-up to Blaugust I occasionally give update posts. We’ve had a flurry of activity for initial sign-ups but there is still quite a bit of time before the event starts. As of writing this, there are roughly thirteen days left before the start of the event. If you have not had a chance to sign up but wish to participate, it is as simple as filling out this form. This will eventually cause your blog to get updated in the various spreadsheets that are shared out of participants as well as the OPML file that I will release closer to the event that allows you to add all of the participant blogs into a news feed reader. As always if you want a one-stop shop for Blaugust-related information, the Media Kit stays updated with relevant links.
As of the time of writing this post, we have had forty-one blogs sign up for the event. This is a far cry from the outrageous 103 blogs that we had last year, but like I said there is still plenty of time. We’ve often gotten a burst of activity as the first of August rolls around and folks wish to be included. Here is what our list looks like currently:
As I said above, I will be updating information a bit closer to the event as more folks sign up. So far however it is looking like a really good crop of new folks. Mastodon/Fediverse had introduced our little community of bloggers to a whole new group of folks. Many of them are already joining and becoming active on Discord. Out of the list above, sixteen of those blogs are participating for the very first time. While my personal energy level is a bit lower this year, I am excited that folks are still wanting to do this nonsense.
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Good Morning Friends! It is that time again, time for another Blaugust. Last year represented the tenth running of the event and it was an extremely successful time. It was the first time running the event in our currently deeply fractured social media landscape. Blaugust was an event born largely on Twitter, and it was a little weird entering a post-Twitter world where while the platform still exists… folks like me have spread out and adopted other platforms. Things seemed to move forward without a hitch, and I think in large part this is due to our thriving Discord community that we have cultivated over the last decade. I am hoping in part for this year’s Blaugust to be a little bit more low-key, at least in the amount of stress that it places upon me. It’s been a busy year and as such I have not actually created new assets yet for some of the things like Blaugcheivements. That said as always I am extremely excited to see who all decide to participate this year.
What is Blaugust?
For anyone arriving here for the very first time Blaugust is a month-long event that takes place each August which focuses on blogging primarily and has started to include other forms of serialized content over the last several years. The goal is to stoke the fires of creativity and allow bloggers and other content creators to mingle in a shared community while pushing each other to post more regularly. Above all the goal of Blaugust has always been to prove to folks that they can in fact sit down every day and create something fresh and then share it with the world. Posting regularly builds a community and in this era of AI-slop content, our voices are needed even more than we ever have been at any point in the past. Our hope is to create a nurturing environment where Veteran bloggers can help those just getting started and the cross-pollination of ideas can create something truly spectacular. Your blog gives you a permanent foothold on the Internet that you own and have complete control of, and that is a really good feeling in the midst of shifting trends.
Why Blaugust?
In April 2013, I made a decision that would ultimately dominate the fate of this blog for the last decade. I decided that I would force myself to write something and post it every single day. It wasn’t necessarily an easy challenge but for roughly three years I posted something every single day without pause. This forced me to get over some of the self-doubt that had kept me mired for years. I started this blog in 2009, but would often go upwards of six months without a single post. Each time I would lapse… it felt like I had to do something really special when I started blogging again or at least apologize for my absence as though there was some imaginary person out there disappointed in me. Forcing myself to “just hit publish” got me past a lot of those hangups and now I can bang out a post in my sleep… and often do consider I write around 6 am each morning. Blaugust came about originally because I wanted to share this revelation with other bloggers, that forcing yourself to write something every day can be liberating.
So I hatched the idea that if I challenged folks to make 31 posts during the month of August, and called it Blaugust… it might help others get over their own fear by immersing them in a pseudo-competition. The thing is… I learned that this maybe wasn’t the brightest idea in the world. For some folks writing 31 posts is a rather daunting feat and failing to accomplish it was just one more setback in a line of setbacks that were keeping them from blogging. So nowadays the original concept is still there, but mostly I just want folks participating to focus on “blogging more” not necessarily conforming to some mad schedule I devised. After three years of daily blogging… I needed a break and eventually landed on the schedule that I have now of trying to knock out a post every single weekday. Even then there will be times when I give myself a pass because I am just not feeling it… but the key is to get back on the schedule as soon as you can.
The Core Challenge of Blaugust
Blaugust at its heart has always been about celebrating the creation of content on a regular schedule. The original challenge was to post 31 times during the month of August which is 31 days long. This can be posting every day or doubling up on some days to make the schedule a bit easier. However, we also want to award anyone who starts down this path, because deciding to blog in the first place is a victory in itself. As such we give out awards based on the number of posts that you manage to knock out during the month of August. Again the idea is to spark creativity and get folks to create more content, not necessarily grinding them to dust on the millstone of some lofty goal. Here are the guidelines for each of the awards that we give out as part of this original challenge:
Newbie Blogger Award – You did it! You joined Blaugust for the very first time and we are extremely happy to welcome you into this raucous community. As a result, we are going to recognize your efforts just for signing up.
Bronze Award – You made at least 5 posts during the month of August 2024.
Silver Award – You made at least 15 posts during the month of August 2024.
Gold Award – You made at least 25 posts during the month of August 2024.
Rainbow Diamond Award – You beat the original challenge and posted 31 times or more during the month of August 2024.
The First Post of Blaugust
Something this year that I am really wanting to focus on is the community aspect of Blaugust even over the number of posts that are being made. That is the piece of Blaugust that lasts long after the final day of August has finished and all of the posts have been tabulated. We have created this community of bloggers and it gives us an interesting group of folks that we can rely on. In order to support this effort this year I am creating the “First Post of Blaugust” initiative. The idea is that for your very first Blaugust post you take a bit of time and introduce yourself and your blog. Granted this can feel a bit odd if you are one of us who have been doing the same thing for a few decades, but realize that not everyone knows who the heck you are. While I am not going to make you wear nametags to orientation, it would be lovely if you spent some time with that very first blog post to introduce yourself and the kind of content that you create.
Scaffolding for Success
Over the years we have added a bunch of features of Blaugust and the goal behind all of them is to create a structure that folks can lean upon when the well of inspiration runs dry. These are of course completely optional activities and only serve as some general guidelines that you can follow if you feel you want a bit more structure. Everything from this point forward until the recap below should be considered voluntary content. I will be honest there are folks who seem to thrive on this structure and then there are folks like myself that completely ignore it. Which path you take is entirely up to you.
Weekly Themes
These were created many moons ago, and the idea behind them was to template out some general themes for blog posts. As Blaugust outlived a number of similar initiatives I adopted some of the focus of those into themes and began publishing them each year. Generally speaking August spans five weeks and as such we have five different broad theme categories. Again no one should feel under any obligation if they do choose to write about the themes, to actually make an entire week’s worth of posts. Here is a quick rundown of the idea behind each of the themed weeks:
Welcome to Blaugust Week (August 1st – August 3rd) – The idea behind this week is to give a specific time to be actively talking about Blaugust and welcoming new members to the fold. This could also count as promoting Blaugust for the “Spreading the Madness” achievement. The hope is that drumming up some heavy activity of talking about the event might allow us to pick up a few more stragglers.
Introduce Yourself Week (August 4th – August 10th) – The idea behind this week is to have some structured time around getting to know the other bloggers. I realize that those of us who are veteran bloggers might have already written half a dozen introduction posts by now, but it is a great time to share anything interesting you might have in your arsenal.
Creator Appreciation Week (August 11th – August 17h) – Developer Appreciation Week or the D.A.W. was an event that took place in the blogging community independent from Blaugust but eventually died out. The more modern idea is to show appreciation for the things and creators that we love. This could be authors, musicians, developers, artists, or even other bloggers, with the focus being on sharing something that we love so that maybe others might appreciate it as well.
Staying Motivated Week (August 18th – August 24th) – As we get towards the end of the event, the activity can often trail off a bit. The goal of this week is to share some of your own tips surrounding how you keep motivated and stay focused on creating content. If you are new to the event, you might share some of the things that have helped you stay engaged during Blaugust.
Lessons Learned Week (August 25th – August 31st) – This week is a reminder that the goal of Blaugust is to refresh the content creators out there for the coming year, and not to burn them out in the process. Some folks are going to cross the finish line and immediately go dormant and others will want to process their thoughts about the proceedings. This space is reserved as a bit of a cooldown lap so that you can share your own experiences.
Prompt List
2020 was a weird year in which we technically ran two different Blaugust events… largely as a way to distract ourselves from the awkward locked-down state of the world. The Promptapalooza event that took the place of the normal Blaugust, was a bit of an abject failure. However, it did create a list of topic prompts that I have recycled and moved forward to help anyone needing inspiration. This is absolutely optional content, but feel free to grab one of these topics and write about it when you find yourself particularly low in inspiration or motivation.
In 2022 I wanted to spice things up a little bit and add something new to the mix. Some folks are deeply motivated by achievements, specifically in video games. I have one friend who obsessively tries to 100% every single game. I am not one of these people. However, in an effort to create new objectives for folks to focus on in order to make their way through a month’s worth of posts, I introduced “Blaugchievements“. These represent a series of optional objectives for you to check off, and with them comes a little toast image that you can use on your blog if you are so motivated. I’ve not created brand new ones yet this year, but who knows I might feel particularly creative before the month is over. You can find the full list and images associated with them over on the Blaugchievements page, but here is a quick rundown of what they entail.
Reading the Manual – Read the introductory blog post with the rules of the event.
Grats if you are reading this blog post you have already gotten your very first Blaugchievement.
Welcome Wagon – Write a blog post based on the first week’s theme of Welcoming Folks to Blaugust.
Introduce Yourself – Write a blog post based on the second week’s theme of Introducing Yourself.
Creative Appreciation – Write a blog post based on the third week’s theme Appreciating the works of some Creative or Company.
Staying Motivated – Write a blog post based on the fourth week’s theme of how you have managed to Stay Motivated.
Lessons Learned – Write a blog post based on the fifth week’s theme explaining some of the Lessons you have Learned through Blaugust.
Going Platinum – Complete All of the Blaugchievements for Blaugust 2024.
The Recap
That my dear friends is a rundown of what Blaugust is and all of the associated kitsch involved with it. I feel like it is very important to state that Blaugust is what you make of it. If you want to sign up, make a few blog posts, maybe participate in a few threads on social media… and call it a day, we are absolutely cool with that. You should not feel the need to go for 31 or more, because there will absolutely be someone this year that does something silly like 60+ blog posts. Over the years I have de-emphasized the competition aspect because really this should be way more of a collaborative event than a zero-sum experience. When this event first launched Gold was the award for 31 posts, and I eased up considerably on that concept to make it a bit more liveable… then of course added in Rainbow to recognize anyone who really went for the gusto.
Anyways for anyone who is prone not to read all the things like myself… here is a quick recap and “call to action”.
The Sign-Up Form for Blaugust 2024 can be found here. Since logging in with a Google account has been a source of consternation for some, I have removed that functionality. If you still cannot for whatever reason sign-up but want to participate please let me know. Only those that I am tracking will be assigned awards.
The invite link to the Blaugust Discord can be found here. Participation in Discord is entirely optional but also a great way to bounce ideas off the existing community.
If you feel inclined to do so please use the hashtag #Blaugust2024 for tracking purposes and to make your content easier to find for those watching the proceedings.
We also highly suggest that you utilize the Share Your Content” channel in the official Discord.
We have an official Blaugust social media account over on Gamepad.Club a Fediverse/Mastodon server that I help admin. During the event, I will be watching the above hashtag and boosting all of the posts.
Mingle with the participants of Blaugust 2024. Get out and see the blogs, read the posts, and comment frequently! These folks represent a social structure that you can lean on for advice in the coming years. I deeply value the ties I have made with other bloggers and started this process as an attempt to cement those and build new ones.
If you are so inclined there is a “Gaming Together” channel on Discord for those impromptu grouping activities. I believe there was even some discussion of doing a one-shot D&D adventure this year.
If you find yourself getting stuck at any point feel free to rely on the weekly schedule or the prompt list for inspiration or you can hop on Discord and talk through your issues.
You can also check out the new Blaugchievements list for anything that might spark your creativity and check one of those off.
Welcome to Blaugust 2024. As always if you have any questions please feel free to ask. My door is always open but I might be slow to respond because I have a bad habit of idling on pretty much all the social platforms at once.
If you want an archive of all of the various logos and such from this year or past years of Blaugust, please check out the Blaugust Media Kit page.
The Official Social Media Account
Last year we created an official social media account on Gamepad.Club who is run by a Blaugustan named Gazimoff. I help Gaz administer the server and fellow Blaugustans Scopique and Aywren are moderators. So suffice to say Gamepad has some seriously deep Blaugust roots and as such it made so much sense for me to standardize on that server and platform. If you are on the Mastodon or any other Fediverse platform you can follow the account and I spend most of the event heavily promoting the #Blaugust2024 hashtag through it. However this year we have a few options that make things a bit more tantalizing.
Bluesky
If you are on BlueSky I am utilizing the Fedy Bridge and syndicating everything from the Blaugust Mastodon account over to the BlueSky Network through this @blaugust.gamepad.club.ap.brid.gy. If you are on BlueSky you can follow that account and see all of its content. If you follow @ap.brid.gy it will allow you to create a bi-directional communications path with the Blaugust account and everyone else on the Fediverse. This will essentially give folks who are most comfortable on BlueSky full access to everyone on the Fediverse and I will be able to promote blog posts on both networks through the bridge.
Threads
Threads is a little less than ideal, but technically it also has connectivity to the Fediverse. It is an opt-in service and you will have to go into your profile and enable Fediverse Sharing. Once you have done so you should in theory be able to follow the official account over on Gamepad, and I will be able to follow your threads account and promote your posts. The communication is read-only, unfortunately, but at some point, I believe Meta is planning on making this bi-directional.
Everything Else
You are of course more than welcome to use any Social Media platform of your choosing. I am focused on the Fediverse and the things that have connectivity with it. I will likely not be actively promoting posts on any of the other networks, because I just don’t really use them often enough.
Final Thoughts
I said this last year, but without you, Blaugust would be nothing but a weird word that I smashed together in my head. It still rings extremely true as I sit down this morning to make the annual post… that always seems to overstay its welcome. If you’ve made it this far in the post I commend you, because these just seem to keep getting longer. Blaugust is a lot of things to a lot of folks. If you just want to sign up to participate in a community of bloggers, that is absolutely cool even if you make zero posts throughout the event. If you want to grind away and try and complete every blaugchievement… that is also absolutely a way to experience this event. Blaugust is what you want it to be, and I hope you have as much fun during this event as I always do. You have all of my love and gratitude for keeping this as active as it has been over the last decade.
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