Cruel Angel Theses is two years old.

April 9th, 2009 | Categories: Omake | Tags: Blogniversary

What can I say? I’ve been so tied up with Darker than Black.

all-tied-up

*insert your own bondage joke here*

Unlike my first anniversary, whoa. It sure is getting old around these parts, and while I daresay I’m getting better at doing this, that doesn’t mean I’m doing this any faster. Or even if I’m doing it any faster, it doesn’t mean that I’m feeling any less of that e-nnui thing. But enough of those two posts that you’re not going to click on or re-read.

I don’t know if I’d call 2008 a good year for my blogging, with that in mind. Alright, so maybe there was that Fate/stay night thing, which kind-of redefined ‘good’ for me. Then there was Twitter, which I have Hinano to blame for. It started out as a… hell, I can’t remember why Hinano asked me to get a Twitter anymore. I was pretty confident that I wasn’t going to update it at first, but the twit count sorta says it all.

Blog reading, on the other hand… 2008 was an excellent year full of ripe pickings.

Here are some thank-yous in random order of significance:

Thank you, Lelangir, for making the blogosphere a happier… and more… whatever it is that (屮゜Д゜)屮 face of yours signifies. (屮゜Д゜)屮. anitations has been the best thing since Ani-Nouto maybe; too bad you don’t have Zaitcev’s stamina, you harlot. Thank you for putting up with all the awesome anime/meta conversations we have that I never really get around to turning into posts–they’ll make their way up on Super Fanicom soon, I promise.

Thank you, everyone whose posts I’ve ever shared on Google Reader.

Thank you, bloggers, new or otherwise, that I’ve discovered over the past year, for adding to my load of things to read before I go about my daily business. Sometimes when I fall behind, I don’t even get to do my daily business. Jerks. Repeat offenders include OGT, ghostlightning, Omisyth, gaguri, animekritik, Lbrevis, _eternal, moritheil, schneider, kiriska, Pontifus, cuchlann, and miasmacloud; while there are others that I’ve been reading recently, you people are the worst, and by worst I mean best.

Thank you, coburn, for blogging; even if you’ve quit, your archives will remain. And I will plunder them like a grave robber does graveyards, or pesky archaeologists a Pharoah’s tomb.

Thank you, Andrew Cunningham, for setting a new… standard in Eastern Standard. Seriously. Anyone who swears like that and still churns out significant amounts of quality content on a daily basis without having the taste of someone so predisposed to making me shove a couple of fingers down my throat whenever I read their posts deserves special mention.

Thanks to all my aniblogquantainces on Twitter that I’m following or who follow me, who make me feel like I’m part of something bigger, of this warm, fuzzy community with healthy amounts of The Crazy that I can always depend on for one thing or another.

Finally, thank you if you’re one of the 350 people who willingly read the content that this blog produces; FeedBurner told me I had that much until… a day ago, where they dropped abruptly to about 112 for no reason. I’m sure it’s a bug, though, I mean, I can’t have bored you guys off with all that Darker than Black, right? Good riddance to you if you have, though!

a-very-gambling-birthday

I’m just not cut out for this kind of metasturbation anymore, and can’t find much to say here about other people who’ve been saying things about other things. Maybe it’s all well and good that on my 2nd blogniversary my hands are sore from genuine blogging, and not from waxing lyrical about waxing lyrical, or paying tribute to bloggers long-gone who don’t deserve the spotlight anymore. Back to the grind I go!