On Trying Something New with Blaugust

Written: 2025-08-03

... actually, it's more a return to roots.

Having been on the internet in some form or another for almost two decades now, you see a lot of coming and going. Website popping out of nowhere and unexpectedly shutting down. Services shooting to the stars only to shoot themselves in the foot and lose everything. Things change dramatically every couple of years, only to be forgotten some time later.

Yet, not everything change. In my growing time navigating the bit-waves, I've noticed a constant: blogging. It may have taken many forms (long posts to 1-sentence updates), and appeared on many different platforms, but it's always been there. We, human beings, love to talk about things!

And I was one of those too! After setting up an email for the first time, I got myself a Skyblog (now defunct) to post about things I liked at the time (~10 y/o me was into The Sims and Roller Coaster Tycoon big time!). The first public thing I did on the internet was... blogging!

In the following decade, I hopped around, trying other blogging spaces: Blogger*, LiveJournal, Tumblr, returning to Skyblog, a short stint on DeviantArt, a bit on Facebook, returning to Blogger again, tried my hand at Instagram when I got a compatible phone, walked away quickly and reopened LiveJournal, also had a WordPress and Wix at some point...

To the best of my knowledge, very little of these blogs remain, between the platforms who shut down by themselves, to the accounts I nuked myself. The only sure thing left is this blog (obviously) and things I might have shared on Tumblr.

Until V3 of this website was uploaded, I'd sort of stayed away from blogging at all*. Mainly because I didn't really have anything (interesting, funny, personally, worthy, etc...) to write about, but also because of the spaces I was in during that time (both IRL and on the net). I've found blogging can be pretty personal at time, putting you in a vulnerable position when sharing things on the wild web. So being comfortable in the space you share those words (and part of yourself) is pretty important - my many trials and errors showed me that.

I think this is why I quickly added a blog section to this website. After the V3 redesign, I felt this itching of talking about it and why it had to change. Deep down, I think I also needed a space where I could talk about anything and everything, but mainly about things that wasn't related to Interactive Fiction in a place that wasn't IF-focused. Maybe even be more vulnerable in what I write, in a way I haven't really been able through my games or in the spaces I am active (which, it turns out, is mainly IF-related too...).

Anyways, to go back to Blaugust. Or get into it.

While the past two months have been sort of... testing the blogging waters again, I thought I could take the opportunity of Blaugust to really plunge into it.

I am not really sure yet which direction I want to take with this month of blogs. Like do I want to get all personal and share more about myself? do I try to reflect on things that happen and past relationships? do I go on rants about things I am opinionated about? do I attempt to answer questions about life and death? or do I try new things and talk about them?

So many options... so indecisive.

So here's to a month of multiple blogs of... unknown topics!