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Fashionably late to the party, of course, I thought it\u2019d be worth jumping in and saying hi either way! For those of you who don\u2019t know what Blaugust is by now, I mentioned in a previous Weekend Wrap-Up<\/a> I would be taking part, although Belghast\u2019s initial post<\/a> explains it much better. It\u2019s an annual event among the video game blogging circle intended to foster community and get people blogging and interacting a little more. The original point of this event was to blog every day in August. It\u2019s also the time of year when we train our spellchecks that no, it\u2019s not August, it\u2019s Blaugust, I said what I meant! <\/p>\n

Now\u2026 I will neither be blogging daily (I know my limits) nor blogging about gaming (exclusively, at least), but this is the community I got my start in and they are my people so I plan to give my Blaugust a little bookish spin, perhaps other topics if they come to me, I\u2019m pretty easy. <\/p>\n

What will I be blogging about? Frankly, the usual. I have drafts for a couple of book reviews, we\u2019ll see a continuation of the Buffyverse Project<\/a> and my first steps into horror fiction, which I\u2019m really enjoying. I made a whole bunch of drafts when I first came back to book blogging, honestly, just to make sure I always had ideas for posts. I have yet to actually use any of those drafts but it could be fun to pull some of those out. Those are mostly book related, though there are some Dungeons & Dragons and cross stitch ideas in that pile, along with some video games but really, my focus has not been on gaming for a very long time. That is unless you ask me to play Phasmophobia with you, then I will pull my headset on, load up Steam and yell obscenities at digital ghosts who just want us dead. I would also really like to resubscribe to Final Fantasy XIV but I have limited funds and limited horror books right now and I need to save up for a Glastonbury (town) trip and I\u2019m looking into getting my blog hosted, you understand. <\/p>\n

We shall see!<\/p>\n

August is my oyster. It could be fruitful, it could be relaxed, we\u2019ll just have to see how I go. Regardless, Belghast has a list of all the participants<\/a> this year and I\u2019m sure it\u2019s not too late to sign up and join us. I even had some ideas for the suggested prompts Bel listed. <\/p>\n