Thanks to Maestro, I am now the reasonably proud owner of an anime blog.

I'll be spending the next few weeks trying to learn all the various ins-and-outs of Wordpress and the like. I've got a fairly good grip of HTML 4.01, and XHTML 1.0 doesn't seem to be that different. I've only started practicing CSS2, though, and while I'm confident in the simple things like making the text look all pretty, floating block placement and sidebars are a bit much.

And then there's Wordpress, and the choice of plugins, and the general vocabulary of blogging in general. "Trackback"? What's that? "RSS"? Speak English, dammit.

Anyway, please be patient with me while I try not to break the site any more than I have to.

While I fiddle around with the settings, I'll just mention a bit about myself, and what this blog is likely to be about. I'll probably clean up these ramblings and place it in the "About Me" page, but until then, this will have to do. Also, these will be long and self-absorbed, which will probably give you a hint about posts to come.

I'm known online as Damien Kellis, which is nowhere near my real name. (This seems to confuse people.) I've got a Livejournal named Incoherent Ramblings, and a website at TallGlasses.org; the LJ I update almost daily, and the website only when absolutely necessary. If you really want to know more about me, although I can't imagine why, Incoherent Ramblings will tell you far, far more than you ever wanted to know. In short, though, the relevant information are: I'm Singaporean, I'm currently in Michigan, I love moe shows, I write fanfiction, I'm running out of space to store all my Science Fiction And Fantasy novels, I play City of Heroes, and I'm fairly easy-going with regards to opinions and such.

Basically this anime blog is meant to take the brunt of my anime-related ramblings from my LJ, and shift it to a more convenient location. No, really; I'm not so worried about viewership, since I can probably post everything on LJ and get the exact same readership (ie near-zero).

I probably won't be doing ALL-NEW ALL-FRESH summaries and reviews of shows, unless I absolutely feel like it (read: when the moe factor compels me to post), and I may be going through my old anime (where "old" means "not this season") for MOAR INSPIRATION. Most likely I'll be writing long, rambling posts with the net summary of "moe hanyaan~" and nothing more. I may even just go through an entire old series with pathetically short episode summaries just so I remember which episode had what.

I write what I want to write. Consider this fair warning. In a completely friendly manner, of course.

If you're wondering, most of the pictures I will be posting with come either directly from screencaps, or via the image collections of 4chan (mostly /c/), danbooru, and moe.imouto.org. 4chan and danbooru are not for delicate sensibilities. I grab the safe (cute) images, but am rather desensitized to the shock pictures.

And finally, the usual bit about How I Started With Anime: my "first anime" was technically Doraemon, followed by Robotech (really the Genesis Climber Mospeada portion), but the first anime I actually recognized as anime was Ranma 1/2. After that, I never really grew out of "watching cartoons", more or less.

Favourite anime of all time? Card Captor Sakura, without a doubt.

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