Imagine that you are an anime blogger. You have, thanks to circumstances far beyond your control, one hour to throw together a compelling, substantial, and above all entertaining post. You have to come up with a theme, the words to flesh out that skeleton of an idea, and the pictures to go with it to break up the monotony of Great Big Blocks Of Text. You have to have these Blocks Of Text, since that’s your reputation, to talk about nothing in particular, but to talk about it with Big Words. It is, so to speak, a sort of modus operandi, without which one might well be branded as an imposter, some sort of false pretender with delusions of vocabulary.

Theme, words, pictures, and style. All of this, within one hour.

Oh, and did I mention that you are also laid low by illness and stress and worry, and would like nothing more than to just give up on the whole business and curl up in a cocoon of nice warm blankets nursing a mug of hot chocolate, or perhaps a bowl of chicken soup? Wishing mostly for the world to just stop for a couple of days or so while one emphatically does not get one’s affairs in order, and indeed does not do anything productive, but instead just sits back and laughs at some random romantic comedy anime or something. Something familiar and reassuring.

But no, the Blog must be fed. It can, for now, be merely a token, but one must soon come up with something relevant, or the readers will rise up and hang the offending blog author by his entrails as an educational example to one and all.

Yeah, in case you hadn’t guessed by now, I am in no shape mentally, physically, or emotionally to make a real blog post. Not even, I suspect, to save my life. I do not know how long this state of affairs will persist, but rest assured that I will strive my hardest to update this blog with one post (sans any guarantees of quality) Every Other Day. Such is my pact with you, gentle readers, and if I should break it, may I be kidnapped by lolis.

… that probably wasn’t the best disincentive to use.