Blaugust/Promptapalooza Day 8

Blaugust has been a blogging event that has been around for a few years now, and I’ve been happy to participate. Every year, and sometimes twice in a year, gaming bloggers, pop-culture bloggers, media bloggers, and pretty much any type of blogger has a chance to come together and share their experiences about blogging. It’s a lot of fun, and I love the community that it has spawned.

All kinds of content are represented in the blogosphere, and today, I, right here, take a look at mascots.

Before I look into my thoughts about the question, a little preamble…


 

Promptapalooza Day 8

Normally about this time of year, I would be working on Blaugust and trying to figure out how I am gonna keep up with all the blogs that are posting every day. This year, I think I’m in a similar situation except we’re all following a series of prompts that Belghast over at Tales of the Aggronaut has put together or that people have come up with on their own.

I kinda like it. Not only do we get a bunch of different perspectives on some cool themes, but we also get a chance to explore different blogs.

Maybe this will even get me back into my Six Degrees posts when the dust settles. I used to really enjoy traveling through six degrees of blogging, and if things work out well, I think I’ll jump back on that in September…But for now, we have Blaugust: Promptapalooza.


 

My Mascot

For this Eighth day of Blaugust, we have a prompt about mascots…

If you had a mascot to represent you, what would it be?

I used to use what I consider my mascot a lot more on this blog than I have recently, but I have fallen away from him a bit. Perhaps I should go back to incorporating him more now that I refound one of my main images of him…

That’s my Rambling Redshirt.

I used to include him in images of the games I played and in the titles of sections of the blog and all over the place, but I think I started cutting back as I published fewer images. It takes a lot of time and effort to put images into posts, sometimes more effort than writing them, I’ve found. But I miss him.

Basically, he represents my thoughts when I started writing Beyond Tannhauser Gate. I knew I was a newbie at blogging and was even taking part in the Newbie Blogger Initiative when I started. And being a newbie, I wanted something to represent me that, in my mind, made me think of that newness, hence the Redshirt.

In sports, at least in college sports, there is a concept of a Redshirt where you get your young players an extra year of eligibility by redshirting them. This basically allows them to train with the team and play in a small number of the games – not the full season. When I created my Rambling Redshirt, I believed the Redshirt could play the home games and was not eligible for the road games, but I guess that’s not the case.

Anyway, the Redshirt mascot also comes from my love of Star Trek and the infamous redshirts. I felt that if I crashed and burned with this blog, I’d just consider myself a redshirt and roll with it. While I’m not sure if I’ve crashed and burned, at least I am keeping up with it, and I don’t feel like I’ve met the fate of many a redshirt from Star Trek.

As for the Rambling part of the moniker, I had no coherent idea about what I wanted to write about on the blog, so I figured I would be rambling a lot. I think that one has stuck. I feel that I ramble a bit too much and would like to be a bit more coherent in my blogging plans, but I’m not gonna hold myself to that…I am a Rambling Redshirt, after all.

So, yeah…I do have a mascot, and I’d like him to show up a bit more often.


 

It’s a Wrap

I’m interested in hearing about everyone else’s mascot. I’m sure there are a few since so many of us bloggers have avatars and representations of ourselves that we use in games. And with things like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and all the rest, you gotta have a few names that you go by these days, and those just beg for mascots or at least images to attach to.

With my mascot promptapaloozaing done, I’m looking forward to Endalia’s prompt over at Princess in a Castle for day 9.


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