Day 3, y’all. This has been fun. Thanks again to Blanca for the nomination!
Thank the person who nominated you
Post a quote for 3 consecutive days (1 quote for each day)
Nominate three new bloggers each day
How could I not end on a Doctor Who quote? One of my favourite Who quotes, spoken by the Eleventh Doctor at the very end of his regeneration. Such poignant. Much sad.
Nominations. I’m going to nominate Elliot and Antonio (only if you guys want to do it, of course) because they both liked my two previous posts for this tag and I have a feeling they wouldn’t mind doing it themselves 😉
Hope you’ve enjoyed these quotes. It’s back to Doctor Who for my next post, when I get round to it, and it’s one I think you guys will enjoy.
Day 2, y’all. Thanks to Blaaaaancaaaa for the nomination.
Thank the person who nominated you
Post a quote for 3 consecutive days (1 quote for each day)
Nominate three new bloggers each day
This quote from Paradise Lost is quite similar in theme to yesterday’s quote from Harry Potter, but it’s one of my all-time favourites, so I couldn’t not include it.
Once again, nominating YOU. Do it. Tell me you’ve done it. I’ll come and check it out.
Yo, thanks to Blanca (finally learned your name lol) for tagging me for the 3 Days, 3 Quotes tag! I’ve always wanted to do this tag 😊
Thank the person who nominated you
Post a quote for 3 consecutive days (1 quote for each day)
Nominate three new bloggers each day
Spoken, of course, by the inimitable Albus Dumbledore.
As for nominees, uugghh I think I’m running out of people to nominate because I think I’ve nominated every blogger I’ve ever talked to several times and I don’t want to be annoying lol. Is it a cop-out if I just say I nominate anyone who wants to do the award? Can I be that guy? If anyone tags themselves from me, please hit me up and I’ll come onto your blog and read it! 😉
Okay, so just to catch you all up on what’s been happening with me, once again I’ve been neglecting this blog. I have literally no excuse this time. I’ve been on my break from university for the last three weeks and have had literally nothing to do. Work has been minimal, and I found myself with four beautiful, glorious responsibility-free weeks to do whatever the hell I wanted. I promised myself I was going to dedicate more time to this blog and my other hobbies over the break, but… something happened. I started playing Runescape again, because I found out that an IRL friend played it, and once I got back into it, after having stopped playing three years ago, I kind of couldn’t stop. So yeah, I’ve just spent most of my holidays farming and fishing and going on quests in 2004-grade graphics. It sort of just happened.
But I logged back into WordPress today for the first time in a few weeks and found out I had been nominated for another blogger award, the Unique Blogger Award, by wanderlust77! It’s so flattering to know that, down to about one post a month, people still want to engage with me, so thanks fam!
Rules:
Thank the blogger who nominated you and include a link to their blog.
1. What would you do if you became president of your country?
So much power… I wouldn’t even know where to start. But I think the first thing I would do would be to get my country’s military the hell out of the Middle East and other foreign war zones, because drone bombing a whole region of the world to hell is a Bad Thing. There would be a whole host of other things I would do which would almost certainly be controversial, but I think I’ll leave it there because I don’t like to go into politics on this blog. The only controversy you’ll find in this here blog is my opinion on The Day of the Doctor.
2. What is the best joke you know/remember/can find
I don’t have a great memory for jokes… my humour is more about witty banter than “So an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar…” kind of jokes. But my favourite comedian, whom I’m seeing live in November, is Michael McIntyre. He’s just fabulous. He has me in stitches every time I watch him. Here’s a sample:
3. Do you have any famous lookalikes?
Uhh, not really that I know of. However, I have to mention that my dad is an absolute dead ringer for Griff Rhys Jones, the Welsh TV personality:
I’m not even kidding, that’s my dad. It’s actually creepy how alike they look.
My meme
I have more memes saved onto my computer and my phone than I’m comfortable admitting.
Here’s a goat meme. Goat memes are Cool.
My quote
A quote from Doctor Who which I’ve found a very inspiring motto to live by, spoken by the Eleventh Doctor:
Thanks to wanderlust77 for nominating me for this award!
The rules to this award are:
1. Write a post to show your award. 2. Acknowledge the blogger that nominated you. 3. Give a brief story about how you got started blogging. 4. Give two pieces of advice for new bloggers. 5. Nominate 10 bloggers for the award.
My blogging story
Well this isn’t actually my first blog. I’ve had a number of blogs before this on a variety of subjects, and I started blogging (on Blogspot *cringes*) around 2009, when I was 14-ish. I think my first blog was about Runescape, an online game I played a lot back then—I was inspired to make that blog because I read another Runescape player’s blog, and it looked really fun. I never got very far with that one, though.
But I had another blog which I ran for quite a long time and only ended up deleting a few years ago which was just a repository for my thoughts and ideas about all manner of things. I started that blog because I had so many ideas that I wanted to share, and I needed somewhere to put them all, to get them out of my head. It never really became very successful (no one is very interested in some teenager’s incoherent ramblings), but I formed a few connections with other bloggers over the years through that blog.
I started this blog in 2014 because… I had become obsessed with Doctor Who and didn’t have any other obsessive Whovians in real life to talk about Doctor Who with! Sort of like my previous blog, I had so many thoughts I wanted to share about this show and no one to share them with! So I took it to the blogosphere, and I’ve found plenty of people like me to share my ideas with and who are interested in sharing their ideas with me. This has by far been my most successful blog, even if I’ve been a bit neglectful of it in recent months (apologies btw).
My advice
Write for yourself, not for others. Write about what you’re passionate about, what you enjoy writing about, whether that’s some topic you’re interested in, or your own life and personal things, or whatever. Write the things you would want to read, and there should be no end to ideas for interesting, exciting content. Blogging should be leisure, never a chore, and if it ever gets to the point where it becomes a chore that you feel obligated to do for others, you’re doing it wrong.
Just some tips about writing in general: I’m not saying I’m the best writer in the world, but my writing has improved enormously since I’ve started this blog (just go back and read my early posts and see for yourself!), and I think I can give some helpful tips for those who want to improve their writing. First of all, read. When you read, especially (good) material that’s similar to the things you want to write, you naturally, subconsciously pick up on patterns and nuances that, with practice, you can naturally incorporate into your own writing. But you have to read a lot. Secondly, write, extensively, because, as miserable as the thought is, practice, and only practice, makes perfect. Thirdly, Thesaurus.com is your friend. The right word, with just the right nuance, can make a sentence so much more eloquent and effective. I always have Thesaurus.com open when I write literally anything because I’m a perfectionist about using the best choice of vocabulary. Doing this has also expanded my working vocabulary enormously over the years as well, which is a huge boon to my writing.
Nominations
I always end up nominating the same people when I do these, so this time I’m going to nominate my 10 most recent followers (I want to know more about y’all).
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