Well, if you ever starting getting blogging-hubris (not that I’m in danger – I think) I recommend getting yourself referenced by Matticus as some guy who got g-kicked… it does wonders for your sense of perspective.
Anyway.
In this post I’m talking to you.
Yes you.
I’m calling all bloggers, readers, commenters, friends, friends-of-friends, passers-by, randoms, lurkers, occasional visitors, Bagginses and Boffins, Tooks and Brandybucks, Grubbs, Chubbs, Hornblowers, Bolgers, Bracegirdles and Proudfoots … to roll up a Hordie alt, and come and join SINGLE ABSTRACT NOUN, a blogging communities guild on Argent Dawn.
The inspiration is three-fold (well, technically, four-fold since the actual crazy “let’s do this moment” occurred in an email flurry between Issy and I – so you can all blame her if it goes horribly horribly wrong)
Firstly, some loud scallywag – I think jokingly – commented that there should be an all-blogger guild and we all went “waaaah, nightmare, imagine trying to get anything done!”
Secondly, somebody who used to sheep things reminded me how important the blogging community can be – not just as people we read and write to, but as, I think, friends.
Thirdly, I half-rolled up a gnome mage (who looks worryingly like some other gnome mage) so I could say hello to someone with pink pigtails, and I glanced down my realm list and I realised I had ‘disposable’ (if occasionally inactioned) alts on nearly 12 servers already.
And Issy and I thought to ourselves: that raucous rascal was so right, we absolutely should have a bloggers guild, not necessarily to achieve anything in the strictest sense of the word, not to replace our other in-game circles and commitments, but to augment them. To give us a space to talk to each other and ‘meet’ each other and, hell, if we fancy taking a holiday from our other WoW lives, even to play together in good company.
The guild rules of Single Abstract Noun are as follows:
1. Anybody with even the vaguest passing interest in the blogging community is welcome – which is why it’s a blogging communities guild, not a bloggers’ guild.
2. Single Abstract Noun is a pantocracy – which means, not only that pants are encouraged, but it’s rule by all. The guild belongs to all who belong to it.
3. Use the guild however you like, as a meeting place, for conversation, for running the occasional dungeon, have a million alts, have a single character, whatever you like.
4. There are no rules about respecting other people because GODDAMN IT I’M TAKING THAT AS READ.
5. Leave your wowcock in the stand by the door.
The heartbreaking thing about this is that, due to the vagaries of servers and time-zones, I cannot bring together those of us foolish enough to be on the wrong continent but I believe some chick who writes a lot about kitchen utensils healing is setting up the American Chapter of Single Abstract Noun – I believe tweets have already been, err, twittered and a blog post will follow.
However, for the European Contingent, roll up an alt, come and find us, and let’s make this happen together. Kumquat is currently holding the Single Abstract Fort all on his lonesome but, in the sad absence of Kum you can always grab Issy , currently a very fetching troll called Alzubra, in whose capable, purple hands I have left the tabard design, the bank roll … and basically everything that, err, made this happen at all.
As we grow, /who Single Abstract Noun will also do the trick.
Tl;dr: SINGLE ABSTRACT NOUN, blogging communities guild, Argent Dawn (EU), Horde-side, all welcome
Oh This is evil. You tempt me to resub to WoW. So far *nothing* has done that, not even the whole lot of Cataclysm announcements. I have been happily going, nup, it was fun, but no inclination whatsoever to ever go back, this is no longer the game for me, if it ever was.
But this is tempting. And EVIL!
Joined you last night on my brandnew Belf Paladin. Hm, I still have a lv 25 lock gathering dust somewhere, maybe I'll transfer her too.
*ahem*
PROUDFEET!
(It needed to be said. Great idea, I’ll sign up for the US version.)
*ahem*
PROUDFEET!
(It needed to be said. Great idea, I’ll sign up for the US version.)
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