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blaugust prompts
https://nerdgirlthoughts.game.blog/2025/07/25/blaugust-2025-calendar-weekly-prompts/
We have attempted to break down August into 5 roughly equal periods of time instead of your traditional Sunday – Saturday weeks for the themes this year. Now, participants may interpret these themes any way that they like, but as someone who’s done this a few times now, I know I sometimes struggle to come up with a fresh spin on each of these themes.
So, without further ado, onto the prompts! Week One – Welcome to Blaugust Week August 1st – August 6th
What made you decide to do Blaugust this year, and what are your personal goals? Did you start preparing for Blaugust before the August 1st start date? If so, what did you do ahead of time to make sure you’d stay on track? Do you remember how you heard about Blaugust for the first time? If this isn’t your first Blaugust, what keeps you coming back to do this year after year? Community Builder Bonus Prompt: Who are the Blaugust bloggers who you keep reading all year round?
Week Two – Introduce Yourself Week August 7th – August 13th
Tell us ten random facts about the human behind the blog. Tell us about your absolutely favorite entertainment media. Tell the story behind the creation and name of your blog. What other hobbies do you have besides blogging / the topic of your blog? Tell us about the part of the world you live in like you’re trying to attract someone to visit. Tell us about your blogging workflow and / or show us your creative space.
Week Three – Creator Appreciation Week August 14th – August 20th
Top five (or 10 or 20) bloggers. Top five (or 10 or 20) musical artists. Top five (or 10 or 20) YouTubers/ Twitch streamers. Top five (or 10 or 20) authors / book series. Top five (or 10 or 20) game developers / modders. Top five (or 10 or 20) actors / directors / screenwriters. Do you have friends who are creatives? Tell us why they’re fantastic and plug their online presences.
Week Four – Staying Motivated Week August 21st – August 27th
What tricks do you use to keep yourself motivated when something feels impossible? What are your blogging goals? Do you think participating in Blaugust is getting you closer to where you want be? What do you think you’ll get out of completing your Blaugust goals? What drives you to blog? Are you happy with your Blaugust so far? If so, why? If not, why not? How important is goal setting & reaching your goals to you overall? Did you read any posts during Blaugust (or before) that you found particularly inspirational? Share them!
Week Five – Lessons Learned Week August 28th – August 31st
If you could go back in time to August 1st (or whenever you signed up for Blaugust), what would you do differently to prepare? What are your top 3 or 5 takeaways from your Blaugust experience? Were there any posts your read during Blaugust that changed how you felt about the experience as a whole? Share them! What were your favorite and least favorite parts of participating in Blaugust 2025? Community Builder Bonus Prompt: If you decided to shoot for the Community Builder Award this year, which options did you choose? Do you feel like it added to the experience for you, or did it detract from your personal goals for the event?
Heritage in King Of The Hill
King of the Hill is a satire of middle-class white US-American culture, and as such has a few token “minority” side-characters to reflect the main chararacters' stereotyped views. The Souphanousinphones are the Asian characters that appear the most, and John Redcorn is the Native American character who appears the most. Indeed, he's the only Native American character that acknowledges his heritage because the other ones (Joseph and Kate) are both John's kids and don't even know that they're John's kids! Which is actually quite sadly true to real life, because many kids don't know their family's heritage as they're subsumed into middle-class white US-American culture.
The Souphanousinphones are explicitly stated to be Laotian, with Kahn and Minh having a good bit of real life history informing them1). This is interesting because Laos is a bit of a lesser-known Asian country, and that's lampshaded by Hank's asking ignorantly “So are ya Chinese, or Japanese”? Connie was born in the USA, but is still connected to Laotian culture compared to John's kids, due to her parent's stereotypical fanaticism for good grades and immigrating for a better life/“the American Dream”. I was fascinated by this tidbit as a kid growing up, because it was so rare to see Asian characters in cartoons let alone Laotian characters.
I was also fascinated by the inclusion of John Redcorn as a character, because as an Asian kid growing up I thought it was cool when characters were not only explicitly not white, BUT ALSO had long black hair CUZ I had (have?) long black hair! John is mostly referred to as Native or Indian, with not much more provided about tribes or family. It's likely that the showrunners, being middle-class white US-Americans, didn't put that much effort into researching specifics, and the character of John Redcorn isn't 100% clear on his own heritage, but today I'm here to autistically artistically connect the little crumbs of information we get about side characters with about 30 total minutes of dialogue. Because I love you.
Thunderbird
Thunderbird is a free, open source e-mail manager.
Why use Thunderbird over just logging into gmail or whatever? It has extra features for compiling RSS feeds, and also IRC chat. I am interested in those extra features so I'm not so reliant on google, discord, and other social medias. I also wish to separate my e-mails (which is mostly work stuff) from my browser habits (which is mostly “fun” stuff like social media and watching videos). And I want to see all my emails from all my inboxes at once.
I'm using a fork called Betterbird, mostly so I can have fun rainbow indicators for my emails. And cuz the vanilla Thunderbird lags a lot on my computer with my 50000 emails. For the purposes of this page, Betterbird and Thunderbird are the same thing and I'll be referring the program as Thunderbird mostly.
2025
Fucked up year eh?
linux install
We got a laptop manufactured 8-12 years ago - HP Pavillion 7. We thought it'd be a good guinea pig to test installing linux, since it's a magical operating system that can revive old hardware like old unsupported Windows.
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This video is a good recap of specifics - Dekahnstruction by Squirrel Tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q5pJS-m3lk