On Blog Classifications

For no reason besides organization, I have done my best to come up with a classification system for blogs by their lengths.

Blogpastas
These are those blogs that are extremely short while still being a self-contained story. Usually around 1-20 posts, a blogpasta is basically a creepypasta in the blog medium. Y'know, a short story. Doesn't even have to be horror; none of these classifications do.
Examples: alliterator's The Ripeness is All or And When the Sky Was Opened, The Visitor's Terrific, or my Harlequin Metropolis.

Blogellas
Like a blog novella, these are usually bigger than blogpasta and usually smaller than "proper" blogs. As a result, this is a pretty damn loose term, but according to my classification system, they can range between around 15-100 posts and offer more conflicts than a blogpasta but fewer than a "proper" blog. Yeah, apparently the difference between a novel and a novella is more than just length, and I like the idea of the blog equivalents being similar.
Now obviously, due to the nature of the blog medium, it's very common for a blog to be what this system would call a blogella. A novella has more focus on mood and a few complex characters rather than a complex plot like a novel, and since blogs lend themselves to a more personal first-person narrative, these are common! But as the Fear Mythos evolves, I think we're seeing a lot more experimentation in plot. But the point is that a blogella is the kind of short-ish blog that focuses more on the development of one or a few characters.
Examples: alliterator's Snowball in Hell or Ontological, TheSomnambulist's Urban Malefic, or my Testing in Progress or Built For Two.

Blogs
This is the equivalent of a novel, you could say. They're actually fairly rare, considering their size and effort required. They can range from around, like.. well, they can have as little or as many posts as you like. But they have to have a focus on plot or-- okay I don't even claim to know. But I think the common consensus is that they have to be longer and greater in scale than blogpastas and blogellas, with a considerable amount of conflicts or arcs. I guess it'd also make sense for, say, multiple companion blogellas to thematically join together to make a single "proper" blog "suite" "story" thing. Am I making sense? <:D
Examples: TheSomnambulist's The World Through These Eyeholes, collaboration blog A Realm of Emptiness, Shayde's Not To Touch The Earth, or my Jordan Eats Normally Now.

Epics
If you want to get technical, you could classify these as Blogs, as they tend to follow all the same classifications. But an epic is generally even longer, with even more conflicts or arcs. If you want to go to the real-world equivalent of epics in terms of the novel and film genre, an epic has a large scale (usually worldwide or larger) with far-reaching consequences that are often given much focus or impact. They're also sometimes called sagas and legacies, and they can either feature many protagonists or one hero whose exploits are detailed in (close to) full.
And above all else, an epic is almost always long. The blogosphere has some of these. You can probably see the examples coming from a mile away.
Examples: Omega's Mephi, TheSomnambulist's Amalgam Saga, CuteWithoutThe's collective Dying Man saga, alliterator and I's Topography Genera, and my OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING.

Do note that, in the end, you can call all of these "blogs." That's an appropriate blanket term.
As for how to refer to the "blog" classification, I generally say either "feature-length blog" or "proper blog." Though I suppose maybe capital-B Blog might work.

Thank you for your time!

More Fun With Word Counters

Rapture's finale (original): 27,000 words
Rapture's finale (revised): 29,000 words
Rapture's finale plus credits: 31,000 words
The complete Rapture Logs, third draft: 411,000 words

LOOK AT THAT
LOOK AT THAT NUMBER
LET IT SINK IN

DCA website and stuff

The DCA site hasn't worked for, like, a whole year now. Finally figured out FTP on this Mac and it's fixed now.

The DCA site can be found at http://www.doolinx.com/dca

Now that I've got FTP again, I might see what else I can do with it.

Note to Self

Write one creepypasta for every Rapture Fear. EAT and The Plague Doctor have already been done with "The Ballerinas of Versiansa" and "Death's Beacon," respectively. Write more.

• THE ARCHANGEL
• THE BLACK DOG
• THE BLIND MAN
• THE BRUTE AND THE BURNING BRIDE
• THE CHOIR
• THE COLD BOY
• THE CONVOCATION
• THE DYING MAN
• EAT
• THE EMPTY CITY
• THE EYE
• THE GROTESQUE
• THE INTRUSION
• THE MANUFACTURED NEWBORN
• THE MOTHER OF SNAKES
• THE NIGHTLANDERS
• THE PLAGUE DOCTOR
• THE QUIET
• THE RAKE
• THE RED CAP
• THE SLENDER MAN
• THE SMILING MAN
• THE UNNAMED CHILD
• THE WOODEN GIRL
• The Adrift (The Unnamed Child)
• The Speculum (The Mother of Snakes)
• The Rapturous (The Smiling Man)
• Asclepius (The Bleeding Tree)
• The Reverie (The Grotesque)
• The Kingdom (The Intrusion)
• The Pacific (The Quiet)
• Tuonetar (The Red Cap)
• Hestia (The Burning Bride)
• The Iemaker (The Brute)
• Tytar Tuuri (The House of Fortune)
• Lerna (The Unbounded Face)
• The Vane (The Woman in the Wind)
• The Catechist (The King in the Mountain)
• Eris (The Glitch)

Rapture Condensed Credits, version 3

When OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING is finished, I'm going to go through each and every log and assemble a complete list of credits for each and every thing I need to give credit to. And that's gonna be a lot of work. But in the meantime, I've assembled a short version! And revised! And revised one more time.


Antagonists based off creatures from The Fear Mythos
The Slender Man is copyrighted to Victor Surge.
"Big Ones" homage to SCP-093
This particular story's portrayal of The Empty City homage to secretcity
Dogscape taken from the creepypasta of the same name
Various puzzles from Ciphers and Beacons homage to video games I grew up with
Some characters loosely based off or using visage of my friends, including but not limited to:
Daniel Finnegan, Eric Taylor, Catie DeBiaso, Thomas Minor, Michael Brown, Paul Botsford, Tropers/BobbyG, "alliterator," "CuteWithoutThe," "The Visitor," "LizardBite," "ExorcistGamer," "MesserTod," "LoveHopeRainbows," "Allanbag," "Foolamancer," "RedRockingHood," "Cadet," "Rappu," "TheSomnambulist," "Omega," "queenofinsanity6"
Any characters portraying real people do not even begin to represent the person's actual views, opinions, choices, personalities, or anything. I stress this.
Any locations portraying real places do not represent the location's actual state of being, landscape, map, political standpoint, or anything.
The thousands of songs and albums and bands portrayed in this story are completely copyrighted by their own labels and producers and writers. I do not claim ownership on a single thing here.
Promotional art by "Cadet," Catie "Fentzy" DeBiaso, "shapedlikeitself," "Rappu," and "The Visitor"
Promotional videos by Jordan "DJay32" Dooling and Eric "Bones" Taylor
Leitmotifs in promotional videos by Bound by the Moon
Written by Jordan "DJay32" Dooling
"August 14th, 2011," "August 15th, 2011," and "August 27th, 2011" have excerpts written by Catie "Fentzy" DeBiaso.
I give full permission for the story OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING to be used in any way, shape, or form the Fearbloggers see fit
TheFearMythos11/TheFearMythos12/TheFearMythos13

This is a post

Hello, Blogger. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while.
I think I prefer Tumblr. But it's been far too long since I last made a personal post here, and I suppose I've been needing one.

I.. dunno.
I've been withdrawing lately. Becoming less social. I have a lot of reasons, but I can share very few. But let's not think about reasons just yet; for now, let's take a look at the effects. The 'whats' rather than the 'whys.'

I'm not talking much. To anyone. And I'm liking it. I'm feeling more and more empty as the days go by. I used to think this emptiness was a lack of emotion, but no, there's a definite emotion there. An emotion I've always internally associated with EAT. It's a sort of cold and logical one, empty and with only a passion for accuracy. But still a passion.
I've been writing in my journal a lot lately, whether inspired by Rapture or Rapture being based on writing in journals in the first place. And the main thing I write in it is some variation of or elaboration on "I am The Camper."

'Cause that's essentially true. EAT didn't come out of nowhere; I made her based on a complex series of emotions and fears I had and still have.
I am The Camper. I watch, I learn, I listen, I analyze, I wander, I 'eat,' but I will always feel an insatiable hunger.
That hunger is this emptiness I'm feeling. I don't know what I need, though I think passion is it. Which is why, in Rapture, Salmacis is opposed by The Colour of Blood, who (along with Hestia and The Iemaker) represents passion and its many facets. Though Salmacis, of course, is passionate during the course of the apocalypse-- precisely because of the apocalypse-- which is why that spoilery event happens at the end of September.
But now I'm rambling.

I don't really have anything important to say.
I have a lot of Rapture-related stuff I want to say, though most of it's just being excited for where things will go and I don't want to talk about that.
Just... hello! This is a post.

I Write Too Much

DCA: Seasons 1-6 (including both Halloween specials and DCA09): 200,000 words
DCA: The Green Journey: 200,000 words
Rapture first draft (up to August 19th): 186,000 words
Rapture: September 30th-October 3rd: 16,000 words
PLAN 31: CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE SOCK KIND: 18,868 words

Now if only I could easily check the word count to Jordan Eats and to Topography Genera so far.
It's interesting to consider that the complete DCA is around 400,000 words, though. Shit, that's around War and Peace length for some translations. Not even the finished Rapture will be that long, according to my speculations. Oh well, I'm fine with Rapture being shorter; it's already considerably better. xD

THUS ENDS TODAY'S EPISODE OF ME BEING BORED
CHECK BACK LATER WHEN I STOP BEING LAZY AND DECIDE TO FINISH MY ANALYSIS OF COLORS

WHAT IF PROSPECT 1 WAS A SELKIE ALL ALONG

EXCEPT MALE
AND "BLOOM" IS BASICALLY EXPLAINING THIS TO US BY SHOWING HE HAS A POWERFUL LOVE FOR THE SEA
THE BLACK MASK WOULD BE HIS DISGUISED FORM HE USES ON THE LAND
IN WHICH HE FINDS THE "SHE" OF "TELOS" AND BECOMES HER HUSBAND
LET ME QUOTE WIKIPEDIA HERE

Stories concerning selkies are generally romantic tragedies. Sometimes the human will not know that their lover is a selkie, and wakes to find them gone. In other stories the human will hide the selkie's skin, thus preventing it from returning to its seal form. A selkie can only make contact with one human for a short amount of time before they must return to the sea. They are not able to make contact with that human again for seven years, unless the human is to steal their selkie's skin and hide it or burn it.

AND WHAT DID "SHE" DO IN "TELOS"
LIGHT SHIT ON FIRE
AND WHAT WAS ARGUABLY THE MOST FAMOUS BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME SONG OFF OF ALASKA
"SELKIES: THE ENDLESS OBSESSION"
I
REST
MY
FUCKING
CASE