First Blogiversary

Well, here we are! How time passes. One year ago, on the 25th of January, I launched this blog. Today is my first blogiversary.

It's been a very interesting journey for me so far. All the more so, of course, because of the feedback and inspiration I received from you. So first off, a thank you to all the readers and to everyone who wrote comments or emails. I hope that you will keep visiting and following my posts. Thanks also to the webmasters and other bloggers who linked to me and helped to make this blog a pretty well-frequented one within its first year. It's always especially satisfying to have one's work valued by one's peers.

It is also satisfying, and intriguing, to see a rough vision take shape. When I started this, I only had a fairly general idea of what I was going to do. I knew that, as a spanking video buff, I was going to regularly write movie reviews (before deciding on a blog, I had considered doing a pure review site, actually). As a university-corrupted armchair scholar, I was going to delve into the philosophical, psychological and historical-cultural aspects of CP and kink, churning out the overlong essays I was already infamous for as a commenter without a blog of my own. Finally, to lighten up the intellectual wankery, and for my own amusement, I wanted to inject it all with a bit of caustic humour. (Which is the only kind Germans have. Sometimes. Maybe.)

That was the plan, and fittingly perhaps, given my obsessive-compulsive nature, it quickly materialised as this rigid anapestic tetrameter posting rhythm I have today: every third post is a review of some kind, three movie reviews followed by one website review, and I try to put a good amount of variety into the other eight posts that make up the rest of the twelve-post sequence. Stuff about me, stuff about a "partner in crime", then perhaps a spanking clip from the movies, then a longer, more intellectual thing, and so on... Until, after a dozen posts, it all starts over again. Neat, huh? Anyway, the number mystic in me is happy with it, so I'm going to keep the format.

I aim to make a few changes regarding content, though, emphasising certain areas more than before and de-emphasising others. For instance, I'm going to do more interviews (I did two so far, with Leia-Ann Woods and Adele Haze). More book reviews, too. These are two features I'd like to make at least semi-regular. I'm also going to resume my philosophical ramblings, which I have neglected for far too long. They take more preparatory work and more preparatory thinking than the average post, and I simply didn't have quite enough time for that in recent months. But I have some interesting things coming up now, starting with the final part of the Mark of Cain trilogy. On the other hand, there will be less "political activism", as I've done my share of that lately.

I also have a few surprises and secret projects in store for 2009, which you are hopefully going to like. You will see it all unfold in the coming weeks and months. So keep visiting, and thanks again for your interest and your dedicated readership over the past year. I appreciate it.

Oh, one more thing: I changed my age in the "About Me" section recently, so someone asked me if happy birthday wishes are appropriate. Well, the truth is that I've been 30 for some time, I just hadn't bothered to update the mini-biography until now. However, you can consider January 13th my birthday if you like - it's when I first used the mad Bavarian pseudonym, two years ago, hence the day "Ludwig" was born. As chance would have it, it's pretty close to the blogiversary, so I can celebrate them both at the same time.

So, happy birthday to me! I wish you a fine day as well, and here's to another year of blogging.