Oh My God, Name Change!

I changed the name and description of my blog. There are many reasons for this so I thought I'd share them.

1) Yarsian Talks About is a hell of a lot more google-able than that previous mouthful of a name I had before. Seriously you'd have to get like 30 words to make sure your search went well. You also might want to invest in a good luck charm of some kind, to be sure.

2) While the previous name was fun and snarky it doesn't reflect that many of my posts anymore. I've slowly been transitioning to a more thoughtful and easily approachable blog. It's become less personal and less whiny over the past couple of months so I thought I needed a new title to fit the new format. If I can find a clever name for that accurately describes the new changes I'll change it again, in the mean time it stays "Yarsian Talks About..."

3) It was about time. I was getting tired of the old title about a few months after I changed to it. So now that it's been a long time after that I think its as good of a time as any.

With a new title comes bigger changes too. From now on I'm going to focus soley on TV shows, movies, and books (and songs when I can think up enough material and video games I guess, when I can). My personal posts are done. Occasionaly I may ask some hypotheticals around my life as it is, but for the most part I'm going to keep things supremely vague when it comes to my personal life. If I want readers I need to get word out, and right now that means going to friends and family. I can't have friends and family reading my old whinings and expect to keep my followship up. So I'll probably delete/hide some of the older ones. If anyone actually has a problem with this, let me know. Silence is agreement in this case so speak up. I may save back ups of these somewhere, but don't count on it. They'll be gone by this time next week if all goes well. Besides the personal posts were really self-therapy anyway and I've found better ways to channel my emotions (well, at least more private ways). The only recurring character other than me will probably be my current boyfriend, because many of the things I watch I watch with him so his opinion will probably be heard a lot throughout this blog.

So how will this new format work? Pretty similar to what I've already been doing for the past couple of months. I watch/play/listen to/read/random verb something and then I talk about whatever strikes my fancy. It could be a simple review, basic rundown followed by my thoughts on it. I could occasionally get a little more in depth about why I think these thoughts (Like saying Speed Racer is underrated). I could analyze it more in depth (Like I did with Friday). Or I could go and create a zany, yet intellectual analysis (The Room). Similarly, I could just talk about something I like or dislike in general when it comes to movies (my least favorite cliches).

If my blog's popularity goes up soon I'll probably add advertisements to it, that way I'm actually getting paid for these as they take a fair amount of work. I'm not whining or asking anyone for money, I'm just saying that it takes about a while writing a decent post. And I'm hoping these will be better than decent.