It’s always hard for me to figure out what to say when there’s a large gap in between posts. Do I talk about where I’ve been? It’s been like 6 months after all. Do I start back up like nothing happened?

I was  going to do the whole ‘This is why I haven’t written in a while’ thing. More for myself, really, than any one else’s beneift. Then I got to the end of it and it all seemed very familiar. It turns out, I basically wrote  the same thing earlier this year. So I scrapped that and started thinking about another angle.

I didn’t actually need to do much thinking after all. In the Blaugust kick off post this year, Bel has suggested using the first post of Blaugust as an introduction post. What better way to end a long hiatus than talk about my blog and participate in a month long event with a great community!

I’m Kluwes, this is my blog Many Welps. I write about video games and sometimes fiction podcasts/audio dramas. What you’ll find here are mostly accounts of play sessions either on my own or with my friends (like this). They’re my favorite blog posts to read and also my favorite to write! You’ll also find summaries of games that I finish in my Backlogged posts which I don’t like to call reviews but kind of end up being them anyways.

I started blogging in 2016 during the Newbie Blogger Initiative event with the idea that I would write mostly about MMOs. I also had this, frankly, naive idea that I would play through all of my games in my backlog at the time and write about that. I had only had a Steam account for 2 years at that point, but still 79 games is a lot to go through.

Over the years the blog has changed quite a bit. I found that forcing myself to play games in my backlog was not fun and abandoned that idea after a while. I did get a nice re-occuring post format out of it though so it wasn’t all bad. Over time I had less time to play MMOs and now mostly write about single player or co-op games. I changed the name of my blog from I’m Not Squishy to Many Welps 4 years ago to better align with what I was writing about at the time. I still play games every weekend with my friend group who we’ve deemed the Welp Squad so the name still fits today.

Over the last few years I’ve been spending less and less time playing games and instead focusing on other things. I may try branching out and trying to write about other things. One of my goals for Blaugust is to see if I can’t rekindle that love of games over the next month. Or I might try writing about some other topics and see if I enjoy it. Either way, I want to write more than I have been.

I’m very excited to get back to blogging this month. Bear with me here as I find my footing again. I am so out of practice.