Hello, Pastel Books

Hello once again, everybody! If you’re wondering who the hell am I or where I’ve been this whole time, it’s time I tell you a story.

First off, it’s me, Mica, from Bookiverse. I had to change my username for several reasons I’ll explain right now. It was something I’ve had in my mind for like two months now, and something along the way triggered me to do it right away. Here’s everything that went down, chronologically:

I was happy with Bookiverse, it was something that came up to me when opening up my Instagram account and I loved it right away. I used it for almost a year, and then, I couldn’t anymore. Turned out, Bookiverse already existed. It’s an online library of sorts, kind of like a bookish forum. I first found out about it when I decided to buy a domain name and ditch the blogspot.com.

You should probably take this into consideration before naming your blog and, worse, getting attached to it. Because Bookiverse wasn’t only a domain name that was already taken, it’s a registered trademark. Meaning that I couldn’t use it as my own in any way, unless I was planning on getting a cease and desist letter (spoiler: I wasn’t).

To be honest, I was bummed. I felt like Bookiverse was mine, but turns out, it wasn’t. I spent the next three weeks coming out with a new name I liked, and it was the worst. The few I liked were, again, taken domain names, and I didn’t want to go through the whole Bookiverse drama again.

After a few weeks, someone told me that my aura was probably very pastel colored. It was a drunk person at a party, but for some reason it stuck. The very next day, I knew it: Pastel Books. Was it perfect? No. But I liked it, let myself learn to love it, and I finally do. I bought the domain name almost immediately, to avoid disappointments later on, and so Pastel Books was born.

 

This was like a month ago, so why, do you ask, it took me so long to use it? Well, simply put: I’m lazy as fuck. I was still kind of attached to Bookiverse, I had to learn how to use that domain name I bought and connect it to my blogspot account, and on top of it all: I had to come with a new header. You should know designing logos is probably on my top five things I hate to do.

Procrastination soon became my friend: “next week, I’ll do it”, “oh, I have that birthday party, maybe next week”, “today, I’ll do it, for sure! Ugh but it’s so pretty outside and this books sounds amazing. Probably next week”. That was me for a whole month.

I wish I could say I finally made myself do all of it, but what prompted me to change my URL was my worst nightmare: an IRL friend found my Instagram account. I know this will seem foolish to some of you, but my anxiety went to the roof. I set my account on private and avoid it at all costs.

It’s not that I’m embarrassed to be a book lover or anything. My friends know I like to read; they just don’t know how much. This is my world. It’s my special place to be in, and my friends just don’t get it. They probably never will, and that’s fine, but I didn’t want to share any of it.

So, when that happened, I ask my friend to ignore it completely and never talk tome about it ever again. She (hopefully) understood, and so I finally changed my username. And that is that.

Quite a story, I told you!

So, do you like Pastel Books? If you think it’s stupid just tell me, I’LL ONLY SMACK YOU WITH A BOOK or something!