Showing posts with label new username. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new username. Show all posts
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!
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