Thank you Blaugust
This post is the last one I will post for the Blaugust challenge 2025. I started to really participate to this challenge the 03-08-2025. I discovered the challenge thanks to monocyte's post about it. Without this post I don't think I would have participated to the challenge.
Thank you monocyte for making me discover the challenge.
I then wanted to participate to the challenge, but I didn't knew anything about it. However there was some links to get more information in monocyte blog's. I then proceed to read Jedda's post about the challenge. I was able to to find out more about the challenge, about who is hosting it and how to participate. That's how I officially participated to the challenge.
Thank you Jedda for making it easy to participate to the challenge. Thanks to everyone who made this challenge possible this year, it was a great experience.
Once I got in the challenge, I joined the Discord server for it. I was able to discover many bloggers, that was great. Plus people where really friendly there. It was great to be in this server, even if I didn't interacted with people as much as I wanted.
There was a moment where I didn't knew about how to participate in the challenge. I wasn't sure if I wanted to post everyday or not. It seemed impossible for me. I decided to talk about it on the Discord server of the Blaugust challenge.
There was many responses and a lot of people gave me some really good advice. It was really encouraging to have that many people willing to answer to my question. Their response were really helpful too. Thanks to them I decided to post everyday and until that day I keep the streak going.
Thanks everyone who where willing to answer to my questions, it gave me the courage to post everyday.
During this challenge I gained the courage to reach others more. I sent mail to other blogger, I also send private toots to some who where following me on mastodon. I even wrote a post to encourage myself to reach out others. It even encouraged some to talk to me, which was a surprise to me. It sparked some really amazing conversations! I was happy to see that there are people supporting me.
Thanks to those who are showing support, it's really helpful and it make me want to do more great things.
I really wanted to discover some cool blogs that participated to the challenge. But I didn't really had time to read EVERY BLOGS that would take too much time. I then stumbled upon Sid's blog and he had a simple but great way to do it. He simply copied the list of every blog participating to the challenge. He opened each link and erased the links that didn't personally please him.
Thank you Sid for this simple idea.
This month was amazing to me, this was a great opportunity. It wasn't easy everyday but it made me grow a lot as a person. I've learned a lot during this challenge. I also gained a little bit of confidence, which is non-negligible. This challenge also gave me something to look forward to. (Hint: it will happen in around 11 months from now on.)
Thank you Blaugust. See you in August 2026