It's time to say goodbye, folks.
We've had a wonderful time blogging for you over the past year. PlasmaRit, Calabar, and I have really enjoyed exploring our own feminist ideas, love of video games, and everything in between on Girl in the Machine, but sadly it's time for us to go. The most pressing reason is time; classes are starting up again for two of us (we're tackling our senior year), and one of us is already ensconced in a professional career. We didn't want to abandon the blog for months at a time, so this is our formal farewell.
Blogging was sort of an experiment for the three of us. We started Girl in the Machine last year just to see if we could. We were bursting with things to say about video games and feminism, and we rapidly garnered a regular readership. We thank all of you for engaging in what we've had to say. However, we've come to discover that blogging is for a certain type of person -- someone who's truly dedicated to updating on a regular basis, who's always finding new and interesting things to say. It's a responsibility that we can't quite keep up with in both our busy lives and our individual mindsets.
The most important thing, though, is our audience. Thank you, thank you, thank you for supporting us, critiquing us, and following the updates during GitM's run. Thanks to Cerise Magazine for featuring us in an interview in their October 2007 issue. Thanks to all of the blogs who linked to us, the people who emailed us, and our regular commenters. We'll miss you guys.
Before I go, I'll leave you with some links to our favorite articles. I hope you enjoy them all over again, and thank you again for checking us out. We'll miss you.
Best of BomberGirl
What Little Girls are Made Of
The Grand Dominatrix Phenomenon
Trembling in your schoolgirl uniform.
Femininity: Whose Problem is It?
Live in Purity and then Die
A Strictly Female Affliction
Best of Calabar
Healers: A Female-Dominated Profession
Apologetic Heroines
Video Games As Literature
I Love Girls with Big Swords... Waitaminute
I'm Sure You've Got Plenty to Say
Best of PlasmaRit
Inevitable Femininity
Aggression Toward Video Games
Pseudoscience Strikes Again: It's Biological!
Colonization: Fun 'n Games
Women Worshipers
First Friday Drinking Games
The Scales
The Scale of RPG Heroines: Part I, II, III
The Horror Heroine Effectiveness Scale: Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Our First Posts
Hookers on Parade by BomberGirl
Graah! I'm Naked! by Calabar
Lara Croft's Ten Year Mam-Jam by PlasmaRit
Thank you.