Where the style's at

So The Angry Lurker passed me the Stylish Blogger Award yesterday. I'm very grateful for the kind words. And I don't mind believing I'm stylish so I'll play along.

The award's contagious. Soon we'll all have it, and I need to pass it on now to another 10-15 other bloggers. The trouble is, if I could pass it on to 100-150, it still wouldn't be enough, and even 300 would be too few.

Here's a solution. In the same way I can get one up on nature's contagions by washing my hands, I'll get one up on this too by washing my hands of choosing favourites. I'll give it to the 15 bloggers I follow with the least followers themselves, to build up resistance early you might say.

They're all bloggers I think have real style, otherwise I wouldn't follow. More importantly they're all bloggers who show their style in another way, by posting at a high level despite a readership presumably still quite low. That's something special, and difficult, and deserves recognition. There's also a poetry in it: Angry was follower three for me.

I've been through the list and found the 15 bloggers with the least followers, where I have the number. To be sure they're still active I've left out blogs where the gap since or before the last post is a month or more. The blogs being deleted by Greg I've skipped. There might be errors, and if anyone has the patience to find them, I'll happily correct.

Anyway, no more detail. The 15 new and very deserving Stylish Bloggers are:

• Appendix N - inspirations for roleplaying

• chronicles of the underdog - reflections of a fiction-loving SA student

• defcon's defunct delirium - gamer, reader and writer

• Dice Like Dave - mixed wargaming, with lots of battle reports

• Hereticwerks - a gaming resource from NetherWerks

• Future War Stories - military science fiction

• Marks Art - art and photography

• Newschool RPG - critiques of old school roleplaying

• Of Cabbages and Kings Food Blog - food and photography

• Passion For Poetry - poems by form

• Recalcitrant Daze - vehicle modelling for Warhammer 40,000

• Servitor Ludi - old school roleplaying game design

• shenblog - Shen get own blog, no monkey, e.g. NetherWerks

• The Roebuck Poets - a three-strong poetry-writing collective

• Worlds Unimagined - thoughts on speculative fiction

No blog in the list has more than 11 known followers and one blog has just the one. It's amazing how many blogs there are just crying out for readers - a lot of blogs just missed at 12, 13 or 14 followers. I say check the blogrolls, find a few you like and start reading.

I also need to tell you seven things about myself, but I'll do that in another post because this one's getting long and I don't want to steal anyone's thunder.

Here's one for the road though - I read a lot of blogs.

Update: And another one - I'm very fallible. There is a mistake. The details are here.

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