Welcome to Mama Malkavian's House

Posted on July 26, 2025 by Alison Rushing. Originally on WordPress.

Welcome to my blog! I have attempted some blog concepts before, always promising that this will be my final blog. The difference with this one is that I have learned not to try to predict the future. I have no idea if this blog will be a success, or how I will define success.

I used to define success by viral posts and enough clicks to bring in an income through AdSense. That never happened for me, but I tried. Now, I will be successful if I post consistently and make what I consider a quality blog, a website that is interesting, cohesive, and tells a story while offering something informative to my readers. I’m going to start with posting consistently. Even that is something I will have to build up to.

Sasuke Malkavian (15 months), Sabrina Malkavian (4 years), Christmas 2024. Photo by Jamie Harmon at Amurica Portraits in Memphis, TN

Right now, I am a stay-at-home mom with two pre-k children. I have read all these stories on blogs about blogging, encouraging moms to use their blogs for a work-from-home job. They claim that blogging is something one can do while maintaining SAHM status, taking care of the house, and the kids while blogging professionally. I have no idea how anyone does this because I found posting weekly to be a full-time job. And, taking care of the house is a full-time job; how many hours are there in a week for two full-time jobs?! If you know the secret, please tell me in the comments. 

I had a beautiful blog on WordPress.org through BlueHost in 2021. It was expensive. You can only get the cheap rates for the first year, and there are other costs. I have found that hosting is never cheap. Then, my blog broke. It literally BROKE! Every time I tried to log in from the back end, I received an error message. I couldn’t fix it because I couldn’t log in. I might have been able to get customer support to help, but I remember being up against a brick wall with it. I lost everything because I didn’t back up my posts on other files. It was truly a lovely blog with some of my best work. I think a plug-in failed.

Arranged by Alison Rushing/Mama Malkavian in Canva.

I hope Mama Malkavian’s House grows! I invested in BlueHost again, so this one better work! My goal is to be self-employed through this blog and my other creative means.

As for my first ever blog, it’s still around, just not having been updated in about 10 years. You can find my original work at Domesticated Rose

This is a homemaker mom blog. My favorite writing style is narrative, so my posts will show what my life and activities look like. Some things that make me who I am are that I am a stay-at-home mom with two pre-k children, I am autistic, and I really love cosplay. Like, I really love cosplay and even though it is not relevant to a homemaking blog, I should be sharing recipes and cleaning hacks… I’ll take any excuse to talk about cosplay and my other geeky interests. So, for the purpose of telling a story about myself and my family’s lives, this is a geek-mom blog, with recipes and cleaning hacks too.

While planning this Mama Malkavian’s House in my notebook, I wrote a long list of future post titles and categorized them into topics. So far, my interests are:

• “Autistic mom,” stories about how I think and how we can adapt to mom life while autistic.
• Homemaking: This is my primary niche. It covers cooking, cleaning, gardening, parenting, historical homemaker customs, setting a routine, motivation and anything else I think covers a homemaker’s life.
• Recipes, food, and drink.
• Parties and hosting. Birthday parties have been one of my favorite creative things since I knew what a birthday party was. I can remember something about every birthday I had since I was three.
• Women’s style: beauty and fashion, especially in alternative styles that I like, such as Lolita, cottagecore, and mid-century vintage.
• Cosplay: It’s not really relevant to the homemaker niche unless I’m covering my family’s Halloween costumes, but I will find a way to work it in. Cosplay is my creative passion. It is an essential part of sharing my life.
• Reviews on products, books, movies, and TV series/anime that cover my above interests, especially media that you can share with the family.
• Travel: I would like to share stories about my adventures. Most of those adventures will include the kids and tips on how to keep them safe and happy away from home.
• Aesthetic lifestyle posts: home cafe, photo albums of artful homemaking, fashion, and beauty. Aesthetic experiences are popular online for inspiration. I’m going to jump on the bandwagon and give it a try.
• Faith. I expect to share my worldview and spiritual beliefs if this blog is going to share my life story. I am a Christian. I belong to Level Up Church in Memphis, which is part of the Southern Baptist Convention. Check us out at https://www.levelupchurchmemphis.com

My name is Alison Rushing. I am in my mid-30s (as of 2025) and live with my family in Arkansas. I have two kids, a daughter and a son. I studied journalism and art in college and graduated in 2019. I am a stay-at-home mom, but have a couple of side hustle businesses. I am a cosplayer and cosplay photographer. I set up a photobooth at comic cons and specialize in composite photography. I also have an adaptation of my booth that I do at K-pop events.

I love Batman, The Sandman, Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, My Little Pony, Neopets, Disney, and Sailor Moon, to name a few. I LOVE cosplay! While I haven’t been competing for very long, I love pushing my costumes to the best of my abilities. I expect to work cosplay into my blogging topics because I love to include my family and do group costumes. I have long-time interests in birthday parties, tea parties and English tea tradition, photography, and anime.

Malkavian is the name which I do everything creative. I became Bunny Malkavian when I played a character named Bunny in a Vampire: The Masquerade campaign. Bunny Malkavian became my screen name and then my business name. I cosplay and do photography as Bunny Malkavian. I do my K-Pop biz as Biased Malkavian; my fashion Instagram is Sweet Malkavian, and I blog as Mama Malkavian. https://linktr.ee/bunnymalkavian

Bunny Malkavian chibis by Bailey Hobbs

The only brand I have that isn’t named Malkavian is my Etsy shop that I share with my husband, Rushing House Emporium. At our emporium, we offer t-shirts and gaming mats based on our interests in neurodiversity, K-pop, games, and dad jokes.

Bunny was a very stupid malkavian. Malkavian is a clan in the Vampire world. Malkavians are supposed to be scary or disturbing; she was just silly. And a lot of my artistic style is influenced by kitsch. I like to be thoughtful, deep, esoteric at times, but I also tend to make a point through a joke or gimmick, so I am Bunny Malkavian.