The question is, what have I been up to all this time? Well, I finished high school and started college. Nothing fancy, just a local community college. I also got a job during my absence... Wendy's... which lasted a month and a half... second job (Target) lasted three months... until the angry leprechaun that was my
It isn't. I don'tWell, I'm still alive. Time to vent. (Skip to double line break to skip rant and get to meat and potatos.) · 6:13am Aug 7th, 2020
It's been what, a year and a half almost since I was here? So much has happened, I think I need to go back and explain a few things over the last... six? yea.... god it's been six years since I joined here... I hate time for moving sometimes...
Lets fill in some holes in the plot that is my life. Going to cover a bit of everything, even stuff I already talked about in the years past.....
2015 was an interesting year. Thinking back on it, June... June 2015... I met Xena, the love of my life. Didn't know it at the time, but we clicked in so many ways. Met through a mutual friend actually, Req introduced us (and I am eternally grateful thank you req) to join into a psudo-homebrew-dnd-type-thing... Looking back on it that was about the time of my last chapter of 117... Coincidence? Maybe... (probably) But... that's besides the point. We both share a love of ponies, halo, and all things NSFW. The two of us have been maintaining several long running sessions together, which one day I would like to transcribe into a published anthology seeing as everything was done through text and is saved.
2016, my senior year of high school, and the year I was going to go be a Marine... I didn't want to talk about it before, because of the same reason I didn't join. I was scared. I was not old enough to make that step in my life, I wasn't ready. I wasn't sure if the Me that came out of Boot was going to be someone the Me that went in would be ok with... I also wasn't ready to risk my relationship being strained so early on... It's a long distance relationship, so we tried to text each other every day... four to five months of not being able to talk to each other would have hurt me too much emotionally... (Oh how ignorant I was for later events) In the end, I left the poolee program and went to college. That's another part of why I didn't join. I had a mil-intel contract signed, but in my last year of high school I found a profound love of computer science, and wanted to do that instead... So to college I went to learn programming and such (thank god I learned what I did, will get to that thought.)
late2016-mid2018 was college and love. My relationship grew fast and strong, still talking every day, voice and video now and again too. I learned a bit about programming, how operating systems work, and how it works on a hardware and processor level (I hate assembly language, both x86 and ARM, if you know what I'm referring to you'll understand)... I worked from one job to the next and hated every minute of it. Minimum wage retail 39 hours a week wasn't the life for me... I wanted more.
Late2018 - 2020... Already talked about this before, but I talked to the military again... and this time joined the army (recruiters lied their asses off but that's in the past now) ... I was supposed to have 10 weeks of basic training with 45 weeks of AIT, that isn't exactly what happened as you can see almost two years later... I got stuck at basic for almost nine months, three times longer than I was supposed to be there... That was hell on my relationship, not being able to talk every day... sigh... Anyway, I just finished MOS training about a month ago... All the restrictions on me from the rigors of the monster known as IET TRADOC are behind me, and I've recovered mostly from my multiple injuries over the last two years. Hand still hurts, knee still hurts, ankle still clicks, but I'm functional... I've gone through several bouts of depression as well, which Xena helped me through each and every time... She's really been the one to pull me through, the light at the end of the tunnel... Without her I wouldn't know what to do, I'd be so lost... I've already lost so much... I can't lose her...
sigh...
I'm ok... I'm gonna be ok. Sometimes I get a bit down... But i'll be ok... I made it this far.
Now for what y'all came here for. My stories. I will say this, I have no fukin clu where I put the folder with my outline for 117... back when I was writing it, I was paranoid and kept it on a flash drive and edited it from there... I eventually transferred it to my laptop, the Alienware from a prior post, but that laptop has been factory reset twice with windows, and has since been booted into at least three different flavors of Linux... and currently rests booting into Zorin OS, which btw I love so much more than windows. I have a new gaming desktop I just built, which runs win10Pro, but only exists on there for gaming and nothing else... But I digress. Somewhere I have the outline and chapter notes, burred somewhere in about a TB of data... yea not looking good especially because I can't remember what the file was named after about five years... if it even still exists and wasn't wiped one of the five or so chances I had to lose it... I would like to do a mild rewrite but want to maintain the main story events...
Nova is a different story (no pun intended) and all the data is actually on the website, which is to say, zero unpublished words... I would like to continue it, but for both of them I'd like to do a rewrite, seeing as both were when I was younger... Five years of world building practice has hopefully paid off to the extent where I can get back into the swing of writing. Funny enough the reason I stopped coming here was also the influence for coming back. Xena wanted me to finally read My Little Dashie, which was quite a heart tugging story. She also helped me to finish watching the show, had a good ending... kinda surprised I was still on season seven(?) until a few months ago but now I have finished the main show.
I want to put words on digital paper and create again, and I have so much to bring. If I can ever get around to transcribing the sessions i've been running, holy fuck that'll be a lot of story... A whole Anthology spanning like three multiverses... (and a bit of a self insert at times)... downside is two fold. If google kills off Google Hangouts like theyve been talking about, and make it imposible to get to the archives, poof... secondly, they aren't complete yet and not all of them have enough of a pony focus to be expected to be allowed into the site, for each one needs its own story and submission. They're disconnected enough for it... But yea, idk if i'll ever get around to it, massive undertaking and I'll need Bae's help with it.
Thanks for listening, hopefully I wont disappear for another year this time.
Glad you are still with us, love your work and hope you come back