Talk (Rating: Mature) · 1:46am Mar 21st, 2014
So, I've never had an actual real talk with my followers for a while, and I thought it'd be nice to have a calming blog again. I'm a bit flustered right now (part of a Law ISU is due tomorrow and my partner is being lazy), so, I'm just trying to ease my mind up a bit by talking to you guys.
How've you been?
It's probably been forever since I actually asked any of you that question. Over the course of the past months, I've been kind of getting more pissed off lately. At users, at myself and at people who I no longer call "friends." People have been wasting my friend's time, my own time, and the sheer stupidity of most users on this site just makes me want to smash my head into this keyboard. No offence to you guys, but there are times where I just can't help but say "holy fuck, you could not be any more stupid." I'm sure some of you may agree or disagree. I don't think any of you guys are stupid, though, if you're worried about that. Loud minority are the ones I usually talk about.
Anything really big bugging you that you don't mind sharing?
I've already shared plenty and I appreciate the support from you guys, but, if anything is troubling you and you don't mind sharing, I can try and talk to you guys about it. If it's personal, feel free to send me a PM and we can talk there instead. Remember, I don't mind helping people at all.
The site?
Weird question, I know. But, the site has gone through quite a few changes. Can you believe the user pages changed just a bit ago? And, probably, most of you were freaking out? How is it to you, now? Is it easier to maneuver? Does it still bug you? I feel like everyone freaks out about change one way or another, but, by now you've all adapted. So, are you enjoying the new look of your user page or do you still curse Lord knighty? And, no, this isn't to get him to change anything. I'm generally curious because everyone freaks out when a big change is made. Especially with that RP stuff lately. I use to RP, too, but even I know Fim ain't the place for it. Just Google another site or use Skype. Simple.
Any big plans?
Things like stories, vacations, trips, etc. I don't plan to do much this summer, but, I do plan on getting a job. I'll be able to finally buy my new computer then and then play muh vidya games on PC properly (this hunk of crap is getting on my nerves. Can't even TF2 for crying out loud). However, I am graduating High School this year. Plan to buy my Grad Ring tomorrow (parent's gift to me) and then wear it during grad day. Not sure if I want to ask anyone to prom. Depends how much spaghetti is in my pocket. Or whether or not I even want to go. We'll see.
I got nothing else. Maybe another time. Feel free to answer whenever.
I've been alright. I lead a fairly simple life of doing my job, and playing video games/chilling with my buds during my days off.
Nah, not really. Nothing serious that requires outsider help at least. It's all shit that I'm able to take care of myself.
I quite like the new userpages. Would have liked notifications to stay the way they are tho. I'm fairly indifferent to the rp ban. Most of my rp's were 1 on 1's over PM's, which are easy enough to relocate elsewhere.
camping over Easter. That's about it for now.
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Notifications have to be purged to help the site for now. Although, group notifications will be better in the feed. That way you only see your comments/replies/etc in notifications. Easier to sort out that way.
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Yeah I know. I'm just one of those people who gets niggly when something he's used to is suddenly altered around. I'll get used to it eventually.
Not too shabby. I go back to counseling soon to see how I've been doing away from it (I have depression, so my therapist wants to know how it did without the therapy).
Not anything I can think of, really. I've got a lot of stuff going on at once, though, so life can be a bit hectic.
I like it. While some may disagree, I think that all of the recent changes have been for the betterment of the site as a whole.
Lots of stories. I plan on releasing one one-shot until I focus on my already-published works. Once I finish those, I can focus on new stuff.
The userpage thingie only bothers me by a WEE bit, just because it now looks like any page.
- annoying, I dont think you can help with that.
And from the feeling of being lost, even though its -COMPLETELY
The story thing? Getting to the first chapter!
Buuuuut I keep losing the pages.
(Made more progress by writing IRL)
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Should just write in Gdocs. Auto-saves for you and you can go back on revisions.
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Glad you'll be making story progress. More than me, at least. =P
I've been doing a lot better since I recently had a nervous breakdown and a, I guess you can call it a rebirth, sort of, Doctor Who style. I'm feeling a lot better, I'm doing a lot better and I recently grew enough balls to ask an incredibly attractive girl to go to prom with me and she didn't say no or maybe. The me of one week ago would not have done that. So I guess I can conclude the how've I been segment with a quote by Lewis Carroll.
"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then."
Not much is really bugging me at the moment but now I do have to contend with potentially taking a girl to a dance event that I have little to NO experience in doing so... kinda freaking out about that.
I've been going ghost here as of late so I can't really complain too much.
Working on fleshing out an actual book that I may consider trying to get published in a year or two so hopefully that will work out.
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Just be yourself with her. Don't try to impress. Be nice, obviously, the basic courteous things. But, y'know. Do what must be done and treat her like a queen. At least that's what I'd do. Then again, I'm a suck up. =P
Considering I'm alive, I'd have to say ok. Been keeping in shape thanks to my job and my means of transportation. So acceptable's a decent word for it.
I've recently released my newest chapter of Pony May Cry. It is undeniably my longest and most action packed one. However, as always, despite my accomplishments, I've become quite irate concerning my writing and will never be satisfied with what I do, nor how much praise I receive.
I guess I'm just irritated because unless I have something to keep my occupied for an extended period of time, I become really depressed and pissy and just over all unable to look at anyone else's work or accomplishments without taking it as a direct insult to my own work.
That applies to anything mind you. My performance at work, my writing, my assignments at college.
Nothing to really complain about in terms of layout...YET! I'm watching you, Knighty....
Going to Las Vegas. Drink myself silly and play the BlackJack and Poker tables for a good while.
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Maybe you should try distracting yourself after you write something big. Let people read it and stay off the site for a bit. Hang out with your friends, do YouTube stuff, play games. Don't think you're shit when you're not. There's always room for improvement, and you can easily ask for an editor from OEE to help you make your work the best it can possibly be (if that's what'll help make you satisfied overall), but you're not like a lot of users. Aspire to write well, but don't try to compare yourself to others so much. Didn't work out for my one friend at all. Hope this helps a bit.
I've been going...okay, event-wise.
I'm not really depressed or feel hopeless or anything, but all kinds of stuff has been going on lately. First off, about five weeks ago, my grandma broke her hip at her home (in Illinois) and eventually had to be moved to Milwaukee so she's located closer to my Mom (thankfully, she's doing excellently). But then my mom breaks her wrist about two weeks later by slipping on some ice. She's doing fine too, but is still in a cast.
Then this week, my Sister calls home to inform of that one of her friends has gone missing, and then that he's died the next day (the police don't suspect foul play, and she's thankfully taking it really fine). But then, just yesterday, my mom got rear-ended by some asshole who was probably texting when she was stopped at a stop light (thankfully, and this is the last time I'll use that word, she's absolutely fine, and the car was miraculously spared major damage).
So that's about it for what's happening to me. I'm taking this all pretty well, but I actually did have a bit of a venting moment yesterday about it.
As for any big plans, I'm planning on writing a new fic soon, which I'm excited about because it might give me a chance to write something that's not comedy-related.
As for the site...meh, I'm fine. But I think it'd be kind of cool to have a "show mature" button for each of the sex and gore tags, like turning "sex" off and still being able to see "gore".
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Once the new tagging system rolls through, that'll be easy to do. But that ain't for a long time. Just be patient for something like that.
As for what's been going on, glad you're taking it alright. And I'm glad you've already vented a bit. I'd be worried as all hell if something like that was piled on my shoulders. Hopefully nothing too bad happens in the future for your family/friends.
And, hey, good luck on the fic.
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Thanks!
I volunteer for that
Actually no, prom was the dumbest fucking thing I ever did in high school. Three hours of standing around awkwardly while "music" I couldn't dance to played and all the idiots in my class stood around lookin "gangsta" with their snapback hats and crappy rental tuxes. Screw that.
Let's put on zoot suits and go bowling or something instead.
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Sounds good to me!
And I wouldn't doubt that some kids will do that at my prom.
Of course I must disagree! 'Any more stupider' isn't right. 'Any stupider' or 'any more stupid' would be better, here.
As for the rest of that... yeah, it's the reason I avoid chatting with people on Skype most of the time, all of my friends (and myself on occasion) tend to devolve into really stupid conversations over time.
Anyhow, I hope you feel better soon. dealing with people often sucks, but you can only hope it gets better in time.
I'm good :D
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Yay. :D
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Woops, grammar fail. Ah, well.
1943084 Also, the start of that sentence was 'No offence to you guys, any, but there' which is also wrong.
But oh well, I'm just goofing around. In all seriousness, I hope you feel better soon.
Longer post time.
So I've been pretty good. My Dark Souls 2 copy came in on Wednesday, and it's AWESOME. I just love it, it's so excellent.
Except for the Black Gulch, but meh.
I saw my first dead body a few weeks ago. Very sweet old lady, lovely neighbor. Her corpse was terribly dolled up, looked like porcelain. It was horrible.
The part that hurt the most was the dead don't smile. I never saw her in life not smiling. It was jarring.
New episodes have been good (at least the ones I've actually watched have been). I finally met my waifu Maud Pie
Site seems pretty k. I don't really notice minor changes much as I just come on here to read, not edit userpages or blog or stuff like that. I do it so far though, and I think knighty is doing a great job.
Math is hard. Science is hard. Business isn't that hard. Religion class isn't hard, but it's a giant waste of time considering the awful curriculum.
Friend went to Cuba and brought me back a cigar, but I'm afraid to smoke it because my dad has a nose like a freakin bloodhound. He says he'll smell smoke on my clothes even if I haven't been around any in days.
Life's pretty not bad for me right now. I can't complain.
Oh, and if you have spaghetti in your pockets when you want to talk to girls, just ignore the girls and eat the spaghetti. It's much more worth your time. Spaghetti doesn't demand anything; it's just there for you, and that's beautiful.
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Thankfully I do have an editor for Pony May Cry and he's possibly one of the most critical and best friends I have on this site and just overall in terms of existence.
So there's that. Thanks for actually taking the time to hear me out, it means alot.
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Glad you're doing so well. However, I wouldn't bother with that cigar thing. To be honest, that's like smoking a carton of cigarettes if that carton had 500 cigarettes (I exaggerate). I'm a bit biased here, but, smoking is just terrible and you should avoid it, especially when health is a big thing with teens and what-not.
Do what you will, but, maybe you should just get rid of the cigar and chew gum.
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No problem.
1944307 It definitely won't become regular. I just wanted to try it once, and I'm probably going to just get a mouthful of it and give it to a friend. I'm not interested in becoming a regular smoker.
I know it's really bad, I just wanted to taste it.