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archonix


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Oct
19th
2014

Valued Opinions · 11:28pm Oct 19th, 2014

I may not post this because I'm wrting drunk. If you can see it, congratulations, you have witnessed alcohol overcome my will to resist typing random crap.

After this I might go off and write Princesses Celestia and Luna having a sloppy makeout session because why the fuck not.

When I started out on this site I quickly acquired a goal: get as many followers as SS&E. The goal was unattainable - perhaps - and I soon modified it to "get a thousand followers". Now I'm at around whatever it is I'm around I've realised something. Followers don't matter. The number doesn't matter, is what I mean. I could have ten million followers and not be satisfied if I didn't have the people I value paying attention and telling me things I want or need to hear.

There are a few people I'll value on this site, people who I aspire to emulate, or who I consider wise an knowledgable. People whose opinions matter to me. Whether they matter to anyone else doesn't matter, because they matter to me. I value their words. I cherish the rare interactions I have with them. I get a little bit high when they say things to me even if (sometimes especially if) those things are superficially negative. My idols - for want of a better word - have paid attention to me in some way, however briefly, and I react like a week-denied crack addict given a hit of the good stuff.

People like Cold In Gardez, who I admire for being so dedicated to his craft that he'll write in a warzone. And he can paint too, the dastard. He's like me if I was allowed to carry a gun...

CVBrony, who should really be resting.

Chuckfinley, who is just so belligerently clever and can fling erotica like a master pizza chef tosses dough, stretching it to perfection and topping it with everything you could possibly want.

Pearple Prose, who does words I could sit and lick for hours, builds worlds out of nothing like it was nothing to build them and then acts like he' nt special.

Professor Plum, who doesn't do horsewords at all (yet), but who is just so damn right and so damn right all the fucking time. And has a voice that melts spines at a hundred paces as well.

Maskedferret. Amacita. Amit (because butts). FanOfMostEverything. Devas. PresentPerfect. Blueshift. The Quite Man.

Others... so many others. In my drunken haze these people stick out like the first crystals in a copper sulphate solution. All blue and spiky and wonderful. The first amongst so many of equal stature. I value them. If I could I would meet them all, but if we never meet then still they have touched me, and I am all the richer for it.

And also I need an adult.

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Comments ( 25 )
Spacecowboy
Moderator

Oh, Arch... how's that wine? :heart:

PresentPerfect
Author Interviewer

What your followers want is for you to close the damn italics tag! :V

The internet has been gifted a new gem that is this blogpost.

Lost it at copper sulphate solution :rainbowlaugh:. Describing people important to you as blue and spiky is the best thing I've seen all week.

Just yes.

2544184 the hell you say man, italics are jesus and crack!

2544181 Red. But nt as red as the heart that bleeds for your attention.

If you can see it, congratulations, you have witnessed alcohol overcome my will to resist typing random crap.

Oh hey me too. :pinkiehappy:

After this I might go off and write Princesses Celestia and Luna having a sloppy makeout session because why the fuck not.

Oh god yes do it. :heart:

*Blinks* I won't deny, my first reaction was to reread it and think that perhaps in your drunken stupor you mistakenly added my name instead of some other ferret.

Thankfully my self esteem stepped in and calmly gave me a slap so I'd smarten up.

But that feeling you mention, about being noticed by your idols? I get that whenever you reply to a comment I've made or appreciate my feedback or any of a hundred small things. I'm a bit in awe to think I might inspire something even remotely like that in you.

Also, make sure the adult you choose can help with the sloppy princess makeouts.

To me that is the most coherent drunken ramble I've ever read.

I am flattered and more than slightly astonished, because you basically described how I feel about you. Thank you, Arch. :twilightsmile:

After this I might go off and write Princesses Celestia and Luna having a sloppy makeout session because why the fuck not.

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I'd listen to Rarity. She's not one to be ignored.:duck:

Humbling bastard.

This is why I like ya.

~Skeeter The Lurker

;_;7 I love ya, ya drunk bastard.

Wanderer D
Moderator

You went drinking... and didn't invite me? :fluttercry:

After this I might go off and write Princesses Celestia and Luna having a sloppy makeout session because why the fuck not.

Not donkeys? Arch, I think this says something about drunk you :derpytongue2:

PresentPerfect
Author Interviewer

2544188
Also, I totally missed my name in there. :B I'm touched!

We love you too, Arch :heart:

First, you can never be SS&E, unless you sell your soul to become a sapient word processor. True story!

Second . . . all the rest of what you said. Let's all of us keep chasing the respect of all the rest of us until we finally become a singularity of ourselves and our idols, who idolize us.

Third:

After this I might go off and write Princesses Celestia and Luna having a sloppy makeout session because why the fuck not.

We should all do this. There should be a goddamn GROUP for this.

in short, I'm probably as drunk as you.

Fuck it.
(hits 'add comment')

2544502
I wanted to like your comment, but #3 really doesn't do it for me.

I am sorry for being the belligerent black sheep at Xenofilia. It's just how it goes: without somebody like me, debate turns stale and the rulebooks go down the crapper.
Besides, I do believe that Velvet is being disrespectful with everybody.

2544580
well, you could give it a thumbs up, then a thumbs down, then another thumbs up.

Because, as Meatloaf said, two out of three ain't bad.:derpytongue2:

I definitely resonate with this blogpost. After seeing my whole wall of recent updates, sure, numbers were great and all, but the quality of the comments, and especially the people giving them, mattered way more than anything else. Community, and friendship, and magic.

Also,
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Professor Plum, who doesn't do horsewords at all (yet), but who is just so damn right and so damn right all the fucking time. And has a voice that melts spines at a hundred paces as well.

:heart:

If I could I would meet them all, but if we never meet then still they have touched me, and I am all the richer for it.

Good thing we met during the Gay Pride Parade, no?

And also I need an adult.

I am an adult


But in all seriousness, man, I'm genuinely honoured to be on that list.

Trixie Ineffable I feel unloved.

Just kidding

Maskedferret. Amacita. Amit (because butts). FanOfMostEverything. Devas. PresentPerfect. Blueshift. The Quite Man.

Seeing myself included in that list made me actually splutter; I don't/didn't think of being included considering my very scarce output.

On the other hand, I like to think I'm good at analysis and meta - analysis, and I am in the continuing process of improving myself in the most deliberate and cautious way I can think.

On the other (other) hand, evaluating one's own self is extremely hard, in the good and in the bad, so whatevs :-P

Anyway, thanks, this made my day :-)

Princesses Celestia and Luna having a sloppy makeout session because why the fuck not.

I too am drunk, and want this sooooo much!!!

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