Fifth yearly blog post · 8:43pm Oct 11th, 2017
Five.
Wait, it's been five years already?!
Welp.
Oh well, at least, since last year, there’s not much new to report. I’m still around; reading some fic now and then, when time allows for it. Or I can be found listening in to some of the amazing fic readers on Youtube.
The latest season of MLP also is all good, though I think I’m at least one episode behind. Or, now with the leak of everything going on, I guess I’m very behind. And I have not even seen the movie!
So, five years of (at least somewhat) active participation in this fandom has been a ride for sure. Would things be different for me if I wasn't shown Fighting is Magic, back during that 2012 lan-party? Maybe. Not a lot, probably, but I'm not sure how I would have spent all the hours days months of time I've put into reading fan fiction. Heck, for the first three summers, I spent a roughly a week each (re-)reading (and later offering edits for) Blue Angel. That was a thing.
And I enjoyed that, as well as other things all along these years.
So, that's the somewhat boring answer; the world of MLP have opened up for so much entertainment, which keeps me somewhat hooked up to this day.
That's me.
How has the pony ride been treating you guys?
With that, onto to another great year!
And, as I said in my first blog:
Thanks for being fun to hang around!
Haven't seen the movie yet, but the show is still magnificent. The new feature where the site is reading along with us threw me into a small reading spree, yet given how little time my job and continuous training are leaving me with.
I know my life would have been way different without ponies, mostly in how less capable I would have been in dealing with the pressure within an entertainment world mostly made of angry cynical and/or violent characters and stories...
Oh, and #hellopersonwritingfuntags.
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Man, you're up early.
That's a nice feat.
Snoozing is becoming a bad habit on my end.
Yeah, this feeling. Free time is fleeting nowadays. Heh, well; that's where the audiobooks have cut my slack. But reading sprees still happen sometimes, especially if I have a day or two off.
Though, I'd entirely forgotten about the site reading feature! I'll have to try that, thanks for the tip.
That does sound like a positive influence, glad to hear that. I might not be able to relate very much, but I can see where you're coming from. MLP is a nice change of pace from other popular media; both when it begun, and up until this day.
Oh well, it's good to see that you're still active around here as well.
With my current reading rate, I can't promise when I'll get around to your latest story. But, it could happen, only on the HUB?!
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, if anything I would prefer that you read someone else's story instead. I like when my stories are read by people, but I don't really need it. There are way more authors out there who wish for a first feedback or to position themselves, know where they can improves and so on. I've already received most of that.
Don't worry
Me, I just enjoy writing silly things once in a while when I feel like it.
The site reading feature isn't perfect, but it gives me the impression of someone reading along with me, so it's like I've got company. And I used it for a few of my own stories just for the fun of hearing a voice read them out loud. It's hilarious but also interesting as an experience. For a bot, it's not half bad.
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I guess I have a tiny affinity with machines
I'm just glad that you gave some news, even if I feel you could have had developped your post way more. I may have an overactive imagination, but some passages sound like regrets, some like accomplishments, some like doubts and other like you got wiser during those years. Yet the message is that the whole experience left you mostly unchanged...
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Well, for what it's worth, your silly things tend to have something going on behind the obvious first-glance impression, making them interesting to read. There's that.
Ah, so it's more usable for reading along? I think I've actually used a text-to-speech software some years ago, but that was so I could eat and "read" without loosing the flow when looking away from the screen. Heh, efficiency.
Though, I'm gonna give the built in reader a try sometime, sounds like a nice addition to just reading.
And for post length; I was considering leaving it at "Five.", with nothing more. Honestly, when I realized that it was already past 10th of October and I hadn't even considered anything to write in this blog, I almost defaulted to that. An all mysterious fifth blog.
I guess now I'll have to leave that for the tenth.
I'm reading this as if you're referring to my previous blogs, and not this one specifically, am I right? If so, here again is the split between pony and rest of my time. I kept the original post pony-only, where, to be honest, I haven't been too noticeably active.
I guess I didn't feel like I needed to rant about anything in my real life this time around. Heck, compared to even my own Facebook, I've probably already written more about general events in my life on this site than anywhere else. I'm not used to blogging.
While pony probably hasn't changed much for me, getting employed has. Working full time is way different than studying. Were the five years of college worth it? Nah, I would be good at three. I still have one course left. Out of all people in my class who attended it in 2014, even though we're a very small group, I know of only one person who has finished it. But, the teacher blames the students-
Oops, dang, I'm ranting again.
Point being, hopefully without jinxing it, I'm content with where I am now. I work with what interests me and with people whom I get along well with. So for now, I'd call this a good outcome. Maybe I can't see much change in myself, but at least my situation is way different.
Not sure if this is the extra development you wanted, but it's something.
Jinxing life on Friday 13th? I might regret this.
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There is always a huge different between what we want and what we get, but what we get, given enough time to reflect, is almost always way more than we could have ever wanted.
In my world, 13 is a lucky number.