Ponky Snores. · 9:49pm Sep 20th, 2015
You know, some nights. Others I don't know because he's either out late working (all the freaking time), giggling with his girlfriend (all the other freaking times), or inexplicably not home. You know, regular roommate stuff.
Except that he's freaking Ponky.
How do you get used to something like that? Play it off. Try not to fanboy out constantly. So far it's worked.
Hopefully he doesn't randomly read this someday.
Oh yeah, and I'm alive, by the way. I haven't been doing much in these parts but redesigning my presence, drawing, editing, and completely spacing Writeoffs. Oops.
And I'm at college again. Same school, same major, same job, new digs. Twenty minute walk to campus every day. Wears you down, especially when you have a weekly contemporary dance class (my ankles!) and environmental biology drags you out to a new corner of town every week (my blisters!). And subbing for a bowling team makes you actually care about pulling off a good hook (my wrist!).
But none of that stuff matters to anyone who might actually read this blog. What stuff do you care about? My stories? Meh. Haven't given much thought to Crisis in months, though the next chapter is all set to be written. I just need to sit down and actually do it, when I'm not sitting down and actually doing any number of other things that are all set to be done.
Remember when I had that factory job I talked about? The night shift one? No? Well I worked the night shift at a plastics factory over the summer. I tell you there's nothing like repetitive manual labor at four in the morning to help you brainstorm. I have the workings of a really cool new story or three and a half, one or two of which might end up as radio shows on YouTube.
Speaking of YouTube, my school has about three recording studios that are free to use for students, which is fantastic. With some help from a knowledgable friend, I went and tried them, spending about ten hours so far recording practice readings of a couple different fics, one of which really deserves a a good reading, and will probably actually one day be released as one when I am capable of making it into such. Until then, I keep practicing my John de Lancie and my Audacity skills.
Any comic book fans? Nah, that would be silly. Well, in case any of you are as excited as Ky and I are for the greatest Marvel movie not yet made or the source material that inspired it, keep watching this blog (and, if all goes well, your YouTube recommendation feed) for a huge project my friends and I are currently working on. And that's all I'm saying. Except that I'm going to have to get a haircut and grow out my goatee pretty soon.
Episode time!
Normally I save my analysis blogs for episodes that expand the show's world in an interesting way, but this one hit all of my buttons (except for one):
Continuing almost immediately from the last episode: *honk*
Rainbow Dash climbing ladders a la Wonderbolt Academy: *beep*
Rarity cementing her candidacy in my book for New Favorite Pony: *boop*
Royal Guards showing their equine side: *bop*
Freaking noir: *boink*
The Living Legend: *click*
By all rights, this should be my favorite episode evar. And yet I still don't feel comfortable saying I liked it more than Party Pooped. PP just had something more to it, some energy that kept my rapt attention the whole way through and rewarded it with little jokes that were just unexpected enough to make me bust up. It was probably the combination of Pinkie Pie being challenged and the yaks being yaks. Between those two things, there's no lack of energy to be found, and they're so much the center of attention that when other characters have awesome lines or moments it's like a sucker punch of endorphins.
Rarity Investigates had so many cool elements in it that it's almost like an episode-granting genie asked me what I want in my ideal slice-of-life episode, except I probably would've asked for Pinkie and Twilight to at least make appearances. But in my overpowered onion, the director(s) could've done a lot more to give the mystery more energy, and I would've enjoyed it more. I don't know why, exactly, and it may be just me, but the story itself was a little boring. I'll try not to overthink it too much. Maybe I'll like it more down the road on the re-watch.
Though I still don't know why they didn't follow up on the obvious setup for RD to break Wind Rider's record at the end.
That's not true. I'm reading this blog, and I hardly care about your stories at all.
Well, I haven't read most of them, at least.
Really? I'm not saying that the movie won't be fantastic, but everything I've ever read about Civil War has basically lead me to believe that it was terrible and most people hated it.
I'm pretty sure that the record was for a particular race, so of course she couldn't beat it at the end.
3407938
As far as I know, you're the only one who reads my blogs. Anyone else here?
Eh, depends on what you like in a comic. The art was weird and the long-term consequences might have been more trouble than they were worth, but it was a cool story for the scope of it alone. The arcs in the various regular series were better than the Civil War seven-issue run, that's for sure.
Still, they set up that no one but her would be able to make it in time, and then they didn't mention it again. What a waste. Even if it wasn't in a race, someone could've pointed out that she flew the distance in the time required. But nope.
3408718
I haven't actually read any of the comics involved, but everything I've seen about it just leaves me with a reaction of "none of this should even be happening." I'm sure it's cool to see all these heroes fight each other (in fact, I believe that the man behind the whole thing said that that was the main reason he wrote it), but it's all ruined by a feeling of the whole thing just being wrong. I guess it just feels like bad writing all around for me. But my impressions are probably colored by the fact that I'm on Cap's side of the fight, and I haven't really heard much about what was going on in those regular series arcs.
I am a fan of the "What If?" version of Civil War where Nova just shows up and tells them they're all idiots and leads them to stop Annihilus, who was trying to end all life in the universe at the same time that all of this was going on.
Yeah, they could have, but I thought that it was pretty clear that they were implying that. They said nopony could make it there and back in time, and then she did.