Oh Lookie! · 6:54am Dec 25th, 2016
I'm still alive!
And poking back in here after a year or so of not even watching >.> I notice I cracked the two hundo mark :D Sweet!
Unfortunately, I don't know if I'll be returning en force to the site as it stands. Work demands me upwards of 50 hours a week and life is getting full of commitments. I'm certainly not the young and bright-eyed Dash that started with quaint tales and silly poems. I've come to truly appreciate my time here and the works that have resulted. I had a great run. Peachgate, Authors in your bed, collabs with awesome folks the likes of Kaidan and Cerulean, and numerous debates and chats on the finer things and nuances of life with well-respected and true humans all over the comment sections.
I really loved bringing a taste of inanimate transformation to the scene. It's always been a thing of mine and I enjoyed getting to see the reactions of hundreds to my sometimes outrageous stories. I have a LOT of those. I may never have been the class act like Ceru or a master propagater of stories like Akumo, but I tried and I produced what I felt to be quality stories. To this day, my crowning achievement on the site is Coming Home. Such a tender and loving piece, I still cry to read it or hear the audio by Neighrator Pony.
And most of all, I loved the people. Dozens of you have touched my heart and inspired me to make the most of my life and achieve where I thought I could not. Others helped me by being learning experiences and lessons for future interactions. But in the end, everyone played a big part in the mantle carried by The Equestrianoid Typhoon. I have loved and lost and cried and raged. But most of all, I have grown. And while ponies will always be a soft spot in my life, I'll probably have to knock the rest of my incomplete postings to the curb. Ghost Town will be my biggest failure. I hyped and hyped and overwhelmed myself with a multi-chapter masterpiece that I wasn't ready for or experienced enough to handle. I could still update it in the future, I do have three unpublished scrap-ters of various lengths to run off of if the idea becomes fresh. But certainly that would entail rewatching and falling in love again. And seeing S6 for the first time. Yeah, that's a thing. - It's DONE! YAY!
Long story...well, long, This is probably one of, if not the final, communique between all you wonderful people and yours truly. Certainly, I'm still reachable thru the site, but the Equestrianoid Typhoon has started to calm, I'm more of an equestrianoid summer breeze at this point. :)
It's been a great and storied adventure, one that I look back on fondly, but one that must eventually end. And what a note it left on, cracking the 200 barrier and packing a fairly quality story or three under my fimfic belt. I'll never be fimfamous but I had my spotlight, top of the site. And I have all you to thank. Without you, I'd never have persevered and written such ridiculous shit ninety percent of the time.
Like Sweetie_Belle.jpg and any of my transformation fics. Please, by all means, share and use my fics to your content, save and or build upon them and maybe you can create a diamond out of the steamy shit stains that I slopped down incomplete. Of course, a little credit goes a loooong way. Towards not getting banned for plagiarism. ;) Toss me the writer's cred if it's a solid rip or as inspiration and source mat'l if you build a new beauty. And hey, even if I'm not HERE here, you can reach me thru PM's. Email alerts are wonderful things.
Stay frosty, my friends, and remember, life's not about the end result, but the bits and pieces that forge the path.
And with that, I hang my hat and retire into the sunset.
Peace and Love, eternal.
~Dash, The Stampede~
Still one of my favorite readings to date.
You do you, homeslice. Merry Christmas
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Oh lookie, a reply I sincerely feel bad about forgetting! D:
It was a hefty load of fun but hard to get back into. Unfortunately I'm still quite hooked on a few long-reaching stories and will continue to stalk the site infrequently searching for those little breadcrumbs that one day might bring me home to write again. I don't believe I'll top the feelings of success and accomplishment slaving over that story in much else I would accomplish here, but the experience has been amazing. I do have to say I consistently (read: once a week) listen to those somber dulcet tones and the saddest most perfect background music and wonder to myself if I really wrote that or if I'm hearing a professional performance and experiencing dissonance in thinking it was mine.
It was a thing of beauty you did for me and I'll cherish it always. Even if I don't quite run around with my RBD t shirts anymore, I'll always have Coming Home. Thanks for being a part of one of the best takeaways from my time on the keyboard :D
Still alive and kickin' it,
-Dash
4549510 It was my great pleasure. Glad you're still around.