8 Years · 8:01am Aug 5th, 2020
Eight. Years.
Holy hell.
It's been... well it's been a cluster fuck, frankly. Hell, I missed my anniversary this year by a few days. If you're looking at the date it says I joined and scratching your head I count my anniversaries from the publish date of my first fic. And if you're looking at my earliest fic and scratching your head, I've since deleted that fic. Aaaaaanyway
Y'all know I was 14 years old when I wrote my first ever fic? Jesus. I'm 22 now. I have a full time salaried job with bonuses and sales targets and benefits. Yikes. I do still enjoy Nightcore, though. And I ain't even ashamed to admit it any more. It's not a phase.
A lot of things have changed, though I feel like I say that every year. And I do, but well... it's true every year, isn't it? Though perhaps this year has given rise to some of the most significant changes. Got promoted to a fancy schmancy management position. Make a pretty decent chunk of change at the end of the day, all things considered. Got myself one of them snazzy new VR headsets, saving up from a computer upgrade.
If you had told me eight years ago this is where I would be now? Man... well actually I might have believed you. I was... pretty directionless, most of my teen years. Still am a bit, if I'm being totally honest. But, well, I ain't never got anywhere sitting around trying to figure out where I want to go. I just kinda.... went. My life hasn't exactly played out ideally, but... eh, when does it ever?
Usually in these annual blog posts I go over what I've written in the past year but... well frankly this year it's not been much. I'm more than half way through this year and I... don't really have much writing to show for it. Ugh. It seems despite stress being my primary motivator for writing before, now it is an inhibitor. That change seems to have happened during my 3-ish year hiatus. Kinda sucks, frankly. It was nice having something to channel my stress into. These days if I try to write while I'm stressed I'll just stress out over the writing and... it doesn't go well.
God damn though. 8 years. How many active authors can claim a number like that? I know of a few. A lot of big names, some small but dedicated. I'm kinda in the middle of that, huh? Known, but only within Twidash circles. I'm alright with that. I've lived my life and grew up in a perpetual state of Twidash, so shall I die. Twidashing all the way.
That's a bit of a weird thought. I grew up here, in a way. For... not an insignificant part of my life, I immersed myself in the internet, in the fandom. Surrounded myself in these goddamn adorable horses. I wonder what I'd be like, if I never fell into this show's trap. If I never found out I loved writing stories. More than likely, not all the parts of my personality that came from the internet are good, but I like to think that the parts I got from here, from this little corner, are.
I'm rambling now, and I have work tomorrow so Imma get outta here but just... wow. 8 years. Dunno how much longer, but... well, I ain't got no plans to leave. Gonna have to download an archive of this site for my coffin when I die, at this rate.
Or maybe get one of them caskets with the wifi and the blutooth. I think my rotting corpse would like that.
Why yes I am talking about writing Twidash until the day I die. What of it?
Until next time,
Kodeake out
No writing TwiDash after death? You're not trying hard enough.
Congratulations on 8 years.
Congrats on 8 years!
Gotta mix it up a bit, man. How about some DashTwi?
Or some TridashieCongrats on the eight years. May many more follow.
Congrats on 8 years. I'll be at 7 in December. (Measured with join date cuz I haven't ever posted a "real fic")
First account of mine was made in Dec 2013. No idea why I decided to make another account 2 months later.
Welcome to the 8 year club!
8 years is a hell of a long time to be involved in a fandom. I've been here for about 7, although you can technically take maybe 3 of those off since I had long periods of time where I wasn't active on here at all.
But if you feel like you're not writing as much, maybe think of branching out? I know you're a Twidash extraordinaire and all, but perhaps other avenues could create some spark? I'm working on a Trixie/Starlight fic now speaking of which, and it's nice to focus on other characters that aren't Twilight/Rainbow/Rarity for a change
Congrats on your position btw!
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I can't believe you would suggest I write something other than Twidash. Blasphemy!
Lol, but in all seriousness usually a short oneshot will kick me outta a funk. I just need a good idea. Which admittedly I have been short on lately. At this rate I'm gonna finish on of them porn fics I been working on before anything else.
woAH, what an oldie! it's so weird to think i was just starting primary when you joined, eheh. i found the site around 2016 and you were one of the first authors i read and recognised (mostly because i was actively looking for twidash content, ahah). it's so cool to see you're still active and kicking here, congrats!