Blogs... Blogs. I should probably actually write one of these things. · 11:30pm Feb 21st, 2021
Hello to my... Eight followers! Wow, you guys are really digging down there if you're actually following me. Eh! Y'all do you!
I honestly have no idea what I'm gonna put here in this blog. I mostly come for the stories, or the rare political interaction on a blog or two. Hell, I'll probably drop an idea or something along the way... God help me if I actually let anything out of this nightmare trap of a mind I've been filtering through. Fair warning, I'm a rambly sort of bastard with a very poor track record for keeping on topic for long.
SO! I think I'll start off with just a small introduction of who I am. I'm a thirty something year old college grad with an odd, somewhat dark sense of humor that may not rub many people the right way. What does that generally mean? It means I got to spend waaay too many of my formative years surrounded by soldiers who thought, right up until a certain wall came down, that there was a nuclear fire just over the horizon. Waiting for its chance to erupt into an all consuming nightmare scenario. And they mostly belonged to Signals and Intel. With the odd infantryman or Tanker thrown in. I enjoy a solid sense of self and reality. It makes things boring, and boring is good.
I'm a hobbyist, I love models and painting. Collecting the little bastards, losing them, stepping on them by accident, blaming it on the family dog even though we don't have one. Yet. I was practically raised on science fiction and the endless bounds of imagination that fantasy stories could bring and the games that could be made with it. The G.I. Joe fights were epic once we threw Dragons and knights into the mix. Along with that I grew up with a lot of friends who drew me into one hobby or another. Warhammer, D&D, Warmachine, Board games, you name I've probably at least seen it. Eventually though, I settled with the Battletech and Gundam universes and the accompanying miniatures and models. To my bank account's eternal agony. (Ask me about that Gundam backlog sometime... I DARE YOU! Please don't, sweet Jesus please don't. I still don't have an accurate count of how many kits I have on shelving units. Last check it was over two hundred individual kits. )
I'm also a Range Hound! What the hell is that you ask? GUNS my boy. I have an eclectic collection sitting in a gunsafe that I enjoy dragging out to the range on that rare occasion where I have the time and the weather isn't freezing/soaking/blisteringly hot/so dry it'll make King Tut look like he's been relaxing by a swimming pool. I've fired everything from .22LR to .50BMG and still haven't had enough! It's probably the greatest way I've found to relieve stress in my life and that is a huge, and I mean HUGE thing. Stress management is a bit more... Critical in my life. Medical stuff I won't get into in this blog. Suffice it to say, I like things that go boom and I laugh at the uninformed who think I don't have that right.
I'm fairly conservative and have a wildly different view on politics Oh God he said that foul word again! from a fair number of people's standard thinking, such in that my political views do not align with any one policy or ideology. I mostly enjoy the idea of the government leaving me the hell alone and not taking my money to spend on things that don't help me in any way shape or form. I can spend and waste my money quite well on my own thank you very much. Trust me, it's not gonna show up a lot here, and this is really all I'm gonna say about that.
SO! With all of that out of the way, how the hell did I ever come to, of all things, the My Little Pony community? Well I've always enjoyed Equestrian sports and the company of horses. Never met one I didn't like and still expect to find that one 'ornery bastard around the corner. Buuut, that still doesn't explain how I came to enjoy the wide world of MLP.
All started some years ago when someone asked "Are you a fan of Big Mac?"
Now in my head I'm sitting there and asking myself "Who the fuck is Big Mac and why the hell are you asking me such a random question?"
Apparently I wasn't as 'in my head' as thought I was with that since they actually replied. "Because you always say 'eyup' with that drawl and he's a character from My Little Pony! It's kinda his catch phrase." to which I only had one real response.
"I have a drawl? Wut? Since when! And who the fuck is stealing my materiel? I don't have that much of it you know!"
So began my long, slow decent into the world of MLP:FIM. From which I've yet to find any escape and am sure it's ever so slowly drawing me deeper into madness. With a side order of an inescapable sense of impending doom. Fun times am I right?! The strange dark shadowy pony that haunts my dreams keeps telling me I need to get more sleep... Something about waking up in the middle of the night and laying there staring at the ceiling for a good hour is somehow counter to my health or some such. I've gained so much from the stories and people I've interacted with on here, not everything good, but hey ya gotta take a little bit of the crap with the daisies right?
Anyhow, that's a small look into my head. Terrifying isn't it? Normally I don't care for things like this but let's face it. My page has been looking pretty barren since I got here, so time to spruce things up a bit! Hey who knows, y'all might actually like what I say from time to time!
