So, things have been kind of silent on my end for the last few weeks, what with the chaos of moving back cross country, stumbling back into a minimum wage job to cover my bills and trying to work out what my next move in this board game called life.

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It's Saturday, time to watch the new episode of pony! I'll just sit down with my cup of coffee and get ready to watch the episode!

*takes a sip*

*watches episode*

So...that was a hell of a thing. The CMC's finally got their cutie-marks. That just happened. After five years of the show. There's a whole lot to unpack in this 22 minutes of TV, so I'll just give my high level thoughts at the moment.

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Length is one of those tricky things when it comes to writing. Humanity has written stories as short as the (most likely apocryphal) Ernest Hemingway tale of "For Sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.", to the current world record holder for longest novel, "In Search of Lost Time".

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At least, I won't be in Seattle anymore.

The long and the short of it is that I've just basically run out of money to live out here before any kind of employment could be found. Even expanding my search into the land of joyous retail, I've not been getting call backs or anything. Blarg.

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This weekend has been nuts.

For those not in the know, the Seattle area got slammed with some bad wind storms this weekend. Bad enough to knock out power across most of the greater metropolitan area. I have been sans power since about noon yesterday. It sucked. A lot. Not being able to write for almost two days straight has been beyond annoying.

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It's never a pleasent thing when a fanfic you like turns sour.

Not just because that head space where something you liked gets replaced with negative thoughts, but also because there's a little bit of disappointment that said fic isn't living up to how awesome it can be. Naturally, this is a subjective thing. Someone's awesome is someone else's wasted potential and vice versa.

So, with that in mind, Mente Materia.

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The Welsh would have a word for this concept....

Cryptozology.

There is just something about the idea of weird creatures existing in the remote places of the world that gets my inner ten year old charged as hell. The various sea serpents, bigfoots and yetis, are just the tip of the iceberg. It's the really esoteric ones that I love to plunder for creature ideas in RPGs and fanfiction. Look up the Mongolian Death Worm sometimes. That thing is wild!

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.....I'm not apologizing.

Just got done watching Blizzard's presentation on the next WoW expansion at Gamescom over in Germany, so I figured that I'd kind of mull over some of my initial thoughts in a blog post.

The Good

- Beta stars this year, so we might not be stuck in such a massive content drought like we were between Mists of Pandaria and Warlords of Draenor. Yay!

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