This is probably a bad idea, but!

Silentstephi — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:24:19 +0000

You guessed it. It’s November. Remember Remember… oh wait, wrong reference. It’s NaNo time! You can tell because the NaNo WriMo website is down! /headdesk

While others will be participating in the NaBloPoMo instead (like I did last year), I’m back to NaNo. Why? Because this year, there’s a story to write and I’m going to damn well write it! Come hell or high water or crazy one month deadline, this story will get written!

Honest. Regardless of the mid-month speed bump… >.>

So this means I need writing buddies. Someone, anyone, keep me accountable! Pleeeeeeeease!

To make the 50K words in the month you can write 1667 words a day. After work today I’m hoping to pound out something bigger than my last four years of attempts. I have the story, it’s just waiting to be spooged on the page. It’s not all that sensible, but that’s ok! NaNo is all about quantity not quality! Quality comes later! ^.^

So! Who’s with meh!?!? (I know Ego’s in there somewhere O.O)

Pony Island Adventure!

Silentstephi — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:05:35 +0000

So I banged myself up pretty good yesterday, popping my knee out of place again (old injury), so here I am, not able to really stay at the PC for too long before my knee screams at me ELEVATE ME DAMN IT!

So it’s time to play with my ponies.

No, this is definately not WoW related. So FAR from being WoW related, well, ok, they are both online games… but this is almost like me talking about my secret obsession with Hello Kitty Adventure Island er something… >.>

I play Ponyisland. It’s a lot of fun too. Did you ever play Neopets? I was a HUGE fan of Neopets when I was in college. It was the thing that kept me occupied (that and THESE AMAZING GARGOYLE STORIES GO READ NAO!) while I was fixing random internet lab issues (”Printer’s jammed again.” “Who the hell stuck THAT in there!? WTF?”)

I liked Neopets for all the little games and what not, but honestly, the pets themselves were kinda just fluff. I always thought, wouldn’t it be kinda cool if I could breed a Zafa with a meecha? But nope, I think that was just a bit to much for that site. So, years later, when I’m bored as hell at my old job, a friend of mine mentioned this website called Ponyisland.net, where you could breed with your own ponies. I’ve loved My Little Ponies since I was little. My Gran got me this whole set for a year, where Mom gave me a new pony each month that year. Best. Thing. EVER. Ponies, also, were the only “dolls” I ever played with when I was young that never ended up decapitated and in the toilet.

I hated Barbie. -.-

Aaaaaaanywho, so, friend show’s me PI.net and I’m instantly hooked. Just BAM! Hooked. I’ve got a bunch of accounts, tons of ponies, I’m breeding them left and right, making starters and the whole nine. Questing to get levels, so that I can get Bonus Points to make more AWESOME starters.

They came out with a new race, called Phoenix Ponies. A-DOR-ABLE! I made a bunch of Nixies, and my plan was to make a PI first (three Special gene Nixie!) But then I got more involved in WoW, the ponies kinda fell to the way side, and I got bored and tired of them.

Cut to a few months ago. I’m feeling down, and I’m bored. Down because I’m thinking of Moo, about how much I miss her. Then I remembered, I named a pony after her. I sold my accounts back at PI, so I wasn’t sure if she’d still be there.

I kind of debated going back, thinking if the pony Shar was gone, I’d just set myself up for more of a let down, ya know?

So I was ecstatic to see that her pony was alive and well. And it got me wanting to go back. The PI community does have a lot of kids in it, but it’s probably one of the least malicious communities I think I’ve ever encountered. Like, I mean, you look at the WoW O-boards and go

Troll
Flame
QQ
Something interesting and/or useful
More Trolls

the list could go on and on.

On PI, for the most part, very pleasant crowd. Granted, it’s a PG only environment, but hey, it’s nice to be able to wade through some clear water after all that crap you just sloshed through over at Wow.com/forums.

Shar’s pony btw? She chose the colors. She’s adorable. And I miss her so much.

Now I’m back to breeding, back to questing, and having fun with it again. Oh, and because it’s silly, I remember doing this thing called Adoptables too. Basically, you have like virtual Pet Pets, type deal. But it’s run by individuals in the community rather than the PI administrators. I had some Gargoyle adoptables. I don’t remember where I put them… but they were fun at the time. Made me a lot of Pony Gold too. XD

Married IRL » NoN WoW

This is probably a bad idea, but!

Pony Island Adventure!