*jumpstarts the blog*

Okay, it's been over a month since I updated this.  Where to start...

• Organized some data, including a spreadsheet on when Equestria Daily had hit X million pageview milestones.
• On the time travelling beat, saw the most mind-numbingly awesome fireworks over Labor Day weekend. Swing by St. Maries (Idaho) one of these Labor Day weekends - you'll be glad you did.
• Saw episode 1 of Season 2 via streaming.  My sleep cycle is shot, but the event was worth it.
• Have been getting ready for the new school year, which starts this Wednesday.  Plans include organizing a massive singalong of "Winter Wrap Up" on March 19th, which is the last normal day of classes... and it's the day before the Spring Equinox.
• Went to the TVtropes page for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic [danger: TVtropes link!] and discovered a pair of links to the spreadsheet I had mentioned earlier.  Day has been made.  ^_^

Current to-do list includes completing assorted projects and remembering to update this blog.  See you later!

For Norway.

Condolences for Kim Fluttershy Dykas.

Creativity has leveled up?

Something happened to me this week.

I seriously started work on a MLP:FiM fanfic, and I got the idea to actually draw ponies.

Up until this point, the closest I had come to either were daydreams and thoughts of concept art.

Now, though?

Now, I'm writing a straight-faced, tongue-in-cheek Rockydash fic, and I have a plan on what my default ponysona is going to look like.  I have several more stories that I might actually write up (even if I don't submit them to Equestria Daily), and a cluster of pic ideas to inflict upon others draw for the hay of it.

I think part of it was me finally going "y'know what?  Screw my low opinion of my skills; I'm going to do this because the ideas are just too entertaining to put down."  Another part was probably someone mentioning in jest that they hadn't seen a shipfic between Rainbow Dash and Rocky from the "Party of One" episode, and me realizing that I could create a story based on that.

Either way, this post on Equestria Daily made me realize: I am not alone.  There is a mountain of creativity in the brony fandom, a never-ending fountain of people creating fanworks and encouraging others to do the same.

Now, back to writing that shipfic...

Initializing...

So.  A blog.

I figure this is the best forum for my idle thoughts, away from the wreckage of my other bloglikes.

So, who am I?  A college student majoring in what had seemed interesting at the time.  Problem is, the more I learn, the less certain I am that I want to continue towards that major!  And to complicate things, I'm not entirely sure what I want to do with my life, or what my best skills are.

At this point, there's just a few things keeping me moving forward: my stubbornness, D&D sessions with family, anime at school, Civil War re-enacting during the summer, and something I found out about in May...

Ponies.

Yes, I discovered My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic [danger: TVtropes link!] near the end of the first season.  I had known that it existed for a while before that, from YouTube channel subscriptions that I barely paid attention to and the signatures/avatars in a close-knit forum I visit.  One day, my curiosity overtook me, so I watched the first episode...



...and then the second, and third, and...

I was hooked.  The show is honestly good - the primary audience might be little girls, yet it's still quality entertainment for the entire family.  Go watch it; you'll be glad you did.

Anyway, tying the threads together.  One of the background aspects of the show is that each pony, as they grow up, discover the talent that they both like and are good at.  At that point, they gain a cutie mark, an emblem on their haunch that reflects that talent.  Until that point, their flank is blank.  Thus, someone who hasn't discovered their talent is a blank-flank.  And since the nickname for an older fan of the MLP:FiM series is brony...

Hence, my moniker of BlankFlankBrony.

Glad to meet you.  And welcome to my life.