*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!

Busy August

Huh, almost forgot this.

Time for another round of time travel, so I'll be busy this weekend.

*looks for a pickax to use on this writer's block*

For Norway.

Condolences for Kim Fluttershy Dykas.

Molten brains and shattered steel?

There was something I was going to be doing... now, what was it?

...

Oh yeah - drawing the visualizations for the explanation of 9-space.  Oops.

I could blame it on the heat over here, or the fact that I finally crafted an avatar on my deviantART page...

Or, it could be because I've been introduced to World of Tanks.  You can often find me rattling around in a M3 Stuart or a T18, generally getting my can handed to me.

Anyway - time to get blown up again.  Chaaaaarge!!!

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...

Weird... dream?

Ugh.  Had one of the least relaxing nights of sleep I've had in a long time.

Early in the morning, I was in the middle of one of those dreams that makes sense at the time.  I think I was facing some foes and was combating them with four futon cushions, which changed into three colors, and launching them in a certain order resulted in a cannon-like effect.

During the middle of this, the dream went wonky.  The view simultaneously shattered like crystal and burned like film, and a voice inside my head like stereo on headphones said "Huh.  Don't think that was the right button."

That startled me awake.  Nobody else was in my room, and anyways that voice was inside my head, not outside of it.  Sleep was a long time in returning, and I wound up sleeping in until later than I was planning.

Still - what the heck was that?

Crafting visualizations...

Well, I was going to explain one of my mental exercises today, but I realized that explaining theoretical concepts works better when there's visuals... especially when the concepts are somewhat esoteric.  After all, we're used to three dimensions and linear time; anything beyond that requires a certain amount of lateral thinking.

*goes off to work on the visuals*