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Team Sparklepony

This is all I have to say about the sparklepony:

Respect.  He demands it.

P.S.  My April 1st post was indeed an April Fools joke.  I heart y’all.  <3

I would also like to add that my spacebar is sticking, because I may or may not have found a way to accidentally spill a drop or two of Hershey’s chocolate syrup in it.  *scrubs*

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Where Has Shizu Been? :O

I thought about titling this post “Why does Shizu suck?” but that seemed harsh, even for me.  ;P

Anyway, why have I not updated lately, you ask (or maybe not, but I’m going to tell you anyway)?  For one thing, Serreina’s Light’s Hope Chapel piece – the one with the preview in my previous post – has kind of taken on a life of its own, like a wild flailing psychotic thing.  So I need to figure out exactly what I want to do with it before I finish it.  It happens to me a lot.  You’d think I would have more control over events that occur in my head, but you would be wrong.

Also, I’ve been working on …

THIS!!

I don’t consider myself an artist, really, but since I’ve had a bug up my bum about drawing and decided that I should put goals related to drawing on my to-do list for the next year, I thought I’d pick it up again and try to actually get good at it.  I have a request pending after I finish Shizu and another artbunny as well (an artbunny is, of course, like a plotbunny but for art), so I should get a lot of practice at it in the coming weeks. 

I also wish I’d made the preview piece bigger, because I’m proud of the inking.

But I will get that Light’s Hope piece posted, because I think it kind of rocks.  It just needs direction.

P.S.  I fell on my butt at the ice rink today.  I bruised my tailbone and the palm of my hand at the base of my left index finger.  This isn’t related to writing or drawing in any way, unless you count the fact that I am left-handed and the bruise is right there, but I thought you’d like to know.

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BlizzCon is WHERE?

According to this article on WoW.com, Blizz has decided to hold BlizzCon 2010 in Las Vegas.

In July.

BlizzCon in Vegas … in July.

AAAHHHHHHHHH 100+ DEGREES.  What were you thinking, Blizzard?

And yet, I still may go.  Maybe.  After all, there are Twitterati to meet!

/pointlesspost off

Edit, 11.13.09:  This appears to have been debunked.  Whew!  Don’t get me wrong, Vegas is pretty awesome, but not in July. 

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Achievement-palooza!

(Original Post Date:  October 18, 2009)

WARNING: Large screenshots lie ahead! I resized them quite a lot, but I play on a 20″ 1600×900 monitor, so they may be like WHOOSH IN YOUR FACE if you play on a smaller one.

I’ve spent the last few weeks plugging away at a few of the items on my bucket list. I made a lot of progress. In fact, over the last week, I think I managed to knock off about half the things on it.

First, it was decreed that Serreina should reach 80. And lo, my first max-level alt came to be:

No, that’s not a glowy red ding – I missed the actual ding, having dinged on a mob kill. But I caught the achievement itself, and I was standing in my mage friend’s Flamestrike, which looks pretty darn cool if you ask me!

With that done, I plowed away at my remaining Alliance rep grind – Gnomeregan, possibly the most aggravating Alliance rep grind, which I’d saved for last since I wasn’t as far along in their rep as I was the others (I was not quite halfway through revered). After I finished the quest series, I bought a few commendation badges and voila! Ambassador title for me!

I stopped to laugh for a while, because if you’ve RP’d with Shizu you know how funny it would be for her, of all people, to actually be an ambassador. Many dignitaries would facepalm. Then I remembered something else, and I raced to Dun Morogh, where I completed another achievement I’ve been eyeballing for a while:

Yes, Shizu was 7 mounts away from the albino drake, and Gnomeregan happened to have 7 mounts available. Huzzah! And the albino drake is gorgeous, so here, have a gratuitous screenie:

With those achievements under my belt, I decided it was time to finish off my Silver Covenant and Argent Crusade reputations. Three days later, I hit exalted with the Silver Covenant. That left me about 4 days’ worth of dailies away from Argent Crusade exalted and the Crusader title, but I am impatient. So I took a deep breath, dove into /lookingforgroup (which, by the way, SUCKS if you’re dps), and waited patiently for someone to announce that they needed dps. One H-Utgarde Keep and one H-Violet Hold later:

Then I snickered at the very random, very silly thought of Shizu actually being knighted. “Highlord Fordring, sir, be careful with that blade. I have large ears…”

So, what’s next? The Silver Covenant hippogryph, of course. 85 seals and counting!