Hey, for those fans of my fanfic series, the Bionicle Paracosmos, I figure it's about time I let you know what my plans for the future are, since I haven't finished the series yet, and obviously the end of official Bionicle and subsequent lessening of BZP activity matter to it.
I still plan to continue it, but to shorten the number of stories I had in mind. Basically, I now plan to have only three main Sagas, each with roughly the same number of episodes.
And really, even had Bionicle no
NOTE: Ojh and I now have saved the following to my hard drive in Google cache format:
-AC#1: Bio Code
-TMOMN page 1 (with V3.2), page 3, and page 4 (MISSING page 2)
-Tapestry of Time collection topic, totally up to date (PHEEEEWWWW!)
-Twisted Island epic intro text
-TI review page 1, and page 2 as of Jan 30 (MISSING all TI reviews since Jan 30th)
-Coolified Glat art topics 1&2
-Captain of Treason review pages 1 and 2, up to my announcement of the final chapter being posted (MISSING al
Just a heads up on plans for the rest of the S&T Contest #2--Obviously the deadline for judging did not turn out to be noon today. For now I'm extending it to noon Wednesday, the 5th. (Sorry, The Infection! ) Final deadline will be announced probably at that time. (No guarantees.) I'd expect it to be Friday, the 7th if I were you. I'm hurrying as fast as I can, even delaying the almighty lunch, just to get as many as possible done.... But it is still a slow process. I'm starting with the lo
Random updates yet again! Huzzah and stuff?
I've concluded that there are two major types of food.
1) Pop Tarts.
2) Cheese.
Yes. They don't mix, right? Plus, I can eat cheese everyday for my whole life and never get tired of it. Pop Tarts are better as every-once-in-a-while breakfast.
All other foods fall under these categories. I defy you to find a food that doesn't fit.
We've got new phones in the house. They've got a robotic voice that "says" the listed identity of th
Deadline Extension! Enter by December 9th!
Counting today, that's only five days away. Work work work and enter in time!
Edit: It was five days left. Now it's one! Hurry!
Contest ends at noon tomorrow!
A while back, I posted an entry entitled "Friends Can Disagree." Inspired by something Dokuma said (with whom I have disagreed often ), it challenges the foolish and all too common feeling many people have that a friend is someone who agrees totally (or even mostly) with you (and so they turn cold... or worse... towards anyone who dares express a disagreement).
Today I wanna take it a step farther.
It has occured to me recently that only with a friend can you truly disagree.
"But bon
Recognize that console? I'm sure if you haven't figured it out before you now know I'm a huge fan of Lost... well, I'm not one of those people that decodes every little hint and writes tons and tons of detail on what it could all mean -- I save that for Bionicle. But the show is just awesome. That season finale, man, that rocked!
What I love about Lost is the mystery of it (as well as the coolness...). Sometimes I wonder if they borrowed half their ideas from Bionicle -- the idea of a myst
Updates:Krakuaofsonics and I have been discussing ideas about a possible reference system for Greg's answers. BS01 already covers the essentials, but what about those common but not-so-essential questions that people keep asking Greg over and over and over and over? The problem is that Greg has to spend Various attempts to fix this problem have been proposed, even tried, but nothing seems to last. Is there a good way to fix this? Or is the OGD as good as we can do, other than of course Greg doin
Notice: I'm more or less down to only one computer again; the fast one conked out again. I think it's just too powerful for its own good XD. And other Dreaded Real Life things are delaying me.
I ask everybody's patience as the things I've scheduled to have finished on here last week are dragging out like crazy.
Safety in Numbers and the blog-exclusive Unseen should stay on schedule, but not much else. Taking a bit of a break from Twisted Island, unfortunately. And obviously the Denizens
I've been wanting to say this for a while now, but had no particular place to put it, so here it is. There's been a lot of discussion lately about two major things: 1) Reasons Bionicle got unweildy near the end. 2) Criticisms and opinions of Ninjago. In my opinion, some of the criticisms of Bionicle's later years are right on, and I think Ninjago has so far been a highly refreshing reform of those problems. Hero Factory started out to replace Bionicle, but I think Ninjago has passed it
So, my initial proofreading of my next Paracosmos story, The Perfect Cage, is finally done. My brother may be reading it if he has time first, and I should make some art for it and stuff, but otherwise should launch fairly soon. Don't forget to enter the S&T contest, everybody! Sorry I've been a bit slow in proofreading the ones some of you PMed to me, but don't hesitate to do that if you want. I will try to be very thorough and check as many details as I can, so it can take a while, but
[Pretend there's a banner here! It says, "Bones Blog"! ]
Should I do a MOC contest again this time?
I know I said I've do the Makuta Jeopardy thing soon a long time ago, but there has been some trouble as Teridax has been killing Makuta left and right. Makuta DoomAH, who had offered to host it, has been taken to a refuge of Evil Lord Survurlode outside the Matoran Universe. As such I have been unable to contact him for an interview or to arrange this contest. In fact, we don't know for su
Minor entry today. I made a new avatar for first time in forever. (Now with larger avs, which is a newish staff perk, admins have to handle the sizing every time us staff change avs, and I've just been not bothering 'em. Plus I still love my old av. ) Just decided it was time to make a newer one.
I designed it primarily to provoke the response of "You made that in powerpoint?!", and it has worked. Here it is a bit bigger:
For anyone who's curious, here's some tidbits on how I did
One of three levels of the Mystery has been solved: The next reference project is done, and is ready to go online within a week of today! A series of clues is hidden throughout my blog that can be used to figure out what the project will be. Two more batches of digital cookies are available to those two solve the other two levels of MYSTERY!
The two remaining levels involve:
1) The mask the eyes in the third image belong to and the hidden clue that goes with the eyes.
3) The scope of th
Today the Bones Blog brings you the first part my reactions, analysis, predictions etc. about the 2009 sets we've seen pics of thus far. All set images are taken from the Official 2009 Story Topic and approved by Black Six for use on BZPower. This part deals with the best of the 2009 lineup (in my opinion/tastes at least) -- the Glatorian.
Please note that I only skimmed the comments and glanced at the images of the actual sets that some members have posted in the Sets Forum -- I believe i
My thoughts and reactions about the Toy Fair summer set images. Note a lot of this is my own personal taste, along with some predictions on what most fans will like thus will sell well. (Entry on Taste Discrimination coming in just a few days this week.)
Before I begin, lemme point out that how I am defining "cool" IMT in this entry is shown in the Ruthless Elegance blog entry (see the linklist content block). It's what I personally like in Bionicle sets, but also what generally seems to be w
Okay, a lot of people have been volunteering to help with EM reference stuff, and until now that's not been possible. Until now. Until now. Whee.
Keep in mind, all I've created is a skeleton with no content yet.
With that in mind, here's the big reveal.
In Other News: I also made spiffy new banners for the Discussion Topic and Story Submission Topic. Also, Swert and I have picked the winners for the Multiverse Guide Art blog contest; I'll try to announce them shortly,
We have a 100 page Multiverse Guide. [Edit: Here's the link to the Guide V2!] It's got just about all the text it needs. But it could use a lot of art. That's what this mini-contest is for!
Now, even though we didn't intentionally aim for 100 pages, now that that's what it is, we like it and we wanna keep it that way. Therefore, we only have room for art in specific spots where there is whitespace, or where later whitespace could absorb expansion.
So I've composed a list of specific image
Today the Bones Blog brings you Chapter Six of this Bionicle Paracosmos blog-exclusive "Adventure Mystery" short epic, which serves as a slow-reveal of the winner of the Monster Mystery Art contest.
Previous Chapters: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Chapter 6
In a dark tunnel under Le-Wahi, I was running for my life from the Unseen Monster…
Hujo managed only one thought as he ran in terror, as sounds of stomping on broken glass shards echoed throughout the chamber… as an unimaginably deep-pitched
Here's what I've settled on for the next blog contest. Invent a mysterious and terrifying Bionicle monster. I will write an adventure mystery short story using the winning monster as the antagonist.
I'll set it on Metru Nui during 2006-2008. The Matoran hero from my RPG, Hujo, will be the protagonist. He will have to try to figure out the identity of this monster as it wreaks havoc while trying to remain mysterious and unseen by its victims. Similar to the LOST Monster. It will be another bo
