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Reporting In The Blogs *updated*
Blog Reporting
In the past, before the upgrades and the downtime, reporting things in the blogs was a complicated mess of PMing BlogAlert, linking the content, describing the broken rules, and hoping someone read the BlogAlert account in a timely manner.
NO MORE!
The "REPORT" buttons on comments and entries DO WORK. Before the downtine, they did not. Now they do! Hurray!
So, in short, if you have something to report, click that button, describe the offense, and a blog staff member will receive the report and an automatic link the the offending content. (Please do not use this to report signatures)
This is much easier on us, on you, the general populace, and also on kittens everywhere.
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Epic Recommendations
See, I said it wouldn't be long before my next blog post.
Anyway, despite all my years on BZP, I've never really explored the epics forum much. Now having finished reading BZPGOT and most of the short stories forum, I think it's time to rectify that. But here, I'm more unsure where to get started than I was with short stories, so I'm asking for YOUR recommendations on what's worth reading. I'd say completed or in progress stories take precedence over abandoned ones. Feel free to plug your own stuff if you, in fact bonus points for that because it means the author is still active. I'm also willing to accept recs from pre-2011 BZP if they're archived somewhere.
For the feature photo, I'm adding another one of my Scriptorium creations.
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the movies
obsession and backrooms are both quite good movies
anyway that's all for now bye
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first half of may
it was my birthday on the 8th, but ill health once again took hold of me, and i was hospitalized. not for that long, but i had a liver shock. still very, very sick, but i think slightly better health is in my future, lets hope. i've been making mocs again also, if i find the motivation, i'll post the 2 i made.
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April?
Oh dang, is this a new fad? We're still doing fads?
So. April.
Man, I think a big chunk of adulthood is routine. Working the day job. Finding ways to relax. Repeat. Oh and housework and chores, can't forget those.
But as I say that, April was a fun month.
To that work part, the day job has been cool. I got a piece out on social media and I have another that locked and should hopefully be out to the world soon (assuming it doesn't die after lock, like something of mine did last year). I've been at this company for over three years now and moved from a support role to a primarily creative position a few months ago and it's so cool to finally get stuff I'm making out there. And it's still surreal to be getting to work on the projects I work on, so even when I'm up at 4am in several hours of overtime getting stuff out, the fact that I'm working on Thunderbolts is still pretty cool. Does it make it worth it? Is any job or creative endeavor worth 15+ hour days? I don't have an answer to that. But I've had worse jobs for lousier stuff, so overall, I'm fairly content. To think, twenty-two years ago I was making gif cartoons on this very website.
The wife and I have a couple friends in San Diego and we headed down to visit them since one had organized a Fish Taco Biking Tour. Which was exactly what it sounds like. So we spent the day biking around the city, then went back to their place for drinks and Wingspan. Because grownups. An old friend of mine from New York would do annual taco crawls and I asked him to send me the rubric he gives out to rate each one so we got to describe each taco with a haiku.
April also saw my brother-in-law get married, a wedding that I was asked to officiate. Did manage to compile my scattered notes on the back of work calendars, a pitch outline, and envelope into a decent ceremony, even if I was making final notes at the venue's bar right before the ceremony began. Because I'm organized like that. But congrats to him and his wife! The Lego Rivendell was on their registry and we contributed the final chunk to that one's fund. Because Rivendell is a great set.
A local brewery hosted a 20s-themed Murder Mystery too, that the wife and I attended. The organizers got the memo from our answers to their google form and we were cast as a Hollywood power couple — except I was the diva wife and she the French artiste husband. Us in drag for a Murder Mystery is par the course, but us cast as an actual couple? That's new, haha.
All that, of course, are the exceptions to the routine of the everyday life of work, housework, and all the rest. Written out here it makes it sound like I had an exciting April but those are a few days out of the month. I guess a blog is to highlight those exciting days, like how social networks used to be about documenting those fun and special times.
A lot of April was spent on the couch with the wife playing Clair Obscur, which isn't as ~exciting~ as the above, but I'd say is a pretty special time too.
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🦋April Escapades 🦋
Almost unbelievable that April arrived and vanished once more!
My April accounts, as they came about:
Happy April! I like the idea of today being the true “new year”. My hope of “my body catching up to my brain” in terms of creativity is coming to pass, I feel. 4-5months on intense alternative therapies + recent increase in thyroid med + ditching a diuretic = a cherished bit of creative energy & plans to refine my artworks. I’m overjoyed to have found a way to do adaptive ballet for 30mins each day.🩰 ♿️and Oh, how I long to try pastel pencil & oil paintings! And improve my graphite detailing.But first, a big sewing project! But I still can cram in an hr daily of drawing while stationary biking, and soak in the glory of spring for 30 mins of sunset swinging each day. I feel like a summer renaissance is on the horizon. Shall you join in a #2026renaissance?https://www.instagram.com/p/DWmSVi4ET9P/?igsh=MTM0Y3FteWgzdXZkZw==
Hope everyone had a blessed resurrection celebration and Passover 🙏✝️🌿❤️https://www.instagram.com/p/DW1ai5xlqrZ/?igsh=MTc2Y3A3NW5zeHFqcQ==
Thankful to mom for getting the @loweshomeimprovement free puppies last Saturday. 💙🌻 plans to paint more details on pup planter with my ceramic pants soon!
Not much art to show at the moment as per I’m making presents 🎁. So just some nature pics and orange bars for famfriend. And a 🐣 card from aunt Jane ❤️🙏https://www.instagram.com/p/DW1bJmmFjp2/?igsh=aTczbG5jMDhlMXZw
Tiny art, 3x4” a few months old. Been trying to refine detailing since so kind of 🙈 about posting. “Dreaming To Fly” (yes, named after @andreavanzo_composer song )~4hrs. A @bzpgram artgift
#miniart #pencildrawing #randomartsofkindness #canadagoose #gosling
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Tiny bumblebee bat. 3x4”, 4hrs. This same size art is now taking me x2 as long because trying to detail more finely 🙈 done while stationary biking, as usual lately 🚲.A @bzpgram artgift for an artist friend. #randomartsofkindness #bumblebee #bat #disabledartist #stationarybike https://www.instagram.com/p/DXXVVnnkalh/?igsh=MTNha3Z3MGZ3OWFkOA==
#life?https://www.instagram.com/p/DXe2HOIkSCR/?igsh=d2Q2cjVrcXZud2xm
Making mom’s bday cake. Oat flour, eggs, & protein powder Lemon curd layered lemon cake. Stevia and ethritol. And misc #happybirthdaymom #baking #proteindessert #diyrecipes
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Mom birthday cake with the Oogoo topper.🎂 The protein frosting piped on. Colored with supergreen powder. #cakedecoration #cakemaking #icingonthecake #petterrabbit #beatrixpotter https://www.instagram.com/p/DXe30EckTxx/?igsh=anoxMW54MHpxM2V1
#birthdaydecor in the dining room for my mom. #gardenbirthday #springbirthday #secretgarden #handmadeflowers
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Hall decor for mom’s birthday #bluebirthday #catbirthday #mothersday #beaniebabies #birthdaydecoration
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A day of birthday feasts for mom 🥰 #cooking #glutenfree #birthdayparty #foodart #notvegan
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@dollywood day trip for mom’s birthday with our famfriend! So grateful she could come & make it more fun!. we found more rides this time and blazing fury was open. I rode the lightning rod coaster 10+ times thanks to disability pass. Should take a few days to recover from manually wheeling myself up hills ♿️plaquenil sunburn + electrolyte weirdness since I can’t eat without GI sick when out. Ketchup packets FTW when about to pass out. 😂 we got season passes, so hopefully my bro will be back from Las Vegas sometime this year to ride together. If anyone ever goes to Dollywood and wants to met up there for rides, let me know as we plan to go a lot! 🎢🫶
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Grateful for my molar food trap finally getting fixed, one less body part hurting from eating! 😆 Excited because we are eating Greek NF yogurt & daisy brand LF cottage cheese again as per the are fermented. Makes high protein diet easier since they are soft! 😋 and in other good news, my Chromogranin A level has dropped from 123 (dec 30th) to 81 (April 20th). So happy, I was waiting to see this number before we ordered another bottle of Fenben. It definitely appears that the supplements, infrared sauna, relatively strict diet, and daily bob beck protocol are helping me. My thyroid function is still lower than ideal, but improved somewhat. My fsh/lh are low, but they’ve always been + I’m chronically malnourished. Unfortunately, My lipase level rose from the already elevated 143 in Feb 2 ER to 183. This correlates with the worsening severe LUQ pain and nausea from eating. My GI doctor isn’t willing to do imaging yet, and doesn’t seem to get that this is causing major starvation, but endocrinologist is concerned at least. It’s unfortunate how GI drs assume you are eating/not starving if you aren’t losing weight, which is wildly inaccurate with endocrine diseases. 🫠🙈 #cooking #chronicillness #lipase #fenben #alternativemedicine
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🍉 🍉🍉tis the season 🥹❤️🍉#watermelon #favoritefoods #flowersforaunt #bouquet #cottagecheeselover
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🎨🐶Finally clearcoated our painted porcelain puppy planter from @loweshomeimprovement. Painted with some ceramic paints I had originally used for coffee mugs. Thanks for the freebie, Lowe’s! #ceramicpainting #potterypainting #paintedplanter #puppy #lowes https://www.instagram.com/p/DXt6BeilqQP/?igsh=YXpnb2gycWQwbWk=
And that is all I can show for April. A lot of behind the scenes art at the moment! 😊 🧵🪡✍️🎁
Adieu!
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April
This was actually a productive month for me. I was able to get started on a couple of projects I've been putting off, and I'm pretty happy with how things are turning out. We also finally got some rain this month, which is nice since we've been in a severe drought. Hard to believe the year is almost half over.
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Billund Trip 2026
I am spreading this as wide as I can in hopes of not accidentally missing anyone I might want to see on my trip or anyone that might be offended by not getting looped in. This May 5th-June 13th, I will be in Billund, Denmark for an extended dream vacation around the LEGO Inside Tour (May 20th-22nd).
Spending over a month there means plenty of time to actually do everything and see everything. If you'll be in the area and are interested in meeting up, yes, that includes time to see you. I know during my 2019 trip, I pushed people away because I was really there to see The LEGO House, LEGO HQ, LEGOLAND, the Teddy Bear Art Museum, Loplet, Skulpturpark, etc, etc, etc... but this time, I'll have plenty of time to soak up the art, culture, and history of the place at a more leisurely pace. I've already booked my flights and arranged for lodging in Billund - beyond that, I'm travelling on foot or by transit.
I am open to advice on who/what to see while I'm there - my photos will eventually turn up on Flickr. I'll be packing light on the way out and leaving room for souvenirs, but if there's something you want brought to Billund from the States, let me know and I will see what I can do. My usual interest in autographs will be skimped on (booklets are heavy), but I am already entertaining a few requests for boxes of cereal. While I'm open to bringing some things back, I anticipate needing to ship stuff back beyond what will fit in suitcases (historical finds aside, there are already a few exclusive shopping opportunities lined up).In case you're reading this somewhere I don't check, I am reachable through e-mail at dp316tracking@gmail.com (but might reply from a different e-mail address).
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A Look Into Old BZP
Well, moderately old. I've had some of this screenshots on my computers since 2014ish. Names and avatars of the most controversial ones have been blacked out and don't ask for the originals unless you're also offering a lot of money.
Let's start with a lighter one:
There was a weird feature that let people link their Twitter (at that time not known as X) to their status updates and this led to some strange updates (I have another saved that it absolutely NSFBZP).
Something you had to be there for, checking BZP one last time before bed and seeing some serious drama starting or rule breaking happening, and then checking in the morning and (if you're lucky) being able to see what led to someone being banned (that's if the posts/blog entries weren't deleted overnight). But for the record, this status update wasn't deleted (probably because it's evidence for law enforcement) so I'm not re-uploading deleted content.
On a happier note, I used to keep track of my posts and views but it includes other old info too. This is from August 2016 apparently.
I got on the front page once!
Finally, one of the few good (?) things about the updates going away is it got rid of a lot of evidence of when I was not okay.
I saved the rest of what I wrote, but since no one reacted to it at the time, it's probably for the best I not share it (but seriously that was a rough time for me).
Kinda wish I had saved more of old BZP but whatever, today is tomorrow's history.
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whoa
Has it really been this long? Geez. Do people even remember me?
When I last posted a blog entry, I had just finished college. My grandmother willed herself to live long enough to see my live-streamed graduation, and I started grad school outside of Boston rooming with my best friend from college, an organist looking to get a church gig in a big city who tethered himself to wherever I ended up going.
Grad school was way more intense than I expected. It requires an enormous amount of self-motivation compared to undergraduate work, especially in the humanities. On top of that, the pandemic meant a full 2/3 of it was online—which, in music composition, was a lot of writing music and not too many performances of it. Plus, doctoral programs cut back on admissions or paused them entirely.
2020 is also when I fell in love with the woman who is now my wife, and I have many wonderful memories of our first days together at the end of an otherwise miserable and deeply scary year. Our relationship was long-distance as she was still in grad school in Boston while I moved to Buffalo to begin a PhD. Those two years were my first spent living alone, which in a lot of ways I really liked. I'd always liked the snow (growing up in North Carolina meant we only got a full, fun, sleddable amount of it once every few years), so I've come to really like western New York in a lot of ways, from city life to the suburbs, and even to small towns.
So now I'm in the final year of the PhD, where the piece of music I wrote for my dissertation has been performed, and now all that's left is to defend it. I've been teaching a lot, including a class on the Beatles in the 1960s.
See you in a few more years, I guess? Or maybe I'll stick around. All my Lego is still back in North Carolina and I've only taken a few small trinkets with me on my various moves over the years. Two of our three cats would be absolute menaces with the stuff.
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I have a son
I have a son now. He was born just over two weeks ago.
Just a few more years, and I can tell him about a few things that happened in the time before time…
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a gentle hello
hello, bzp. and a warm hug to you, bzp.
This is going to be a fairly personal post. I've taken down all the other posts here for a variety of reasons, some haven't aged well and don't reflect how I currently feel on subjects, whereas a lot of it was me just being a silly teen.
You may not remember me.
I was never the most active person here, especially outside of my little circle of friends (mostly centered around CeeCee). I was probably most active in completely off-topic forum games, to be honest. For a while most of my actual chatting migrated to Skype, before kinda losing the thread of people I was close to when Discord became the platform of choice.
I've just been missing this site a lot, not just nostalgically, but for what it was. A little microcosm of forum culture mixed with an audience ranging from tweens to adults... all tiptoeing around language and content restrictions, weathering the trends and drama of the internet at large within a fansite for a children's toy line.
I'm a late joiner in terms of a lot of the real old guard, just one of those kids who lurked from around '08-09 to finally making a profile in '12 after G1s end.
-where I proceeded to do what a lot of silly kids do, post a bunch of nonsense and then rapidly attempt to seem older and more mature than I was, haha. Lots of comment begging (in retrospect, something I'm pretty ashamed of) and attempts at being provocative that were filled with angst. I'm still an angsty little ball of gloom and doom, but I think it's been tempered with a desire to just be a lot less acrid about everything. A few years back, I reached out to a few people affected by that contrarianism to just apologize. I pushed boundaries sometimes in ways that were really not appreciative of the space that I had or the people within it.
Recently I thought back on how important BZP and especially certain people on it were for the development of my art style, heck, even my views on some things to an extent. I already threw up a comment thanking probably the biggest influence on me actually continuing to make art (Taka Nuvia, thank you again!)
I wanted to make this post as a way of thanking those who may still be around (and maybe even remember this silly little ball of edge) for the hours of influence this place had on me. This post is for you. Thank you.
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18 years :o
... huh. Missed my anniversary by almost a month.
It's been such a long time, feels quite surreal. I still very much miss the golden days of recurring server messages and popping virtual bubble wrap.
But hey, this is one of the last places on the internet I know that lets me use old-school emoticons in peace
, so that alone makes it worth coming back from time to time. That, and the memories, most of them really fond ones, even.
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Bionicle Boys
A couple weeks ago, I got all the Bionicle boxes out of the shed. William - my oldest, who recently turned 5 years old - was instantly obsessed. First, we got out all of the 2015 sets, the Skull baddies, both variants of the Toa, all the Protectors...They learned all about Tahu, Gali, the whole gang, and about how the characters changed and morphed into different variations throughout the Bionicle story. William was mystified. The mythical island of Mata Nui is like a grand, colorful island full of mystery and adventure, and he is eager to explore it. After getting to know the characters, and the island, and the evil Rahkshi and Makuta - also the Kraata "slug," which William fancies to touch the good guys with and turn them evil - I thought it was time to introduce them to The Mask of Light.
William's excitement at the start of the movie was palpable. He was trembling with excitement, and stayed glued to the screen from start-to-finish. Afterwards, he asked me dozens of questions about the movie, the story, the characters...and he and his brother spent the following days pretending to be Kopaka, freezing each other; or Tahu, riding on lava.
William built a couple of Protectors, then challenged himself to build the Bohrok Kal combiner. He was so proud of himself for building the whole thing! More recently, I got together the pieces to build Takadox, which William did with eagerness. He then spent the entire evening putting Takadox in various poses, and proudly showing me each different pose. Later, we built Kalmah, and Toa Ignika. Now I've got Axonn coming in the mail, as well as a Bricklink order which will enable me to build Mantax, Carapar, Antroz, and perhaps a couple others.
Last night, I spontaneously put on Legends of Metru Nui. William was so excited, he ran from one end of the house to the other several times, and was almost vibrating in his seat at the start of the movie. Matau was his favorite, and made him cackle relentlessly. Triston is a little too young to be so infatuated with the toys, but he shares William's interest, and together, we play pretend - I'm Takadox, they're Kopaka and Toa Ignika, or Tahu, or whoever. Triston likes to say "Holy Gadunka!"
We have been bonding a lot over these toys, and I am actually able to share their excitement over the movies, the new sets coming in the mail, the old sets that have been disassembled for over a decade, now coming back together in the hands of a new Bionicle fan. The boys are huge Cryoshell fans, and every time one of the songs starts, William wants to know who the song is about, or for what part of the story it was made. We played some MNOG, and I even let him listen to my "Music of Okoto" album.
He has zero expectation of receiving any new sets, as he understands that it's been discontinued for some time, but I am absolutely getting him Gadunka for Christmas this year!
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BZP T-Shirt Contest 2025 Canceled
Hello everyone. With only 2 votes entered for the design portion of our contest, we've decided to cancel the contest for this year altogether.
There wouldn't be a point in making shirts if no one is interested. That's time and money wasted for the both of us.
I give a big thanks to all those who entered. Perhaps there will be more interest for a shirt next year!
Best Wishes.
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Cyclone no more
This will be my (new) final blog post, as merely deleting entries seems to not be an option. And I may as well use this opportunity to officially close out my activity here on BZPower.
I'll keep it brief. If you knew me back in the day, under the guise of a Toa of.... certain intense weather patterns... well, that person has thankfully been cast into the ether. I'm a much happier and well adjusted individual now. Transing my gender saved my life, as it tends to go.
Anyway, I'm still active in the Bionicle community and am on most of the big servers, so feel free to contact me there, if you care. And with that being said, it's time for me to sign out from this site for the last time. Laters ya'll.
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Big Ole Cold Snap
The polar front jet is taking a bit of a trip down to Texas and through the South letting all that nice frozen air slide right through about 50% of the country. Should be a good time if you like to freeze your booty off.
In other news, writing, working out, and reading is going well. Can't complain there.
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20 years later
Where are you now Conner??? Who did you become??? Did you get fed??? Do you still like Bionicle??? Did you ever think when you made that post, it would still be talked about 20 years later??? Did you ever expect someone to make magnets of your post???
I hope you have a good life!!!
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Fourfold of Fate
Hello, I'm planning to run a space-themed Bionicle RPG on Discord, and I'm looking for some additional players. If you're interested, let me know and I can send you an invite to the Discord server.
200 years ago, the Spaceship Artakan crashed into the desolate planet of Omega, stranding a population of Agori settlers. Even worse, when they woke up from their cryo-sleep, a malfunction caused them to suffer amnesia, forgetting their mission and their past. With no hope of rescue, they struggled to build a new settlement in the narrow Twilight Band, the only habitable zone of the planet. Currently, their population has grown, but there is unrest between factions of the Agori, and strange earthquakes continue to threaten their new home. A class of recently graduated students now have a chance to further explore their world, to uncover the mysteries of their past and the strange planet around them. This is… Fourfold of Fate: Legacy of the Starship Artakan.
Players will play Agori teenagers, recently graduated and ready to explore and put their talents to use. Players will have access to different mask powers, pets, and eventually all sorts of new tools and weapons, as they uncover mysteries, solve puzzles, and take part in occasional combat encounters. There will be four different routes the players can participate in.
Underwater Exploration: Professor Sufina Blanca has taken an interest in the unexplored ocean beneath the icecap on the Cold Side. She desires to lead a team with a submersible to explore the depths and search for signs of life. This will feature Exploration, Puzzle Solving, and Teamwork.
Underground Adventure: Eccentric technologist Fabarar DeepWood has discovered a radio signal that seems to originate south of the mountains. He wishes to travel beneath the mountains through the mines of Naxos to discover the source, in addition to scouting for new minerals and energy crystals to mine. This will feature Vehicular Operations, Technology, and Exploration.
Investigating the Maze: Esteemed Adventurer Huaju Dolostone wishes to map out a route through the rugged canyons of the Maze to reach the other side of the planet, so they can further explore for more resources. This will feature Combat, Teamwork, and Diplomacy.
Conspiracies and Politics: A lower class radical Eztli Aodh is seeking societal change, hoping to unearth conspiracies to turn the public against the ruling Orchids. She wants to lead a team to the wreckage of the Artakan and dig into the past. This will feature Politics, Investigation, and Espionage.
More details can be found in the Intro Game Documentation. Hope to see you there!
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I Can't Believe I Used to Be Such a Terrible Author
For the past few weeks, I've been revisiting the oldest fanfiction of mine still on BZPower. It's something that I always imagined I would do. Maybe it's some kind of compulsion, but I'm kind of obsessed with going back and constantly revising my own work.
I joined this site in 2007 and for me the "Golden Age" was from that time to the Dataclysm. Losing all the fanfictions I had written before that point really felt like the burning of the Library of Alexandria to me. I remember it as having been a vast corpus of work (though, when I look back at the fragments I could find on the Wayback Machine, the chapters are a LOT shorter than I remember, so maybe it's only in my childish memory that I wrote pages of pages of captivating stories).
When BZPower came back online, it felt like something of a resurrection to me. I thought to myself that maybe it was good to purge myself of the old so that I could stretch my wings as an older, wiser author. Looking back at what I wrote as an "older, wiser author," I realize just how cringy and unrefined my style really was.
It makes me stop and wonder, are my current writings that bad? I've spent the past 14 years writing things with the long-term goal of eventually being published professionally, and it scares me to think all of it, no matter how good it feels when I write it, I will look back on as immature juvenalia.
It's also hard to think about how the "Golden Age" of BZPower really only lasted for two or three years for me. The forum came back more than ten years ago, yet it still feels like "new" BZPower for me and my default impulse is that I am still getting used to it.
Anyway, pay no mind to my existential crisis.
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The comic lives on...
So my 12-year-old recently read through all the comics I made on here back when I was ... what, 16? My main reason for being on BZPower for quite a while.
It was a surreal moment, and sort of embarrassing... 😅 but hey, the half-or-so of them that he understood, he thought was funny - so I guess the comedy works for that age.
Here's to feeling old and decrepit, but also sort of cool.
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oh hey
look at that, there's no delete button for blog entries that you only uploaded to see if your blog still works
guess this one is staying up
oopsa doopsa
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Embers - Project Teaser
I was recently reminded that blogs exist, so I figured that this was as good a place as any to post the first official teaser for an upcoming project that will be releasing later this year.
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Deep down, everyone’s afraid of the dark.
It’s a powerful, primal thing, an instinct born long before any of us were created. In the dark, anything could be waiting.
A ravenous rahi, a roving Rahkshi, Karzahni or Irnakk or Tren Krom or any one of the other nightmares of legend.
But now we know there’s nothing waiting for us in the dark.
Nothing at all.
And somehow, that makes it even more frightening.
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In this alternate reality take on the Bionicle story, the Great Spirit Robot was mysteriously shut down shortly after Teridax took over. In the wake of this second Great Cataclysm, lightstones and heatstones begin to dim and die throughout the universe, dooming its denizens to a dark, cold demise.
Metru Nui – with lifegiving light still seeping through the sun holes overhead, and its cold streets heated by the fires of the Great Furnace – becomes the last bastion for the Matoran species. But when the city’s Toa depart to rescue Matoran still trapped out in the dark of the dying universe, they leave the populace vulnerable to the machinations of an unexpected enemy, and return to a city they no longer recognise…
Work on Embers began in August of 2022. During that time, I was writing for my Farewell To Corpus Rahkshi collaboration, which put me in a nostalgic, inspired frame of mind, motivating me to finally act on some story concepts I’d been toying with for a long time.
Embers was originally envisioned as a trilogy of three “books” that I expected to be ready for release sometime in 2023, but the story ballooned massively in size and scope as I began work on it, expanding to six instalments instead. Due to my nasty habit of starting projects, getting overwhelmed, and not finishing them, I was determined to fully complete a first draft before I began posting anything. I felt that being able to go back and revise the story as a whole would also allow for a more cohesive and consistent narrative overall. As I post this teaser, I’m finishing off the first draft of Book 6. While I’ll still need to carry out a few editing passes (and probably completely rewrite some parts I rushed through), I’ll absolutely be in a position to begin posting chapters sometime later this year.
This is by the far the biggest project I’ve attempted and actually followed through on, and I’ve already got ideas for a possible sequel trilogy if the story is well-received. Keep an eye out on the Epics forum for the official release in the coming months.
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