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End of a Time

I’ve been putting off making this post for ages.  A couple of years now, in fact.  The truth is...I’m not who I was.  No one is, once enough time goes by, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t look back and MISS who we were, or what we used to do.  I started this blog out of anger, and gradually it became something more to me.  I played World of Warcraft for almost 10 years, and I didn’t think I’d ever, ever tire of it.

But I did.

As much as I still love the characters and still enjoy hearing about the game, I just can’t play it anymore.  Part of that has been a lifestyle change.  I won’t call it a late stage career, because it’s not.  It’s more of a hobby that turned into a mini business.  I don’t make enough to live on, but I’ve got pseudo employees, and a website, and all that stuff that makes me feel like I’m actually doing something semi successful with my life, and that feeling is incredible.

And while I really, honestly, MISS having the time to sit on my butt for 12+ hours a day and do nothing but write amusing stories about the cat or whatever and play WoW and just chat....I don’t think I’d trade it.  I’ve always been an artist in one way or another. I enjoy working with my hands, I love creating things that are permanent, things that I can send out into the world that have MY name on them, to achieve something that makes a mark on the world, in whatever small way that I’m able to do. 

And I LOVE the connections I’ve made through my gaming and my writing.  (I do promise to finish the Firework Chronicles and post them here, by the way.  I did NOT forget.)  I hope to keep them, though it’s a lot harder than it used to be since most of my typing is now done on the phone in between appointments instead of relaxing at a desk.  Man I hope you guys continue to be patient, it’s the one thing I’m not ready to give up....and probably won’t for another decade, lol.  You’re my friends, my writing companions, my sounding board, my co-artists and bright spots in my life that I honestly wouldn’t be the same without.  I’ve lost a few of you over time....some to time, some to change, some to cruelty.  Those hurt.

But I’ve gained so much from the sense of community that i found inside the gaming world.  I know, it’s insular and focused...but it’s what I needed.  I can only hope that I was what some of you needed, even if only in passing.

So this is my ‘goodbye’ post.  I’m not vanishing from the internet....just from Tumblr and various forums.  I’m on Facebook if you know where to look, and Discord and Messenger.   I’m on Etsy and Ebay “professionally” .  I still RP....very slowly...on my phone...and I’ve got a Twitter somewhere that I need to dust off.  PM me if you like :) I don’t bite.  With only a couple of exceptions, I love you all and I’ll catch you in the wider world.   

Love from Indiri/Ally

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welp.  I live.  I’ve just been insanely busy, hooray.

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>.........I need.....all of these now.....I want cherry fritters most.....

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Baby broadcasting!

The best thing about pregnant women is free Wi-Fi.

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ghost choir 👻 🎵

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I miss my beeper

Parrot’s Next Top Model

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You are now Blessed Among Corvids

I guess?! I got adopted by a baby magpie today?!

He was just chillin on our porch, and when I sat down he climbed right on up on his own!

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can I take the penguins instead?

Gandalf, whenever he sends someone on a quest:

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YOU CAN DO IT

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Easy on the sangria, son

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he drink, he dance

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see and we even correct that shit in our heads.  I know the words up there are “green great dragons” but I kept mentally reading it over and over and over again as “great green dragons”

Took me four tries to say it out loud.  Try it.  I dare you.

things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.

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do you ever wish you could just stop time for like a couple weeks so you could just sleep and do whatever you want and just get your shit together and then after that time would just start back up again and you wouldn’t have missed anything because you would just pick up where you left off

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I’m glad this was corrected because by the time I got to raw meat I was wondering what on earth the OP was going on about, because wtf????

foods that will poison cats:

alcohol 

chocolate

caffeine

dairy products (adults turn lactose intolerant)

fat trimmings, raw meat, eggs, fish

grapes and raisins

onions and garlic

tuna (when not made for cats)

xylitol (artificial sweetener)

if you have a cat please reblog this