#uggh...

[redbourkol]

feeling down so i just doodle this creature at work

[dizzying-tennas]

Sid//sinning can make good points at times, but god can she still have annoying salt takes at times.

[burmecianblackmage]

5 Year Anniversary - Further Plans

Now that this blog has officially turned five years old, I think it’s time I spoke a bit about my plans for it going forward. There’s been a number of things I have been pondering the past couple months, but before we start with those, let’s look at some numbers:

5 Years of burmecianblackmage in Numbers

In these five years now, there have been 4683 posts made on this blog, leading to a nice average of 936,6 per year or a good 2,56462 per day. Considering how low my output’s been lately, that’s not too bad I fell.

Furthermore, as indicated in the last post when I thanked them, I have counted 217 people I’ve interacted with, whereas I follow a total of 533 blogs - sounds like a lot of room for meeting new people, even if several of these are old now and likely no longer active. But hey, you never know! I am also being followed by 522 blogs, and oh boy, I don’t even wanna know how many of those are porn bots...

Relationship/Partner page

Now, the thing I should say about my plans before I properly start talking about them, is that most of these are more long-term things. Heck, there’s even a chance they won’t be done before the next anniversary rolls around. I do have a bad track record with these things after all....

But anyway, one of the first and bigger things I’ve been planning is to finally build a proper relationshipor partner page, complete with some wonderful art I’ve commissioned. Now, I don’t know yet which one I’ll call it, but when I do get to it, I’ll make certain to have nice summaries to go along with the images, summaries which will recap what they experienced together with Sceada and why they are important to him - and a link to their tagged threads, too.

Thread Archive and Summaries

This leads us straight to the next thing I’m planning, which is a bigger thing as well: A complete Thread Archive with Summaries.

Yep, I plan to have all the threads ever written on this blog tagged properly, sorted and then put together with short summaries about them. It’s a big order, especially looking at those numbers further up in this post, but I’ve been meaning to do that for a long time, so... best get to it, yeah? That said though, I guess you’ve already figured that one out, but....

I’m going to stay on this blog

Now, why would I mention this? Well, the reason is simple:

It’s because for a good while following the tumblr purge and with me dropping into this low after December where all motivation vanished, I’ve been considering a fresh start. Namely, as a multi-muse blog. I’ve seen others do it, with admittedly mixed success, but with most of them faring better after the move. And it’s not like I don’t have other muses I could flesh out more or bring back, or perhaps even pick up new. Also, it’d make organizing things so much easier if I started with a clean slate, too...

Well, the main reason I wound up deciding against it... is all the history I have on this blog.

All these threads written, all these people met, all these connections and bonds forged... Leaving this blog behind may not mean leaving them behind, but to an extent it sure does feel like it. And I don’t want that. Especially when I consider, how many old friends no longer are around regularly, or even at all.

Call me delusional, and naively hopeful, but... if any of them ever do come back? I want them to find me right where they remember me being. I want them to know that whenever they come back, they have at least one familiar face waiting and welcoming them.

I mean, I’ve seen it happen before, you know? With people messaging me on this blog here, wondering if I still remembered them. And with some of them even contemplating a return. Well, if they do truly return, I’ll be delighted to play with them again, and if they don’t? Then I’ll still be happy to talk with them again, however briefly, and to learn that they are doing alright.

Cause that is what I really want most for us all, even more than us all having fun playing together: I want us to be well, to be doing alright, and to be happy. World’s rough enough as it is, so I’d rather know my friends are happy than anything else.

Discord Plots

That said, even with me staying here, there is one thing I’ll be doing:

I’ll be taking Sceada to Discord, and not just as a different version of him.

This will likely mainly have to do with plots relevant to his still ongoing journey, and with people who have left tumblr, but essentially, it will be open to whoever fancies it. If we discuss it being so beforehand, I’ll be open to playing stuff I’d normally play here on tumblr with Sceada on Discord instead, with it retaining it’s relevance and impact here.

That’s right, Sceada will have development happening off-tumblr. I’ve never really done that before, but I feel it’s a good step to take, especially since some plots I’ve really been looking forward to would not be possible anymore if I didn’t. But I can’t blame people for leaving, and if this allows me to keep playing with them? Then so be it.

Mind you, there will upon conclusion of individual threads be short summaries of them that I’ll post on here, so people still can see what happened. But most of it will remain off-tumblr, especially the stuff we discuss to be non-related to his plot on here. I’m always down for turning interactions into an AU on Discord.

That all being said, people who are interested in this and haven’t added me on Discord yet? You’ll fine me at Sceada#1085. Just shoot me a message. And of course, the same goes if you just wanna talk a bit!

Just remember, timezones are a thing (and one of my biggest enemies...)

Well, with all these things said, you now know the rough direction my plans are going. How much of this will be accomplished and how soon remains to be seen. But I still wanted to let you guys in on what I’ve been considering and pondering.

And with that out of the way now, I’d like to thank you all once more for these five years I was allowed to spend with you all and enjoy this hobby. May more years be left to come, that are just as great!

Patrick~

[burmecianblackmage]

So I finally got round to setting up my gaming stuff and sorting the games and all, and now... Well... Now I am unsure what to play actually. And since I can’t decide... I figured I’d ask for some opinions on here if you guys don’t mind~

The current candidates of unfinished/unstarted games with a story is as follows:

PSone (played on PS2)

Final Fantasy II (Origins version)

PS2

Final Fantasy X-2 (also in digital on PS3)

PS4

Alien: Isolation

Final Fantasy Type-0

Final Fantasy XV

Horizon: Zero Dawn

Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8

World of Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy IX (digital, often played on PSone, and I mean often)

Final Fantasy XV Episode Duscae

PSP

Breath of Fire III

Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth

Switch

Zelda: Breath of the Wild (been playing on and off, got the 4 beasts and 82 shrines so far)

WiiU

Zelda: Wind Waker HD (started over a year ago, before surgery...)

Zelda: Twilight Princess HD

SNES (and yes, it is working!)

Illusion of Time (started ages ago... I don’t even remember when)

Lufia

Terranigma

NDS

The World Ends With You

3DS

Fire Emblem Fates

Steam

Final Fantasy VII (finished on PSone)

Final Fantasy VIII (finished on PSone)

Final Fantasy IX (again, played often on PSone)

Grandia II (was playing it during rehab, didn’t continue since, just finished the moon(

South Park: The Stick of Truth

Undertale

The PS3 and Wii stuff is not listed because those are upstairs and sadly out of my reach thus... And as far as I can tell, I should have played all the GB/GBC/GBA games I own...Of course, there’s also FF XIV (and on Steam actually FF XI as well, though I couldn’t really get into it...) so plenty of choice to go around..

But yeah, any suggestions? I simply can’t seem to decide on my own...

[lupus-spiritus]

I’m so conflicted... make my ass get out of bed and start the day earlier or let myself go back to sleep and wake up later??

[gachabastard]

I wanna go out!! I wanna go be me, like, just for a night, with a bunch of other nice gays, no judgement just dancing and happy times I wanna live I haven't been living before I wanna live!!!!!!!

[james-romanoff]

Do you know how agonizing it is to download torrents that are supposedly in 1080p, but still look like 480p garbage?

[ask-kirah-mudokon]

did the vykkers give you fully working and normal reproductive parts?

I dunno, man!  All I know is they did a lot of surgeries and stuff right below my belly and it SUCKED. And it hurt and I couldn’t move ‘cause of it most of the time. And then the food and pills they’d give me made it WORSE.  *shudders*  I don’t wanna talk about it.