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  1. Skye Starlight
    So... I recently watched the Lego Movie... It was fun... I guess?
     
    But I went online to listen to Everything is Awesome the major song in the movie, because I liked it, and, in the comments, someone noted that this is the villain song of the movie.
     
    So, I wondered what about it made it evil...
     
    People went on to say things that opened my eyes to something...
     
    "This song basically tells the kids that they should aspire to be part of a team... It's so obviously the villain song!"
     
    That wasn't sarcastic...
     
    But what does MLP teach us? That friendship and teamwork are important, we need it!
     
    And this is where I found (yet another) flaw in society.
     
    We build our kids up, telling them that they're unique, that it's up to them to achieve their dreams, that they have to go at it ALONE. But they don't. In fact, they shouldn't! In order to achieve your dreams, you need the help of a lot of people! Parents, friends, business partners, employees, teachers... We need all of them...
     
    My dad likes to say that we're all part of a big team, dedicated to ensuring the future of our team...
     
    So, yeah...
     
    Now, I'm gonna go talk to my best friend and talk about that joint YouTube channel that we were gonna set up and start uploading to...
     
    Because there's no way I'd be able to become a YouTuber alone! And there's no way I'd want to!
  2. Skye Starlight
    Oh dear... That's... Um... Gee...
     
    How about I list them?
     
    Whovians (new whovians specifically)
    Bros (a group which I despised last year... Evidence that a few bad eggs can ruin the reputation of a group)
    Bronies (2 years now!)
    Pokefan (Or whatever they're calling us)
    Yognaught, Sapling and Dreamer (Yogscast, Inthelittlewood and Kaeyi Dream!)
    Eleven (Area 11, the band. Could have put them with the above group though)
     
    And I'm relatively active in all of them now. I'm playing Pokemon Platinum again, watching Doctor Who and keeping up to date on Gaming vids. It's chaotic.
     
    Ah, but it's all good. It gives me a lot to talk about it.
     
    I don't like talking about myself, so having all these other things to talk about is great for me.
    Also, there's so much that the only way that these won't come up in conversation is if I'm talking to someone who is probably going to forget about me.
  3. Skye Starlight
    So, Minecraft is in 1.7.2, and, for about the first time ever, I decided that I would play on Easy and not change it. Thus far, I've died twice to Skeletons, had a Creeper blow up my front door (I didn't die) and fished up a stick. On the other hand, my base is set up between a Plains, a Savannah and an Ocean, there is a village nearby which I've gotten melons from and there's also a desert, a forest and a darkwood nearby. Essentially, I have 4 different trees, lots of flowers, melons, carrots, potatoes, wheat, chickens, cows, pigs, sheep and sandstone as natural resources. I have a mine set up nearby which hasn't been that productive, but I think there's a cave system really close to it. I've heard spider and bat noises so... Yeah!
     
    And that's my world.so far!
    The seed is: 113421296323171354
    In case you were wondering...
     
    Yeah, I guess my bad luck has been a result of my carelessness. I'm not used to closing doors behind me all the time... I'm gonna make a pressure plate for my home so that I can't forget.
     
    Well, I know this is a short post, but I guess that's all from me for now!
     
    Later!
    SkyStar
  4. Skye Starlight
    So, I thought I was good at pokemon, but upon attempting to name each and every pokemon, I failed miserably. I did it gen by gen, and didn't do the newest (gen 6, kalos region) because I know very little about the pokemon there. I found a challenge on sporcle to name all the pokemon from gen 1. And then found one for gen 2 and so on.
     
    You want to know the results?
     
    Well, I have screenshots. Miserable screenshots detailing how much I fail.
     
    So, let's get started shall we? I'm putting the pics in spoilers so that I can
     
    Gen 1:
     
     
     
    87/151
     
    I can't say I didn't expect that result. I never played a gen 1 game, nor did I ever play the remakes. I know them simply because they are the ones that everyone seems to know.
     
    Gen 2:
     
     
     
    42/100
     
    Oh dear... That got worse. That's an F on this gen. I got less than 50%! I got 42%! That was easy to calculate...
     
    Gen 3:
     
     
     
    67/134
     
    I at least scraped this one. Exactly 50%. It's sad because Pokemon Sapphire was my very first video-game. Oh dear lord. That's horrible. I didn't even remember the golem trio!
     
    Gen 4:
     
     
     
    57/106
     
    That's better! Although I didn't remember all the legendaries... again. Well, let's see what the most hated gen has in store for me!
     
     
     
     
    83/155
     
    Well, I passed... More than I can say for most of the others. I may have gotten impatient with how much I was forgetting with this one and looked some of the up though...
     

     
    So I'm not great... Heck I even forgot Snorlax! How in the name of all that is holy does a Sparkles* fangirl forget his favorite pokemon?
     
    Anyway, let's see my total score:
     
    336/649
     
    I can name 51.77% of all pokemon! I passed! Just... And I cheated a bit... So I might need to remove that score and...
     
    38.98%
     
    I failed... Well and truly. I couldn't even remember Emboar, Servine or Stoutland really.
     
    But I know all 18 types!
     
     
     
     
    And I learnt how to use the spoiler tags too!

    I'm not such a failure after all!
  5. Skye Starlight
    Fact:
    I have less than 6 weeks until I graduate from High School and leave for University... Which is near my dad's apartment, so I'm staying there.
     
    And I'm scared.
    I'm about to be flung out of school and into the real world. I have to get a job, and I'm going to be off to University next year, if not the year after. And, you know, I gotta do all the other stuff that comes with being an adult. Tax returns, credit cards (although I'm probably not going to get one yet) and more...
     
    I have 6 weeks to act like a high school student before I'm not one anymore.
     
    But, despite being scared, I'm also excited.
    I no longer have to put up with my younger brother, because I'm sure those of you who read my blog are getting sick of hearing about him. When I get a job, I'll have my own income. I'll be able to afford stuff I want like a 3DS, pokemon games and a new gaming PC, my own Minecraft account so that I don't have to share with my brothers and be called "Bartman911" along with games on steam!
    Although, I'd need to get a steam account first... Yeah, been scabbing of my brothers for a while now...

    Totally freeloading off of their awesomeness. Heck, I've played Portal 2 and Civ 5 thanks to my older brother. Who is also living at my dad's house, so I can still freeload off of him. I just need my own so that I can download heaps of awesome games for myself.
     
    Hm... I actually have a small fortune (a couple hundred dollars) sitting in my bank account. That's all the money I got... Well, I may end up buying a 2DS (because it's cheap) and a copy of Pokemon X with that...
     
    But, yeah... This is going to be an interesting 2 months. Finishing school, moving to my dad's, getting a job, buying games with the extra money...
     
    Truth be told, there is no word better describing my emotions than "nervousited"
    Pinkie, you're made up words make my life so much easier...
  6. Skye Starlight
    So, my mum took me out shopping for my prom dress today. I can't say I was looking forward to it, but I knew it had to be done. Prom is in 7 weeks, so we needed it sorted, ASAP.
     
    So, we went to a local shop, and we looked at the dresses there. None of them quite suited my taste, but the shop assistant referred us to the store in town, under the same brand-name, because I don't live in town, just near it.
     
    There, I spotted a dress which matched what I was looking for, except the color was orange. I mean, I love purple. I really love purple. Purple is the best color. The only other colors I had been thinking about were blue and pink. Call me girly all you want, I like those colors. And I had told myself I was going to avoid green, black, red and orange.
     
    But the orange of the dress had to be the prettiest orange I'd ever seen. It was bright too, and it really suited me. I decided to think it over, and I think I'm actually going to go for it. It's fabulous, and I can't wait to wear it. No-one's going to look like me. I mean, who wears orange to a prom? Me, obviously...
     
    If you want to stand out, there's nothing like the brightest orange you've ever seen. Seriously, it's kinda neon...
     
    And it only took half an hour of looking through dresses, and 1 dress tried on. I guess all my fussiness in style really paid off! So now, I've finally got my dress!
     
    Lol... I totally just went all girly on you guys... But that was my day! I was a girly-girl for once in my life!
     
    Also, the dress kinda looks like this:
     

    Actually... That is the dress... It's going to be my prom dress...
     
    It's like, fluro orange, and I love it!
  7. Skye Starlight
    Just a little tale of what happened to me in class today...
     
    Firstly, to ensure this makes sense, I must tell you something:
     
    I have a minor crush on the lead singer of Area 11. His stage name is Sparkles* and my best friend knows I like him. Which is what caused this amusing situation.
     
    So for a senior project kind of thing, for my home economics class, we each make a patch and it gets stitched together into a quilt-like thing.
     
    So, I go about drawing a few things on mine before using glitter glue and making it pretty! Me and my best friend start conversing.
     
    Friend: Your patch is so pretty! I really like the glitter!
    Me: Well, you know how much I love sparkles!
    Friend: Heh, yeah...
     
    A few minutes later, I'm nearly finished, and I notice just how much of a mess I made with the glitter. This followed:
     
    Me: *absentmindedly* I have sparkles all over me...
    Friend: W-What?
    Me: I have sparkles... Oh...
    Friend: You'd like that wouldn't you?
    Me: Um, yeah?
    *Both of us burst out laughing*
    Friend: I can't believe you just said that, especially after you pointed out how much you love sparkles!
    Me: I know...
     
    Best lesson ever.
    I finished my patch too. It looks awesome! I might get a pic at some point and post it here!
  8. Skye Starlight
    Except for the weekend. That's going to be awesome.
     
    So, tomorrow is the QCS test. Stands for Queensland Core Skills test. It tests our intellectual skills like analysing, evaluating, creating, understanding... And it's hard. It doesn't affect our grades though. No, it only pits us against every other student in the state to help rank the schools. Which helps rank us at the end of the day.
     
    So, after this, our grades, along with our subject's ranking in comparison to others and our school's ranking against the state determines our OP. The better your OP, the more likely you are to get into the uni course of your choice.
     
    So, obviously, we need to do our best. They put a lot of pressure on this test, generally causing a lot of chaotic stress in the entire cohort of grade 12's across Queensland.
     
    It also doesn't help that we sit it in the middle of assessment season. I have 4 pieces of assessment to do right now, and I have to worry about this test too!
     
    And today, the result of this stress has become more evident. My grades are slipping across the board. The maths exam I took last week netted me a C-. My English exam, which I thought I'd aced, brought me a D+ (barely!), and my Home Economics project was the same... And anything less than a C- is a failing mark. Of course, they average out our marks at the end of semester for each criteria, leaving us with a 3 mark set. I cannot get more than 1 D+ criteria per subject, else I fail. So now I must work even harder, and there's even more stress... This is getting out of control...
     
    So... G'night from a Queensland student.
    I gotta turn in early and get my rest...
  9. Skye Starlight
    My plans! Oh my gosh! You guys need to know my plans! I need to tell you! Why? I don't know...
     
    Well, firstly, I'm going to be graduating from high school in November, which will be awesome. To those not familiar with the school system in Australia, we graduate in November, Queensland a week before everyone else. Most people then go to "Schoolies" something I'm not going to. It's essentially a massive party. Also, don't go to any popular holiday destinations during this time, there will be teenagers everywhere.
     
    Me? I'm going to gather all my stuff and head to my dad's place in Brisbane. Move away from my mum and younger brother and have a room of my own. Then, I'm going to get a part-time job, and go to University. What am I going to do there? I'm going to major in Games Design. Yes, you read that right! I'm going into the gaming industry! It's one of the few industries which requires a combination of skill, creativity and logic, a balance which not everyone has. And for some reason, I do. Maybe this was destiny!
     
    And then I'm going to get a job in games design. If I can. Which isn't guaranteed. I might get a job with Halfbrick Studios! You know, the people who made Fruit Ninja? Yeah, them! That will let me stay in Queensland! But then again, there are some awesome overseas companies too...
     
    Places I'd love to go but will never be able to live:
     
    UK
    Canada
    Most of Europe
    Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth...
    Anywhere it snows or gets so cold water starts freezing.
     
    I'm a Queenslander! I hate the cold! I mean, the Yogscast (situated in Bristol, England) were complaining of the heat, and it was only 30 degrees Celsius. I'm sitting here, it's supposed to be winter, and it's predicted to be only 4 degrees colder during the heat of the day. Also, it's only getting down to 13 degrees at night, which I think is cold enough. I sleep under a small pile of blankets! I don't think I'd manage if that's what they think is hot. I'd hate to be there when they think it's cold!
     
    Also, Queensland is really, really vibrant. Naturally. Like, coral reefs, bright green leaves, jade seas, bright blue skies, shining sandy shores... I don't think I'd be able to live without it! It's beautiful!
     
    Yes, I know there's a lot of deadly things here, but that just adds to the beauty! I've seen spiders and snakes, sharks and jellyfish. It's not the safest place to live, but I don't think I'd be able to give it up.
     
    And I was thinking of giving it up too... I've already seen Sydney, the Gold Coast, the Great Barrier Reef, the Whitsundays, the Sunshine Coast and so much more... I have some things left to see (Uluru, Eighty Mile beach, A lot of stuff out west) but I've never gone outside Australia. I've never seen New York, London, LA, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, or any other amazing cities. I've never even seen snow, even though that does occur in parts of Australia. I'm not sure I want to ever see snow.
     
    But I now realize just how much I love coastal Queensland's climate. Warm and slightly humid. Rainy during summer and dry during winter. Minimal temperature variation between the seasons. It's just perfect for me.
     
    So, uh, yeah. I'm not leaving. I'm too used to the temperatures. Is there anywhere else like this though? Probably, but not where my family lives. My family all live here, and so I will too... I'll just travel a bit... Maybe to PAX prime! And Bronycon! They don't occur during winter! Oh, how I'd hate it if they were in winter. Why I'm probably never gonna go to PAX Aus. Melbourne in winter, no way I'm going anywhere near there at that time! Maybe... I might... I'd just have to be in a couple layers of clothing. Like 5. 5 is a good number. On the other had, Supanova, an Australian pop culture expo that travels to a couple of the cities, including Brisbane, I will be going to eventually! Apparently, the one in Brisbane is the biggest. That's going to be interesting. I'm not much of a people person.
     
    So, uh, yeah. That's my plans for the future, including things I'm not going to do.
     
    Wow. This is a long blog entry...

    TL;DR
     
    I'm going graduate, move to Brisbane, study Games Design and not live anywhere cold, ever. Possibly. I hate the cold. Australia is too beautiful to give up living in anyway. However, I will travel! Hopefully! And I may see you at a Bronycon, or PAX Prime, or Supanova in Brisbane! In a few years! Cause it might take that long...
     
    I feel awesome now!
     
    Skye Starlight
  10. Skye Starlight
    That title sounds like the title of a really bad movie...
     
    So, let's get this icky stuff out of the way first... It's apparent that my attempts to create peace didn't work out so well... Maybe once I get my formal dress (something my mom is apparently stressing about) things will get better. Can't wait till the end of the year though! I graduate in November (I am Australian!) and so, I will be setting off for greener pastures! Aka, my dad's apartment in Brisbane. And I'll have to deal with a whole new set of stresses. Like going to Uni!
     
    Note: Will document what I'm planning to do at Uni soon!
     
    Well, I guess some things are only quick fixes. People will always have stresses in their lives, and when one goes away, another replaces it. I do hope she realizes that her stress isn't just stemming from outside sources, but from her holding onto it. It would make my life so much easier.
     
    In other news, I'm going to be watching Anime most of the weekend! Like, the stuff that I've heard loads about but never watched because I've never found the time... This isn't going to be a one-weekend job either.
     
    My list so far:
     
    Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
    Death Note
    Code Gaess
     
    I do remember watching some stuff from Naruto when I was younger, and I'm wondering if it would be worth it to go back.
     
    Also, are there anymore Anime series that any of you would suggest?
  11. Skye Starlight
    So, I hate all the stresses in my life. Particularly, the ones which really shouldn't be there... Like my family, not allowing me space for myself, pressuring me to get high marks in school, not letting me be me... No, seriously. I can't sing without being yelled at, I can't proudly show my drawings (which I've been getting better and better at) without being shot down. Maybe if they weren't so negative I might be doing better! I'd have a better mindset- Full of determination and enthusiam for my schoolwork, rather than unmotivated and ashamed.
     
    I know I could be worse off. One of my friend's mother tried to kill her as a baby. She now has to do most of the chores around her house and doesn't have a mother to support her. I have two loving parents who are on good enough terms to ship me back and forth between them for holidays. My life seems so blessed, but I still wish I had a different family.
     
    Why? Because my brother doesn't care about me at all. My mum has been dumping her stress on me.

    Oh, but it doesn't stop there. I have senior year to deal with. I need to get a prom dress and work on my schoolwork. I didn't even know what I was going to do at the start of the year!

    I'm so stressed, I've had to find ways to destress before it gets too much! Drawing helps, singing helps... I need to have fun to destress. But, remember, my family won't let me do that... Look, there's my problem! I just need to have fun, but I'm kept back by my family! Well... I shouldn't say that... It's not entirely true. But I do need to find a place away from my family to relax, and I don't have that luxury.

    So, how did this all just help me?
    As normal, I came home from school... Well, I say that, but today was the first day of practice tests for possibly the most important set of tests any Queensland student has to take, QCS. It not only affects me, but my classes and my entire school. And it's taken so seriously. They tried to pressure us to "do our best" but many, many students can't because the stress drained them. Apparently, once, one of the brightest students in the year level threw up multiple times just from stress. Me? I just treated it like any other exam, and with the fact that it was a practice, I kept my calm and did my best. I don't do well under pressure, but I do try. So I felt quite happy with how I went, figuring out that I need to be relaxed. I'm going to translate that to my schoolwork now...

    Well, we finished earlier than school normally would, and they sent us all home. So I got home and got to spend a good hour alone. Being one of the few moments of privacy I'll ever get, I sang. Oh, how amazing it was to sing! And then I hopped on my computer and watched YouTube for half an hour... And then my younger brother got home, and he just started irritating me. He demanded to know when he was going to be able to get on. And then my mother got home, and her boyfriend. It's not awkward because I'm not interested in having a relationship at the moment, and she's happier with him around... Normally... Except, lately that's been causing her more stress... Which she's been dumping on me...
     
    So what do I do? I decide I'm going to play Spirit Tracks... You know, the thing that was distracting me not long ago? Having finished it once, I jumped into a new game a few weeks ago... And promptly found myself not brave enough to get past a certain point... Until now... I used that stress and frustration and turned it into determination. And I did it. Now, to get the last 3 rabbits and defeat the boss... No, seriously, that's where I'm up to!

    Note: I am really, really scared in every-day life... Afraid of so many things, I appear outwardly serious and detached. However, if you manage to strike up a conversation with about something I'm interested in, you'll find a much brighter, carefree center. This center is what many of you would have seen of me. I drop the act online. You guys have seen the real me, and I'm comfortable here. I don't think I'm ever going to leave because I feel so much better here than I do anywhere IRL. Except maybe chilling in a park on a sunny spring day drawing. It's my thing.

    Ah, how the joys of life can be...
  12. Skye Starlight
    My mum... She just raged at my younger brother...
    She was saying things about how we kids don't respect her, and that "she has to do everything"
    She doesn't do everything. She expects so much of me and my brother. We're teenagers! We're in that stage where we won't do everything we're told but we're not quite responsible enough to do what we need to. I think the stress of work is really getting to her. She wasn't like this before we moved, before she got this job.
     
    Well, I got up and headed to my bedroom door, ready to jump in and defend my brother and I. I touched the door handle when a thought occurred to me.
     
    By going out there, you'd just be getting involved in another argument, and things won't get better.
     
    So I stopped, whispered to myself, "Don't get involved girl." And sat back down. I don't even know if she knows I heard her. Well, she does now, because I just responded to her Facebook message.
     
    But it was just that moment, when my conscious mind cleared enough to realize how bad an idea it would be to get involved in that argument. That second in which I chose patience, instead of standing for what I felt was right.
     
    It would have been easy to start yelling. I get so riled up when people don't do the right thing by me. This morning, my brother thought I was yelling. I was speaking a little loud, but I was a little riled up because I had been respectfully waiting for him to wake up so that I wouldn't disturb him whilst on the computer, and once he gets up, he nearly jumps straight on. I turned it on, knowing it wouldn't make much noise and that he would awaken soon, only for him to take my kindness and not respect me.
     
    What doesn't help is that I'm starting to feel like my mom doesn't respect me either. I'm in my final and most important year of school and she's treating me exactly like my younger brother. She doesn't mind me staying up a little late doing school-work, but when I can't go to parties because she doesn't want me drinking, despite me not being interested in alcohol at all, I can't help but feel a little annoyed.
     
    Oh, and I'm not left with much food or drink (other than water) because my younger brother eats and drinks everything we have in the house. And you'd wonder why I'm so skinny, and feeling ill! I get dinner and that's it on some days, but my mom wants to go on strike and not cook meals for my brother and I. We'd have to do everything ourselves, which I think is quite unreasonable seeing as I'm already stressed out with school!
     
    If anyone ever wonders what the best time of the day is for me, it's the walks to and from school. 6 km round trip! Takes me 40 minutes each way. And I love every second of it! It's also another reason I'm quite skinny.
     
    Oh, what do I have to do to remove all this unnecessary stress?
     
    Oh well, I've just decided to not get involved in someone else' argument. If I didn't start it and it's not directed at me, it's not my fight.
  13. Skye Starlight
    Tomorrow is my B'day!
    Yay!

     
    But this isn't about tomorrow, this is about today!
    Which happened to be the athletics carnival at school!
     
    So, I forgot my umbrella on the way to school and it poured, but I decided to play it optimistic and kept walking, laughing and singing to myself. "It wasn't that cold!" I said as I trudged through the rain in the middle of Winter without an umbrella or jacket... It had stopped raining when I got to school, lucky me!
    Next, I watched as people turned up in the craziest costumes. I hadn't dressed up, instead choosing to marvel at the multitude of fancy suits, morph suits and the like. There were 2 monkey and one Pikachu onesies along with a storm trooper and a vast array of tutus.
     
    That early optimism had prevented me from being like one of my friends who had also been caught in the rain. I was happy I was at school, even though I could have been at home watching YouTube videos. She was somewhat miserable, understandably.
     
    Soon the events started. I wasn't competing, so I waited for the participation events to start. The first one was the Thong Toss! It's not what you think! Unless you think that the "thong" I'm talking about is a flip-flop, in which case it's exactly what you think! It's exactly what it sounds like otherwise. You toss a flip-flop as far as you can. It's the first time I've ever tried it!
     
    The second and final participation event was a set of ball games! Over-Under, Tunnel Ball and Captain Ball! Very basic games, and they were quite fun, and I got to talk to people I don't normally.
     
    Then I went and got some cotton candy. Yep, my school has a cotton candy machine! I have no idea why, they just do, and they made the most of it today! There was rarely a moment when the girls manning the thing weren't busy, sticking the sweet, sticky strands on the sticks they had.
     
    So I sat down and watched the bubbles that someone had brought float by. I had brought my drawing book today, something which I don't normally do because it does contain a few of my secrets. I was so glad I brought the thing because that's what I spent most of the day doing! All the while, music played. I sang along with my favorite songs and enjoyed my day.
     
    Then it was time to go home. It started lightly raining, but it was sunny, and as I looked at my surrounding I spotted a rainbow. What a way to top it all off! I spent the rest of the walk home singing my songs and happily contemplating life.
     
    What a day!
     
    This blog post is a massive mood swing from my last one... Much, much better!
  14. Skye Starlight
    So I realized I haven't been on at all for a few days. Figured I'd explain why.
     
    1. I'm at my dad's and he has 1 computer to share between 3 kids. (me and my brothers)
    2. Nintendo
     
    Why I'm actually in a good mood:
    I've nearly gotten 100% in The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. I just need to beat the final boss and I'm done. It will be the first time I've ever gotten 100% in a game, and the first time I've completed this particular game. That's right, I've never beaten the final boss, but I've gotten everything else in the game now. Rabbits, Stamps, Force Gems and all. Well, except the legendary train, but I'll have that in less than 24 hours. Just missing one treasure and it's the first place prize in the draw today. About 4 hours until midnight when I can receive it, so it's not far off now. Then I'll go for the boss!
     
    I'm also enjoying Pokemon Heart Gold version. Again. It's nigh impossible to 100% that one though, but I had defeated Red. I'm also acting as a breeder for my older brother who's working on his Pokemon Black team. So I'm supposed to be hatching a Ferroseed with a relaxed nature, then give it Pokerus (which is the easy bit because I have it). He's then got to EV train, which is something I'm not well versed in. I'll just direct him to a video I watched that gives the basics of it. He'll then have a competitive battle Ferrothorn. And then I'll help him get all the other Pokemon he wants. Sesmitoad and Chandelure are the other two he's decided on. He's then gonna get a flying type and an ice type? He'll have space for another wild card too, that I know! He'll have type coverage.
     
    Also, Let's Players. I watch Nintendo a lot. I also watch some other games but that's beside the point.
     
    I'm distracted by the Nintendo.
     
    Also, if you want to trade anything, I have White and White 2 as well as most of the Black and Black 2 exclusives.
     
    Also, I want more games. I really want a PS4 now, so when I've graduated I'll aim to improve my life by getting one... Less than 6 months until I graduate too! Also, I don't have a 3DS to play Pokemon X or Y on. I'm hoping my mum picked up on the hint and gets me one for my B'day (in a few weeks!) and then I can get X or Y a few hours before all you people in Europe and America! Releasing on the same day is difficult when the world has time zones! Go early birds!
     
    *happy dance*
     
    Skystar
  15. Skye Starlight
    I might as well tell you "I told you so" now...
    Why?
    Because the thing looks even better now that a second trailer has been released!
     
    Also, spoilers. This blog post will contain lots of spoilers. I'm not even gonna mark them because I've warned you. There is no way I can discuss the second trailer without spoilers so, here goes.
     
    Well, Twilight has her crown stolen in the middle of the night by what appears to be the previous student of Princess Celestia herself, Sunset Shimmer, Unicorn horn and all. So Twilight tries to fight of this unicorn and they end up having the crown fall into the portal. It wasn't taken through, it fell.
     
    And then we find out that the Elements of Harmony are useless without it. And the Elements of Harmony are also the best means of defence for Equestria. That's BEFORE she enters the portal.
     
    And then comes the funny little quotes:
     
    Twilight: "What does the rest of me look like?"
     
    Spike:"I don't think that's how the new you is supposed to..." *Twilight stops galloping on all fours and stands up as a guy looks at her weirdly*
     
    Twilight: "Looks like if I want my crown back I'll have to become princess of the Fall Formal!"
    Spike: "How exactly do you plan on doing that?"
    Twilight: "I have no idea!"
     
    Spike: "Those are my girls! Woohoo!"
    Random: "Did that dog just talk?"?"
    Spike: "The talking dog is the weird thing about all this
     
    Definitely Present: Trixie, the CMC, Vinyl Scratch, Photo Finish, Snips and Snails. Also a bunch of BG ponies.
     
    I'm actually excited now! And since I've read up on stuff (aka, the rivalry between Mattel and Hasbro, which can be found on EQD) and I've taken into account that MLP's target demographic is still little girls (no matter how large the brony fandom gets) I've decided that it might be one of the best movies of the year! All hail our Equine overlords!
  16. Skye Starlight
    So, some people may be aware of where I stand on 2 grounds regarding MLP:
    Alicorn Princess Twilight Sparkle and Equestria Girls
     
    However, I figured it might be nice to put out a 1000 character blog post on it, allowing people to find my opinions if they so choose to.
     
    In regards to Alicorn Princess Twilight Sparkle, I'm okay with it, and always have been. I guess I still have something instilled in me from my childhood of G3, cause I'm pretty good at "just going along with it" and not really caring much for intricate details. I have watched a whole bunch of analysis videos, which allow me to see those little details. One of the things I've noticed about these analysers is that most of them have similar opinions, only disagreeing occasionally. Most of them have noted the small detail of Twilight earning her wings, but also have paid attention to the producers of the show, who said the Princesses of the sun and moon were born alicorns, and are immortal.
     
    So Cadance and Twilight aren't immortal, they just have the capabilities of the other 3 races. They earned their place as princesses, rather than being born into the positions. Whilst Celestia and Luna are immortal, or at least have extended life-spans, Twilight and Cadance will live and die.
     
    Oh, and then there's the Meta reasoning. 65 episode format to allow for the easy export of the show. Give them an ending that can act as a series ending, or a move into the next season. Wouldn't want the fans to feel like it didn't really finish right?
     
    Okay, onto Equestria Girls! The most hated of topics right now! I'm already over 1000 characters!
     
    We should give it a chance! We shouldn't judge it before we know the full story, and we won't know until after watching the movie! Maybe it'll be the best 2D movie ever! We don't know! So far, it looks alright. It has Twilight taking on a humanised form, her friends have parallel universe equivalents, Spike is a dog, and what appears to be "Sunset Shimmer" the mysterious once student of Celestia's who appeared as a strange pony toy appears. It's made by exactly the same people who brought us MLP in the first place, sans Faust. Same music, same writers, same animators. The movie's in pretty good hands if you ask me.
     
    So why are people so hateful of it? Why do people not want to give it a chance?
     
    I remember some bronies saying they hated the anthro fan-art and that it shouldn't exist, and yet it's canon now. The fact that it's in a high school setting probably doesn't help much either, not to mention what appears to be a love interest for one of our favorite ponies. Yeah, it doesn't look great, but MLP:FiM didn't look good either. And if you are so off put by the humanoids and "love interest" then that's fine. You don't have to watch it.
     
    You can do whatever you want, and I can't force you to see everything my way, but I hope this puts things into perspective...
     
    This entire blog entry is 2339 characters... So if you didn't read it all, I don't blame you!
     
    Skystar
  17. Skye Starlight
    Wikipedia say:
     
    Social stigma is the extreme disapproval of (or discontent with) a person on socially characteristic grounds that are perceived, and serve to distinguish them, from other members of a society. Stigma may then be affixed to such a person, by the greater society, who differs from their cultural norms.
     
    Most of us here are victims of a social stigma. Greater society has formed us all according to their preconceptions of manliness, femininity and adulthood. These preconceptions change over time.
     
    Originally it was blue, not pink, that represented girls. Blue represented peace, serenity and kindness. Pink, as a tone of red represented the blood stained upon a warrior's clothes. No joke.
     
    And ponies were gender neutral too. And purple was the colour of royals.
     
     
    So, what happened? Where did our social stigma's come from? Why do they exist?
     
    I'm not entirely sure why they exist, but they do, and they're a pain! The only one which ever made sense was the "Male must be strong/Female must be sensitive" stigma. This is because the woman is more invested in her child, having had to carry it and birth it before the man had a chance to bond with his child, whilst the man provided for his currently preoccupied mate. Nowadays, this doesn't make as much sense. We have (almost) equal rights, and fathers are encouraged to bond with their children. A saying has emerged.
     
    "The only difference between genders is the equipment used in creating a child."
     
    But we still have these stigmas, we still work more often in our gender-roles than in the opposite. Why must we do so?
     
    Simple. It's programmed into us from when we are born. If we go against it, we will be rediculed and rejected. We will be unable to pass on our genetic data, a primal neccesity rooted in instinct.
     
    So, why do we not hide this part of us? The part we know will be ridiculed?
    Because MLP shows us that it's okay to be ourselves, it's okay to have a sensitive side. Because it's also telling little girls that very same message. It's okay to be smart, brash, shy, fabulous, country or crazy. You don't have to act dumb.
     
    It is this very same message being rooted in our brains as we watch, and is the reason why we're not ashamed anymore.
     
    But these social stigmas still exist. They've been rooted in the minds of everyone around us, and those around us hide these things, because they don't think it's right, even though it makes them feel happy.
     
    Bronies aren't changing the definition of manliness. They're shattering social stigmas. They're changing how we view ourselves and those around us! But it wasn't just us bronies. It was Lauren Faust and her fantastic crew, those who created the show. They planted the seed, and we let it grow. Together, we shall finally break free of our binding chains. We shall be amazing.
     
    TL;DR
    Social Stigmas are awful. MLP isn't redefining manliness, but removing social stigmas in our minds. Yay MLP!
  18. Skye Starlight
    So, I suddenly felt like being depressing, and what's more depressing than what happened next in my life!
     
    Now where was I... Oh yeah!
     
    Everything was practically perfect. Something I forgot to mention was that I was offered a fast track to my dream job at the time... So I had amazing friends, amazing opportunities and, truth be told, everything just felt so right.
     
    I call this a bubble in life... This is because bubbles are perfect spheres, and really, really fragile... Just as my life was at that stage...
     
    Of course, bubbles pop, and like the literal bubble, my bubble of life did too...
     
    I was in the right place at the right time... Only to learn that I would soon have to pick up my life in a new town with new faces...
     
    That's right, I had to move... Doesn't sound bad, unless you take into account the true happiness I felt where I was at the time... And I was truly happy, no doubt about that!
     
    Eventually, what happened the week before my last week (even though I didn't know it yet) was school camp! I knew I was leaving sometime, so I thought, "WTF, I got nothin' to lose! I'm gonna be myself!" And the result was only cementing my place. Cementing my place where I wouldn't be for much longer. It gave me even more reason to stay...
     
    the very next week, I knew I would be leaving extremely soon... Within a week to be precise...
    I told my friends this, and, though it came as a shock, they helped to comfort me and calm my nerves... I had never moved schools before... NEVER... Anyone who has moved can understand the "change of schools" nerves...
     
    But the worst was yet to come... In the next part because this is getting long...
  19. Skye Starlight
    Okay, my first blog ever is here...
     
    So what this first one is about, is basically telling you about what's been going on in my life since I joined here. Might be a bit long, and will be split into parts.
     
    So when I first arrived here, I was enrolled at my old school. I had been into ponies for about 3 months already. It was my summer holidays, and I was bored. I had also found an interest in Let's Plays.
     
    School life returned a few weeks later. I fell into a routine of Let's Plays, School and ponies. I managed to balance my life pretty well. Season 2 soon finished, so I had to wait until Season 3 for new episodes. Throughout that period, I relied on the fandom's creations, and they didn't disappoint.
     
    I was worried what my friends would think about me liking ponies. However, I told my friends of my love of Ponies, and they were accepting of it. My fears were unfounded. Life was pretty sweet!
     
    So far, so good. But it didn't last long...
     
     
    So... What does everyone think of my blog so far? I figured it might be a good way to get everyone up to date on my life's struggles...
     
    There will probably be other blog posts between now and the next part, so keep a look out! Some might be rants, so... Yeah...
  20. Skye Starlight
    I know, I keep disappearing and reappearing at random, but that's just because I've been busy.
     
    But, I'm back with a few new things.
     
    1. avatar (if you hadn't noticed)
    2. signature

    3. Anxiety, which I will get into in another post. Because it's a thing that I have! I've had it for ages, it's just been diagnosed this year...
    4. Slytherin. I am one. deal with it.
    5. Books! Because I read some! And there's a library in walking distance, so I can read so many more! And I bought TFiOS and read that. Because I wanted to be hipster for once and read the book before I watched the movie. I still haven't seen it, but I suppose you won't be spoiling anything for me.
    6. The season ended... You all know that, right? I mean, you're fans of the show, of course you know!
  21. Skye Starlight
    "A backyard"
     
    Well, you can certainly tell what I've been watching lately. If you didn't know, that was a quote from Doctor who, but it is surprisingly relevant to what I have to say.
     
    Most of you should know by now that I am Australian, and one of the little things that Australians do? They call almost the entirety of the country their "backyard."
    That includes myself.
     
    I'm 17 years old. I've traveled around. I've seen baby turtles in a race for survival. I've had kangaroos on my front lawn. I've camped on an island in the Great Barrier Reef. I've walked through rain forests and cities alike. I've swum in the ocean and wandered through caves. I've encountered spiders and snakes like you'd never believe. And I think nothing of it. It is my life. To me, it is nothing special.
     
    So when I see people from other countries stand in awe of my backyard, I sometimes have to wonder why. It reminds me that I live in a unique and amazing country, unlike any other on the planet. It brings a little of the sparkle back.
     
    Yes, there are still things I have left to see. I need to go to Uluru, visit Broome and see the Great Australian Bight, but I know there is more to this world that Australia. There are animals I've never seen, because they don't put them in zoos. Foxes, squirrels and raccoon. I've never seen them IRL. To me, these creatures are amazing and foreign. I want to go see them, but for now I can't. And that's not even mentioning the lack of snow here.
     
    Well, there is snow. You can go skiing in Australia, during our winter, in the few select places it snows. But it's decently far away from where I live. About 1000km. To put that in perspective, that's the about the distance between London and Monaco. A little too far for my liking.
     
    But still, I sit here and think, how cool would it be to see a fox or a squirrel.
     
    Because Australia is my backyard, my home. It is special to me for this reason alone. Kangaroos and koalas are normal and squirrels and foxes are foreign creatures of mystery and wonder.
     
    Yeah, it sounds strange, but that's what it's like to live your life in Australia. It's not foreign or strange or amazing. It's home.
  22. Skye Starlight

    From the Start

    By Skye Starlight,

    So, I'm doing this now. I wanted to show off my screenshots really. They're pretty cool. All the screenshots will be in spoiler tags because there's a lot of them, and it could be somewhat CPU intensive.
     
    So, I spawned near here:
     
    You can probably imagine my joy at spawning next to a Savannah. I mean, horses spawn in the Savannah! I figured it would be awesome if I had a horse! Well, there were no horses

    There was only sheep. Lots and lots of sheep.
     
    So, I started on my house on a hill that stood between the Savannah, the plains and an ocean. In the plains lived pigs, cows and chickens...
     
    After creating my first floor and starting on my wheat farm, I went upstairs. It was morning, so I opened the door. But then I decided to check on my crops and...
     
    Hiss... Boom! Creeper blows up my front door. It didn't kill me, and all my stuff was still intact, but I spent the next few minutes repairing it. After repairs were complete, I decided to explore the Savannah. Lucky me, I come across a village!
    It has the mild problem of some of it's paths being cut by cliffs, but it's not a big deal. I can navigate it. There are lots of cave systems beneath it.
     
    Well, I checked what everyone was buying and selling. Found someone who bought wool (a ready resource with all those sheep) and someone who sold melon slices! So, I went around, collected the wool and got some melon seeds for a melon farm! And, with the potatoes and carrots around, I've now got every crop except pumpkins!
    So here's my farm:
    There's a gap left between the melons and the wheat for pumpkins when I get a hold of them.
     
    Of course, around this time, I also set up my mine shaft and my second floor (storage!)
     
    Of course, playing on Easy, I've died twice. Both times to Skeletons. I hate skeletons.
    And I've seen a few Endermen. I've only looked at one, and that was during the day and whilst I was swimming. The noise is horrifying. Not to mention when one decided to teleport behind me whilst I was smelting some gold at the small camp I set up at the bottom of my mine shaft. Endermen are scary.
     
    I also explored across the ocean, where I found a Darkwood and a swampland, and across the plains is a forest. I've got loads of flowers now, and plenty of different trees. Also, just past the village is a desert, in which a temple is found! Now I have horse armor, but no saddle... Which is a shame because just beyond the temple is another plains, this time with heaps of horses! I also have a cactus farm and a sugar-cane farm!
     
    Trees:
     
    Desert:
     
    Horses:
     
    Now, I also have an anvil, which I used to enchant my sword and pick with. I used the enchanted books which were in the temple!
     
    I also enjoy a spot of fishing.
     
    That last pic was snapped at the bottom of my mineshaft (where I have that base camp set up) and yes, I can fish there. Much to my surprise, I fished up 2 salmon, 2 fish and an enchanted bow. I'm not kidding. Power IV, Flame I. Awesome! I'd already gotten 3 bows drop from skeletons, but this just tops it all.
    Although, I've also fished up a dozen sticks and some string so...
     
    So, to summarize, Despite dying twice and having my front door blown up, I've been pretty successful!
     
    Also, my base currently looks like this:
  23. Skye Starlight
    I've watched so many people play the game... Which, by the way, is available on steam. If you want it.
     
    This blog will contain unmarked spoilers, as without them it's kinda hard to explain the psychological oddities I've found. Also, I have no idea how to mark them as spoilers.

    So, a few things I've noticed in all the let's plays of it.
     
    But first, if you haven't played it yet, and you want to save every experience for yourself, please do. Also, if you've played it before reading onwards, please comment. Whether it be pride because you didn't do what I have come to expect, or if you're normal, and you've realized that you're not so strange after all...
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    1. Everyone goes in the broom closet. When they see it, they will enter it. The odd fact that you can open it, combined with it's obvious placement makes it so inexplicably attractive that everyone enters it. Few stay for the humorous commentary. Red buttons have a similar effect to the broom closet, except that once pressed you are devoted to whatever path that button creates. Entering the broom closet is as permanent as you want it to be.
     
    2. Most people choose to do the right thing, even under circumstances where it would have little impact on their real lives.
     
    3. Most people choose to disobey the narrator the first opportunity they get. Or, at least, they think it's the first opportunity.
     
    Now, I'm not a psychologist, but I'm pretty sure that one would be fascinated with these results. Or maybe they're not all that surprised. Maybe they expected these things to happen.
     
    Or maybe, just maybe, this is the perfect experiment. A test of obedience, wit and courage.
     
    And there are many, many endings even I haven't seen yet.
     
    A few peculiarities arose, of course. One of the players, for example, stayed in the broom closet until the narrator thought him dead. Another closed the door to their office accidentally and found one of the endings. Another got an achievement for doing a set of strange actions, given to him by the narrator. Another was freaking out because the narrator had lost his memory. Another, after finding one of the more depressing endings, could no longer believe the happy ending was real. Another simply did what the narrator told him to, and found the happy end beautiful.
     
    Everyone's experience was different, in part, because they each chose their own way. After their first ending, they each reacted differently to the same things... Except the broom closet... The broom closet was consistent across everything. Except the guy that stayed there.
  24. Skye Starlight
    Gah! My younger brother is the worst!
    After 3 days of keeping internet usage down, because we were kinda close to our download limit, my younger brother gave up and started splurging. So, in the space of 2 days, the data usage went from 2 Gigabytes a day to over 10! Our limit for the month is 200, but 5 days ago, we'd somehow managed to get to 160, probably because both my brother and I are on holidays, and love YouTube and the internet. Now, there are 5 days left, and we have no broadband internet data left. So we've been slowed considerably, to the point I can't watch YouTube anymore. Which is annoying because I had kept my internet usage down. I had exercised self control, but I had no idea of what my brother was using. He'd been the one to suggest the 3 hours YouTube limit. I'd thought it unfair because I wasn't the one who'd caused this, but I went with it because I didn't want to have the internet throttled. And then he goes and breaks his limit. He used up all the data I had been rationing. And I'm not happy.
     
    It's like how he eats all the stuff he's no supposed to. The stuff that is meant to be given to us kids as a treat, he finds and eats. All of it. He ate all the Vanilla crispellos (chocolate covered wafers with fudge filling), which were my favorites, without asking and without having them given to him.
     
    It's like he has no respect for the value of things.
     
    And then he has the nerve to go and blame me. Me. Miss obedient and kind. But because my mum knows I'm much more obedient, I'm the favorite. He gets good marks, but is horrible to me and my mum. He complains, he doesn't do what he's asked. Whenever I tell him that we have to do something, he'll just complain and sit there until I've nagged him even more. Asking nicely doesn't work with him.
     
    Part of it, I think, is because he's bigger than both of us. Because of his size and his attitude, he thinks he can do whatever he wants. He thinks that the wisdom and caring that my mother and I show him makes us submissive. I generally am. I'm obedient, it's what I do. I prefer to avoid confrontation, and doing what others want me to is the best way to do it. There are times when I'll draw the line. I'll only do what I'm told if either I trust the other person, or I think it might be a good idea too and just didn't think of it myself.
     
    Generally, I put a lot of trust in my teachers, that they're teaching me the right stuff and that what they say I should be doing, I really should be, I trust my mum and dad because their my parents, they've been looking out for me since I was born, and I know they wants the best for me. I trust my older brother, because I've learnt to go to him when I need help. He's beaten video-game bosses for me, taught me how to play games and sometimes protected me from my younger brother. They've always had my best interest in mind.
     
    My younger brother never had my best interest in mind. He's gotten in the way of my growth. He's become power hungry. He values money most, family last. He just doesn't care about me. Particularly me, because he and I have never gotten on. We've always fought over something. Now, we have so little in common. We can hardly talk. He wants nothing to do with me, and that's fine, except that we live in the same house, we share a room and we have to share food and internet. Lucky me, I'll be gone in 6 weeks. Thank the universe for that. Finally able to move to my father's place with my brother. Gotta get a job though. And I'd better start searching soon. But having a job, will be so much better than living in this nightmare. At least I'll get paid for the stress it causes.
     
    Note to self: If my younger brother ever comes crawling to me for money or a place to stay, send him through hell to get it. If my older brother does, let him in, but bug him to get a job.
     
    In other news, it's a beautiful day. My mum and I were thinking about taking my younger brother out for a picnic. He'd hate that, but it'd be good for him. He's only been outside twice in the two weeks we've had off, both times in the early evening, when the light of day is fading.
     
    I'd love to get outside, but I want someone with me. Maybe my mum and I can go together. Mother daughter time?
  25. Skye Starlight
    Oh how I hate my younger brother. He's the bane of my existence, that he is. He's rarely done me any good, particularly with how great I am to him. He eats all the food in the house, he uses all the internet and he's always bugging me about space, like as if he doesn't have enough when I have less than him!
     
    And it's his fault I'm now in a situation that I can't do flippin anything on the internet!
     
    We've been limited to 3 hours of 360p YouTube, but he's a quality hog (refusing to watch anything in less than 480p) and an internet junkie. He's almost always playing on whatever Minecraft server he's on, using up even more internet, and he watches YouTube on the tablet we've got too, so that when I'm on my computer, he's using all the flippin internet! Doesn't help that he's been staying up really late, without supervision. I wouldn't be surprised if he's breaking the rules we've been set, because that's what he does with the food!
     
    Also, he's a flipping madman. He's bigger, stronger and more aggressive than I will ever be.
     
    But for now, I've just got to take it as is.
    If we run out of internet, then we're going to be "throttled" which essentially means our speed will slow considerably. The fact that I'm extremely patient may mean that I won't have that much of an issue, but he will be flamin mad if it happens. He won't take an "It's your fault though." Not from mom, not from me. I'll just have to ride out the storm or sit here and wait until the storm has passed in front of me.
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