Petoholics Anonymous

Hear ye, hear ye! Looking for bloggers!

// February 25th, 2010 // 9 Comments » // Random Stuff

There I was, staring at my Google Reader. I was struck with a sudden, blinding flash of inspiration…

“You really need to clean this %*@# up.”

As I was purging old blogs, some of which had not been updated since last summer, I recalled that my blogroll here also needed a similar culling. I’m a lazy person, I’ll admit it. But lazy also means that you get inventive!

Thanks to Mania’s post that I somehow managed to remember, I was able to tie my blogroll to my Reader so I would only have to do one update. Again…lazy, but brilliant IMHO.

After that and the purging had been completed, my Reader looked woefully small and I came to the realization that I have not added a new blog in a while. I scoured some other blogs’ links and added a few here and there. However, I still want more.

So here’s your opportunity for shameless self-promotion (or selflessly promoting your favorite blog, I don’t care). In the comments, I want to see some cool blogs for me to read and link to. My favorite kind of blogs have at least a little bit of a personal touch, not just spewing out fact and theory-crafting. Heck, they don’t even have to be hunter blogs! I’d totally broaden my horizons. So link away, my fine petoholic friends!

No, I’m not being lazy and making everyone else search for me. I swear it’s because I value my reader’s opinions.

/shifty eyes

Random thought: I’ve been toying with the idea of having another person start posting here as well. Yes, a guest poster or a co-author, something like that. Would that sort of thing be of interest to anyone? What would you post about?

Linkback: Kazimierz’s blog – Totems and Technology

// October 19th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Random Stuff

So apparently if I drop enough hints (if you consider saying outright “You need to start a blog” a hint), eventually Kazi will listen to me.

Jokes aside, Kazi has several wonderfully written posts about his shaman’s early life, so for those of you who appreciates WoW roleplaying (including myself) or just a good story, you will find them very entertaining and a great read.

I think he deserves some more readership love so drop by his blog and give him a warm welcome to the blogosphere!

Now I feel inspired to write some more character history myself.

Ticalos and Valraen

// August 8th, 2009 // No Comments » // Roleplay

There’s a pyschotic creep after Valraen and having no one else to go to, she turns to the death knight Ticalos, a mysterious and dangerous man that she’s only met once briefly. But things are not as simple as they seem as the pair begin to realize that someone is trying to use them as pawns in a much bigger game.

This is an ongoing roleplay between Ticalos and my warlock bank alt, Valraen. The posts have been posted from emails between Tic and me. The post with (T) beside them are written by Tic, the ones with (V) beside them have been written by myself. All credit goes to Tic for coming up with the amusing titles.

To keep track of new posts, watch Ticalos’s blog or follow me on Twitter and watch for the #Ticalos tweets.

1. A Night at the Auction House (T)
2. The North (T)
3. Valraen’s Plight (V)
4. Message Delivered (T)
5. Ticalos the Protector? (V)
6. A gift for Valraen (T)
7. A gift unwelcomed (V)
8. Alms for the…poor? (T)
9. How dare he! (V)
10. Deliberate Hostilities (T)
11. The Fiend (V)
12. Doing things her own way (V)
13. The Hunter becomes the Hunted (T)
14. Shacking Up? (T)
15. Soap Opera or How did I manage to be in the bath with a Death Knight in the room? (V)
16. Hand me a towel (T)
17. A Fireside Chat (V)
18. Fight or Flight or…A Rose by any other name is still a Feather (T)
19. Lullaby and Goodnight…. (V)
20. Promises in the Dark (T)
21. To Sleep Per Chance to… (V)
22. Ride out…or..I’ll be really surprised if you wear this (T)
23. Dressing for the Part… or…..Wow, she actually wore it!!! (V)

And believe me I am still alive

// April 22nd, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Hunters and Pets, Random Stuff

So it’s been 22 days since my last post…I think it should be expected by now that I will disappear for long periods of time. What can I say, I write when I feel like writing. And unlike some certain energetic people, I am lazy. And part of the reason is I want to change the design of Petoholics. Every time I come here, I keep thinking “I want to change that, and move this, and ooooh that would be shiny” and then I get thinking and I end up not posting at all.

First of all, a quick linkback to Zhire at The Spiked Collar who despite being a fairly new blogger has posted some nice hunter tips.

So for an update of what’s going on:

• The guild leader of Bloodriver and his wife (Mysthowl and Linserai) are taking a hiatus for some personal reasons and he has named Niqora as his temporary replacement. Sure, I joked about it while chatting with guildies and some of our allies (there was much evil laughter and phrases like “Bow down before me, peons!”). But honestly, I can’t wait until they get back. Mostly because me and the other members will miss them terribly but also because I’m not certain that I fit the leadership role. If Ticalos and Tzia weren’t going to be around, I think I would freak out. Really the three of us are going to share the role but Myst could only name one as chieftain and since RPwise, Niqora is Myst’s wife…even in character Niqo would not be suited to be a leader. She has the patience of a goddess but she’s also shy to a fault and avoids conflict whenever she can. Unless someone is going to get hurt, as Tic has found out in a RP session. So, this will be an interesting (and sad) time coming up very soon.
• Anuniaq is level 40! However my goal is 65 so I can train up her inscription…I have a ways to go yet.
• Niqora tamed Loque! And she got the albino drake! Pictures to come in a later post.
• My little shammy Zulrea is level 25, which is the highest I’ve ever gotten a non-hunter. I really enjoy healing. So once she reaches 40, I’m going to buy dual-spec for her and spec both resto and enhancement.

For some quick RL news, I got a job back at the beginning of February as a junior web designer. It was only suppose to be a 3 month term but I just found out that it’s being extended another 3 months at least. After those 3 months, they might hire me on as a regular employee. Which is wonderful! Also, I was chatting with my brother and once I have the money (because he’s a starving student), I’m going to get him his own WoW account so he can play with me. Finally! I will have someone I know IRL who actually plays the game.

Now I will leave you all with the song that inspired this post’s title. Try singing that on Rockband, my friends.

Whooooo are you? Who who, who who

// March 25th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Random Stuff

Since this is going to be a bit of a random post anyways…the guild that Niqora is in (okay, so is Anuniaq, Tkasha, Githinji, Saraku, and Zulrea) has become a bit of a hangout for some bloggers. Tzia came by one day to say hi to me and I invited her into Bloodriver just because. She ended up really liking everyone in there, moved a couple of her characters to the server, and is now one of the officers. Your guild leader Mysthowl got sucked into the blogosphere by Tzia and I. Ticalos, another officer was blogging before but has now made a second one for his main DK character. That’s four out of us five officers who blog. Cait, Vlcan, and Sellia also have characters in the guild that they drop by on at times. And Sol, another guild member, had just started blogging when he had to go on hiatus for real life stuff.

We joked once that we should change the guild name to “Blogriver”.

I’ve been passing around a couple memes lately but it looks like Tic is so cool that he’s started his own. And I shall rise to the challenge.

That’s right, I AM Gandalf. As it says in the quiz results:

A wandering spirit caring for a multitude of just concerns, you are an instrumental power in many of the causes around you.

And so am I, very dangerous: more dangerous than anything you will ever meet, unless you are brought alive before the seat of the Dark Lord.

You don’t want to mess with me.

I did notice as I was looking through the results that it doesn’t include characters from one of the greatest sci-fi shows. So Tic, I call your quiz and raise you one more:

Your results:
You are Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)

Click here to take the Serenity Firefly Personality Test

Don’t know what Serenity is? Watch this, then this.

Seriously, right now. Or Pike and I will find you, tape your eyes open, and make you watch all of them in a row.

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Kaylee, what in the sphincter of hell are you playing at? We got the primary buffer panel coming right…
Kaylee Frye: Everything’s shiny, Cap’n. Not to fret.
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: You told me those entry couplings would hold for another week!
Kaylee Frye: That was six months ago, Cap’n.
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: My ship don’t crash. If she crashes, you crashed her.

Story of my life. *grins*