Cactus Codex

Pony blogger, actual cactus, artist, writer, computer scientist, and linguist. New Jersey / Pennsylvania | 21 | male, he/him/his | asexual hispanic | Cereus repandus, or Peruvian apple cactus

Closure

askpiratedash:

I know this is an OOC post, but this is important enough to make here.  And no, the blog is not ending.

Over two years ago, May 2nd, 2012, was one of the worst days of my life.  I was fired from my radio news reporter job.  I made an OOC post about it, and it exploded across the community.  That post is why I’m making this here, instead of the mod blog.  It became (and still is to this day) my highest noted post ever on Ask Pirate Dash.  It’s bittersweet in a sense, because the support and love I will always be grateful for, but having your most popular post ever be about your lowest moment was always weird.

But as of today, that is over.  I am ready to move on.  I have accepted a position at a local NPR affiliate, and the one that I am the most familiar with in my time in college.  I start next month.

Over two years of persistence and hope that I could finally get back in has paid off.  And I could not have done it without the support of everyone in the Tumblrpon community.  Whether the support came from monetary methods, or encouragement, or any of other method, I am very grateful and thankful for it.

What this means is that I can finally get my life back on track.  For the blog, a couple arcs have been planned, but they’ll have to be put on hold until I get settled in next month.  And they’re intense arcs.  

But bottom line, thank you again to everyone here who’s had my back.  You’re a family to me, and I love you all.

Many congratulations, TJ!

Wish you the best of luck!

Also, I’m gonna be lowering the price of adding additional characters.

Instead of $3 per character, it’ll now be $2. I’ll reblog the updated sheet later.

Colored commissions should open next week with the starting price of $12. (If you order a sketch, you’ll get a discount equaling your sketch total if you upgrade to a colored piece.)

I have this slightly optimistic thought that people are indeed sending me commission requests but for some reason, Gmail isn’t receiving them.

So if you did send a request and I haven’t responded, send me an ask on this blog here.

Bottom line is that I’m just useless trash and I should really just learn to stay there rather than to envy everyone else.

Wahh wahh hugbox some more pussy.

Asked by Anonymous

Thank you, dear anon.

The internet is big. REALLY BIG. There’s practically endless content, endless personas, and endless opinions. The great part is that you don’t have to get all that stuff shoved at you at the same time. But once in a while, you’re gonna see something bad. Something you may not like.

Normally, you can just weed it out and never speak of it again.

But if your response is to dedicate your persona to raving at this bad thing trying to get rid of it, crying because it’s not going away, and coming to the conclusion that everything with that thing is horrible instead of focusing and immersing yourself with the more abundant content of which you like, then you shouldn’t be online.

sadbhyl: “ HAVE YOU SEEN THIS PONY? This is Crease. As you can see, she is a handmade, custom My Little Pony stuffy that I made for my daughter for Christmas last year. The two of them went to Bronycon together, but only my daughter made it home. She...

sadbhyl:

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS PONY?

This is Crease.  As you can see, she is a handmade, custom My Little Pony stuffy that I made for my daughter for Christmas last year.  The two of them went to Bronycon together, but only my daughter made it home.  She is heartbroken at the loss of her special pony, and we would love to try to get her back.

If you were at Bronycon this weekend, maybe you saw her.  She was last known to be in the Hall of the Stars at 4 p.m. on Friday.  If she was found by some young pony-lover who can’t stand to be parted from her, we may be able to work a trade.

If you weren’t there, but you’re a pony fan, could you please boost the signal on this?  MLP isn’t my primary fandom, so this won’t be seen by the right people without a little help from the Tumblr magic.

Thanks, everyone!

I haven’t done a tagged thing in centuries, so thank you wheatley-blogs.

So here’s six facts about the iratus cactus.

  1. First generation American right here.
  2. I have this weird obsession with maps and roads and cities.
  3. Despite popular assumption, I do not own an actual cactus. :c
  4. I once wrote a letter to Bill Gates and got a rather detailed response! But since I was a dumb ol’ third grader, I lost the whole thing.
  5. I have a disgusting stage fright. Caused me to forfeit two spelling bees in elementary school (to the disdain of my peers since I was the star speller) and to botch my middle school graduation speech.
  6. BACK OFF WHEATBAG, BOULDER IS MINE.
    I once had a girlfriend in fourth grade. As you can imagine, it was hardly a “real” relationship. She was a jerk, anyway.

Hmmm, I tag chaotic-conundrums, pvryohei, and carrotquill. o2o