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If I’m reading my cards right, it’s been literally 4 weeks since I last had something published on Dancing Silhouettes. I guess I could blame this phenomenon on the ragged events that have been dotting my days for the past weeks that have gone by this month and last included. Most of them haven’t been very heart-warming, especially if I should bring the spotlight on how school’s been for me. In all honesty it’s been frustrating; very, very frustrating. I’m not exactly one to spill details on things so easily, so you may excuse my reluctance to open up the floodgates so easily. We all have our problems, so I shouldn’t be the one to complicate things and make you feel like I’m adding a burden to what you already have.

Some of those I’m pretty close with and talk to regularly (Detanfy and Proteus take tops on that list) know what’s been going on, or know at least a bit of what’s been going on. Just to clarify, I’m not in a depressed state or in a pit of sadness just wallowing out in grief and looking for that one little crack in the darkness that will shed light on my situation, no. It’s something more constructive and less dramatic than that.
To start off, let me say that I’ve picked up on a few of the hobbies that I had left behind, though it’s in a way making me neglect those that I originally went for subconsciously. For example, I’ve gone back to writing (rough work stuff, stories, songs, that sorta thing). I’ve also gone back to drawing, though I haven’t been doing that one on a full scale, but still it’s there. This coming week I could be involved in some event planning scenarios that would have me in tech operations (being a geek has some advantages I suppose). I decided to sit down and get myself to just watch stuff that I love, for example Robot Chicken, Adventure Time, Gravity Falls (definitely) and the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (if you haven’t tried that one you’re missing on something pretty cool); I’m managing to get up-to-date with some of them, which is a really good thing for me. I’ve begun reading again, and in a fiercer manner. I managed to finish 3 books in one month, and I’ve increased my total read this year to 11 (my target is 50 by the way). I know it’s not much, but considering how I was earlier this year, I say it’s a good enough step for me to keep going with and improving on. Continue Reading →

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Let me go straight to the point. We’ve been failing heads and tails all over and I can’t even begin to scratch the surface of what’s going on with the Dancing Silhouettes family.
Pfft… family.

We haven’t been looking out for each other as far back as months now. We’ve left ourselves dangling on the edges, only coming to our individual rescues when the damage has properly been made and we’re trying to salvage what is left. That’s what it’s come to… Salvagers.
We’re not even doing a good job of salvaging what we’re meant to salvage; if at all that’s the aim of the goal (goals have aims too).
It makes me wonder… are we using our brains right? Putting them to the task they’re supposed to undertake, making sure we succeed and move forward? Or are we just being baseless, giving excuses about what’s up with why we’ve left these grounds fallow for so long?

Uhhhhhhh

I’m sure some of you have been wondering the same thing too…

I mean, come on. It’s the third week in April and ‘The Collective’ (as they’ve so chosen to brand themselves) hasn’t done squat in what they said they were going to do. Do you know how much paperwork we got down together on the plans for the first few months? I’ll spare you all the details because I won’t go pretty with them. Suffice to say, the boys haven’t even gone quarter way with what they’ve got to offer on the table.
My anger (as I would so lightly put it) is mainly towards Detanfy and Phylix. Why? I live the grounds in their hands to run and what do I get? 2 game journals, a Beyonce themed outcrop, a Game of Thrones trailer and a mash of funnies? Where’s the originality? The ingenuity that I left the boys with before I went on my sabbatical? What happened to the passion these boys had locked in them?

Normally I’d go hit them in the head myself, but then I thought doing that wouldn’t do much. They’re Ibadan boys, hitting their head wouldn’t make them budge. But maybe showing them up for all to read could do something. Am I being harsh? Mayhaps so. Why am I being harsh? Because this is something they love doing and I’m not ready to see them turn into boring young adults who start reminiscing about the past and how cool and active they were (like that one guy in Sexy Evil Genius).

I can’t have these bros being deep with their plans and making out pathways and backup plans, then start chasing their tails when it comes to breaking it down… you know, like a dawg would do?

Do I really need to tell you all the potential these guys have? I don’t think so. They need to keep doing what they love and enjoy, because gaddamnit those are the rules. You do what you love and enjoy because that’s part of what adds colour to your life. If not, you join the boring group of ‘mediocrates’ who roam about trying to gray out other people’s colours. I won’t have that, no. Rather I close down the whole Dancing Silhouettes project that leave it to become a shell of its original casing, lying around with no sense of bravado in its veins.
Time to have a talk with the boys, girl’s style.

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