If you’re new on the blog, please stop by this thread and say pie — er hi.
We recommend that newcomers (that’s what “neophytes” means) look over The Rules and The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog).
Next, if you’re so minded, stop by Who’s Here (see the menu at the top of your screen) and announce your arrival in a comment there, so we’ll be sure to add you to the official list.
MuseBlog Veterans: Please use this thread only to welcome newcomers as they arrive and answer questions that they ask.
Hello, here I am!
Oh, there you are. We were afraid we’d lost you.
Welcome!
We haven’t been getting many neophytes lately at all; it’s good to have someone new. I’m Bibliophile; I like ecology and musical theater. And books, of course. Also garlic.
It’s great to see someone new! Welcome! Please, make yourself at home.
I’m Errata. I like… Well, everything and anything, intermittently. I drift between fandoms a lot.
Anyway, feel free to poke around and see what interests you! The Blog awaits.
Welcome! Please stay awhile.
I will. I know I posted this question on a different thread already but I forget which.This is my question: Are Squids and Pies… Which is good and which is bad? Like when it says at the bottom of a post “squid” and “pie me”.
Here are the answers:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?page_id=22#comment-474558
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?page_id=89#comment-474556
Addendum: If the number of pies minus the number of squids that a post has is at least ten, the post turns pink. Squids shouldn’t really be a factor at all, but pies and squids were adapted from like and dislike buttons, so the software treats them as if that’s what they are, even though they’re really more complicated.
I’ve tried to fix that glitch a couple of times, but I have to re-enter the changes every time a new version of the software installs itself, so nowadays I just accept it as one of the blog’s many lovable quirks.
I won’t be posting much for now just reading.
Hi, I’m the brother of Eggy Rice, my sister, who I have a habit of annoying. I am a nerd about multiple book and movie franchises. Hi, dudes!
How do I change my picture, and where can I talk about the Oz the Great and Powerful movie, plus other Oz works like L. Frank Baum’s original books and the horrible Return to Oz film from 1985? (I hate that Return to Oz movie except for all nonhuman characters in it, except the film’s version of the Nome King, which totally sucks, but Jack Pumpkinhead is great in that movie!)
Dr. S:
I recommend the new Books and Reading thread.
I’m not sure how many other MBers have read the Oz books. But I have, and I can talk about them for hours. Fire away!
Hi! Welcome to you, too! I haven’t read the Oz books yet, but I’ve been wanting to lately. Of course, I’ve been wanting to read a lot of books lately, and I recently restarted Les Miserables, so it might be a while. I think I actually saw Return to Oz once, but that was a long time ago. I don’t remember liking it much, either.
To change your avatar, you have to make an account at gravatar dot com. It’s free, though (and safe, as everyone here whose avatar isn’t a polygon with a face can attest).
You two wouldn’t happen to be from the Cricket Chatterbox, would you? It’s one of the few sources of neophytes we have (albeit not a large one), and you remind me of a brother and sister from there. If you are, hi! I go by Ima there. If you see someone with a familiar name, it almost certainly isn’t a coincidence, but right now, I don’t think there’s a high amount of overlap. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, just ignore me; it’s not relevant.
Oh, we are from the Chatterbox! I’m Daffodil and Dr stinky is JDD.
You can change your picture at gravatar.com. All you have to do is type in your email and password that you use here in MuseBlog.
I read almost all of the Oz books when I was younger. I liked them, although some got a bit weird.
Hello and welcome, Eggy Rice and Doctor Seawind Stink!! Nice to have some new faces on the blog–we haven’t had anyone in ages.
We have a movies thread (https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=11305), that is a bit out of date but has been getting some use lately anyway! You can air all your passionate feelings about Ozian matters there.
Also, man, now I really want fried rice…
I’ve just made a new movies thread for 2013, too.
You messed up Doctor Seaweed Stink’s name. I remember how embarrassed I was when I got called a girl. I wouldn’t want poor Seaweed to encounter anything similar.
oh no, being called a girl. I can think of no fate more horrifying.
girls are just fine, really, but some have strange habits-none of which have been bestowed upon My Maleness.
wait… what
Some girls have strange habits. Some boys have strange habits. Some nonbinary people have strange habits.
People act in strange ways a lot. That has nothing to do with gender.
And… I’m not sure why you’d ever capitalize “My Maleness” like that.
You should write a Dr. Seuss-esque book about this.
YES.
typin’ on a phone leads to many strange spellings, esspecially since my fingers are too clunky for the tiny iPhone keyboard. You’re lucky I’m legible
OMG! a new couple of faces!
Been awhile since we’ve had anyone new.
Testing, testing, does my new image work?
Oh, come on!
Now let’s see if my new avatar comes in…
Yes!!! Hang on, I want it to be something else.
Just one thing. Is it possible to have an animated GIF as your avatar pic?
I’ve never seen one…
Neither have I, and I’ve been here since about this time 2011.
(Oh, dear, I missed my blogiversary for the first time ever. Oops.)
Also, Dr. Seaweed Stink, I know you’ve been annoyed lately at the ChatterBox admins’ deleting parts of your posts. You should probably know that the MuseBlog admins can do that, too, but they have different expectations. If you’ve read The Rules, you should probably be fine. Also, generally speaking, we’re not supposed to even talk about other websites even if we don’t link to them. There are exceptions, like the Official Musoid Sites, Other Essential Links, and Our Places. I’ve heard that certain curse words (as well as common website names) get a comment automatically deleted, while others get automatically corrected to ‘cake’ (our all-purpose mild oath). On the whole, though, MuseBlog is way less strict about content, and you can definitely discuss some things that would not be allowed on the ChatterBox.
Thanks a bunch, dude! I came here hoping that the restrictions would be looser. (Plus Eggy Rice was here, and I generally take a swing at websites my sis goes to.) Can we talk about how we want to die? The Admins of the CB would let me say nothing on that subject.
I did read the rules, and I’m glad the Chatterbox is an exception to the “no-links” thing here. I wanted to tie in some of the stuff I did there to some of the stuff I did here. Is there a good place here for my hypothetical questions? See http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/inkwell/node/116875
Rants & Plaints thread.
Just so you know, Eggy Rice made the post to which I am replying. She forgot to put in her own name instead of mine.
I’d like to request:
One: a thread for general fanfiction, if we don’t already have it or have old ones that are obsolete
Two: A thread for requesting threads.
We have a thread for requesting threads (https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=8467). It’s old, but you can still use it. I think that fanfiction would probably go on the Writing thread (https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=13036). Other than that, if you have stuff that you want to talk about that there isn’t a thread for, the Random thread is a good place for it.
Time for a new Suggestion Box thread, methinks.
Granted.
I got a 5530 on Asteroids destroying this page! Also, for everyone who has not seen me on the Chatterbox, my birthday is April 10th. I AM FOURTEEN
Eggy Rice tells me only Admins can start threads here. Can someone request a thread (s) to be started? I have a thing or two in mind…
It never hurts to ask.
Hang on, when I said “how we want to die”, I wasn’t thinking of talking about stuff like, “Oh my life is so horrible I want to end it”, I was thinking more, “Hm, I gotta die sooner or later. This is how I hope to make the best of it”.
For my part, I want to live to be a hundred and not die gruesomely. Probably of old age. So, nothing heroic or overly painful.
Maybe there should be a thread where we write ficticional scenarios ending in our own deaths.
Looks like we have ourselves a “self-sadist” here…
I didn’t get that impression at all. He said specifically that it wasn’t that he wanted to die; it was that he knew he would and had preferences–which included the avoidance of pain. I don’t think he’s delighting in his death or suffering; he just wants to talk about it. In fact, I know him off-blog, and he seems to like imagining fictional scenarios involving himself (and hearing about others’ fictional scenarios involving themselves) in general, with or without anything unpleasant happening.
but just thinking about it is spooky…
Welcome, neophytes! If you simultaneously run out of things to do and sanity, do pop along to the Muse Academy Game Room, where a game of Paker is being fiercely fought. It’s the sort of game where it’s perfectly legitimate to jump in half way through the first round.
GAPAs, can I invite MBers to my blog that I have created?
I have gotten everything the way I want it there, except there’s no one there to post anything…
If you give the go-ahead, I’ll give the URL.
Alas, our GAPA vows forbid it.
I can agree to this.
My wittow duckies came today!
WRONG THREAD!
I thought it was the JRT XD
i’m such an idiot.
Welcome, Eggy Rice and Doctor Seaweed Stink!
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Hello! So I can’t seem to log in to my account. I reset my password and when I try to log in this red bar shows up on the screen with no text in it. Do any of you know hot to fix this?
Are you the MBer formerly known as hobbit? Maybe you forgot your password. I’ve given you a temporary new one (same as your email address). Give that a try and let me know how it works.
HAI!
Hello there! I love your blogname! Welcome to MuseBlog, assuming you’re truly a neophyte. May I ask how you have come to be here?
Hello! You seem new. Been a little while since anyone new has come along. Stay for a bit.
Pie (Hi) Muse! I am you best fan! I subscribe to your magazine! I didn’t know about the Lord Howe phasmids (a new word I learnt) , b!
but now I do!
Welcome, Tanmay! Good to see you here.
Hello Tanmay, welcome to MuseBlog!
Well, hello! Great to see you!
All of Museblog welcomes Tanmay!
Hello, Tanmay! Welcome to the ‘blog. We hope you stick around awhile.
Yep I am glad to be here. Can you please tell me where to find the site map? Thanks!
Hello there, Tanmay! To find the sitemap: look at the top of the screen, hover your mouse over “what’s here,” and click the last option–“sitemap”.
…I have never seen that before.
There are lots of little bells and whistles tucked away on the blog.
Yeah, me neither. I would have had no idea of where it was to point Tanmay to it and was intrigued to see it myself!
Hi, Tanmay, glad to have you here!
Greetings from Kingswinford.
Hi Tanmay! Welcome to Museblog!
HI. I got an account yesterday.
Hello, Ethan! Welcome to the blog.
A few things to note. The Who’s Here page always takes a while to be updated: the Admins don’t tend add people until they’ve become a regular presence. Additionally, accounts take (I believe) six months to be approved in ordinary circumstances. You don’t need an approved account to be a member; logging in allows you access to some threads that are hidden from neophytes, but you can post on more than 90% of the blog before then.
In short: when Robert Coontz says “Patience, grasshopper!” he usually has a good reason.
That said, since you’re new here, you may want to check out the HG2MB, our unofficial User’s Guide. It’s in the bar at the top of the blog and contains all the links you’ll need to get started. I hope you decide to stick around!
Thanks
I’ll go there
Hi. how do you change you profile picture?? I don’t know how.
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⌒
I don’t know how.
Please answer!!!
You can go to gravatar dot com, and once you’ve made an account there with the same email address you use here, you can customize an image to be connected with that email.
Thank you
They say to start a thread you have to talk to an administrator. How do you ask an administrator???
Administrators are always watching. From above, like magical deities who moderate and read every post on this site.
Wow, I just realized: that’s a lot of posts that the GAPAs have read over the years. Thanks for that, GAPAS!
Welcome to the blog, Ethan!
Welcome to MuseBlog, Ethan! How did you stumble upon our little community?
I thought that Muse magazine was awesome, I googled something like “Muse Magazine” and found this and I found this cool website!!!
Awesome, welcome!
Hello, peoples! ‘Tis I, that kid that none of you know about yet because I just found this AWESOME blog LAST NIGHT! I looked through some of the stuff, signed up and everything! Now, I’m COMMENTING! I’ve never done that before. So, YAY!
By the way, what exactly do the pies and hot pink bunnies mean on here? I would think that pies are good, but if we’re trying to work toward world domination, wouldn’t we want the bunnies on our side? Just a thought.
(Did I say that this place is REALLY COOL?)
Anyway, HI!
Hello, Noah! It’s a pleasure to meet you.
Hello, there, Noah!
The pies are good, equivalent to the Facebook ‘likes’ I believe.
The HPBs are psychotically evil in every way. If we formed an alliance, they would be backstabbing any chance they got.
Welcome, Noah! *Confetti*
Pies vary, but are usually good. HPBs started as a GAPA (Great And Powerful Administrator) fix for a cats vs dogs fight, but they began to think…they began to plan…and have since evolved from their original purpose. The nearly universal inherent horror of HPBkind is one of the Great Mysteries of Our Time, but they are fearsome beasties, to be sure.
Hi, Noah, welcome to MuseBlog! It is indeed an awesome blog and we’re glad to have you on it!
Pies have several meanings on MB:
– Like in the larger world, as a tasty food often given or eaten in celebration, hence the “pie” buttons at the bottom of posts used to indicate support or agreement with a post. You will also sometimes see MuseBloggers offering each other pie in a post as a gesture of sympathy or celebration, sometimes with a thematically appropriate filling for the situation.
– As seen above, MuseBloggers very much prefer pie to cake, and jokingly regard pie as the opposite of cake. As a continuation of this theme, since pie is seen as positive, cake is jokingly seen as negative and the word “cake” is often used in place of swear words by MBers in their typing. (This doesn’t mean we actually think there’s anything wrong with cake or eating it, though.)
– In roleplaying games and occasionally elsewhere, pie may also be used by MBers as a weapon, as in the classic cartoon gag of throwing a pie in the face of an enemy. These pies will also often be described as having filling that is either dangerous or at least harmful to their intended target (i.e., a spike pie or dynamite pie as a general weapon, a medicine pie being thrown at a disease, a Kryptonite pie being thrown at Superman, etc.)
– The squids also seen at the bottoms of posts alongside the pies are NOT dislike buttons, but rather expressions of sympathy or sadness, for when you agree with something but a pie seems too celebratory.
Hot pink bunnies are a concept created by Muse Magazine (the magazine that inspired the creation of this website) back in the early 2000s as a way of ending the running debate in their letter column by readers about whether cats or dogs were better. The editors announced that any letter that included contributions to the cats vs. dogs debate would have that part of the letter redacted and replaced by a string of the hot pink bunny characters when it was printed in the magazine.
Over the next few years, a loose folklore began to develop around the bunnies that saw them as dangerous monsters (perhaps because of the perception that they “ate anger” in replacing the arguments about cats and dogs and because they are a color not found among bunnies in nature) among Muse readers. Since the creation of MuseBlog in 2005, MuseBloggers have created more and more elaborate mythology about the bunnies, including the idea that they can brainwash, eat, and zombify humans and thus that MuseBloggers are engaged in a secret war against them to protect humanity.
On the side of bunnies? *shivers*
Welcome, Noah!
Welcome! It’s good to see you here!
Ah, yes, the world domination thing. I was confused by it myself when I first showed up. But, see, the bunnies are more interested in warfare and enslaving the world, while our world domination plans are more about spreading an ideology.
Like, picture an HPB standing above the world shouting “BOW TO ME” as opposed to an entire planet chanting “one of us”.
…That probably only made sense to me.
I’ve always figured that world domination could mean just about anything anyone wanted it to. We’re flexible and ready to help with most reasonable visions.
Well, that explains why nobody would ever give me a straight answer. Noah, feel free to read my post as my own personal opinion and proceed in any way you see fit. While remaining aware that any attempt to recruit the HPBs to our cause will result in immediate quarantine and a debunnification procedure. For your own safety.
“MuseBlog: Where world domination is a reasonable vision”It’s perfectly reasonable, as far as I’m concerned. If somebody is going to dominate it, it might as well be you.
Hello, and welcome
Wow! Thanks so much! I didn’t know any of that stuff! I’m really excited about this little niche in the web, as I’ve never been a part of this kind of thing. From what I’ve seen, it really is a little community (as Selenium the Quafflebird once said in comment 25)
Great welcome! Thank you!
Pies to MuseBlog! (as well as everyone on it, of course)
Welcome to MuseBlog, Noah! It’s lovely to see a new face around here!
Hi Noah! Seems like we haven’t had any neophytes in forever.
Yup, just a bunch of people who talk about stuff. Though there used to be quite a lot of writing and role-playing.
Wow, hello!
Greetings! Indeed, this is a nice little quiet community nestled in a peaceful corner of the internet. Great to have a new face (so to speak)!
Hi!
– 27.4
Hello.
Oh, Carissa, would that be you?
Hello! Welcome to MuseBlog!
Well, hello. And who might you be?
Hello, are you new here?
Yeah, I’m Carissa and I am new here. ^^
Just so Museblog knows, this is a friend of mine. Remember the internet friend that I posted about back in the March 2014 Random Thread? Well, here she is.
Well, HI! I’m relatively new to the ‘blog as well, and I have to say (if you haven’t looked around much or heard from Catwings, which I doubt) this place is awesome! Judging by the fact that you are Catwings’ friend, we’re probably about the same age (although I may very well be wrong – I normally am about these things). Anyhow, nice to meet you!
Hey, nice to meet you too. ^^
I’m Back! It’s me, Eggy Rice… I guess I’m a semi-neophyte…? I haven’t been here in a long time… I’ve been on the CB for a bit, but all the newbies there are making it so… exciting and energetic and exclamation marks and “WOOOOOMALOOMALOOMALOOO!!!!!!!” I’m a bit overwhelmed. Also they’re a bit… immature and trivial seeming. Gosh I sound like I hate the newbies don’t I?
Anyway, I came here to find some peace and quiet and serious discussion…. and museblogginess. I’ve been lurking for about 15 hours. I won’t be posting too much, I don’t get on computers often and my phone doesn’t work well enough with the site to let me post.
Okay, I type too much, Bye.
Welcome back, ER! We haven’t seen you since [*searches*] July 24, 2013.
wait how do you type a pie… in a post…?
I use these…too much… I forget what they’re called… ellipses?
I forget a lot of stuff from MB, but I can just google most of it.
The pie in a post? Just put the (all lowercase) word ‘arrow’ in between two : It should look like : arrow : without spaces.
this seems like educational reddit
Reddit is educational, though!
We’re more of a forum here, though, whereas reddit is more of a bulletin board.
Anyway, welcome!
Aw man, repeating words when I’m tired. Typical.
It’s a bit like reddit in the way that we post comments and whatnot. However, reddit is a large sprawling network of boards with a zillion users, while the MB is more of a small space where we all sit around and get to know each other pretty well.
Welcome to MuseBlog, Erin!
it has equal pretension to reddit, but less misogyny.
Do we have an MB codename for Reddit? External Robot Commenting Site (after the example of External Blue Bird Microblogging Site), perhaps?
Oh, yeah. Hey everyone, this happens to be a friend of mine from school. Erin… everyone, everyone, this is Erin.
I found this blog after getting the September 2015 issue looking for a place to emote about my sorrows
Everylittlebit,
Welcome! How did you find us? We don’t exactly roam the Internet tooting vuvuzelas.
Well, you don’t.
Welcome ELB! I have a few… Questions
1. Who’s your fave muse?
2. Why is so and so your fave muse?
3. Do you like Mimi (she’s my favorite. I bring her up when ever I can)
4. Do you want to take over the world?
5. Why is the sky blue?
Hi there! I also have questions:
-Do you want us to call you ELB or something different?
-If you don’t mind (totally optional, I’m just curious), how old are you?
-What kind of music do you like?
-Anything else you’d really like us to know about you?
And of course, feel free to ask questions about how things work here on MB!
Hi!
I don’t get Muse anymore- was MB mentioned in the September issue?
Hello everyone! I used to lurk on this site a lot in middle school but never posted, or if I did, I can’t find my account. Anyways, I’ve been re reading my Muse collection recently and really enjoying it again, so I thought I’d come back and make and account to talk to other fans.
Welcome back, Gilraen!
Hi! I’m new to MB. Can someone explain how this works? It is chaotic compared to CB (Chatterbox) the place I come from originally (tragically it is shut down for maintenance). What does MB like to talk about? How do I create a thread? This is so hard to figure out.
Latest to the party, stumbling upon a lost civilization and marveling at the monuments…
…And meeting some living relics. Glad Muse Blog is still (at least a little bit) alive.