Neoclassical

I started Classic WoW knowing that it would be old and new to me. Old, since I've been playing for 8+ years, and new because I started playing in Cataclysm and had never seen Vanilla. I expected to be surprised by the way things looked, familiar yet different, and by some UI changes. I was around for a lot of the big changes: character-wide mounts and pets, transmog, the wardrobe, faction-tagging mobs, etc., so I figured it would be more nostalgic than drastic differences. For the most part, it is as I thought it would be, but I have been delighted by all of the minor differences that I hadn't known about, like the scrawling of the quest text as it appears and waiting until the text all appears before the
"Accept" quest button is interactable. But the thing that really made me laugh was when I opened my map:

...and realized that full-size was the only option. I didn't even realize I was taking that little arrow in the corner for granted! Besides turning on Auto-loot (available in Classic, thank goodness!), resizing my map was one of the first things I always do on a new character, I feel claustrophobic when the map is full-size and I can't see where I'm going (because, of course I'm running with the map open). Classic is a hoot so far and I haven't even reached level 2 yet. I'm not really eager to really level a character and see how weapon leveling works, among other surprises, but it is fun to see and I'm glad they brought it back. I didn't stay up late enough to see the night sky in Orgrimmar, but I did catch the sunset and my brother was right, the Drag is amazingly dark.

On to Mechagon!

I feel so behind after playing only sporadically so far this summer. I logged on to go to Nazjatar to get started on rep grinds and found that other players were already flying. So, needless to say, I am a little behind on part II of Pathfinder, but I am getting there. Eventually.

The Cycle of Life Can Be Cruel...

A water turtle was on our sidewalk in front of our house for quite a while recently and the next morning we found a hole with broken/torn egg shells scattered around it. When my brother heard about it he said "So, the turtles didn't make it to the water, I guess.".
While seagulls would be the obvious culprit based solely on my World of Warcraft experience (crabs are too slow and awkward) my dad says raccoons are likely responsible, which does make a lot more sense for this area.

Well, Color Me Delighted

I can see the fish head in Ghost Raptor form -albeit slightly askew- now! I did also catch the Severed Azurefin Head this time, but the red one matched the new transmog better. I like the forward-facing appearance of the fish head when the character is looking down in the "working" animation.

Finally, the Recognition I Deserve

I know my Goblin is just doing her idle animation in her nameplate, but I like that it looks like she's hanging her head in shame at the terrible pun. Blizzard should have added a facepalm animation just for this achievement.

Fun with Fish Heads

I forgot they added in fish heads to the Darkmoon Faire until I did the fishing quest this time and got a couple of the Severed Crimsonscale Heads. I guess there's a blue one I need to fish up, too, although I don't really think I need to worry about it complementing my outfit.  It does make for fun screenshots, though:

And I really like the way my Goblin's braids poke through! Especially since her braids bounce when she runs:

Adventures With Orphans-- AKA --Children's Week

I'm happy they put in new quests for Children's Week in BfA, but I still feel duty-bound to complete the quests with my older orphans, too. Although I don't understand why they're still hanging out at the orphanage 7-8 years after our first adventure. Shouldn't they have jobs by now? Although I was delighted to notice Salandria has a Red Hawkstrider mount! Has she always had this? I don't remember seeing it before. I checked and my Orcish orphin rides a Brown Wolf. I'm so glad they didn't give him a dumb horse! My favorite Children's Week quests are the BElf ones in Outland after Warlords, when I got the Ever-Shifting Mirror that lets me show Salandria the same locations in Draenor. I like doing this each year but it would be neat if Blizzard put in some quests for this instead of it being just a silly RP thing I do for fun (and screenshots). --EDIT: I also liked the new Orgrimmar orphan quest to visit the Orgrimmar Embassy to meet some of our new allies. It was quick and easy and brought the new content into the old questline, which was cool. ALSO..I just noticed that they mention on Wowhead that all orphans now have their own mounts, so apparently that is new this year. I...read quickly but not completely, apparently. END EDIT--

Oh, and as for the new quests...I ADORE Azala and her mount, and I loved the quests, too.  Also, Jani is the best loa, hands down.