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Bootsy Slickmane


Retired writer and graphic artist.

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  • 304 weeks
    If

    Sometimes, I make the mistake of looking at my stories here and their comment sections, and I get that old itch to make pony stuff again. I had a lot of fun doing it, after all, and I do love to entertain. I still have a lot of trouble getting any creative work done, of course. I haven't even had any real interest in it for quite a while, now. But even beyond that... well...

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  • 317 weeks
    A Collab Relic

    A few years back, Samey90 and I started writing a story. A story about a little group of young pony friends hanging out at a lake. We did most of the writing on it, but it kinda fell by the wayside. I drifted away from ponies and retired, and it looked as though the fic might never see the light of day. But now, that story has finally been

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  • 332 weeks
    2018

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  • 351 weeks
    A Surprise Shadowbolts Story

    Do you like the Crystal Prep Shadowbolts? Do you like stories with romance in them? Do you like a grittier and more realistic (and cynical) take on Equestria Girls? Then you might want to have a look at the story below the break. I think you'll like what you find.

    And no, it's definitely not the Shadowbolts Adventures series, if that's what you guessed by who's doing this promotion.

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  • 362 weeks
    The New Fimfic

    Is it April again already? Because this new site update is a joke.

    Edit: Okay, it's not a complete joke. There's actually a lot of good stuff in this new update. Bugfixes and cool stuff galore. Buuuut there are also some not-so-good changes, and the flood of new code seems to have broken... everything, at one point or another.

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Jan
21st
2016

A Little Zebra · 8:59pm Jan 21st, 2016

Well, nobody told me not to, so I guess I'll keep blogging this art stuff.

I was working on a horror fic, recently, but I kept hitting walls in how the exact sequence of events should go. I find that taking breaks and doing a bit of drawing helps relieve me, in such times. Gives me a break so I don't get too frustrated. This time, I just drew Zecora, for fun and practice. Sorta branching out and getting away from the show's character models just a little. She's one of my favorites, at this point. I wanna write about her, too, but I suck at poetry. Hope you like zebras.


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Comments ( 5 )

Meanwhile, I took a break in writing to draw a hovercraft. Life is weird, sometimes.

Very nice drawing. :twilightsmile:

I wanna write about her, too, but I suck at poetry.

"We are happy, we are merry
We got a rhyming dictionary"
-- marching cadence by Bart Simpson

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Is your hovercraft full of eels?
Either you'll laugh because you're a Monty Python fan, or you'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

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:rainbowlaugh:

I'll think of including eels, but I came back to writing for now.

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Such resources are handy indeed.
But that's not all a poem does need.
It needs flow; the prose must be refined.
It puts one as myself in a bind.
I can indeed write them, I confess.
But it takes me time in great excess.
For example: this comment right now?
Took me twenty minutes at least. Wow.
So for a zebra so rhymey as her,
Five lines might well take half an hour.

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To hear that rhymes come poorly to one such as you
Fills me with shock and it seems quite askew.
You have a talent in writing, you're very formal in your work.
Yet your hardships in flow feel like an out of place quirk.
Your vocabulary is vast, widespread and exquisite.
Can you really not find words that rhyme to go with it?
Though in all fairness I know of such adversity,
Many talents and passions are drown back by inability.
For instance my passion for writing is alive and well,
But trying to read never amounts to high avail.
I suppose trying to understand how we are is for naught,
In any case, 10 minutes to type out this thought.

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