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Firesight


I'm an IT Brony who writes stories based on a show for 8-year old girls whose content is meant for anything but 8-year old girls.

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  • Friday
    Still working on Midnight Rising...

    At the rate of about 800-1000 words a day. That’s my key to getting stuff done that’s causing you issues; just be sure you put at least a little time in on it this day to have some forward momentum. The two chapters are now up to 24,100 words. I’ll work on it more this weekend, at least around continuing work around the maps and battle graphics I’m making for Feathered Hearts.

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  • 1 week
    Did two things this past weekend...

    First, I ran 10k for the first time in two months after laying off that long to let my ankle bursitis subside, trying to allow the area to generally heal up. It appears that it worked. To my delight, there was no ankle pain after and I hadn’t even lost much stamina thanks to hitting an elliptical machine twice a week for an hour instead of jogging. My upper legs are another matter, though.

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  • 1 week
    C&C chapter 40 entering prereads tonight + teaser

    Much as I didn’t want to, I made the decision to break it up since the full length of the War Council meeting had exceeded 20,000 words and will probably approach 25k for the now-two chapters before all is said and done. The breakpoint itself will be between learning about the general war situation both Aricia and the Griffon Kingdom face, and then discussing what in all the Crows they’re going

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  • 2 weeks
    Midnight Rising/C&C update: April showers may bring May flowers...

    But of more interest is the emergence of 17-year cicadas in my area. Big, ugly, red-eyed insects that are the size of your thumb but basically harmless, as long as you can get past all the shed skins they leave behind on leaves and the everpresent and disconcertly loud background sound they produce as a mating call. Fortunately, the outbreak in my area seems pretty limited. There's a few around,

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  • 3 weeks
    Midnight Rising update; Feathered Hearts C&C teaser...

    Hey, folks. Here’s my weekly writing update. I’m tagging this as C&C since that’s what the teaser below is about, but the blog is about both it and Unleash the Magic - Midnight Rising.

    Unleash the Magic - Midnight Rising

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Feb
10th
2017

If Sabaton made songs about Thunderbolt · 1:05am Feb 10th, 2017

Hey folks...

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I'm starting work on the next Firefly chapter this weekend. Currently, I'm alternating chapters of it with Five Star Service and will continue to do so until the latter is complete in two more chapters. And after that? Will alternate between Firefly and The Lawyer and the Unicorn.

Probably be another week before the next chapter is ready. But in the meantime... a special treat. Some of you may have heard the Sabaton song To Hell and Back, which is about Audie Murphy, one of the most decorated American soldiers of WWII... and one who suffered from severe PTSD afterwards. For that reason, he and the song remind me of Thunderbolt, and thus I've written alternate lyrics for the song to make it about him. So read and sing along, and you'll get some hints as to what's in store for our favorite future Bolt Knight... oh yes, and he'll be appearing one last time before the outbreak of war in either the next chapter or the one after. So without further ado...

A stallion Lieutenant
A soldier so strong
Defending a village
When all went so wrong

Grief turns to rage
And a demon takes hold
Both tragic and triumph
His story is told

Flight
A Bolt Knight
If there be
Salvation in war
Let it come
To those like him

Who knew he would never come back

Gravestones grew on IS-2
Where his force couldn't fight
And all died in his sight
Through Phoenix Fire
On vengeance' pyre
In Altair and Rial
The Lucavi did fall

His warrior soul wounded
His friends still he mourned
But his city was threatened
And his demon reborn

Slew all attackers
Saved all he could
Defender of Harmony
Cloudsdale still stood

Might
A Bolt Knight
If there be
Any glory in war
It belongs
To those like him

Who fought knowing he could not win

His friends were slew at IS-2
Where betrayal and lies
Meant those he loved dies
When death did wait
Did not hesitate
Bought time for his friends
Now his spirit ascends

So listen closely
As whose life we now review
A stallion
Whose love and faith were true

And from the Inland Shores
Where his thunder still roars
His courage ensures
That Equestria endures

His plaque sits well where his friends once fell
When the fighting did cease
He at least found his peace
His demons slain
He no longer knows pain
He launched an attack
Knowing he'd never come back!

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