Newbie Artist Training Grounds XI - Day 1: Trapped on the River Doom · 11:20am Jun 3rd, 2021
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*Record Scratch*
*Freeze Frame*
Yeah, that's me, Scootaloo. I'm sure you're wondering how I got into this situation. Well, it all started with.....
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*Record Scratch*
*Freeze Frame*
Yeah, that's me, Scootaloo. I'm sure you're wondering how I got into this situation. Well, it all started with.....
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And from the ashes she rose, the filly who was thought dead, and her eyes leaked the soot that were her remains. "Cozy Glow is real" she said, over and over again. And it was the last thing they ever heard.....
It seems that fandom drama is not healthy for the writing spirit. Especially not if said drama has been started by an extremist cult leader on Twitter and his followers and if it endangers one of the most important bastions in our fandom and causes an unspeakable amount of pony art to disappear forever.
Some folks have been writing some interesting stories lately.
Clearly, that means it is time for some reviews before I dig into grading tests.
Today’s stories:
The One Who Got Away by Jay-The-Brony
Trav(ap)est(r)y by Estee
Discourse on Fillies by Daedalus Aegle
Just A Pony by Godzillawolf
When We Were Young by naturalbornderpy
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"A Matter of Principals" introduced us to a nice little bit of worldbuilding for Equestria: Arcane Detectors!
Well, what do you know, this episode delivers on not one, but many things I said just last episode we were in dire need of by this point. Of course, how well it executes said things can only be found out by looking at the episode itself. Best to do just that.
I have some news about my Patreon and Ko-fi account to announce today. First, to start with the biggest one, I will go and redesign both accounts. I have started them in 2019, with tiny success so far, but I also was in a mentally bad state when I made a push for earning money with my stories in that year. My writing was, compared to what it is again now, a mess back then, my mental condition affected the quality of it and it also showed in the way I was going about designing my Patreon and
I was just scrolling through Twitter until the new G5 album is coming up next month:
https://twitter.com/MLPG524092021/status/1785115449228673076
Description:
NEW TYT ALBUM COVER!!!!
Release date of the full album: May 10, 2024.
Found at Genius website.
Link: https://genius.com/albums/My-little-pony/Tell-your-tale-the-second-album…
So, it turns out that Sunday was a really good day for new stories. I read five new stories, and I liked them all.
How did this happen?
How is this even possible?
Who knows.
But I’m liking it.
Today’s stories:
Red Apples by Billymorph
Sometimes Maps are Dumb by HoofBitingActionOverload
Would It Matter If I Was by GaPJaxie
The Last Dreams of Pony Island by Horizon
One Heck of a Case by iisaw
What then? How would your life be? How would you feel about having a special talent that is supposed to help ponies, but harms them at the same time? How would you react to this and how would you try to cope with it? Can you imagine how it would be to go through life with such a cruel fate?
There is a pony who can imagine this, because this is exactly the fate that was bestowed on him.
When Crackle Pop awakes the next morning, he finds an unpleasant surprise. An unpleasant surprise that suddenly makes everything different for him and his sister. It leaves them both in sorrow, but is there a glimmer of hope?
I was away today, and only just got to watch the episode. It was another all right episode, featuring a new song, good character dynamic and some fun. The moral of the episode was wonderful, although I'm not sure why Rarity had to learn it as well. It irks me a tad that we don't have the custom credits roll tracks anymore. I hope they'll return soon. I don't have much to say about this one in terms of lore or world-building or anything, but let's go!
So, I'd love to share my day's experiences, but I'm not sure if I have it in me to do it right now. Or, more accurately, I'm not sure if I want to stay up until 5 am writing a blog post - today was VERY active and VERY busy (and fun! I met so many people!).
But just wanted to share one final thing that happened at the end of the day.
All right, this is a bit of an interesting episode. Obviously, this marks another milestone for Rarity, having been able to expand her business twice with success, gradually rising in renown. She's achieving her ambition! Only, one thing, at least her friends fear, might stand in the way of this. So, an opportunity to watch Rarity's friendships, and their bonds with each other, with usual sentimentality. I enjoyed it. Nothing too particular, just a good episode to
I was going to make this last night, but I got trashed at an Xmas party and kind of passed out as soon as I got home. Apparently I didn’t do anything too stupid, though. I called my mom to check and she said I was mostly fine. Just a lot of talking in my sleep on the ride home.
But anyway, back to celebrating my fourth year on the site. And boy howdy was this an eventful year for me.
Yesterday, knighty wrote a site blog post about changes to FIMFiction.net. He implemented new features on the site in the last few weeks and summed them up in a changelog:
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/819751/recent-changelog
One of those changes to FIMFiction.net is sticking out and heavily discussed in the community right now. You sure heard of it already, but for the sake of completion, I mention it here anyway:
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Back in black I hit the sack
I been too long I'm glad to be back
Yes I am
Let loose from the noose
That's kept me hanging about
I keep looking at the sky cause it's gettin' me high
Forget the hearse cause I'll never die
I got nine lives cat's eyes
Using every one of them and runnin' wild
Cause I'm back
Yes I'm back well I'm back
Yes I'm back
Well I'm back back
Well I'm back in black
Yes I'm back in black
Back in the back of a Cadillac
Number one with a bullet I'm a power pack
I have one other Season 9 (mini) analyzis based on the 11 teaser screenshots featured on Equestria Daily. That's going to be the last one for a while, until we get more to dissect. Let's get this started:
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