Captive Audience · 12:25pm Nov 4th, 2020
As we experience what feels like the world's longest drumroll, I'm going to spend my thousandth blog post to provide explicit, scientific proof that friendship is indeed magic.
As we experience what feels like the world's longest drumroll, I'm going to spend my thousandth blog post to provide explicit, scientific proof that friendship is indeed magic.
I do love a good blackboard shot.
The scene where Zipp stands in front of such a board in the derelict Zephyr Heights station, while confessing her deep frustration at living a ridiculous lie, was a great scene that had me pressing the pause button and taking screen shots. What does this board tell us?
Hello again. I come bearing a massive announcement!
Pinkamena: Beasts of Fall is now in book form and will be sold at Ponyville Ciderfest's After Dark Vendor Hall on November 17th & 18th!
As I get the second part of the Enforcer Remastered ready to go, starting with chapter 31, I thought I'd discuss wish-based magic™️. Unicorns in western mythology are associated with purity. MLP is at its root a children's show, so there is a limit to what
There are some stories that have the plot point that Celestia and Luna do not actually have the control over their respective heavenly bodies that everypony believes they do — that they are merely pretending to raise and lower them, while natural causes are really responsible. Sometimes this is done in an attempt to make Equestria more realistic and believable, with the nasty character implications of such prolonged and enormous deception merely coming along for the ride. Sometimes it's the
If Imposing Sovereigns II isn't in your court, you may be interested in an alternate proposal. Pineta isn't so much commissioning stories about particle physics topics as he's offering a bounty on them, at 25 pounds per offered kiloword. (Over US$30!) Details here for those interested.
Bronycon draws ever closers, and I've been working hard to prepare 2 of the anthologies that were the highest voted from the last pole I did. In case I never confirmed the results, the winning anthologies were:
- The Life and Times of Nyx (Past Sins Sequel Anthology)
- Face The Dark (The Dark Story Anthology)
There are three types of story you can get from a physicist about Las Vegas. The first, although not strictly speaking of the city itself, is that of the Nevada Test Site—the arena where, in the 1950s, the nuclear era came of age, and theories of thermonuclear fission and fusion were put to the experimental test. [Question to ponder: what type of cloud is Las Pegasus built on?]
HELLO dear readers, this is PINKIE PIE, your Pony Friend Forever, Party Planner Extra-ordinaire, and fully qualified Nuclear Reactor Engineer. I'm writing this blog post as Pineta is away this week, which means I have a chance to tell you about sub-atomic physics and my favourite particle the neutron.
I created this fictional textbook extract after getting a writing challenge from Pureheart 352, and I rather like the result. While it doesn't really count as a story, I figured it would make a good first blog post.
Anyone connected with the world of High Energy Particle Physics, or anyone who reads lots of popular science articles, may have picked up the news that something interesting has been seen at CERN. Maybe.
This week I received my Friendship Games DVD, which, thanks to the tantalizing post-credits ending of Rainbow Rocks, I watched with considerable anticipation. Of course this film was going to destroy my personal theories about the new Twilight Sparkle.
Hey there, all!
It's Thursday, and there's a new audio book chapter of Sensation, read by Chaotic. Go check it out here!
It's Chapter 4, one of my favorite to write, and as always, Chaotic does a marvelous job. Please give him a subscription on YouTube if you haven't already.
I'm packaging up the international and late orders tonight, and I'll let you know when I'm all finished*!
~Vivid
Izzy Moonbow explains the principle of spin precession and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to Sunny Starscout with the aid of a tennis ball.
Check it out: https://igg.me/at/lpoe
Hey everybody! It's been a long time since The Last Pony on Earth was published. At the time, it was the first story I'd ever written that got really noticed on Fimfiction. I remember reading and responding to every single comment on a story that I updated every single day.
They may live in a small town in a remote part of rural Equestria, yet the ponies of Hope Hollow are an innovative lot. We saw in Rainbow Roadtrip that while ‘hopeless magic’ made them see themselves as an impoverished colourless backwater, they could actually play a full part in Equestrian culture with their well-stocked library, high-tech cottage industries, and rainbow festivals.
Georg’s latest story: The Golden Alicorn of the Sun is a brilliant surreal scific adventure describing a voyage to touch down on the sun itself. It was inspired by the equally crazy 1953 short story by Ray Bradbury.
Sunny Starscout rolled down a slope, with wheels on all four of her hooves. The conversion of gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy caused her to accelerate towards her four friends. She leant to one side to bend her trajectory to circle around them.