I realize that this blog post is about two months late, but I got side tracked with school, work, and family issues. Sorry for the delay. Anyway:

* Dr. Layne would've died sometime in the next chapter in order to same Twilight from a large tar monster that was going to be Sleipnir's version of the Smooze.

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I haven't been able to bring myself to write anything in the story since August of last year, and frankly I don't think I want to. I'm not as in to the My little pony fandom as I was when I started writing the story, and given that the story heavily revolves around elements taken from the fandom it's a bit difficult to keep myself interested in the characters. I'm going to give myself a week to think about whether I should cancel it or not and tell you all then. If I do decide to cancel the

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Sorry for the dearth of activity, college and depression basically killed my plans for jumping back into Sleipnir. Anyway, since i only have five chapters until I finish the story, I was wondering about what kind theories my two or three readers have come up for it.

So I've been thinking about how to approach the Sleipnir lore posts, and can't decide where to start. I've come up with a list of things that will unfortunately not be explored in the story proper (there are only about five chapters left), but I cannot figure out which is the most interesting. The list goes:

The exact nature of The Book of Newt

Where did all the monsters come from

Sleipnir's original purpose

Why Dread is a robot

Who/what the Goodfellow and the Administrator are

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Sleipnir is going to take more time than I initially calculated to finish, and as it stands I'm going to have to cut down a lot of plotlines if I'm going to finish it within the next few years. I was thinking that I could provide some nuggets of lore to explain a few things that won't be covered in the story itself, such as Dread's backstory, the nature of Puck, and its relationship with the Book of Newt. They won't be very long, maybe 100-300 words, but they will give me a chance to provide

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It's no secret that Sleipnir draws heavy inspiration from fanworks, and the nature of canon defilement in general, though there are a number of influences that come from outside the fandom that I feel I should list as a means of both providing insight into some of Sleipnir's creative decisions, and as a means of providing recommendations to the five people who read these posts.

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So yeah, I said a few weeks ago that I would be pushing more Sleipnir out of the sewage pit it spawns from, but as it so happens college has taken up the entirety of my writing time in the past few weeks. I already had a shit daily word count (hence why it takes me about a month to write a short chapter), but now all writing has to go toward college, bringing progress on Sleipnir to a snail's pace.

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Sleipnir has gotten more activity in the time since I've posted the last chapter than the three chapters proceeding it combined.

While I'm here, I may as well share some fun facts about Sleipnir.

1) Puck and the Book of Newt were designed for a different story, one that isn't related to MLP in any way.

2) Dread was originally going to be a human in power armor, not a pony cyborg. He also wasn't originally going to have speaking lines.

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Just curious to see why people like the story.

I'm planning on getting back to updating Sleipnir in about a month or so, and was wondering if anyone would look forward to it.