Now that there are actual people regularly reading the EC stories, commenting, discussing and sometimes arguing about them, and asking for detailed updates, I am wondering if it might be worth my time to set up a Fimfiction group for them. This would help keep everything organized and might also foster more discussion... or it might just be a big waste of time that never gets used, I don't know. Seeing if people are interested enough to comment on a blog post is the first step.

Recently, Serketry introduced me to the Ponyville Mysteries novel series (I had already read the -confusingly- similarly-named comics), and we both concluded that the Peryton Panic novel was an excellent candidate for an EC story. We decided to make it more of a "side" story with less of a focus on the Mane Six and episode-critical events; and more of a focus on OCs going on an adventure that, while still dangerous, wasn't balancing the fate of the world or even especially

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While it may not look like much has been happening, this last month or so has seen some truly heroic efforts on the part of my coauthor Serketry to help me put the whole of the first half of My Little Pony: Friendship into some sort of coherent logical order. This has resulted in rearranging a fair number of episodes to avoid things like one potentially world-ending event happening right after another, and the development of actual arcs and multi-episode plots and season-wide themes and

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LONG.

LIVE.

PONY.

I and all three of my coworkers at the Medical Robotics & Computer Integrated Surgery Lab at Case Western Reserve University are graduating this semester, and I wanted commemorate our work there, so I made this poster.

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[PROTIP: Please note that the hyperbolic tone of this post is for comedic effect. While I certainly don’t think Fall of Equestria is in any way worth defending, I also think it is largely beneath my notice and not worth getting all up in arms over.]

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