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Sir Mediocre


If nobody is telling the story you want to read, then you have to tell it yourself.

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  • Monday
    Character Art

    Placed below the break for anyone who has not read past Chapter 2. If you haven’t, no clicky!

    A simple sketch of Night Cloud in her hospital scrubs, done by Helmie. Helmie’s Patreon here.

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  • 5 weeks
    Progress Update

    Bleeerrrrrgghhhhhh!:pinkiesick:

    You heard me. Bleeerrrrrgghhhhhh!:flutterrage:

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  • 7 weeks
    Update: Am Slow, Not Dead

    I probably should have said this a few weeks ago, but I took an unintended break from rewriting things.

    Translation: I burned myself out writing close to 50,000 words of mostly-original narrative over the span of two and a half months.:pinkiesick:

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  • 12 weeks
    Chapter 5 Revision Complete - 6 Underway

    What it says on the tin. If you were waiting for Chapter 5, go read it! :flutterrage: Please. :fluttershysad:

    I’m a little over halfway done with rewriting 6. Unlike with chapters 2-4, I’ve been able to salvage most of 5 and 6. A lot of the work is reframing the same events from the original version, recontextualizing it, and some of it is shortening things, trimming the fat.

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  • 13 weeks
    Chapter 4 Revision Finished

    Go read my fic! :flutterrage:

    Chapter 4 was a real piece of work, but absolutely worth it.

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Apr
21st
2023

Map of the Bellenastian Valley · 12:35am Apr 21st, 2023

Little blue apocalypse horse's adventure now comes with 100% more map! Courtesy of... that's right, me!
Here it is, in all its blinding, eraser-smudgy glory!
Solid lines are rivers, dotted lines are roads and highways (not the paved kind, mind you) All the big dots are towns, villages, hamlets, and in the eponymous case, the Dunn Kingdom's Capital, Bellenast.

It ain't too fancy, but I'm proud of it, darn it. I made that map.

Some important notes:

While I reference locations on the official map, I don't adhere strictly to its exact layout or scale. I envision the Equestrian continent, whatever it is called, to be about the size of Africa, and broader across than it is presented in the official map. The San Palomino Desert, for example, is much larger and located farther to the south in my version, and the entire Bellenastian Valley couldn't exist on that map without some shuffling around of key locales, notably the area south of the Macintosh Hills (The Mysterious South on the G4 Movie map) and around the Forest of Leota, a location shown in a couple place in the MLP comics. Additionally, there is a significant distance (1500-2000km) between the eastern edge of the Bellenastian Valley and the Badlands.

At the eastern edge of the Badlands lies the mountain range, deep within which you would find Cloud Loft Peak, Crystal's erstwhile home, and to the east of that, the Hayseed Swamps and the coast of the Celestial Sea.

I'll make a new blog about it if I add any more substantial details, but everything critical is there.

Have you made a map lately, for a story you've written, or for someone else's story? You should. It's surprisingly fun. Make sure you can support your drawing surface at a good angle in front of you, though; looking down constantly for any length of time will be a very real pain in the neck.

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