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Balthasar999


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  • 462 weeks
    Episode One-Hmmm-dred

    I'm divided. I liked it, but not as much as I'd like to like it, or maybe it's a matter of how critically respectable it might be to like it. The sincerity of the ending graciously offset a lot of the wink-wink-nudge-nudge stuff, which is lucky because MLP is pretty much the only show from which I tolerate that kind of guilelessness. But because it is MLP, namely its own specific

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  • 503 weeks
    Vulnerability

    I just published a real bizarre Optimalverse one-shot I feel a tad self-conscious about showing the world. Maybe it's crazy, maybe it's pretentious, or maybe it's crazy-pretentious, but I'd started putting too much thought into it for it to ever not see the light of day. Read it and draw your own conclusions:

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  • 525 weeks
    More.

    Wrote about 1,500 words today on P-Theory. Some of you have been asking, but it ain't dead! I'm getting really on top of work this month, so I should have a lot more time and creative energy to use on writing.

    But I did also work on an illustration:

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  • 538 weeks
    Merry Xmen. I mean mas.

    This goes out to all y'all people out there in FiMFictionLand... Hope you had a happy one.
    You know, I used to think it was a religious holiday until I saw all these Facebook posts about how apparently people have been celebrating winter holidays for a long, long time! Who knew? Kudos to them for blowing the lid off this whole Christmas thing!

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  • 545 weeks
    Smooth Stylin

    Just got back from doing a stand up set (kiiiiilled iiiiiiit - So many free drinks) and am booked for another one tomorrow, at a comic shop of all places (I'll make sure to check if they have The Pony). But I also just finished a big commission last night, and should have another one done by this weekend, so there should be plenty of time for me to write.

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May
13th
2013

At least I can do it in my pajamas... · 6:41am May 13th, 2013

One of my illustration clients is wanting to start speeding things along (me too; it's been taking forever), so the next chapter might be delayed a bit.

I've written most of it out, but as of now it leads into an arc I'm not sure is entirely necessary. On the one hand, encounters need to happen out in the city with different kinds of people (let's fire them at a pony and see what happens!), but on the other it needs to segue into something qualitatively new instead of just being deposited back out on the street. Hmmm... I suppose I could have it lead into the other thing I want to have happen out on the street, but how to do it naturally...?

While I mull that over, enjoy this surprisingly well-produced music video of the International Space Station's Chris Hadfield covering David Bowie, with a couple lyrics changes to make it about being sad to be going home, instead of deciding never to (I guess that Harlem Shake they did was just a warm up act):

(I can't top my friend's assessment that it'd be worth it even if this is all they built the thing to do.)

As for the Equestria Girls preview? Hm. For one thing, wasn't "Equestria girls" the exact premise of the actual show? Not like the HBO show "Girls" but the literal kind (Try watching that back to back with FiM, though - Suddenly MLP feels like a Shonen show about fighting monsters). But from what I've seen it could be a lot worse. I'm going to reserve judgement, though, and see if a consensus starts to form over it. In other words, you guys all go see it first and tell me how it is.

But what I want to know is, why are the ponies - animals which in real life have twiggy, knobbly limbs - so adorably chubby and filled out, while the humans - animals which in real life have smooth, sleek limbs - are so damn skinny and pointy?

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