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HamGravy


Author of the Tarnished Silver series. I write clopfics with too many emotions in them. My work is very niche, but my readers are a wonderfully enthusiastic bunch, so I must be doing something right?

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  • 97 weeks
    10 Years Later

    Suddenly!

    ...anyone still here?


    Hi, everybody. I doubt anyone else has even noticed, nor would I expect them to, but ten years ago today, I uploaded a weird little clop story called Tarnished Silver to this site.

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  • 436 weeks
    MARE-Y CHRISTMAS, MOVIE HOUSE!

    (That's right, I still exist.)

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  • 528 weeks
    Tarnished Silver: The Audiobook (Plus: foreign language editions, and a teaser for something new!)

    FACT: In our busy modern world of smartphones and red pandas, few of us have time to sit down and read books, let alone morally questionable horse fanfiction. Thus we have seen the meteoric rise of the audiobook, which allows people to take in a story while doing something else, like flying a jet between two narrow canyons under heavy enemy fire, or jogging. But until now, there's been no

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    10 comments · 1,235 views
  • 532 weeks
    "Baby Steps"

    Those two words in yesterday's episode managed to completely redefine the episode, and possibly the character of Fluttershy, for me. I think they might be the two most important words she's ever spoken. Here's why.

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  • 537 weeks
    A new story is coming tomorrow!

    Why yes, I am a shameless whore , thank you for noticing.

    Tomorrow afternoon (that's Friday CST, people of the world) the internet will be forced to endure another entry in the Tarnished Silver canon. It's a one-shot, but I'm actually quite pleased with it, which is something I don't usually say about my own writing.

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Jun
13th
2013

More wonderful fanart from MPA! (SPOILERS for the ending of A Silver Sky) · 9:37am Jun 13th, 2013

No matter how many hours I put into the 600 page monstrosity from Hell we call Tarnished Silver, at the end of the day it's just a fanwork. Not that there's anything wrong with fanworks! But what happens when fanworks keep getting fanworks of their own? Three possibilities:

1) It starts to count as incest.
2) The author is incredibly pleased and humbled.
3) Fallout Equestria.

In my case, it's definitely number 2 (the incest train left the station a long time ago, folks. Sweetie Belle, Rarity, and the Dream Family were on it. Everyone but Sweetie had a great time.)

Once again, we have MPA to thank for these images. He's also responsible for the images of Happy Tune in the Gallery and the death of Aurora. Go take a look at his Tumblr and his DA page for more of his work!

Anyway, he made two new images to commemorate the ending of Tarnished Silver. First we have a cuter (and perhaps a little saner? But only a little) Happy Tune.

It's amazingly satisfying to see a character I created smiling at me from the other side of the screen!

I almost want to give her a hug, but at this point in her therapy she's probably not ready for that level of physical contact with others. It could cause her to fall back into bad habits. Also, she is fictional.

Next up, we have an image of the very last scene in the entire series; Silver's reunion with Rarity:

I love this one. The poses really emphasize how Silver Spoon has now become the stronger of the two, while Rarity has become the one who needs Silver. I think this picture really captures that role reversal.

So yeah, as I say every time someone does this for me, the fact that someone took the time to create something based on my nonsense is just incredibly moving to me. Especially when it's depicting such emotional scenes so well. Thanks, MPA!

I'll try to get more author's notes up soon, and included with them will be a tiny bit of new info on what I'm working on right now, since I know a number of you have asked. See you then!

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Comments ( 4 )

It's always good to see images of Tarnished Silver. It makes the whole thing come to life so much more! :pinkiehappy:
Now that that text version is done, the three works that would be cool to see one day would be:
1. An Audio book of Tarnished Silver
2. A comic of Tarnished Silver
3. A Fan Flash Animation of Tarnished Silver

I would like to see more of the OC's though. I mean I am really happy to see that Aurora, Peregrine, and Happy Tune have pictures, but I would like to see more of the other OC's.

Mostly a picture of the Dream Family with the quote, "Nothings more important than Family".
Or a picture of Triage at the hospital or Twenty covered in blood, or even a picture of Domino bulling Fond Wish. All your OC are really cool. :raritywink:

wow that drawing of Happy Tune is so cute i think im getting a CTD

(figure it out :pinkiehappy:)

Normally, I wouldn't comment on a month and a half old blog post like this, but that picture of Happy Tune is amazing. I thought this fandom had somehow managed to desensitize me to cute, but MPA has proved me wrong. It's rare, anymore, for me to find a picture that makes me smile everytime I see it like that one. It's really, really cute!

YES I finally know and can give credit to who drew the awesome reuniting of Ms Rarity and Spoony :pinkiehappy:

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