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Balthasar999


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  • 465 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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    8 comments · 1,008 views
  • 505 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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    13 comments · 873 views
  • 528 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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    16 comments · 1,030 views
  • 541 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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    2 comments · 864 views
  • 548 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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Completion · 2:58am Jun 19th, 2013

I didn't get a chance to add any illustrations to the last chapter of P-Theory before I published it, but I finally had time to sit down and do one, then did another because it took so long.
Check 'em out!

Or if you don't feel like going back to the story, here they are anyway!

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Ooooh, I just want to hug her and pet her and call her George!

So the first image is about a giga-smile. And the second, if I were an artist I could tell you why, but I only know that you are getting even better at drawing windows. It's not real, but it certainly feels that way.

Now funny thing happened, I was browsing around your deviantart and found this image again, and I kinda thought "Oh, that's how the placebo effect works!" :derpytongue2: Well, that would possibly be how it works if magic were real and followed something close to what I suspect your ~verse's magic works. (Because somewhere in there mental concepts get turned into super-complex reality stuff, and placebo is when the mind thinking the body is healing somehow makes the body heal a bit sometimes.)

Your illustrations are always such a joy. You are very, very good.

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Just wait for the Faulknerian gigantic manchild cameo...
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Haha, I'm really glad you like those. I didn't really make many decisions going into either one, but I'm glad they turned out.
It's interesting about the placebo effect... Of course, on one level, the thought that you're going to get better is just as much of a physical phenomenon as any injury or illness in the first place, and especially your noticing and perceiving that you're sick or hurt, so it's no surprise they'd influence each other, but at the same time, those thoughts aren't "made of" anything in themselves, only embodied by the pattern of activity in a brain, so something weird and informational is still going on... But we kinda knew that already just from plain ol' reductionist physics.
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Thanks! It's my day job, so I certainly hope so...
I figure if I use enough different styles, some kind of triangulation of what everything really looks like will take place.

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