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  • 461 weeks
    Spectacular Art and Another Milestone

    With luck, I'll be posting Chapter Twenty-Five of Sunset Shimmer: Element Bearer in a few short hours. I hope that you can set aside some time this weekend to check it out.

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    9 comments · 784 views
  • 462 weeks
    Brony Parenting: Summer Edition

    Okay, opening salvo: Please don't spoil Episode 100 for me! Daughter of ConningOfficer and I have a date tomorrow morning to check it out on the DVR. As I'm about to show you, we had more pressing engagements today. As just about everyone knows, my daughter's random YouTube clicking opened the door to the fandom for me, and Sunset Shimmer: Element Bearer started as my attempt to

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    12 comments · 426 views
  • 463 weeks
    New Art by FeatherScratch

    Good evening, everyone! I'm sorry that I have been delinquent in responding to blog comments, but I truly appreciate your suggestions for what sort of art I should have commissioned. I'm doing my final read-through of Chapter Twenty-Four. I should be ready to post the latest update to Sunset Shimmer: Element Bearer

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  • 465 weeks
    I Request Your Input: Which SS:EB Moment Needs Art Created?

    Good evening, everyone! I am taking a break from the final read-through of Chapter Twenty-Three of Sunset Shimmer: Element Bearer to pose an important question to you. Several of you have asked me why there isn't fan art of the story, and I can't answer that question to anyone's satisfaction (least of all my own). Being the take-charge individual that I can be on (rare) occasion, I decided to

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  • 472 weeks
    Easy Crowdsourcing Help Requested

    Ladies and gentlemen, fillies and gentlecolts...

    Recognizing the shortcomings of being, well, male, I have encountered a snag in a minor point of the draft of Chapter Twenty of Sunset Shimmer: Element Bearer. Perhaps you could help settle a friendly disagreement between me and my editor.

    Here are my two questions:

    1. What would you call the garment that Sunset Shimmer is wearing?

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Spectacular Art and Another Milestone · 11:51pm Jun 19th, 2015

With luck, I'll be posting Chapter Twenty-Five of Sunset Shimmer: Element Bearer in a few short hours. I hope that you can set aside some time this weekend to check it out.

But first, I'd like to call your attention to an incredible work of art created by Dane of Celestia. After his wonderful work on "Three of Destiny", which serves as this story's cover art, I gave him a new challenge. I asked him to recreate part of the scene at the close of Chapter Nineteen when Adagio Dazzle carried Apple Bloom into Shrieking Raven's cabin at Lake Piebald. I am biased, but I think he did an incredible job. He captured Adagio's complex emotions, and made incredible use of the night sky to put everything together. Below is his composition, entitled "Reflection of Innocence."

Thanks to everyone for taking me on this incredible journey! You all had a part in Sunset Shimmer: Element Bearer achieving 50,000 story views this week!

Comments ( 9 )

I'm looking forward to it, but I'll be a little bit reading it. Off at a convention this weekend - busy time tomorrow with my other Hasbro-related hobby.

And dang that's some awesome art. Consider it a credit to your skills that folks are making art for your story; it's that good. :pinkiehappy:

Needs moar cheese-hair, :derpytongue2:

Holy poops that is good amazing art *-*

3164628 Have fun at the convention! I'm sure that it will be busy, but a lot of fun. You'll have to let me know what those sort of things are like, because I think I'm becoming sufficiently brony-fied to consider attending an MLP-related convention at some point. Dane of Celestia's art is beyond excellent, and I'm glad that he's taken the time to read some of the crucial scenes. I know it's summertime and everyone's busy, so I hope you enjoy the chapter when you get a few free moments!

3165039 Can one ever have enough cheese-hair? I hope you're enjoying your weekend and that the summer is off to a good start for you!

3166325 Thank you, though I can claim absolutely no credit! I had to share this with everyone along with the new chapter...

3166429 I'mma give you credit for sharing this with me :derpytongue2:
Though a shoutout to the artist who made it as well! /o/

3166429 Conventions in general are expensive, but fun. Definitely worth your time. Alas, I've yet to go to one related to ponies, but I hope to one day.

Man... That art is amazing!!! :raritystarry: SO Much love for it!!!

So, I don't suppose Sunset Shimmer: Element Bearer is ever coming back? Because it was really good. I greatly enjoyed reading it.

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