16 · 3:51pm Dec 12th, 2016

Hey, remember a few days before Thanksgiving when I said I was working on a fic to be released on Thanksgiving? Well, it's been three weeks since then, and I'm 6000 words in. It's looking like it's gonna end up being about 7000-7500 words long. I'm hoping to have it done soon—at the very least, before Christmas. Maybe I should just edit it to be about Christmas instead...

Unfortunately, I'm on my last week of school for the the year, which means only one thing... FINALS!

Luckily, I've got no exams this semester. However, I do have to hand in four fiction portfolios and three essays. The portfolios aren't going to be hard—all I have to do is some editing to stuff I've already written—but the essays are ughhhhh. I don't even know what I'm writing about yet! Well, except for my media studies essay, where I'm writing about the theme of toxic masculinity in the original TV version of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Did I mention that I just finished watching that and loved it?

After this fic is done, what's on deck? Well, there's a VinylxFluttershy fic that I started about two months ago that I'm still hyped about finishing. That's the first thing. After that... we'll see, I guess.

Here's an excerpt from ThanksgivingFic to tide you over while you wait:

Twilight put her fists on her hips. “You two know you’re not supposed to be in here. I’ve spent months organizing all my equipment, and I’m not just about to let you two—” She stopped when she noticed Sunset’s bewildered expression. Taking a long, calming breath, she turned and said, “Sorry. Sunset, these are my cousins.” She gestured to the girl. “This is Marigold, and this is her brother, Aster.”
Aster peered up at Sunset. “You said a bad word.”
“I did?” Sunset blinked a few times, backtracking through her words. “Oh, yeah. Sorry about that.”
“It’s okay,” said Marigold. She held out her hand. “But now you have to pay five cents.”
“No, she doesn’t.” Twilight grabbed Marigold’s arm and pulled her towards the door. “Where is—Aster, don’t touch that!”
Across the room, Aster flinched away from Twilight’s high powered telescope. “But you said you would play with us.”
“After dinner. And not in here.”
With Twilight distracted, Marigold slipped easily out of her grasp and ran straight back to Sunset’s side. “Your hair is pretty.”
“Aw, thank you!” Sunset said, running a hand through her hair.
Aster walked back up to her. “It looks like bacon.”
“Oh.” Sunset dropped her arm to her side. “Um, thank you?”
“Hey, how come you get to be in Twilight’s room?” Marigold asked, looking up at Sunset. “Are you her girlfriend?”
Sunset nodded. “Yep.”
The twins both looked shocked at that. “Ew,” Aster said, “do you, like, kiss and stuff?”
“Yep,” Sunset said again. She smirked and leaned into Twilight. “Among other things...”
Twilight’s face seized up in a red frenzy. “Out, out out!” she yipped as she shoved her cousins out of the room and shut the door behind them.