Morning Post · 11:38pm Mar 20th, 2017
Yesterday I submitted my entry to FanOfMostEverything’s awesome Imposing Sovereigns contest. If you haven’t done so yet, take a look at Crystal Glass Ceilings, the tale of Princess Cadance the Usurper - a princess who grabbed power in a man’s world. That was the prompt. While FOME was clear that it wasn’t expected to adhere to the ‘Man’s World’ bit, I decided it would be far more interesting to do so. The result has received an interesting reception. There's nothing like a hint of feminism to bring out the down votes.
It’s not as well polished as I would like, but it’s crystal-ier than ever.
Tagging this to Breaking News and Weather to let fans of my pony newspaper front pages know that I created another such publication to accompany this story. The Crystal Empire Morning Post is the conservative daily of the northernmost pony outpost.
I took the name from the South China Morning Post - the big English language newspaper in Hong Kong, which was historically the voice of the British colony, as I was trying to give the Crystal Empire the old patriarchal society of the British Empire. (The modern SCMP is rather different. Hong Kong has a free press, but just how much influence Beijing has on this is interesting question).
The style, however, is straight from the Daily Mail, as this story required a paper only interested in reporting what the princess was wearing, and there is no better model for that than the Mail, which always keeps us so well informed about Kate Middleton’s wardrobe.
Cool, now I gotta go read Crystal Glass Ceilings.
Awesome!
I actually have an interesting anecdote about the Daily Mail:
Like most Americans I had no idea the paper existed, until one day...
I was crewing aboard Endeavor (the Australian replica of Captain Cooke's ship) when some British VIP came on board. We gave him a cannon salute; just a charge of gunpowder and newspaper wadding. Without a ball, you need to put a lot of newspaper in a cannon to get a decent bang, so there was rather a large amount of partially flaming newspaper shot out over the water.
The VIP turned to the captain and said, "I do hope that was the Mail you used."
All the Brits cracked up, and us poor Yanks were left clueless... until it was explained to us later.
I honestly generally don't care much about writing contests, but this one has resulted in some of the most entertaining mass reading I have seen around here in a while.
A whiff of feminism a day keeps the Alt Right away!
it's the best of both worlds!