Random Ramblings CCCLXIX · 4:30am May 23rd, 2019
IN WHICH I WENT OUTSIDE
It's gonna be warm this week, so I'm switching my ceiling fans back to counterclockwise for the season. Have music.
Thanks to Tom Ruegger and his team on Tiny Toons for introducing me to TMBG nearly 30 years ago. Anyway, news followeth.
This might surprise you, but I have another story in the queue ready to go. Having finally finished the Mayor's story, I didn't really have much else to do, so I wrote the last part of Octavia's Burrito story over the course of an hour or two. It's not long. The initial draft clocks in at only 2,200 words, which might make it my shortest Burritoverse story -- I don't know, haven't checked.
Because there was such a long time-gap between when I wrote the setup/rambling and the ending, I'm gonna have to reread it to fix any continuity errors. Plus I need to find a good cover pic. So, don't expect it until Friday. But DO expect it.
Once that fic is out, all I'll have left in the "Written But Unpublished" bin is Anon-A-Fix. I'd honestly rather not publish it, given the hostile reaction to Anon-A-Miss stories of late. But I have to put it out because it's VITAL as setup for what comes after, and a few key details are altered to fit Burritoverse continuity.
One thing I'm not sure about is whether to use actual months for the calendar or make up months like I did for my Trigun fanfic 15 years ago. As far as I know, there's nothing in canon that says either MLP or EQG use the Gregorian calendar, although they still use the basic concept of Babylonian months and weeks (later adopted by every other Classical civilization through to today). I'm gonna have to think on this one. I'd love to hear y'all's opinions, but given the lack of comments to my posts lately I'm not expecting much if anything.
After I've put that hot mess out and seen it downvoted to hell, I'm not sure what I'll do next. There's lots of things I want to write, but I usually lack the will to do it.
Peace out.
While it'd be really cool to do your own months I think it's fine to go by the traditional months as we know them. I don't think anyone would blame you, and seeing as it's kinda meant to be a little like real life it'd make sense to have the same months.
Though in reality the writing in MLP is apparently supposed to be different from our English, but w/e am I right? I'm pretty sure they never actually developed a language for it, just made gibberish.
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Except for that episode in Season 1 where writing was used for a joke (Twilight being a bitch), it mostly uses writing that looks like Roman letters but some are blocked out or flipped around. Gibberish.
FANS have created a horseshoe-based writing system, because of course they did.
I think for the calendar I might work in a version of what Late-Kingdom and Ptolemaic Egypt used -- twelve months of thirty days plus an extra 5-6 days (depending on leap year) tacked onto the end, then just look up foreign names for December.
Does that sound entirely too intellectual? Wouldn't be my first time.
There's a lot of potential for world-building in this fic which would take it even further away from the original story. Here's my tagline for it by the way.
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I think that'd be fine. :) Sounds neat.