Summer Writing Plans, Part 1 · 7:03pm Jun 1st, 2020
Hi y'all. I hope that where all of you are, everyone is doing okay. Or, at least as okay as we can all be with all the awful stuff that's been intensifying. This is the blog I wanted to share regarding the summer writing plans for all my stories. I'll be sure to touch on the status of each one and offer some details about its completion. I would also like to take a moment to show off something other neat things I've found and mention very briefly how all the rioting will impact my presence on this site. It's not going to get political or be anything you should feel the need to click away from. After that, I'll share the stuff about my stories and any possible new projects.
MID-TYPING EDIT: There will be two blog posts. This has the neat things and important stuff. I figured that tagging the two stories I wanted to have tagged was best. The second one will have all the stuff about my projects.
First up, I wanted to mention that All That Lingers (and I wish I could tag multiple stories per blog post) ended up inspiring another story. It's very wholesome and filled with lots of fun dialogue. The character interaction is a blast, even for people who weren't big on season nine events and later canon content.
Here's the story. It has first-person perspective shenanigans and is filled with lots of Sombra-centered friendship stuff. Not to mention, he's also appropriately grouchy. Moth is a fantastic writer and they have quite a few really good stories to check out. They're also a bug of many talents, seeing as they did such nice work on my avatar too. I hope y'all will take the time to give it a read.
This second story is by the Spike bro himself, FamousLastWords. It's a fun and sappy romance story between post-show Spike and Gabby. If you want sassy, happy, and completely adorable ponies to brighten your day, it's very good. If you want to take a look at the comments devolving into the fun kind of anarchy, there is that too. Memes are included.
Now that is all out of the way, I wanted to get to the site activity part. With self-isolation and similar guidelines being in place, the fact that everything has been carrying over online has really taken a turn for the worse. It was nice to have SpaceX stuff streamed and see lots of fun quarantine memes, but things have, uh, gotten completely out of hand. I don't use social media, and certainly not beyond a private account on Instagram for cat pictures, shitposts, and just not observing absolute insanity. But it's everywhere now, so I've stopped going to places that aren't filled with the things I would like to be focusing on this summer: my writing. Offline things are for offline, and recent events have driven FIMFiction absolutely batshit. I just want a vacation from all this because I'm starting to wonder if my notification bell is going to be something awful. I don't want to look at blogs anymore, and I think it's fitting that I just take a breather until people chill the fuck out on this particular corner of the internet. I'm here for writing about horses and rainbow people.
I'm going to try minimizing site activity and just be more of a lurker for a while. Since it is sometimes a habit of mine and so many of y'all follow me now, I wanted to let y'all know this. Talking to people is still important, but I don't think anyone needs to explain that with the last few weeks, things have shown we've really been talking to folks in the worst ways. Yikes.
I'll pop in when I can, especially since some of my unpublished and otherwise in-progress projects and their notes are actually on FIMFiction, as are a couple of other tidbits, such as Missing Pages and I want to consider working on things like those when major projects are going slower. This means I should have fewer distractions, and hopefully will be a positive thing for my writing and starting to tackle some of the worse parts of my ADHD. As a result, this means that I won't be taking cover art requests for a while. You're all still welcome to leave comments on my works, as my comment sections are always. I'll try and read and reply to all of them. If you really want to talk to me or have me reply to a comment, PM me a link of it. I'll get to it when I can. If you have my discord (and in some cases, skype) info that is also cool. Feel free to contact me there through DMs. I don't really like pings and can't keep track of all the pings that happen anyway. Honestly, PM me pretty much anything you want to say. I like long PMs and comments because they make my day, and when things are less draining, it's always fun to answer them. Especially the comments. I don't get a lot of long comments on longer stories and they really help keep motivation up. A little more motivation is something we could all probably use right now.
That, and burgers. Meat shortages make me sad. This boy needs burgers.
I hope y'all are staying safe. Maybe share any fun summer plans in the comments? I want to finish... my summer reading pile! The other stuff I want to finish is in the next blog! 
-Ice Star
That comment section was anarchy.
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It still is the best kind of anarchy.
Well isn't that the thought of the year, huh? Was staring at one of my own just last night thinking 'You are so ignorant to the Hell we live in and I envy you.'
But yeah, I have quite a few social media accounts and I've been about ready to just abandon them until further notice. Too much going on. Probably gonna stick around Fimfic though, at least to catch up and read some fics, since I really don't have any Summer plans. Well, other than some regular weekend trips to my family's cabin, but that's gonna be mostly working on the cabin itself. Apparently I get to paint the ceiling, yay...
I am probably going to hurt myself.So I will be writing mostly. Hopefully. I have like three stories to work on now oops. Also 'Bug of many talents', I really like that for some reason.
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I mean, moths are bugs. Also I have no clue what your pronouns are. I was gonna guess she/her and I've probably used she/her at one point, but I don't remember you telling me what they are. So I defaulted to they/them.
Manual labor probably isn't that bad. At least, not now.
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Oh, well in that fact they are in fact she/her! Never really had a place to ever mention that, but I'm also not overly picky if referred to as anything else.
I just thought the bug thing was kinda cute, but I also just really like bugs of almost any sort so I'm biased.Also I'm not worried about the manual labor bit, I just know I'm gonna have to climb a ladder to even reach the ceiling and I expect the worst. Painting is a simple thing though so I might as well make it more exciting, right?
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I'm just used to people mentioning it after a while! There are some folks who put pronouns in their bio and stuff.
I wish I knew what it was like to be able to plan writing. ._.
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Inside me are two wolves. One is a horrible ADHD mess and the other demands everything the ADHD doesn't.
With enough effort, you can do it! C: