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111 weeks
Backstory: A Lesson in Kindness

I don't have much to say today... [There is a collective gasp, and two readers faint] So, this entry will be rather short. [Cheers and applause ring out]
Anyway... moving on.
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115 weeks
Backstory: Little Filly Lost

First, some context. The Dark Steel series is a spin off from The Quicksilver Chronicles. The private investigator Dark Steel is first mentioned in chapter 3 of One Of Us where he helps Quicksilver and Misty find a lost friend. Those events are retold from Steel's point of view in
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124 weeks
Backstory: The Painless Murders

In the story One of Us I introduce a private detective, Dark Steel, that Quicksilver and Misty hire to help them find Tinker Cob. He was a fun character, but didn't get nearly enough screen-time. So I decided to tell the story of the search for Tinker from his point-of-view. That story because
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128 weeks
Backstory: The Alchemist, part 2

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129 weeks
Backstory: The Alchemist, part 1

The genesis of this story goes back to 2016, long before I'd ever watched the first episode of FiM (early 2020). At that time, I saw a piece of artwork showing a wizard walking. That's it. Just walking with his staff and a cape billowing out behind him. Something about that image inspired me to figure out who he was and why he was in a rush to get somewhere. So I started writing. I stopped
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Feb

11th

2021

Other Artwork, part 4 · 5:48am Feb 11th, 2021

This is going to be the last of my weekly updates. Going forward, I'll probably only post if there's something noteworthy to talk about.

There's one more piece of non-commission artwork I wanted to share. The first image below is a physical ink drawing of Quicksilver and Misty created by u/Princess_Rarity_MLP (Instagram: @princess_rarity_mlp). I then had u/108Fiona8Fay (https://sites.google.com/view/108fiona8fay/commissions) color and shade it. The colors really enhance the look of the characters, and provided a digital version of the artwork. I think their combined efforts turned out really well.