Midnight Rising/Firefly story doubleheader ahead; C&C and Harmonic Resonance on deck · 1:56pm Mar 13th, 2022
But before I get into all that, I’d just like to say that I hate Daylight Savings Time. It should be year-round if anything and not make us have to adjust our internal and external clocks twice a year. But I’ll spare you that rant. The main purpose of this blog is to let everyone know that I have not one but two chapters in prereads. Midnight Rising and Firefly are finally draft complete and will be released soon, possibly on the same day, though I do need to make a couple new maps and do music selections for the latter.
I don’t think they’ll take that long, though, and in honor of the coming baseball season, you will likely get a doubleheader story release on Monday or Tuesday night. Updates on each in-progress story follows, but I’m tagging this Midnight Rising again as it’s first in line and overdue for release.
Midnight Rising
I can’t give a teaser of Midnight Rising for obvious reasons, but I can at least give you the content and fetish list. And be advised, I’m running even further afield with them this time as the story gets ever more wild: Another new race appears, leading to some unexpected anal action for Big Mac, Celestia being Molestia and Luna being Lusty with multiple aptly-named students, a lesbian-to-cock-loving conversion of Sour Sweet courtesy of the Highborne High Priestess who has thirty lifetimes of experience in sex, and even a rather dramatic and sex-charged example of what a naked singularity could enable one to do. There’s also finally the first appearance of futa, but also dicktongues and dicknipples are seen for the first time in any of my M-rated stories as both human pony Zecoras enter the action for the first time.
And of course, there are continuations of existing action; all the endless back-and-forth banter and insults from the Shadowbolt girls are there in spades as they simply refuse to lose their personalities despite all that happens to them. And at the end, you’ll finally see the griffons appear, and I intend to spend a chapter on Midnight turning the Hall of Heroes from C&C into a playpen as it will set something up for the ending of Nightmare Night. Actually, I’m already setting that up with the appearance of Juniper Neptune and her possible allegiance to Midnight.
At 9k words, this is going to be a big chapter folks—second in length only to Part 10 - Pinkiefied Drakinas. Sorry for the wait, but there was a lot I wanted to fit into it, and I found I could only work on it a few hundred words at a time. It seems to be coming together nicely, though.
Into the Storm
As for Firefly, It’s an interlude chapter between two heavy combat ones, as the one to follow will detail the final action at Harness Hill as the 1st Corps crumbles and a fighting withdrawal of Rock Biter’s new brigade commences. You’ll witness the Captain’s Mast of Fell Flight and Firefly—that’s a real thing, before anybody asks; basically the British and American Navy’s method of administering non-judicial punishments, which used to be much more brutal than today’s—and the verdicts/punishment that result from it. Be warned: I don’t hold back.
The second part of the chapter brings us back to Prelate Gaius and Tribune Kaval reviewing campaign progress (this is where the maps will be used) and finally reviewing the failed first-day attack on Fort Spur. There will also be more hints of trouble brewing between Gaius and Primarch Livia Cassius Janus, whose personal ambitions and dislike for the Prelate are great indeed.
All in all, expect a rather dark and brooding chapter, which honestly matches my mood of late. Just remember that my stories are all about balance, darkness and light, good times and bad. Even for as awful as things may look for Firefly and Fell Flight, I don’t think I’m spoiling anything to say that this too, will pass. So keep that in mind while you’re reading.
Feathered Hearts: Continuation and Chronicles
As I find myself anxious to do so and don’t want to lose too much momentum, I’ve decided the next non-clop chapter I write will be for C&C before going back to Firefly. This will be another all-new one as they attempt to escape to a new steadholt via magical Ibex-lent means and buy themselves some time. This also means that Gilda and Fortrakt will have to run a gauntlet of enemy flyers to enable that escape while the Marines, civilians and Ibex attempt to hold off repeated Cloven attacks. And of course, you’ll learn what Glim-Glam is up to and how/why she texted them.
For lovers of Starlight Glimmer, know that she’s on the way into the story, and I do intend to do her justice when she appears. She was, in my view, a superb tactician even in context of the show, and that will shine through here.
Harmonic Resonance
As I typically like to work on one clop and one non-clop story at a time so I can shift between them depending on my mood, Harmonic Resonance will be the clop part of the pairing with C&C. I admit, this one is going to be the most difficult yet given the particular Equestria Girl involved. No offense to Pinkie Pie, but she can be very difficult to write for sometimes, especially in erotic settings. I know pretty much how all the other remaining girls ascend, but not her right now.
Whelp, that’s everything. Nothing left to say, except I hope everyone affected isn’t too bleary-eyed tomorrow after the time change.
Finally someone else who hates Daylight Savings Time!
It's one of the most absurd ideas ever conceived. It's like "making summer last longer" by running the calendar up a month! We have exactly the same amount of daylight (some people seem to think it actually adds an hour of daylight!); the only difference is that everything is scheduled one hour earlier.
The very idea of "what time it is" is essentially a question of where the sun is in the sky. Theoretically, the sun should be straight overhead at noon. The clock is a measuring device, not a scheduler (or at least that's the way it should be).
I actually prefer year round standard time. Who needs an "extra hour" of sun between 8 and 9pm? Also, I remember 1974 when we went on "year round" DST. It was excruciating! Everyone had to get up and get ready for work/school in the dark, with the sun not even rising until the kids had been at school for about an hour (I was one of them). One winter on DST will knock that in the head. Why is it no one seems to remember that for an "extra hour" of daylight between 4 and 5pm, the sun won't be coming up until "mid morning???"
But people want that "extra hour" (which doesn't actually exist), so no one cares about what it's going to put people through, or that it disconnects clock time from the sun's position.
Unfortunately, the entire rest of the human race isn't going to be happy until we get it year round. Hope you bozos enjoy December and January!
5643522 Our dear Firesight isn't the ONLY one who does, trust me!
Like you, I much prefer year round standard time, as this is what we had BEFORE whatever "genius" it was who thought up DST.
Although to be absolutely FAIR to whoever do, they had good intentions, as according to what I know of it, THIS
Also, another couple reasons are that it gave farmers more light to do their work by in the afternoon/evening, and I think the other has to do with school kids, but I'm not sure.
But yeah, I wish we could just do away with it completely, and go back to the way time has gone since the time of the Creation/Dawn of time... whichever.
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Actually, Franklin was not being serious. He suggested the whole thing as a joke.
Also, it doesn't affect farmers' hours at all, who work from sun to sun regardless. Boston's famous merchant Philene came up with the absurd justification that DST made farmers harvest one hour earlier each day, and that this earlier-harvested food was somehow better.
It's always nice to meet another Standard Time fan, but I feel we lost the battle long ago. People get silly ideas in their head and they have to have what they want. That "extra hour" of sunlight between 8 and 9pm is just so vital!!! (/sarcasm)
5643534 Ah.
Yeah, that's interesting.
My late grandpa (on my mom's side of tbe family tree) was actually a?farmer, and he always said that he liked that DST helped him get stuff done around the place, but was just HIS take on it, I think.
Same here, and probably.
This is true, sadly.
Don't get me wrong; I like to get extra sleep the same as anyone else, but I don't think we actually need DST to get it.
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I thought DST took away from sleep. Interesting.
I just want twelve o'clock to actually be twelve o'clock.
5643540 Hmm, could be.
I don't pay too much attention to it other to be aggravated every time we have to set our clocks forward or back, depending on the time of year.
Oh, God, me too!