Merry Christmas, Happy Hearthswarming, and Happy Holidays to all who celebrate! I’m really excited to have just finished my first shipfic, “Sunset and Twilight’s Winter Holidate”, which sees Sunset and (EqG) Twilight reuniting after their first semester at separate colleges for a date at a Winter Light Festival! Little Tigress made some lovely cover art for the piece, and I’m happy to say I’m thrilled with
So this dropped today...
Look at these buds. Wild times we're living in, huh? Make sure to wash those hands, you two!
Having something positive and fun to look forward to can be helpful. Has been for me, at least. Let's talk self-care, writing updates, and speaking of fun positivity, I'm super excited to give you a 5-page preview with a new illustration (read to see it)!
I was going through some EqG trying to get some idea how the journal works for a story, and I found a scene in Sunset's room in Forgotten Friendship and... wait, what?
In cased you missed it, I am working on a new series. Equestria Girls: Sword Art Online - Aincrad. Now, this isn't going to be some giant saga like Shaping Shadow is. Its going to be one work and I am not packing each chapter with 6K+ words. I am not going to skimp on the awesome content though. Short, sweat, and awesome packed.
The Premise:
First batch is off to editing. Still finalizing vignettes. Oh yeah, and Thesis. Thesis. Thesis. Thesis. And Thesis. Anyway I got some art made. No wing banners, but these will make epic page breaks!
HEEYOOOO, Everypony!!!
As you can see, I have released the first parts of both Meddling Memories, which includes a scene I couldn't previously fit into my epilogue of Lucky Chances (because it was about 800-1100 more words and I was already at 2.X k words) and simplified it at the start of Meddling Memories!
I fell behind a little. Time to play catch-up, starting with Equestria Girls 3.
Nah, more like mediocre romcoms. Yeah, definifely mediocre romcoms.
Anyway! The ah, evident two-part Kinda-Heartwarming Moment with Sunset Shimmer is completed! As awkward as it is for me and everybody else.
Yeah.
I'm trying, okay? Sticking outside of my comfort zone is something I like doing.
And I am totally not getting into the idea of writing more of stupid shit like this.
Maybe a little.
Okay. I just spent the day at Wings Over Dallas, a huge airshow. I was actually volunteering with the National Museum of the Pacific War, in uniform with them. And this year, they had Tora Tora Tora "reenact" the bombing of Pearl Harbor, video below. It's humbling, but awesome.
So yeah, I'm excited, I'm in a good mood, I might have just released a new Episode (Into the Red) on "accident."
Enjoy it while you can, girls.
They won't be able to relax like this much longer. I'm so pumped that I can finally reveal the upcoming release date for Empathy for the Devil! Get that below! Plus, I want to talk about what it's like to be on the verge of finishing my first ever novel/novel-length story. That's a wild ride in and of itself, so buckle up.
It's out! Finally am publishing. All the chapters are complete, and current plan is to drop one a day until the entire book is released.
The entire story will be covered in three volumes, each volume covering two acts. This first one includes the prologue, Act 1 - Worlds of Magic, and Act 2 - Academy City.
Honestly, this special just reminded me why, for the most part, I've never got as invested in EqG as I have in FiM.
The above image of is of Mishe on Christmas Eve, taken from the anime. Which, of course, is where the Wondercolts' Headquarters is. Nice and festive.
I'm on a roll with these countdowns.
After much consideration of what order to place each of them in, here are my picks for the top 15 worst characters in Friendship is Magic and Equestria Girls. Don't worry, the best characters list will be next. Gotta save the positive stuff for last.
DISHONORABLE MENTIONS
Garble, pre-Season 9
Now that's got me hype. Maybe there's all the amazingly detailed squish faces that are kind of weirdly adorable or the whole worldbuilding thing. This movie looks good.
The noise I made when I saw there would be seaponies in this here thing, bird pirates, Sia pony which is literally just Sia as a pony that's the weird thing to be honest, but humanoid cats are a thing and weird monkey? looking guy.