Volume 12 - Chapter 3 - Ember's first trip to Earth.

Volume 16 - Chapter 12

Volume 15 - Chapter 14

All the illustrations for my stories were originally linked to my first website. That is hosted on someone's personal server and sometimes the service is a bit flaky, causing the art to disappear for days or even weeks. I had a backup site, but that was also a personal server and switching the links was inconvenient. However, The Chakat's Den is now hosted on a more professional server service and I have finished changing every link to that site... all of several hundred of them! (Let

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The server where my story illustrations are hosted is down at the moment. I have no idea when it will be restored.

Volume 15 - Chapter 8

Volume 1 - Chapter 22 - Pregnant Derpy

Volume 12 - Chapter 7 - Frank Fontaine

A small restaurant near Arc's home run by his friends Shelly and Lily. In real life, a small diner run by a mother and daughter near my own home. If you stop there, I recommend the Shelly Burger.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/Shelleys-Kitchen-102710149811747/photos/?ref=page_internal

Volume 19 - Chapter 5 - Evidence found by Minerva Moore inside The Rider's Hideout, an abandoned hospital.

Yep! August 6 happens to be my birthday. And I'm pleased to have the story updated with a new illustration for the chapter. But ALSO, there's an illustration for chapter 1! For those of you who've already read it, and I'm guessing that's most of you, here it is:

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Volume 15 - Chapter 4 - Arc picking Princess Luna up from her room in Canterlot Castle for a night out.

Arc's favorite pizza parlor. A restaurant near my home that I frequented in my younger days.

Just some assorted sketches, because I have a few. Yep.

Outfit ideas, based on clothing I both own and some stuff I saw on ebay.

More below the break.

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This Miraculous fanfiction, known as "Illustrations and Illusions" is a beautifully written story that doesn't simply fit into one CATegory. (cat puns are purrfect and pawsome.) It's an action-packed, love-fluff-filled, romance fic about an artist (Nathaniel, with the "Illustrations") who falls in love with a girl nobody else trusts. (Lila, with the "Illusions") It was written by "nobodys pearls" on a website called

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Hey there, everyone! So, my illustrator, Colby "Greenfinger" Green, has a Twitch account and does art streams there on occasion. He's done a lot of original work there, but he's also taken to occasionally doing work for The Iron Horse on there as well! So, with that in mind, I'd like to invite the readers to a stream where he'll be drawing some art from a previous chapter ("In Two Minds, Part 2," specifically), and I'll be co-commentating!

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There are two great documentaries out there that should be seen by anyone who enjoys comics in general, and comic strips in particular.

The first is Stripped, which is about strips in general and the future of the comic strip in todays world. A fate that is quite uncertain given the decline of newspapers.

http://www.strippedfilm.com/

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Illustrations and Illusions is a Miraculous fanfic... with two of my favourite MLB ships: Adrien x Marinette, and Nathaniel (whose name is spelled "Nathanael" in the story) x Lila. I love how much Nathaniel reminds me of myself... and not just because of his name. His backstory is very similar to mine... my real backstory, not just my OC's. I hope you enjoy this fanfic at least half as much as I'm enjoying it. I'm

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Volume 20 - Chapter 16 - Cerulean Skies, sister of Tempest. Her reaction to Arc visiting with Ruby Jubilee and the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Needless to say, it was a bad time for her.