Sunset Shimmer made by AnthroPoniesSFM
Night Glider made by Pony-Way
Spitfire made by Seltonik
Thunderlane made by MykeGreyWolf
Flash Sentry made by BGN
Sunset Shimmer made by AnthroPoniesSFM
Night Glider made by Pony-Way
Spitfire made by Seltonik
Thunderlane made by MykeGreyWolf
Flash Sentry made by BGN
Well, that was a good and productive October, folks. I did everything I said I would, coming out with two new chapters of Feathered Hearts - Continuation and Chronicles, two of Midnight Rising, and one of Nightmare Night. So I’m going to try to keep the momentum going into November.
To make a long story short: Five updated chapters (10-14) are now in prereads, and given the amount of text involved, I’ve given my prereaders a full week to work on them. A sixth updated chapter is nearly done (22: Know Thy Ally) and a seventh is planned (25: Battle of Bale, Part 1) by the time we’re ready to go.
It's now with prereaders with the working title of Agni Kai, for its Avatar - The Last Airbender-inspired firebending battle—though that's far from the only thing it references. It's currently coming in at just shy of 16k words, meaning it'll probably be over 17k by the time I'm through with editing passes and all the additional detail I usually add.
I’m waiting a couple more days to give the rest of my prereaders more chance to hit it. Be warned that I did decide to break up the chapter again, so you’ll essentially be getting part 1 of Queen Moly vs Dragon Lord Vesuvius with a lot of additional commentary—and a major revelation or two—from the Humane 6 peanut gallery as Sunset continues to tell the tale.
And a Merry Nightmare Night to all! Live it up with sweets and scares, and celebrate the edge of the Autumn season, where the realms of the living and the dead are closest. I mean, that's what should be done, at least.
But of more interest is the emergence of 17-year cicadas in my area. Big, ugly, red-eyed insects that are the size of your thumb but basically harmless, as long as you can get past all the shed skins they leave behind on leaves and the everpresent and disconcertly loud background sound they produce as a mating call. Fortunately, the outbreak in my area seems pretty limited. There's a few around, definitely, but they're not everywhere, and the noise is basically a low hum instead of a constant,
You ever notice that the parents of any of the main characters of MLP really aren't that engaged in the lives of their children or vice versa? Now I realize that in some cases like with the Apple family where the parents are dead this would happen. We know that Rarity's parents abandoned Sweetie Belle at Carousel Boutique because they had a vacation planned that they haven't gotten back from yet. We know that Twilight Sparkle's parents exist but, outside of that we know very little about
Something bothers me about Nightmare Night. No, I'm not talking about when you get twenty frat guys to drink tequila and have them follow it with a milk chaser (you may be mopping for hours). I'm talking about the holiday that is the Equestrian version of Halloween. Something about this holiday bothers me and in fact still bothers me and I think I've figured it out. In fact it has everything to do with Princess Luna.
The second day of Hearth's Warming specials:
A Heart's Warming Eve by Celestial Brony
Luna's Hearth's Warming Eve by electreXcessive
Hearth's Warming Cookies by Everyday
The Night Before Hearth's Warming by defender2222
A Heart's Warming Eve by Celestial Brony
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Hello?... Are you still there? Great!
Anyway, I wanted to tell you that SNAPP is ready enough to show pictures, however it is very buggy and not complete, I will hold the pictures until next week.
So... Keep checking those cameras...?
Nightmare Unique looks...well, on paper he's actually kinda scary. Especially when I hold it up to a source of light and see the effect I put on his eyes through the paper. (shudders)
I think this picture will definitely go on the first batch of posters I make.