Weather Report · 9:40pm Nov 2nd, 2015
Four blogs in eight months? I am so good at this whole engage-with-your-audience thing.
New story:
Four blogs in eight months? I am so good at this whole engage-with-your-audience thing.
New story:
Or new-ish, anyway. It's actually a revised story from the Writeoff before last.
I went to a Disney Karaoke session at a recent convention. It turned out there were no subtitles, and also that I don’t know any Disney lyrics beyond a few lines from “Under the Sea.” (And “Let it Go.” That’s not my fault. What is it about little girls and Frozen? The music isn’t even catchy.)
So I sat back and listened for a bit. Hunchback has some good songs. I’m gonna have to watch that.
Hey folks,
Bit of a delay on getting this story the gate, but things have been crazy with all the covid and stuff. On the plus side, I'm practicing piano a lot more than usual.
Give a shout out and send candy to PresentPerfect who just celebrated his 1,500th blogiversary!
After that, travel down the break to see something truly ancient.
Cold in Gardez’s Lost Cities is a masterpiece of pony literature. Themselves inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, these are stories which contain no on-screen characters. Instead, they are a description of a place – a dead place, an abandoned place, a city or fortress or tower that once held people, but which now lays in ruin or is otherwise abandoned.
Not even best pony is sure.
I don't abuse my blogging privileges very often, but sometimes there's an author who I admire and who I think has managed something extraordinary. Today that author is JawJoe, who wrote one of my favorite dark fics on this site (Twilight Sparkle: Night Shift), and who today has published something to follow in its steps:
Y'all remember how I wrote a tribute to Cold in Gardez's "Lost Cities" a couple weeks back[1]? And if you follow Illya Leonov's fanfic readings on YouTube, you may be aware that he also did a series of readings for the original.