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.
Not even best pony is sure.
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.
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.