What to blog about this week? For once there is no shortage of news tags. Last Sunday was International Women's Day—I did start writing another post on feminism, but put it to one side so I could finish my entry for the write-off. It is now the start of British Science Week, which surely calls for more ponies and science; and it's pi day, so we should have some mathematics from Pinkie. But all this is eclipsed—oh and there will be an eclipse next Friday, mustn't forget that—by the sad news of

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Sir Terry Pratchett

I just spent the last half an hour, explaining to a friend of mine, why he should go read Sir Terry Pratchett’s, Discworld books.

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I was sure I'd mentioned the Long Earth sequence in a blog at some point, but a quick search says nope.

Odd.

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If you're watching the new Animaniacs 2020, you'll see that they're pretty self-depracating of their own position as a reboot and playing at the rage common in social media nowadays against every remake, reboot and whatnot.
I'm actually quite interested because it seems like a show that will actually challenge not only the remaking genre of today but our own perceptions of it.

But, recently, I found a joke quite like it about how cheap it can be to do a remake...

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If you've been missing it or missed it the first time, folks, here's a seasonal treat, just in time for the holidays: A Very Grim Hearth's Warming, Chapter TWO! (And only 364 days later, how about that! )

Just a quick announcement that "Reaping Rainbow: A Very Grim Hearth's Warming" will be the next story I give some attention to. The story had a very warm reception and some great enthusiasm, and the only reason I wasn't able to give it some love was because Passing Familiarity was still being finished and needed more of my creative energy. Now that I'm getting back into things, you can look forward to seeing more Pratchett-style hijinks with Rainbow and her buddy Death in the near

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There's an animated version of Terry Prattchett's Soul Music. Seems Pratchett was doing crossovers of Discworld with MLP before it was cool. (Also, holy crap, that's Christopher Lee as Death!) (Also, for reference, Binky is the name of Death's horse in the Discworld.)

How Pinkie managed to travel to Dodge Junction, fall into a ravine, join the Beatles, shoot John Lennon for leaving the band for Tree Hugger, and travel to Yakyakistan in one afternoon? Well, accidentally I read Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time recently. Pinkie is simply a very good History Monk... (which also explains the level of schizotech in Equestria – someone apparently put its history back together).

Bᴜᴛᴛᴇʀғʟʏ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ sᴋʏ, I ᴄᴀɴ ɢᴏ ᴛᴡɪᴄᴇ ᴀs ʜɪɢʜ...

And the tradition lives on! That's right, it's a story suddenly conceived in a moment of holiday inspiration and a pseudo-sequel to one of my favorite stories I've done on this site: Reaping Rainbow! It's a holiday miracle indeed!

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Hello everyone. Happy Holidays.
This year has been a strange one with many unusual trials and tribulations. While in some ways I'm glad it's over and that hope is in sight, believe it or not, I don't think year has been all bad.
Not just for me at any rate. And certainly not the worst year in history many have been saying it is.

I do feel that too much negativity can damage a society at large and negativity seems all too common.

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Just under the wire before the Series Finale (sniff ), here it is! Enjoy!