It seems that every time I write a new chapter of Monster Hunter: Equestria, I discover that the chapter actually logically breaks down into two chapters, and end up splitting them along these logical breaks. chapter 1 became 1 & 2, chapter 3 became 3 & 4, and now chapter 5 is about to become 5 & 6. It's kinda like implementing proper function modularity in C++: Each chapter should be focused on moving the plot one point forward (i.e. try to have as few "and"s in your chapter description

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Your entire species is being genocided. Your long-lost boyfriend turned out to be a piece of shit. You've killed more people with your giant mech than the next ten ponies put together and have a permanent thousand-yard stare as a result. You've had your very soul cursed by an ancient Outer God. You're such a mess, you would damn near eat ass for a bottle of gin and a pack of smokes.

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No, this is not a Minecraft question. This is more of a geological question. Geography was never a class I took.

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I've been hinting at having an AU with a desert wasteland world with Celestia in it.

Now I think I have enough writing skill to do it.

Has a lot of ideas that I picked up in sci fi type stuff. Been kicking around for like 1 or more years.

Tags: Alternate Universe, Adventure, Scifi, Tragedy

Hey so I finally got some art for one of my stories! The art in question is of Desert Skies from Ode to a Monster, and was done by the talented Little Tigress. She was a pleasure to work with, and I do recommend her to anyone looking for good quality work

Vinyl and Tavi have some alone time on a deserted island

For those who like their stories in dead tree format, my latest paperback novel is now available - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BM45DDCZ

The wraparound cover art is by Cat Named Fish.

If you just want the TL;DR, then skip to the end.

The tagged story is Desert Spice, which I have taken way too long to get back to, but this blog post actually covers Tastes Like Heresy and my new fic Monster Hunter: Equestria, as well. Let's start with MH:E, actually.

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When Desert Storm first encountered Mardissa Granthis, she wasn't particularly friendly.

I commissioned 1Jaz for this one. His mechanical details are top-notch!

https://www.deviantart.com/1jaz/art/Mardissa-Granthis-Guild-Champion-866449723

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I'm leaving home tomorrow to turn my associate's degree into a bachelor's degree at BYU Idaho. For reasons I do not fully understand, their honor code forbids beards. Mustaches are fine, apparently, but they kinda look really dumb on me. Whatever the case, It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make so that I can attend school there.

Click below the break for related pics of me, as well as a small update on what's going on with Monster Hunter: Equestria.

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... to the comments on the last Firefly chapter yet. But work is a royal mother-of-a-diamond-dog right now, and I've been coming home late and exhausted night after night, in no mood to do anything. I will get to them this weekend, promise. My vacation can't come soon enough at this point; I'll be off to a week or two in Las Pegasus Vegas to get my fill of poker and the desert after Memorial Day. Who knows, maybe I'll run into Aces Up and Double Down (from Five Star

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After far too long of off-and-on work on Desert Spice, I'm roughly halfway through the chapter. I've just been having so much trouble writing Horizon and his perspective... and I've also been prepping for the actuarial probability exam (which I failed, again), applying for colleges (which I've gotten into at least one of), and just generally being lazy when I wasn't doing those things.

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Exactly what it says on the tin:

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Greetings, people who read things that I write! College life at BYUi continues to be excellent, and I continue to find myself with available time to write horse words between doing homework, building EDH Magic decks, and playing Overwatch. Last weekend, I even managed to release another chapter of Monster Hunter: Equestria, in case anybody that might have been interested failed to notice.

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For starters, I am seriously impressed by the tropes page. Like, it now takes a respectable amount of scrolling to get through. High quality work, that tropes page... If you haven't yet, you should totally take the time to check it out. Reading that page has made me want to reread Tastes Like Heresy, and I wrote the danged fic.

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Geez I could take a note or two from this game. Multiple room selection from one housing space... why didn't I think of that?
Also I might actually buy this game when it comes over to the rest of the world.

To most of Equestria, the Bene Sediment are just one more eccentricity in the culture of rock farmers, a peculiar priesthood that propitiates the spirits of metals and minerals to provide bountiful harvests. And for most ponies, their knowledge of them, if they’ve even heard of them, ends there.

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