I finished the next chapter of Cultural Norms (I'm going to call it Ponyville Flat Affect) at 12,000 words. Editing phase is a go, which usually means cutting scenes that don't work while adding descriptions and proof reading (which I'm bad at, if all those spelling corrections in the comments section are anything to go by).
So, no, it won't be posted today. I am aiming at next week, assuming I don't stumble across some awful plot hole that needs to be plugged.
Fortunately, my rectal tumors stopped it from burrowing further and killing me (I also found out I have rectal cancer. Oh well.). I've had to go through months of surgery, and even more months of recovery, and here I am.
Anyway, that's why Cultural Norms is "late".
Content tenuously related to Xenophilia directly below.
One day, Twilight Sparkle asked Lero, "What's the most romantic song your people have ever made?"
1. The next chapter of Xenophilia: Cultural Norms, will be out this month, perhaps even in the next two weekseventually, I swear! I went through two drafts that I didn't like, restarting both times. I also threw out some of my outline and made a new one. So the long delay is mostly me trying to figure out how the hell I want this thing to continue - I had three differing ideas on how to continue this story, and got stuck in an idée fixe. I apologize for the long delay. At