Another great chapter of a great story.

7680900 Thank you, Mix-Up! Who is your avatar inspired by today?

7683379 thank you for notices my Nightmae Night Avatar, it's supposed to be a chaos space marine from Warhammer 40k. I was suggested during my contest that I launch earlier this month.

Wow, that chapter was a roller coaster. Good balance between serious and funny, Gentle Soul is awesome. This reminds me how much I hated word searches. I'm glad I never have to do those again. I also would have never found the secret phrase.
Timing on the update is good as well. My life isn't going super great right now, so the chapter was appreciated.

Oh Jesus that hurts even me!

Oh snap. I can envision an intersection between their love life and the accident approaching quickly.

I think Soarin's still a better coltfriend than Bronze. Bronze seems like the type of pony who doesn't think he does anything that bad, whereas Soarin clearly feels guilty about what he'd done.

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It looks absolutely fantastic! I might have asked you this before, but do you do commissions?

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Thanks for the feedback! Balance is always tough, so I'm glad I'm not totally screwing it up.

Hit me up via DM if you want to chat. I hope your life is taking a turn for the better.

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Imagine how Soarin' feels.

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I'm looking forward to discussing the various things I'm doing with Bronze someday. I know you'll appreciate analyzing them. Thanks for the feedback!

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I think I have a good idea on both sides...

7698557 Thanks for the offer, I'll keep that in mind. Luckily one of my problems resolved itself fortunately. My car was leaking something, but it turned out to be water from the AC. Not great, but it's not like it's brake fluid or anything like that. Mostly I'm just not reaching the academic, professional, and personal goals I set for myself and I'm dealing with some minor depression. Then my crappy summer keeps coming back.
I saw your blog, i'm glad your feeling better and I should make the stream, at least for a bit. Not sure how chatty I'll be, I'll be doing homework at the same time.

I'll start off by saying that I LOVED Gentle Soul. He's adorable, funny as hell, fabulous, and all the innuendo! Just out curiosity would you say he's normally that risque' with his patients or was it all simply to get more acquainted with Soarin' and get him more comfortable while he worked with him? Cause I can totally see Gentle Soul as the type to try to find out a bit about his patients' interests and personalities ahead of time and try to incorporate them in treatment. (That or Radiant Hope told him about Soarin and he knew he could get away with it). Oh the whimsy!!

I absolutely love what you did with Soarin' and how his building paranoia finally caught up to him. I also love how you portray the emotional turmoil of his overwhelming guilt and depression of his realization that his betrayal was for nothing. He's been trying really hard all this time to be everything Bronze isn't but in the end he ended up being no different at least in Soarin' s mind. Those feels hit hard. Anyway I love the ending of this chapter and I love where your taking the story!

7698554 if you PM me with a description of what you we could talk about it further if you want.

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I'm glad things got better with your vehicle, and I hope you realize that, even if you aren't meeting all your goals the way you envisioned, you're still accomplishing a lot, and you're building up your skills and experience for something better down the road. I hope you're able to get some help with your depression, too – does your school offer counseling services?

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I figured you'd like Gentle Soul. I certainly have enjoyed writing him.

Cause I can totally see Gentle Soul as the type to try to find out a bit about his patients' interests and personalities ahead of time and try to incorporate them in treatment. (That or Radiant Hope told him about Soarin and he knew he could get away with it). Oh the whimsy!!

That's pretty much exactly what I had in mind with him! Nicely sussed out! He's professional enough to adjust his methods, but Radiant Hope would have let it slip what Soarin' said at that first appointment, and Gentle Soul would absolutely have run with it. You can probably imagine what that conversation was like when Radiant saw that look in his husband's eye.

Thanks for the feedback, and I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter. New one coming soon-ish!

7705521 I know I am. The professional stuff is mostly due to what happened last summer. I got a job offer for an amazing internship (pretty much the exact field that I want to go into, really high end company and the position was at their international R&D facility) but apparently I was offered the position before they had permission from corporate to even have an internship and by the time everything settled it was to late to find anything else. I also would have made about $8k (possibley $16k) pre-tax. I'm also not graduating in the fall and alot of people are, so they're looking for (and finding) full time stuff. Academically i'm not doing bad, but I got my midterms back and the vast majority of the points that I lost were stupid mistakes that I shouldn't be making at this point in my career. And I've mostly been beating myself up over that. Then I want to do grad school, so I need to keep my GPA up. I also feel bad about complaining because I know people that are on academic probation and will be kicked out if they fail another class and I'm complaining about possibly not being able to go the the grad school i want to. I know my school has counseling services, but I'm not sure exactly what's offered. It also comes and goes and right now it's mostly gone, but it'll probably be back at some point. And honestly, it just feels good to vent.

second funniest character award goes to......

Gentle Soul, duh

While Soarin' should feel bad about reading Braeburn's letter, he could have some comfort in the fact that at least he knows what he did is wrong. It sounds like Bronze didn't care.

Also, I get to the comments and remember Gentle Soul was in this chapter too. You packed quite a bit into this chapter.

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Yeah, they kept getting longer and longer. I'm going to try to keep it under control in my other stories, but I'm pleased with how it came together for this one.

I knew he’d regret it, I just knew it. One step closer to Bronze 2.0.

Wow, I’ve never felt so much like hugging and strangling someone at the same time! What a dumbass move! But, he’s so hard on himself that I’m stuck with a mix of disgust and sympathy. Damn! Awesome writing, dude!

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Thanks, buddy! I wanted to strangle him, too.

A poignantly painful chapter.

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Thank you <3