I still exist! Also, Dungeon Crawler Carl is a dumpster fire of a book. · 9:58pm November 5th
Oh, hello!
A guy. A guy who writes stories. Stories about ponies. (And sometimes robots).
Oh, hello!
Hello, FiMfic.
So where has summer gone, huh? I haven't been writing as much as I'd like, though apparently Bicyclette is doing a Sunset/Sci-Twi shipping contest, which I ... might actually look into? As that sort of thing is entirely within my wheelhouse. Maybe not as much as, say, a Rarijack contest or a Flash Sentry contest, but hey.
Oh hey, I still have a blog thing here.
In any case, my tabletop gaming crew ran a one-shot of the Tales of Equestria RPG over the weekend. Was fun! The intro kit adventure was ... kind of oddly designed, almost like a Choose Your Own Adventure thing instead of a 'traditional' RPG supplement. Though at the same time, the adventure is also basically a dungeon crawl, just without the typical murderhobo violence. Just goofy good times all around.
Seriously, that's Pinkie Pie on the left, and Rainbow Dash on the right. Tell me I'm wrong.
I will not write a fanfic about the two of them getting into all the fights.
Probably.
It snowed yesterday.
Which just reminded me how much I don't like winter. It wasn't even a bad snow, just enough of a dusting to linger for a little bit. First one of the season. And I even had the day off from work, due to my schedule, so it's not like I had to do anything ...
So I didn't.
So yeah. Despite various distractions (Steam had Darkest Dungeon for UNDER FOUR BUCKS), I've managed to hammer out a ridiculously shippy conclusion to the self indulgent Rarijack story I started.
So that's fun? I gave myself a deadline to finish things on Oct 31, so that's what I did, dangit. Hopefully you guys will enjoy.
Might add on a punchline epilogue at some point, but that'll come later.
So yeah, I went ahead and posted the first chapter of that terribly self indulgent fanfic I told you about. Because, well, I'm terribly self indulgent.
I thought about finishing the whole thing and posting it on Halloween itself, buuuuut, eh. Again, self indulgent. And spacing the chapters out gets more comments and views and such. Game the system, man.
So yeah. My goal is to have it finished by Halloween. Should be fairly short, but still. Something's better than nothing, no?
Oh hey, I still exist. Isn't that nice?
Things have been pleasant enough on my end-- well, except for the cold I've been battling for the last couple of days. That part's no fun. But I'm almost over it! Maybe! I think!
And now that I'm seeing little snippets people are posting about it, I kind of wish I did? Which is funny, as I'd completely forgotten EFNW was even going on until folks started mentioning it. Nice to see it's still a thing, at least? And is it still the most "writerly" of the brony conventions? As to be honest, I'm slightly less inclined to look into pony-centric conventions nowadays, given that Bronycon 2019 was ...
I, uh, still exist. So that's nice.
Wednesday is usually my Discord-based RPG night, see. Except the GM had a family emergency come up, and so he rightfully has gone to focus on that. Meaning I am ... well, I dunno if 'adrift' is the proper term, but hey. You get used to A Thing, and then that thing isn't there, so ... whatever.