An ongoing allergic reaction.
The need to move for the second time this year.
Someone side swiped my car.
Seeking a new job.

As I mentioned in the last chapter, a number of chapters are done, but are still on the previous draft. I haven't been able to make fast progress on updating and editing them. I know nobody is likely to be upset with my slow progress, but I want people to know what's up.

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The two characters that are going to go on the cover art of The Fine Line are mostly done. The first one won't have that rainbow where a cutiemark goes, or any to start with. I also need to make wings. Ouch. I've tried that before and I don’t see anything easy about accomplishing that but I’ll have an easier time than my last attempt four years ago. Let me hear your thoughts!

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But new content is nigh. I am nearly ten chapters into a new hard sci-fi story, but I have been trying to make its cover art forever. I have a realism problem holding me back, but now I have learned as much as I think I need to finish the cover art and actually start posting the story. The image below has many many many things wrong with it, mostly fur artifacts, but I think I know how to fix all of those and I am closing in on the right look. A look that very much looks to my eye like

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So, I've spent some time watching videos by someone named Isaac Arthur. He makes content discussing hard sci-fi concepts in an analytical and realistic light. And I realized that my plans for this story were absurd. I planned on Twilight getting home within a few years at most, but that won't be possible in my setting for around seventy years.

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As fun as the original bit of fun was, making it a real story does not provoke fun thoughts. As my most popular piece of writing, I understand that many of you really want more. I'm willing to post fan chapters if people so desire and if you send me a link to a gdoc and it looks good, but my muse almost always lives in hard sci-fi.

There's little inspiration for this. Pulling a decent story out of this early attempt at one would be like chasing a straight in poker iirc. Bad results are almost guaranteed. That's not to say I'll never finish this, but it is unlikely. If I wanted to make the ideas I had for this bear fruit, I'd likely just write a new story altogether.

All the time you see fics, not to mention the show itself, give ponies names made from nouns and verbs and whatnot. In the usual interactions between a human and a pony you might see a human say something along the lines of, 'our names don't have meanings,' but the truth is that interaction may simply be a product of modern English.

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That's right, this guy is now a 3D modeler for the guys bringing you Fallout Equestria the game!

You may think, "C'mon man, now our updates will never come!" That would be a sensible thought if it was actually cutting into my free time. Truth is that I've had eons of free time that I put into other things. I've partially created no less than four other stories not seen by mortal eyes that have yet to reach the point where I would want to post them.

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At the very minimum, watch the last three minutes. Those of you who never even knew this was a thing, well now you both know about it and know how epic it already is. Check out their website and read all their blogposts to see exactly how deeply this insanity goes.

Things're gun be crazy.
Let me hear the hype.

Don't mind that I tagged Pegasus mating dance. It's just the difference between reaching one hundred people and twenty-five hundred people Gotta share the hype.

I here that the above is against site rules. Therefore I shall post a small preview of the upcoming chapter.

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