First, I'm sorry I haven't posted this earlier.

Hindsight is not dead, I just don't have much energy to work on the story at the moment. Work is exhausting because we are still hugely understaffed, and I'm quite flattened when I come home. Creative juices are low.

I have the draft of the chapter ready, the dialogue mapped out, but I don't like the overall feel yet. I have some ideas how to fix it, but not the energy. Next week, I'll have some free time but I can't promise anything.

Episode 22 of Season 7 will be called Once Upon a Zeppelin.

This is the family crest of the von Zeppelins, the same family the airships are named after.
Could the inventor/promoter/producer of Equestrian airships have been a donkey?

Tiffin cocked her head with utmost innocence. “Not sure, but I think we’ve joined a gang. We even had an emblem.”

Before speaking up, Brighteyes glanced to his wife and Peafowl, and instead of concern, he saw curiosity in their eyes. “A pretty pegasus guard smuggled us into Canterlot Castle, and long story short, the place is now full of pigeon poop.”

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...and because I finally finished the latest chapter that introduced the last character, here are roleplay classes for Hindsight.
I'll still put the new character under a spoiler bar, just to be sure...

Brighteyes would be some expert/aristocrat multiclass. Yes, purely NPC classes. A struggling lawful good.

Tea Treat would be a wizard. Neutral good.

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Taking a minute to process what he was seeing and what it could mean, Brighteyes blinked twice.

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... might take another while, I cannot say how long.

I am sorry to keep you all waiting. I have a lot of non-online things going on at the moment, and the next chapter is not coming together as well as I want it to - the first draft was quite awful and way too mean towards one character in particular.
And with Christmas Business in full swing at work and not enough co-workers, I am quite tired when I come home and do not really have much energy for writing.

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I'm from Germany, Franconia to be precise.
That's how we talk. Exemplified with ponies.

Except Pinkie in the end. That is Swabian. There's always a Swabian somewhere.

I skimmed through my new Schmeil-Fitschen (a very accurate and recommandable German plant identification book) and came across the deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna in Latin.
It is called like that because in ancient times, women gave a drop of belladonna juice into their eye to make the pupil widen, caused by the atropin in the juice. Today, solutions of atropin are used for eye examinations.

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