So, two weeks ago when I was driving down to Florida, I had meant to work on some of my existing unfinished stories. That didn't happen. Instead, I ended up doing a bunch of free-associating, and that turned into... well, another incomplete story, a service comedy about Gilda being shanghaied into a colonial branch of the Equestrian military dedicated to maintaining Celestia's imperial control over the Griffish Isles.

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A couple weeks ago Undome Tinwe was talking about a short story, re-casting Discord into the role of Prometheus. I had the honor of doing some pre-reading on that the other day.

Here it is.

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The Princess lay in her chains, her horn wrapped in lead and iron, her beaten head bowed. She and her chains sat at the back of the square, on a little raised platform covered in filthy hay, and the occasional pony spat at her from the ordered crowds filling the cobblestones below her perch. Their orderly lines barely held their formation, and if it were only they and their hate, the crowd would have degenerated into a mob, a princess-shredding, howling mob.

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RB_ has begun writing Rarity murder mysteries. But not the noir-themed type of murder mysteries that the episode "Rarity Investigates" tried to do, all jazz and swanky Forties styles. Instead, Who-dunce-it? and Clear as Blood are more in the way of your basic, stripped-down English parlor

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The artist who did the colored sketch I've been using on Those Who Ride finished up the final version of the commission! For those who haven't been following along, I've been using this:

The new, finished art is here:

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OK, Project Ezra Pound is now complete. I started it to explore the phenomenon of nonsensical, obnoxious, or passive-aggressive public bookshelving, and to see what authors do in response to this sort of thing - as a group, not just the people who pop off about it on a regular basis, and as a result, attract the griefers who double down on them, making them... what's it called? Lolcows?

So I set up an alt named Ezra Pound.

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This chapter is mostly self-explanatory. There's little in canon about Equestria's north-west, aside from some cities or towns on a map, and a few labels. The vast bulk of stories told in the TV show and even the books and comics are told in the rest of ponyland, the eastern coast, 'southern Equestria', the central region around Ponyville and Canterlot, even Las Pegasus, Applewood, and Salt Lick City in the southwest.

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More about the Founding Six, this time. I tried to fold a number of ideas about the fates of the various Founders into this, and to blend some different headcanon, fanon, and official-book canon. The story about how Celestia came to control the sun is now more or less canon due to the episode about it in season 8; it apparently both endorses and makes problematic the version told in the Journal of the pony sisters. So I, who have never actually buckled down and read that Journal that Oliver is

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I've never really done this story-note business that Admiral Biscuit specializes in, but Little Sparrow feels like it needs it, a bit.

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There's been a pause in Those Who Ride for a number of reasons. Some having to do with personal issues and so forth.

But another factor has been a sudden-onset incursion of plot bunnies. I drove them off, but the end result has been a relatively short Sombra story, running five chapters and coming in at about novelette length.

So, new story coming, starting either today or tomorrow.