...but that would imply I was straight! badum-tish!

Also, I didn't get straight A's. Stupid physics.

I digress, however. The point is, I am asexual, aromantic, and very probably agender. I don't think I have a gender, and that strikes me as the sort of thing someone would know about. Since this is the first day of Pride Month, I thought I would take this opportunity to clear up some common questions and comments about asexuality and all the other "a" identities.

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The third chapter of Friendship 101 has just gone up. However, given the suddenly quite time-consuming nature of my summer job, it's doubtful that I will be able to get the fourth chapter up in a week. Therefore, I'm changing the update schedule of that to every other week.

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I love podcasts. They're like audiobooks with character and panache. They range from funny to serious, light-hearted to grim, fictitious to factual. Plus, they're really convenient entertainment for long road trips, cleaning the house, or being sat next to weird Uncle Jim at Thanksgiving. Here's a list of some of my favorite podcasts, along with a short description. If you see one you like, why not give it a go?

Fiction

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I'm not quite finished with my senior year yet; I still have one last final to take, and there's still graduation to worry about. For most intents, however, summer vacation has arrived. Hopefully, this means that I'll have a little more time available to work on my stories, but since my summer job is a full-time affair, that's not totally certain. I've just posted chapter two of Friendship 101, and later this summer I intend to put out the following:

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For any readers of Growing Pains interested in knowing what my concept of older Spike actually... looked like? Here you go. Done on Autodesk Sketchbook.

Not too shabby, considering I've not worked with computer drawing for long.

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So, as those of you who have read my first story, 'We Should See Other Ponies,' may recall, I ended it with a throwaway line about how alicorns are basically eldritch abominations. What you may not realize is that I was entirely serious about that. I have very strong feelings about cosmic horrors, and like my strong feelings regarding pears, patchwork coats, jelly babies, and paradoxes, it can be traced back to Doctor Who.

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In addition to being a writer, I also enjoy the more visual arts, particularly drawing. So I've started putting my drawings on the Internet. So far, I've only put up one, and only on Derpibooru, but I'm hoping to expand in the future. So, if you want to see pony versions of all the Doctors, or the alicorns as eldritch beings, or a bunch of stuff that I ship, or just a variety of half-drawn ponies... yeah, that's a thing that will start existing on the internet shortly.

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Often in my life, I am asked the question: "6&7, which Doctor is your favorite?"

To which there is one obvious answer: "NO! NO NO DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE BETWEEN MY PRECIOUS TIME BABIES PLEASE PLEASE NO NO NO-OO-OO!" I then run away sobbing into the night. This can often take an extremely long time, because this is usually a question I'm asked during the day. (Pro tip: Run east. It turns to night slightly sooner there!)

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So. Changelings are weird, right? They're kinda like bugs, but also like ponies, but they also eat love, and basically we don't actually know that much about them. Lots of different authors have interpreted them differently; mindless drones, evil minions, starving desperadoes, and more. The "changedlings" have only exacerbated the problem. So here is my take on the changelings, based on a very loose grasp of entomology and various sci-fi tropes.

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Alright, that might be overegging it considering I haven't been here long enough to establish an update schedule beyond "sporadic". But hey, I've finished my big computer science project, finished my big history essay, nearly finished my big speech, and am probably not totally unprepared for tomorrow's physics exam. So... I should be able to update Growing Painssooner rather than later, hopefully within the week.

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