A little bit about me.

Name: The Voice in the Water (TVW for short if you want)

Preferred pronouns: they/them

Occupation: Biologist (Botany)

Favorite cold drink: Gravenstein Apple Cider (non-alcoholic) or good horchata

Favorite hot drink: Yerba Mate

Preferred level of spiciness in food: Between gargling thermite and burning napalm.

Preferred music: Hard Rock, Industrial, New Age, World, Classic Rock, Blues, Jazz, Classical
– Current favorite artists: Halestorm, Blackmore's Night, Loreena McKennitt, Lindsey Stirling, Rise Against

Hobbies: Video-games, nature photography, hiking, writing & drawing (infrequently, but would like to do more often), being a curmudgeonly, snarky bastard.

Currently playing: Destiny 2
– Favorite Destiny Class: Warlock
– Favorite Warframe: Harrow
– Favorite weapons in Monster hunter

Insect Glaive
Bow
Gunlance
Dual Blades

Top 5 Favorite MLP characters:
1 - Sunset Shimmer
2 - Sci-Twi
3 - Princess Twilight Sparkle
4 - Grogar
5 - Mirror King Sombra

Top 5 Favorite MLP ships:
1 & 2 SunLight (Tie between Princess or SciTwi)
3 - RariJack
4 - Mirror Sombra x Celestia
5 - CheesePie

TPhoenix-born Rising - The Ascension of Sunset Shimmer
MLP: FiM
Equestria Girls
Drama
Slice of Life
The day of ascension has come. After 300 years, a new phoenix shall hatch, and with that, one child with great potential shall be chosen to be reborn in its flames. But, when a young orphan is chosen, it throws everything into chaos.
Profanity
Violence
Human
Alt. Universe
Celestia
Philomena
Sunset Shimmer
Raven Inkwell
The Voice in the Water · 247k words · 476 6 · 5.7k views
TPhoenix-born rising - the ascension of Sunset Shimmer [1st ed.]
MLP: FiM
Equestria Girls
Drama
Slice of Life
The day of ascension has come. After 100 years, a new pheonix shall hatch, and with that, one child with great potential shall be chosen to be reborn in its flames. But, when a young orphan is chosen, it throws everything into chaos.
Human
Alt. Universe
Celestia
Philomena
Sunset Shimmer
Raven Inkwell
The Voice in the Water · 14k words · 430 10 · 5.8k views
TThe Magister of the Deep
MLP: FiM
Equestria Girls
Destiny
Dark
Adventure
Tragedy
Sometimes, when the pain is too great and you cry out to the darkness, the Darkness just might reply.
Violence
Suicide / Self Harm
Death
Profanity
Crossover
Human
Twilight
Other
Sunset Shimmer (Demon)
Main 7 (EqG)
The Voice in the Water · 44k words · 155 7 · 4.4k views

Blog Posts
54

8 weeks
Dumb ideas that I will never do

Between working on my job applications, trying to get my latest research paper published, and working on phoenix-born, I occasionally come up with dumb ideas for stories that I don't ever expect to write. Most of these are crossover type things, but a few are originals. Anyhow, here are a few silly musings that will never see the light of day that I wanted to share because I'm procrastinating.
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6 comments · 168 views
9 weeks
Allies of Solaria - The kirintal

“From a seed left behind, a tree sprouts from the earth.
As its roots grow downward, it takes from the land.
As its branches grow upward, it gives back in turn.
The earth protects the roots, which the tree needs to live.
The earth demands the tree make it strong by holding the soil and rock together.
Without the earth, the tree would die.
Without the tree, the earth would never have lived.”
- Kirintal Proverb
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5 comments · 367 views
9 weeks
Enemies of Solaria - The Heralds of Lightning

“Lightning strikes in the sky,
Thunder peals on high,
While we sail the sea of clouds,
There is glory to be won,
Before the setting of the sun,
Let the storm be our call!
Our call!
Let the storm be our call!”
-The first stanza of the Heralds of Lightning shanty “Let the storm be our call.”
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13 comments · 354 views
10 weeks
Allies and Enemies of Solaria

Hey all,
Since there's a bit of a lull in my job applications, and I want to get back into a creative mind-space, I figured that doing a couple write-ups about the different factions might do the trick. So, I open the floor to you, my readers.
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13 comments · 300 views
13 weeks
I forgot how much I enjoy Housemarque games

So, the internet at my current place is… not great. There appears to be some sort of network bottleneck (go f**k yourself Comcast), to the point that if I play any games that require online connection, I end up getting booted regularly and at random. So, I dug into my library and pulled out a bunch of Housemarque games that I used to play (Resogun,
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Dec

5th

2022

Dumb ideas that I will never do · 11:21pm Dec 5th, 2022

Between working on my job applications, trying to get my latest research paper published, and working on phoenix-born, I occasionally come up with dumb ideas for stories that I don't ever expect to write. Most of these are crossover type things, but a few are originals. Anyhow, here are a few silly musings that will never see the light of day that I wanted to share because I'm procrastinating.

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The stories that got me into the fandom (and the glory of radiant, beautiful SunLight)

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Equestria Girls
Romance
Adventure
Comedy
Dashing swordswomen, wizened wizards, bitter revenge, and the power of true love. All part and parcel in Twilight's favorite book. And what better way to spend an afternoon with her sick girlfriend?
Sex
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Sci-Twi
Oroboro · 10k words · 276 14 · 4.8k views
EFriends, Maybe
Equestria Girls
Romance
Slice of Life
Sunset has been best friends with Twilight for years, but maybe she wants to be more?
Human
Twilight
Sunset Shimmer
Vixie · 1.1k words · 77 3 · 2.1k views
TSpectral
MLP: FiM
Mystery
Sci-Fi
The Starswirl the Bearded Wing is burning, taking with it Equestria's most powerful spells and any hope of hiding Princess Twilight Sparkle's greatest secret.
Sex
Profanity
Twilight
Sunset Shimmer
Starlight Glimmer
Moondancer
Cozy Glow
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