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Graymane Shadow


“It’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other peoples’ expectations. They produce their worst work when they do that.” - David Bowie

May
9th
2023

Keeping Your Scale Focused · 2:03am May 9th, 2023

I figure enough time has passed that I can be a little less leery of posting spoilers for Star Trek Picard Season 3. I won't go *too* in depth (and will spoiler tag a few things), but I do want to talk about the work that the writer/director Terry Malalas did with Episode 10 (the last) in particular.

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Jan
5th
2023

Cool art time · 2:51am Jan 5th, 2023

I haven't commed a lot of art of my ponysona, but I thought this piece was nice enough to share. Artist is EnderBee.

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Dec
29th
2022

Reflections on Year Two · 3:24am Dec 29th, 2022

When I wrote last year's post, I must admit that I expected to be a little more prolific than I ended up being.

Such is life, I suppose.

That said, I do think I released some good pieces this year, so I'll refrain from saying it was wasted.

I suppose this post is also a confirmation that I'm not retired or anything. Just had some life things going on, as well as personal issues that meant my writing output dropped across the board this year.

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Aug
14th
2022

August 2022 update · 9:28pm Aug 14th, 2022

Hello,

Been a hot minute since I’ve done one of these, so a small update today.

To lead off, much like last year I plan to attend Everfree Northwest this year. If you happen to spot me, feel free to say hello!

(if you want - no pressure)

I expect to be doing more of the fun panels this year rather than the writing-centric panels - most are either repeats of last year or not things I have interest in participating in.

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May
27th
2022

Make Your Mark Review (spoilers) · 3:55pm May 27th, 2022

I'll start by saying that while this is not going to be a positive review, I'm going to try to keep it constructively negative beyond "this sucks", as I think the problems are fairly clear and easy to point out. And if you liked the show, that's great. I don't think less of you for it! I can be sometimes critical of things that don't bother most, and this review's going to reflect that.

I'll lead off with the short spoiler free version:

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Mar
27th
2022

Project updates · 5:03am Mar 27th, 2022

Hello, folks. It's been a hot minute since I did a little refresher on what I've still got going on. I'll give a brief update on each below.

Mercy for One

I've recently used Chrysalis in a few stories, in a lighthearted role, and I think she's worked there.

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Jan
31st
2022

Welcome to The Shadowlands · 4:41pm Jan 31st, 2022

Hello, folks.

After some thought, I've decided to launch a Discord server.

Despite the name, this isn't intended to be a fanclub for me or anything silly like that - just a place where people can (ideally) congregate to discuss Pony and other topics, with a bend toward a writing focus.

The link is here: https://discord.gg/dsekDzvHGT

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Dec
28th
2021

Reflections on Year One · 7:43pm Dec 28th, 2021

So yeah. That's a thing. 🎇

I first got into Pony in the middle of 2020, though I was aware of it well before that. Being unemployed at the time, I was looking for stuff to watch between submitting job apps, and for whatever reason Netflix suggested it after I'd finished Beastars S1. I figured I'd give it a few episodes and see how things came out.

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Nov
20th
2021

Postmortem: The Dangers of Dreaming · 11:23pm Nov 20th, 2021

Generally, most of my short stories are written in a pretty short length of time. If everything flows well, sometimes it's just under an hour, plus or minus a little time for editing. Shining the Enduring was about three weeks, mostly because I had very high standards for that one.

The master document for this story has a creation date of September 11th. Actual Fimfic publication was November 15th.

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Sep
29th
2021

October 2021 Update · 7:03pm Sep 29th, 2021

Yes, it's September 29th, I'm aware. But I didn't do an entry for September, and I have time right now, so you're getting it a bit early.

As always, I'll start with the recap.

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