The folks who worked with me on the now-moribund PonyEarthVerse project may or may not be aware of a secondary thing that I was working on: An Equestrian "conlang."

Despite my bowing out of the project because ... well, I'm a slow author, I've still fiddled for time to time with "Ikostan."

Some of the grammar was suggested by others in the group, and a proto-fork wound up in another author's pony RP forum thread.

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Well, in case anyone missed it:

It's dead, Jim.

A combination of factors led to L&MT's demise: Rough RL situations, then the effect of "OMG, I'm so far behind!"

But ultimately, I'd written myself into a corner, and the overall tone of PonyEarthVerse went too grim for me, so I backed out as gracefully as I could.

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"Love and Music Theory" is not dead, it's just dragging itself along by its forehooves over a rubble-strewn street.

The rubble is pretty much part of the conflict I need to build and I'm trying to find a happy balance between just enough exposition for the tale and 'why the hay aren't you writing this as a standalone fic?'

My fellow universe authors know what I'm struggling with, and they have enough broad strokes to safely ignore it if they want to.

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Okay with that out of the way...

Somehow I wound up with a "gold" bar when I post now. Huh.

Anyone know what that's about?