All the illustrations for my stories were originally linked to my first website. That is hosted on someone's personal server and sometimes the service is a bit flaky, causing the art to disappear for days or even weeks. I had a backup site, but that was also a personal server and switching the links was inconvenient. However, The Chakat's Den is now hosted on a more professional server service and I have finished changing every link to that site... all of several hundred of them! (Let

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If you have read and enjoyed my "Safe Landings" stories, may I suggest something set in the same scenario but much nearer the beginning of the Ponies After People story. The Fearsome Foursome is set in the Tidalverse scenario and I quite enjoy it. Who doesn't like a good transformations tale?

About half past nine this morning while I was at work, the building started rattling and the floor started shaking. Yes, it was an earthquake - the first that wasn't a trivial tremor that I've ever felt. This region isn't really known for its quakes although obviously they do happen occasionally. It measured 6.0 but its epicentre was about 180 kilometres away in the country, so the consequences weren't too great. One building in Melbourne did have a wall collapse though.

If you like HiE stories, check out my latest tale based in the Mark-verse -> "Beginning Anew"

So, I've started another Human In Equestria story – Beginning Anew. How is this going to be different from the hundreds of others on this website? Maybe not much, or maybe just enough to be intriguing. I'm sure you'll let me know. However, I will be doing some world-building from outside of the rarified heights of Canterlot Castle. While the Mark Wells stories will continue, Caleb will deal with the less life-threatening

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Here's a sketch of Rosa giving her husband Phil a ride. This is a Patreon reward by Rated Ponystar.

Fitting my characters into the universes of other authors is tricky. My "Safe Landings" series had plenty of room to add fanon without affecting the main story. It's not so easy to do that with most other stories unless mine are set after the conclusion of their stories. One of the few possibilities that I like is the Royal Beanverse and I'll have a think about that one.

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During the "Off The Mark" saga, Mark Wells visited many alternate worlds. To recap, aside from the show canon ones, there were worlds where:

0. Starlight's cult had destroyed civilization.
1. Every character was the opposite sex.
2. Every character was an anthro.
3. An epidemic killed almost every male.
4. Chrysalis was Cadance's teenage friend and grew up to be married to her and Shining Armor.
5. Celestia was the alicorn who was corrupted and wiped out all life in the world.

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For anyone who read the original "Off The Mark" story but hasn't realized that there's a sequel, check out "Mark My Words" - https://www.fimfiction.net/story/482214/mark-my-words . Two episodes are up so far.

As mentioned in a previous blog, "On The Mark" (Book Three of Off The Mark) has been nominated for the Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Novel. If you agree and you haven't voted yet, I would appreciate every vote that I can get.

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