There are two interesting things I want to show off!

First is the Robin Hood Morality Test. For a professed amoralist, I'm pretty interested in morality and its variations, so this was a great find. It's very quick to do, so give it a shot. And it would be totally badass if you were to tell me your decision. (The psychological analyses aren't so hot, mind. They're pretty clearly slanted. Still, worth a read.)

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The past three weekends have been pretty hectic; Nine Worlds con followed by a trip to Devon with university pals followed by Buck con. But now that's done, which means I have more time to devote to writing, which means a flurry activity is coming up:

*This weekend will see me publishing the Scootafic, all helpfully polished and proofread.

*Next weekend, I'm going to try my luck with a bizarre horror oneshot called Lyra Grows Fingers. Yes, seriously.

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I recently obtained a copy of Ursula K. Le Guin's Steering the Craft, and, being perverse, went straight to the final chapter. The concepts therein piqued my interest, and I decided they would make a good subject for a blogpost. This is another post that might-maybe-possibly become a series.

Crowding and Leaping

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Donkeys are cool, and it's a shame that they get so little attention in both the show and the fandom. I think they're much more interesting than gryphons[1], for example. Like zebras, donkeys are similar enough to ponies to make their distinctions stand out more.

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In any case, I couldn't get this scene out of my head, so I had to write it down. I've also made an attempt to make my prose more ornate than I usually do. Here you go:

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I don't care much about headcannon. Headcannon is monolithic, something to argue over, upgrade, whatever. Far too barren. The setting as we see it is largely undefined; there are a multitude of interpretations that are (mostly) consistent with the sliver of setting we do see. That's what I prefer: a variety of interpretations of canon to be valued for how interesting they are and how fertile they are for stories.

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Zombies, I think, are overrated. So, when I heard that the BBC was making a new zombie-based television drama called In The Flesh I was a teensy bit skeptical. Were it not for the source of the recommendation, Peter Watts[1], I would have likely not bothered at all. My misgivings were unfounded. ("Really? In a recommendation blog? Why, you do surprise me!")

It was awesome.

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I'm still around! Sort of. Things on the ponyfic front are progressing glacially right now because of that whole university work thing. (Turns out a degree takes up a significant chunk of one's time. Who'da thunk it?)

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On Wednesday I gleefully took Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks from my mailbox. A few hours later, I learned that Iain M. Banks has terminal cancer and is unlikely to live longer than a year.

Shit.

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