June Roundup · 10:33pm Jun 27th, 2016
June 2016 ended up being quite a crowded month. I kept meaning to talk about some of the fun things I did (Concert! Comics expo! Fanficcing!), but just as I was getting ready to do that I was interrupted by Significant Events (Orlando, Brexit) which made it hard to stay in a good mood for blogging. So let me just run through some things real quick.
First off: "Discourse on Fillies" has been chosen for a review by the Royal Canterlot Library! I've done the interview, and it should go up on their website later this week, and as a site post on FIMFiction the week after 
Secondly, since I finished that story I've been working on The Education of Clover the Clever! I have a first draft of the next chapter, and have started on the chapter after that. They are... well, they are as wild and out there as we have all come to expect from The Education of Clover the Clever, so I think you'll all be very satisfied.
Thirdly, in a different media universe altogether, a couple of weeks ago I went to the Oslo Comics Expo and got to meet guest of honor Kate Beaton, creator of the webcomic Hark! A vagrant, of whom I have been a huge fan for many years. I got to chat with her for a bit, and got a photo taken of the two of us, and then she signed my books and it was all-around delightful.
Fourthly, a week ago I was suddenly invited to a concert by a friend who found herself with an extra ticket. Not just any concert though - a science fiction and fantasy themed concert played by an Army orchestra on an outdoor stage in Oslo's medieval fortress. There they played music from various sci-fi and fantasy movies, tv shows, and video games. There's a special magic in listening to serious musicians from serious organizations play geek music. There was Star Wars and Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica and Lord of the Rings and Conan the Barbarian and Skyrim. For an encore they played the opera scene from Final Fantasy VI. It was amazing.
Plus there were cosplayers from a bunch of different fandoms, and when their music played they took up positions beside the stage. There were around a dozen people dressed as Imperial soldiers and officers standing at attention while the Imperial March played.
There was a Severus Snape there. My friend who invited me was in her Hufflepuff scarf, and when we went by the cosplayers to take our seats Snape turned to her and said "untucked shirt, fifteen points from Hufflepuff" in a very curt voice. It was awesome 
And those were the big things that happened to me in June.
There is something deliciously anachronistic about having a scifi music convention in an 800 year old fortress...
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It's a lovely location. There is a carp pond beneath the stage, and the audience sits on the other side, and they had one of those life-sized statues of Smeagol holding a fish.
That's great news! Congratulations!
Very much looking forward to the next chapters of TECC, and the concert sounds like it was a wonderful event.
And OMstarry-manedG! Why have I not heard of Hark! A Vagrant before now? That thing is hilarious!
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Thank you, and it really was
Hark! A Vagrant is amazing. And she was really cool in person and very patient with my awkward fanboy nervousness