Summary Judgements · 11:08pm Jan 18th, 2019
That blog about what not to do to tea has become my most-viewed one since I announced the winners of the Villain Exchange Contest. I find that strangely hilarious.
In any case, have some fic recs:
If you want some silly fun with crossing the memes, go read Shark(tocrab)tavia 8: Diet Hard with a Vengeance. (Full disclosure: I provided proofreading and cover art. Well, the less professional bits of the cover art.)
If you're in the mood for Steam Age magical girls against the forces of darkness, check out Sigil of Souls, Stream of Memories. It's just getting started, and it's already painting a vivid image of a world where Nightmare Moon is a massive outside-context problem.
Finally, if you want a complete epic of creations rebelling against their creators that doubles as ancient Equestrian history, look no further than Luna-tic Scientist. Book 2 of his A Soot-Covered World series has come to a close, and it's one hell of a ride. Start from the beginning with book 1, Days of Wasp and Spider; you're in for a treat.
Idunno. Bow ties strike me as rather professional.
Even for the Simic, that's too far
Love Luna-tic Scientist's epic!
Amazing and unusual that he stuck with the story so reliably for so long.
Bugsy tells me that there's this Octopustavia art trend, which I did see while looking for art of those two ponies as sea creatures to see if I could find and toss another meme on the pile after he said that. In the end, just the octopus thing, which was already part of the sharktocrab. There are pictures of Vinyl as a shark, though.
Your contributions to the cover art are much appreciated; the tie really makes it pop (and fit in with the other Sharktavia stories… as much as Sharktocrabtavia could fit in with anything else).
…Is this the place to say that I seriously wouldn't mind more Rarity vs. Giant Crab art (as if I ever did) if it featured her being awesome with an enchanted (and presumably fabulous) quarterstaff?
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>Octotavia and Vinyl Sharktch
Those poor, unfortunate souls...
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So sad, so true...
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You know, seeing as I had the Squizard be the main antagonist of a hypothetical continuation of the story which Sharktavia had a bit of a prior run-in with, this is remarkably fitting.
I'm going to be honest, I feel like you undersold Sigil of Souls. The prose isn't great, but all the stuff moving under the hood is great. The slow build to the giant monster and the casual dismissal of it when we see Twilight, the way each chapter highlights a different part of the world without losing sight of the people in it, third thing to round out the list— this guy isn't great yet, but he knows what the most important parts of his story are.