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TikiBat


Tiki Enthusiast, Bat fan, writer

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  • 84 weeks
    New chapter update tomorrow

    It's been almost nine months but Night Terrors should be seeing an update tomorrow morning. This is a story that I feel has been underperforming a lot throughout its run, and there's a good chance it'll be my last long story for the foreseeable future. That said, it's still one that's very special to me, and I hope people will stick around to the end of it. I've wound up altering the outline I

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  • 113 weeks
    April chapter updates — an update about updates

    I’ve been running into a road block while working on some of my current projects lately and thought I’d write out a little status update for where I’m at story update wise for this month. This is going to be a mixed bag in terms of update timelines, but I always like to share where I’m at with my work anyways, even if it’s the kind of content that maybe one or two people actually enjoy reading

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  • 116 weeks
    Odyssey Chapter I is out

    Because of how I'm working on this particular rewrite, the reworked chapters will not appear as "new" chapters and the story won't appear as "updated". So what that means is that I'm going to have to work harder with every update to get the story out there. This chapter shouldn't be unfamiliar to longtime readers, however, it will have some very subtle yet significant lore changes towards

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  • 117 weeks
    Relaunching "Odyssey"

    You might have noticed, I rebranded and did some tweaking to "Odyssey". The first "prologue" chapter is up, though I guess it's not technically a true prologue, but rather more of a lore-filled intro. I don't want to get people's hopes up yet, so I'm not going to commit to a full structured release schedule yet, but expect infrequent updates that are made up of the original chapters but

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  • 123 weeks
    Unsure what to do with "Odyssey"

    So I'm going to preface this by saying that the point of this blog post is to gauge interest on whether this story should continue or not, and how that should go if I do. If you like the story and just want to see it continue then please let me know below. If you want to read into more of my thoughts on it and get an explanation for *why* it's been on hiatus for so long, then feel free to read

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2022

Relaunching "Odyssey" · 4:15am Mar 10th, 2022

You might have noticed, I rebranded and did some tweaking to "Odyssey". The first "prologue" chapter is up, though I guess it's not technically a true prologue, but rather more of a lore-filled intro. I don't want to get people's hopes up yet, so I'm not going to commit to a full structured release schedule yet, but expect infrequent updates that are made up of the original chapters but heavily reworked and adjusted. When I first set out to write this story, I was very inexperienced and my vision and the scope of the project changed as I was writing it. This won't be a story where every answer is explicitly given from the very beginning, but one where things start to get filled in with each chapter. If you were a reader of the original form of the story, there wasn't much left to write for "book 1" and hopefully I'll have the updates and that final chapter out sooner than later.

After that? I don't really have a clear timeline on when the other "books" in the story will be released or written. I still have two in-progress stories:

EFinding Your Place With the Outcasts
The story of three ponies who find their place in the world while finding themselves.
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and

ENight Terrors
Are you afraid of the dark? Do you ever have a dream so frighteningly vivid that you swore it was real?.. When Silver Eclipse encountered the Phantom in his dream, he learned that you're never too old to be afraid of the monsters in the dark...
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to finish writing, and after that, I'll probably work on the next entries in the "Odyssey" series following a break. The two above are stories that I'll for sure be working on in the meantime, so I'd definitely give them a read too if you're interested. Night Terrors in particular might share some themes with where I eventually want to take Odyssey, so if you want to get a little taste of what's to come, definitely check that out.

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Hey! Thanks for the update. Only just found the Pandemic series of stories in... I wanna say September? And basically have been reading all those. Recently that's lead to me reading your stuff! Very heartwarming stuff so far. Looking forward to whatever you throw out there!

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Glad to hear! My two current pandemic stories will probably be my main focus for now, so feel free to keep an eye on those too

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