[UPDATE] Egad, some activity?!

Yes! I am still plugging away at [REDACTED], it's just somewhat slow going due to life reasons. I'm starting to accept that I'm just never going to be as outlandishly productive as WandererD or n7punk, and I'm working on being okay with that.

If you venture over to my AO3 page, you'll discover I've been working a decent amount in the realm of She-ra (2018) fanfics as well as my ongoing love for pony. (You never leave the fandom, you only deny it until the urge to rewatch becomes too strong!) My GF happened to have found and forwarded to me a song that just punched me in the gut and became my new anthem from that moment on. I instantly became a fan of the artist and subscribed to ALL their things.

You have no idea how awesome it was when they announced they were releasing their cover of Viva La Vida.

Viva La Vida is a heavily enculturated work by Coldplay, an already divisive band. I know there are Coldplay haters out there, I'm not one of them. I personally love the song and it's honestly epic enough on its own to not strictly need the cover, but it's also in a masculine voice. (I'm trans, lesbian, looking for representation in all things, yadda yadda) The masculine voice wasn't a dealbreaker in the slightest, but with an epic cover by my favorite vocalist ever popped up, you bet your ass I was interested.

And I cried! Reinaeiry keeps making me all weepy when she sings and I don't rightly know why everything she does makes me turn on the waterworks.

In any case! From the early days of My Empire of Dirt, I'd been wanting to include a version of Viva La Vida in the official playlist but hadn't been able to quite manage it 'cause other than the original, nothing really fit quite right. So even though it's been half a year since I put a bow on Empire, I have one final update that isn't waiting for the print version, I'm now calling the official My Empire of Dirt playlist set complete:

My Empire of Dirt - Volume 1: Title Tracks
My Empire of Dirt - Volume 2: The Soundtrack (this is where Viva La Vida now lives)
My Empire of Dirt - Volume 3: Inspirations
My Empire of Dirt - Volume 4: Music Box Blues

So if you were to sit down in a theater and start watching the cinematic production of My Empire of Dirt (in the variant universe where I had enough clout to get Hasbro to let me make the film instead of just posting a fanfic about it), once the trailers finished rolling (featuring the most hotly anticipated shared-universe ensemble movie of the season, Masters of the Universe: She-ra & He-man, based on the 2018 She-ra show and the 2021 He-man show, no not that one), the opening logos from the production company and IP holder would come up on the screen to the opening strains of Viva La Vida but It's Epic.