It's inevitable when doing a 'Equestria is actually a place on Earth' story to have human religion interact with ponies. Most authors simply shy away from it, or treat it like a blind spot that never comes up in conversation because they're afraid the readers will recoil away from the concept of Christianity when matched up against pony. I'm not most authors. I think I can treat the subject with due respect, and I think my readers are mature enough to... Well, most of you. So

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I was wondering when people would start noticing the characters that I used in my Equestria : 1940 story looked familiar, for those of you who know history (or Google Wikipedia). Some of them are obvious, like the historical FDR, while some may be familiar to my readers as Laminia is. Some references are oblique, like ‘Soap’ MacTavish or the William Goldman derived quote (which was accidental by the timing, but intentional for the quote). So just for the fun of it, take a spin through the

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You know how it is that you write on something for a few months but have promised not to start publishing until it's done, but you start to worry and fret... Well, I'm up to the fourth chapter of Equestria - 1940, a story that will probably hit a dozen chapters plus by the time it's done. Here, Equestria is an island nation south of Greenland longitude and around the New York latitude line, much like the Azores on the other side of the mid-Atlantic trench. It has remained neutral in

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Starting on November 1, I will begin posting my Equestria - 1940 story, a heartwarming tail about the darkness of war beginning to engulf Europe, France falling to the invading Nazi armies and the neutral Equestria in the Atlantic Ocean, where dark forces of her own have begun to move. The Nightmare is coming. And soon all the world will fall to her glorious night.

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