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Two for the price of one.
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Seriously, I got hit with two of these damned things. But, I feel like answering them this time. I'm not gonna tag anyone else though. So... if you're interested, feel free to try your hand at it. Otherwise, yeah... this is more an excuse to bump a year old journal entry off my front page than anything else.
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Tag #1, from dthorin.deviantart.com/ :
1. What is your favorite binding type? (Leather, Rope, etc...):
Steel. Nothing so final as a set of steel shackles locked in place. As a second, leather.
2. What is your favorite fetish?:
Bondage would be the obvious answer, but also the incorrect one. I have a clothing/heels fetish. I find nudity to be, quite honestly, boring. The clothing one wears, and how they wear it, is vastly more important to me.
3. Do you prefer comics or pinups?:
I vastly prefer comics, but I am not very good at them. Hence why I do mostly Pin-ups.
4. Anime or Tokusatsu?:
I don't know what the second one is, so I'll say Anime
5. Are you reading Sunstone? How do you like it?:
Yes I am reading it, and I love it... visually. I find the story to be a bit lagging in spots, especially where it is in the current story arc, but I'll admit that I was never very patient for that sort of drama even in my own life.
6. Maid, Nurse, Schoolgirl, Teacher, Cop? or any other Fetish costume?:
Maids, definitely maids.
7. Straight jackets, Armbinders or good old fashioned rope?:
Amrbinders. Nothing so lovely as a thin leather armbinder pulled so tight the elbows touch and the forearms look like they're molded into one.
8. Leather or Latex?:
Depends on the use. For attire, latex. For restraints, leather.
9. Who is your favorite artist on DA?:
Honestly I can't really limit it to just one, so I'll list three here.
For fetish, definitely Nomad - we-r-nomad.deviantart.com/
For furries, definitely Jay Naylor, tho he is a little porny for my tastes. But I absolutely adore how he does mice - jaynaylor.deviantart.com/
For technical and Pony, it's gotta be Baron Engel - baron-engel.deviantart.com/
10. What is your favorite bondage position?:
Close legged strappedo. I love the legs being bound tightly together, and there's something wonderfully psychological about how exposed the individual is in a strappedo position.
11. Do you prefer furry or human?:
It's a tossup. It's really all about what I feel like drawing at the moment. It's why Tasha has both a human and a furry (MANY different furry) forms.
12. Do you have any fun fetish fantasies you want to share?:
I won't share any scenes or anything, but I have a certain soft spot for "damsel in distress" type scenarios. I also have a love for self bondage gone wrong (which I view as a type of peril) and male to female transformation stuff. Bonus points if you can include all three. ^_^
I'm not answering 13 because it was just a throw away question.
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Tag #2 is from zetaresp.deviantart.com/
This one is a bit simple. He wants 8 facts about my character. I'm only gonna do one, but it's likely the one he wants to know about, so *shrug*. So we got 8 facts about Tasha C. Polecat.
1: Tasha's middle name is "Collette", and a reference to a name a friend initially gave her before she was named Tasha. (he came up with that name because he kept trying to envision her as a French french maid... I have no idea why *looks innocent*)
2: Tasha makes a living as an independent inventor. This means she's technically living off the dividends she makes from selling various patents to different companies.
3: She was kicked out of the US Navy for modifying military equipment. Yes it improved the capabilities, but it meant they didn't have the parts or know-how for anyone but her to repair and maintain it. To avoid a Dishonorable Discharge, she had to revert the modifications back to standard, and then provide the schematics of her changes to the DOD (Department of Defense). It is unknown what was done with her modifications after that.
4: She specializes in robotics, but also had a hand in developing a type of nano-machines. It is those very machines she uses to change forms in a painless manner (technically it's actually quite painful, but the nanites disconnect the pain receptors in the area being altered before going to work. She has had little success in marketing that function, to her surprise).
5: He personal car is a kit built DeLorean (meaning it's technically a knock-off brand) that she assembled herself (mostly, she had a robot or 3 do the heavy lifting). She also painted it cherry red on a whim.
6: Tasha is frequently the guinea pig in her own trials and tests. This has led to some rather... unexpected results from time to time. Despite that, she refuses to stop. This has led some of her friends to conjecture that she gets off on the thrill of potentially being trapped by her own designs. Fortunately she makes sure her friends locally have a key, and instructions to check on her from time to time just to make sure she's okay/let her out.
7: As was once shown in my gallery, Tasha has no head hair. In human form, which is the form where the accident occurred, she has no hair at all! This is due to an early mistake with her nanites. She was working for the Chainsman Institute at the time, and developing the "Delta Latex" restraint and capture suits. The nanites weren't quite set right, and as part of their self sustaining cycle, ate all her body hair down to the roots. This has left her incapable of growing any body hair at all. In furry forms, this means no head "hair", and thus wears a wig in all her forms.
8: She is the only know female to be rejected from the French Maid Planet. That order was later redacted, but because of her intimate (extremely intimate in some cases) knowledge of robotics, she was always feared by the robots of the FMP. Nomoko, the transformed Nomad, has since realized the error of that idea and inducted the scientist into her splinter group as one of her scientists (if not the lead scientist. I'm hazy on how that sort of structure would work when they're all kept shackled). Regardless, Tasha is happy with the end result, especially since she's been "given" to a new handler, the KnightBear Bearomir.
9. BONUS FACT! Tasha C. Polecat splintered into the multiverse due to some early experiments with dimension travel. This means there are many alternate dimensional versions of this character, sometimes with wildly varying circumstances. Some are as far removed from the original to have grown up in a world of magic, and thus learned to be a mage. In all cases, regardless of where in the multiverse she can be found, she is highly technical and extremely kinky. Handle with care (as tightly as possible).
10. BONUS bonus fact! Tasha is not purely a submissive, but a submissive leaning switch. There are times she'd rather wield the crop rather than be victim to it.
There, done. If you want to say I tagged you with this post, go for it. Me? I don't propagate stuff like this. It's like a chain letter, the only way to stop it is to not send it on.
- Polecat
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Tag #1, from dthorin.deviantart.com/ :
1. What is your favorite binding type? (Leather, Rope, etc...):
Steel. Nothing so final as a set of steel shackles locked in place. As a second, leather.
2. What is your favorite fetish?:
Bondage would be the obvious answer, but also the incorrect one. I have a clothing/heels fetish. I find nudity to be, quite honestly, boring. The clothing one wears, and how they wear it, is vastly more important to me.
3. Do you prefer comics or pinups?:
I vastly prefer comics, but I am not very good at them. Hence why I do mostly Pin-ups.
4. Anime or Tokusatsu?:
I don't know what the second one is, so I'll say Anime
5. Are you reading Sunstone? How do you like it?:
Yes I am reading it, and I love it... visually. I find the story to be a bit lagging in spots, especially where it is in the current story arc, but I'll admit that I was never very patient for that sort of drama even in my own life.
6. Maid, Nurse, Schoolgirl, Teacher, Cop? or any other Fetish costume?:
Maids, definitely maids.
7. Straight jackets, Armbinders or good old fashioned rope?:
Amrbinders. Nothing so lovely as a thin leather armbinder pulled so tight the elbows touch and the forearms look like they're molded into one.
8. Leather or Latex?:
Depends on the use. For attire, latex. For restraints, leather.
9. Who is your favorite artist on DA?:
Honestly I can't really limit it to just one, so I'll list three here.
For fetish, definitely Nomad - we-r-nomad.deviantart.com/
For furries, definitely Jay Naylor, tho he is a little porny for my tastes. But I absolutely adore how he does mice - jaynaylor.deviantart.com/
For technical and Pony, it's gotta be Baron Engel - baron-engel.deviantart.com/
10. What is your favorite bondage position?:
Close legged strappedo. I love the legs being bound tightly together, and there's something wonderfully psychological about how exposed the individual is in a strappedo position.
11. Do you prefer furry or human?:
It's a tossup. It's really all about what I feel like drawing at the moment. It's why Tasha has both a human and a furry (MANY different furry) forms.
12. Do you have any fun fetish fantasies you want to share?:
I won't share any scenes or anything, but I have a certain soft spot for "damsel in distress" type scenarios. I also have a love for self bondage gone wrong (which I view as a type of peril) and male to female transformation stuff. Bonus points if you can include all three. ^_^
I'm not answering 13 because it was just a throw away question.
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Tag #2 is from zetaresp.deviantart.com/
This one is a bit simple. He wants 8 facts about my character. I'm only gonna do one, but it's likely the one he wants to know about, so *shrug*. So we got 8 facts about Tasha C. Polecat.
1: Tasha's middle name is "Collette", and a reference to a name a friend initially gave her before she was named Tasha. (he came up with that name because he kept trying to envision her as a French french maid... I have no idea why *looks innocent*)
2: Tasha makes a living as an independent inventor. This means she's technically living off the dividends she makes from selling various patents to different companies.
3: She was kicked out of the US Navy for modifying military equipment. Yes it improved the capabilities, but it meant they didn't have the parts or know-how for anyone but her to repair and maintain it. To avoid a Dishonorable Discharge, she had to revert the modifications back to standard, and then provide the schematics of her changes to the DOD (Department of Defense). It is unknown what was done with her modifications after that.
4: She specializes in robotics, but also had a hand in developing a type of nano-machines. It is those very machines she uses to change forms in a painless manner (technically it's actually quite painful, but the nanites disconnect the pain receptors in the area being altered before going to work. She has had little success in marketing that function, to her surprise).
5: He personal car is a kit built DeLorean (meaning it's technically a knock-off brand) that she assembled herself (mostly, she had a robot or 3 do the heavy lifting). She also painted it cherry red on a whim.
6: Tasha is frequently the guinea pig in her own trials and tests. This has led to some rather... unexpected results from time to time. Despite that, she refuses to stop. This has led some of her friends to conjecture that she gets off on the thrill of potentially being trapped by her own designs. Fortunately she makes sure her friends locally have a key, and instructions to check on her from time to time just to make sure she's okay/let her out.
7: As was once shown in my gallery, Tasha has no head hair. In human form, which is the form where the accident occurred, she has no hair at all! This is due to an early mistake with her nanites. She was working for the Chainsman Institute at the time, and developing the "Delta Latex" restraint and capture suits. The nanites weren't quite set right, and as part of their self sustaining cycle, ate all her body hair down to the roots. This has left her incapable of growing any body hair at all. In furry forms, this means no head "hair", and thus wears a wig in all her forms.
8: She is the only know female to be rejected from the French Maid Planet. That order was later redacted, but because of her intimate (extremely intimate in some cases) knowledge of robotics, she was always feared by the robots of the FMP. Nomoko, the transformed Nomad, has since realized the error of that idea and inducted the scientist into her splinter group as one of her scientists (if not the lead scientist. I'm hazy on how that sort of structure would work when they're all kept shackled). Regardless, Tasha is happy with the end result, especially since she's been "given" to a new handler, the KnightBear Bearomir.
9. BONUS FACT! Tasha C. Polecat splintered into the multiverse due to some early experiments with dimension travel. This means there are many alternate dimensional versions of this character, sometimes with wildly varying circumstances. Some are as far removed from the original to have grown up in a world of magic, and thus learned to be a mage. In all cases, regardless of where in the multiverse she can be found, she is highly technical and extremely kinky. Handle with care (as tightly as possible).
10. BONUS bonus fact! Tasha is not purely a submissive, but a submissive leaning switch. There are times she'd rather wield the crop rather than be victim to it.
There, done. If you want to say I tagged you with this post, go for it. Me? I don't propagate stuff like this. It's like a chain letter, the only way to stop it is to not send it on.
- Polecat
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New Breed Musings
4 min read
Yeah, this is a post to all those who read, or even know, what New Breed is.
First off, an apology. I know i said a few times Book 3 is coming. It's... stalled. I've been unable to get past the first chapter in any meaningful way. I think I've figured out why, but it wouldn't be an easy fix. Quite literally I took a big ol' bite of epic storytelling, and found it a bit too big for me to handle. I'm not sorry I took the bite, after all "it's better to choke on greatness than nibble at mediocrity" (No idea who said that, I saw it on some motivational poster), but I am sorry i can't seem to finish chewing it down and get this story moving again. The core problem is simply put as this: too many characters. If I count all the involved characters in book 3, it comes to a whopping Forty-Three (43). This includes new villains and side characters, but a majority of that are characters that are recurring from the previous chapters. That's proving to be a little more than I can handle. I'm finding I am at my best keeping the cast small, which is something I have completely failed to do here. Surprisingly this means little in terms of plotlines, I managed to keep those rather streamlined and reduced to only a handful of large plots, since this is/was supposed to be the ultimate chapter of the story with the big battle against Goldtalon and Eclipse for the fate of all Equestria, and the world.
So, I'm coming here today to get some opinions. I don't want to leave this story hanging. The girls are all banging away at the inside of my brain, looking to come out and finish what they started, but I'm finding myself too overwhelmed to make it happen. That said, I have come up with some alternatives as well, and figured I'd put it up for opinion. For those who don't really read my stories, this actually might affect you as well.
My first potential idea is simply to slog on through. Yeah, I know it's not ideal, and given my loss of momentum, it might not even happen in any timely manner. But there are some who might rather see what happens next, no matter how long "next" takes.
Another idea I had was a streamlined reboot. Learn from my mistakes and restart New Breed from scratch. This would have the advantage of letting me bring the story up to current show canon, as well as allow me to extract and eliminate a lot of additions and characters that just simply weren't necessary to the story. I ran this by my primary editor, and while he liked some of the ideas, he was loathe to lose some of the elements that had been worked in. It would necessitate some portions of the previous story be completely reworked, and some even completely eliminated, so there would be a lot of give and take here.
A third option is the one I'm sure a lot of people who enjoy my art would prefer, that I just drop it altogether and get back to drawing. While I don't really want to just drop the characters like that, it's kinda like abandoning a child, I can understand their desire that I stop using my creative energies for writing and get back to the reason they started watching me in the first place, my drawings.
I have a few other ideas, but nothing solid enough that I really feel able to share. I would accept your ideas as to where you think I should go, but as a note, I'm not doing this as a poll. I'm doing this to simply get some opinions, and find where other people are on what I'm doing. I mean, if my delays have lost me all my NB readers, I'm not sure it would be completely worth forcing myself to continue down that track, if you understand what I mean. Sure, I'm doing the writing primarily for myself, but I've found I thrive on feedback and responses and without them I tend to get a little down on my own work.
Anyway, I'm looking for opinions. let me know below, if you would kindly. Wait, does that only work for Atlas? Eh, whatever, just please leave a response. I need some feedback on this and force myself to get unstuck from this. And please, PLEASE, don't just tell me to do whatever I feel is right. That genuinely doesn't help me right now. Thank you.
- Polecat
First off, an apology. I know i said a few times Book 3 is coming. It's... stalled. I've been unable to get past the first chapter in any meaningful way. I think I've figured out why, but it wouldn't be an easy fix. Quite literally I took a big ol' bite of epic storytelling, and found it a bit too big for me to handle. I'm not sorry I took the bite, after all "it's better to choke on greatness than nibble at mediocrity" (No idea who said that, I saw it on some motivational poster), but I am sorry i can't seem to finish chewing it down and get this story moving again. The core problem is simply put as this: too many characters. If I count all the involved characters in book 3, it comes to a whopping Forty-Three (43). This includes new villains and side characters, but a majority of that are characters that are recurring from the previous chapters. That's proving to be a little more than I can handle. I'm finding I am at my best keeping the cast small, which is something I have completely failed to do here. Surprisingly this means little in terms of plotlines, I managed to keep those rather streamlined and reduced to only a handful of large plots, since this is/was supposed to be the ultimate chapter of the story with the big battle against Goldtalon and Eclipse for the fate of all Equestria, and the world.
So, I'm coming here today to get some opinions. I don't want to leave this story hanging. The girls are all banging away at the inside of my brain, looking to come out and finish what they started, but I'm finding myself too overwhelmed to make it happen. That said, I have come up with some alternatives as well, and figured I'd put it up for opinion. For those who don't really read my stories, this actually might affect you as well.
My first potential idea is simply to slog on through. Yeah, I know it's not ideal, and given my loss of momentum, it might not even happen in any timely manner. But there are some who might rather see what happens next, no matter how long "next" takes.
Another idea I had was a streamlined reboot. Learn from my mistakes and restart New Breed from scratch. This would have the advantage of letting me bring the story up to current show canon, as well as allow me to extract and eliminate a lot of additions and characters that just simply weren't necessary to the story. I ran this by my primary editor, and while he liked some of the ideas, he was loathe to lose some of the elements that had been worked in. It would necessitate some portions of the previous story be completely reworked, and some even completely eliminated, so there would be a lot of give and take here.
A third option is the one I'm sure a lot of people who enjoy my art would prefer, that I just drop it altogether and get back to drawing. While I don't really want to just drop the characters like that, it's kinda like abandoning a child, I can understand their desire that I stop using my creative energies for writing and get back to the reason they started watching me in the first place, my drawings.
I have a few other ideas, but nothing solid enough that I really feel able to share. I would accept your ideas as to where you think I should go, but as a note, I'm not doing this as a poll. I'm doing this to simply get some opinions, and find where other people are on what I'm doing. I mean, if my delays have lost me all my NB readers, I'm not sure it would be completely worth forcing myself to continue down that track, if you understand what I mean. Sure, I'm doing the writing primarily for myself, but I've found I thrive on feedback and responses and without them I tend to get a little down on my own work.
Anyway, I'm looking for opinions. let me know below, if you would kindly. Wait, does that only work for Atlas? Eh, whatever, just please leave a response. I need some feedback on this and force myself to get unstuck from this. And please, PLEASE, don't just tell me to do whatever I feel is right. That genuinely doesn't help me right now. Thank you.
- Polecat
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Guess Who's Back!
4 min read
(Music: "Without Me", Eminem)
[x2] Three little fillies go 'round the orchard, 'round the orchard, 'round the orchard...
Guess who's back, back again;
Polecat's back, for the win...
Guess who's back,
Guess who's back,
Guess who's back,
Guess who's back,
Guess who's back,
Guess who's back....
[verse 1]
I've created an OC, 'cause nopony wants to
see humans no more, 'cept Lyra sittin' by me,
Well if you want Pony, that's what I'll give ya,
a little bit of "squee" mixed with some hard cider;
A cute little mare that'll stop your heart quicker
than it takes the Apple clan when they start to bicker,
'bout a ship set sail starring your OTP,
set up for ya in advance by the CMC! (Hey!)
You’ve waited this long, so stop complaining,
I’m back to critique and begin rating.
Now I know that you got a job this winter,
but wrap-up is coming, so break out the bitter!
The filly in me won’t let me be or let me see the screen of my PC,
she’s spinnin’ all around to try and see if her cutie mark looks like a tree!
So turn on your set, Season four's on deck,
Buck that, Pinkie's a bet, fourth wall’s gettin' wrecked.
So get ready, because the elements are heavy,
they say friendship is mag-- Hey Look! There's DERPY!
[Chorus x2]
Now this looks like a job for me, so everypony just follow me,
'cause we need a little Harmony, and Polecat's back on EqD.
[verse 2]
A tisk-it a task-it, some balloons in a basket,
party in full swing; punch is Spike'd, just ask it!
Vinyl's dropped the bass and everpony is dancin',
Even Octavia's up on her hooves and prancin'.
Discord and Fluttershy sittin’ in a tree,
I'd recommend that you just leave them be.
And Twilight Sparkle might now be a Princess,
but she's hangin' with Luna drinkin' to excess.
Ol' Sun-Butt's up and shakin' her flank,
harder than a colt would his piggy bank.
And me? I’m back, pollutin’ the airwaves,
singin’ along with that girly main theme!
Tune it in, Youtube watching or livestream,
buying DVDs like I was a crack fiend.
It's interesting, the best thing since wrestling,
gettin' in our heads and makin' us all sing.
Humming one of their catchy little tunes,
until someone notices and thinks you're a loon.
Feel the tension, in ten seconds flat,
but who cares what they think, I got your back!
[Chorus x2]
Now this looks like a job for me, so everypony just follow me,
'cause we need a little Harmony, and Polecat's back on EqD.
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Okay, I admit it, that was silly. Amazing what some random inspiration can cause, isn't it? I ran out of juice before I could do a third verse, so verse 2 and 3 are kinda smooshed together there... Anyway, this is my way of celebrating my triumphant(?) return to Equestria Daily and the Prereaders. I guess they must have been desperate for help, if they recruited me to dig through the backlog...
- Polecat
PS: Because someone will forget if I don't mention it; I DON'T DO COMMISSIONS!
[x2] Three little fillies go 'round the orchard, 'round the orchard, 'round the orchard...
Guess who's back, back again;
Polecat's back, for the win...
Guess who's back,
Guess who's back,
Guess who's back,
Guess who's back,
Guess who's back,
Guess who's back....
[verse 1]
I've created an OC, 'cause nopony wants to
see humans no more, 'cept Lyra sittin' by me,
Well if you want Pony, that's what I'll give ya,
a little bit of "squee" mixed with some hard cider;
A cute little mare that'll stop your heart quicker
than it takes the Apple clan when they start to bicker,
'bout a ship set sail starring your OTP,
set up for ya in advance by the CMC! (Hey!)
You’ve waited this long, so stop complaining,
I’m back to critique and begin rating.
Now I know that you got a job this winter,
but wrap-up is coming, so break out the bitter!
The filly in me won’t let me be or let me see the screen of my PC,
she’s spinnin’ all around to try and see if her cutie mark looks like a tree!
So turn on your set, Season four's on deck,
Buck that, Pinkie's a bet, fourth wall’s gettin' wrecked.
So get ready, because the elements are heavy,
they say friendship is mag-- Hey Look! There's DERPY!
[Chorus x2]
Now this looks like a job for me, so everypony just follow me,
'cause we need a little Harmony, and Polecat's back on EqD.
[verse 2]
A tisk-it a task-it, some balloons in a basket,
party in full swing; punch is Spike'd, just ask it!
Vinyl's dropped the bass and everpony is dancin',
Even Octavia's up on her hooves and prancin'.
Discord and Fluttershy sittin’ in a tree,
I'd recommend that you just leave them be.
And Twilight Sparkle might now be a Princess,
but she's hangin' with Luna drinkin' to excess.
Ol' Sun-Butt's up and shakin' her flank,
harder than a colt would his piggy bank.
And me? I’m back, pollutin’ the airwaves,
singin’ along with that girly main theme!
Tune it in, Youtube watching or livestream,
buying DVDs like I was a crack fiend.
It's interesting, the best thing since wrestling,
gettin' in our heads and makin' us all sing.
Humming one of their catchy little tunes,
until someone notices and thinks you're a loon.
Feel the tension, in ten seconds flat,
but who cares what they think, I got your back!
[Chorus x2]
Now this looks like a job for me, so everypony just follow me,
'cause we need a little Harmony, and Polecat's back on EqD.
----------------
Okay, I admit it, that was silly. Amazing what some random inspiration can cause, isn't it? I ran out of juice before I could do a third verse, so verse 2 and 3 are kinda smooshed together there... Anyway, this is my way of celebrating my triumphant(?) return to Equestria Daily and the Prereaders. I guess they must have been desperate for help, if they recruited me to dig through the backlog...
- Polecat
PS: Because someone will forget if I don't mention it; I DON'T DO COMMISSIONS!
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Of Ponies and Pokemon
12 min read
Right off, let me apologize, this is going to ramble a little bit. I apologize now for any major formatting issues, it's not like I'm doing a lot of proofreading before posting. Also, for those worried about it, this will contain spoilers for the first two episodes of Season 4, and later for Pokemon Y. I'm pretty sure most of you already have been there, but just in case...
Okay, first off, ponies. If you're anything like me, you're jumping for joy that Season 4 has finally dropped! The wait seemed interminable, but we finally made it. We also got some wonderful world building on the side. While I loved every second of it, I can't help but think that it's a damned good thing that I split off my "New Breed" story prior to the end of Season 3. For those not keeping track, I split it off from the official timeline at the "Magic Duel" episode, which could never have happened and stayed true to the way I had been writing Trixie in my story. I also had to divorce myself further from the canon as "Magical Mystery Cure", since "Princess Twilight Sparkle" went counter to my own story as well.
Well, the new season kicked off with a bang. I had hoped the show would help revitalize my desire to write, so I could get this last book running, but instead it sent me into the realization of how far I will have to go to set myself up as different FROM the main story now instead.
First though, the good. Discord... Discord is obviously NOT fully reformed, which is a good thing, but on the path to it. It was nice to see they listened and retconned his change of heart a little from "Keep Calm and Flutter On". It also acted to confirm my view on Discord, that he played the joker and idiot, but he really has an eye on the long game too. The fact he planted those seeds, hell, the fact he even had them ready, when Celestia and Luna came at him shows how on his game he is when it comes to planning for the future. This reflects well on the aspects I gave him in my story, and his long term plan with the alternate elements...
Ah yes, the Elements of Harmony... boy did I whiff that one, eh? In my story, I posited them as ancient artifacts, around even before Celestia and Luna, and which Celestia gave credit to her own creation and the creation of the world. Six elements, the six days of creation myth (and on the seventh, God rested), etc etc etc.... Seems I was too clever for myself, for now we have a root of all magic in Equestria, the Tree of Harmony. Boy, I did NOT see that one coming at all. Now I will note that being the "root of all magic" is a bit of conjecture on my part, but I'll admit that I have scary mental images now of Grimdark fanfics galore about how Twilight has to "water" the tree to rejuvenate it with her own blood... I feel for my former prereader colleagues in Equestria Daily having to deal with THAT flood.
I was disappointed with the episode in two things. One was how the arc of how Twilight's friends saw her in a different light was resolved so quickly. That really should have spread over a few episodes, rather than just be resolved instantly like that. The other was how Zecora was used. Talk about plot device! She was literally only there to serve as a walking plot device for the potion! Ugh... but the potion did give us some wonderful glimpses into the past and some awesome world building. I mentioned some of it above with Discord, but the other...
Nightmare Moon. How many of us wanted so badly to see this? I know I did... and yet the act OF seeing it ruined a lot of the mystique of the event. We have a relatively unbiased view (our own) piggybacking with Twilight to see these events. It destroyed so many ideas and thoughts on it... how Nightmare Moon might have been a possession of Luna... it was a transformation brought on by her own actions. More, while the show tried to paint Luna's actions as selfish or cruel, all I could see was how Celestia was treating her little sister. There was nothing that indicated they were equal in ANY way, Celestia treated Luna as the younger and "lesser" sister even in the modern day! This really spoke poorly about Celestia's character. What's more is we didn't get any sort of "lunar war", which many of us hypothesized about, but instead Nightmare Moon became some great evil IN UNDER AN HOUR! That's a new record, or something. Seriously, Discord had years of rule, at least, and got stoned. But Luna had one night of misbehaving because she wanted equal treatment, and Celestia banished her?! Sure, there was the whole "nearly killed her" thing... Celestia got her flank handed to her pretty solidly by the more aggressive Nightmare Moon/Luna, but that should have gone to show Celestia that she needed to regard this enemy more seriously and work her own advantages against her. This could have lead to revelations about a Lunar War, or even a flash further down the timeline for a second confrontation... but no. Celestia gets up, wounded and battered, grabs the elements, and without a second thought banishes her sister to the moon.
What. Even. The. *bleep*?
Seriously, that was... wow. It put Celestia in such a negative light that it's forcing me to rewrite her entire character in my head! As I wrote her in my story, she was always the diplomat. Cool, calm, collected, and dare I say, motherly with everyone she meets. She has an almost formal way of speaking (I go out of my way to eliminate the use of all words with contractions in them) and only rarely looses that veneer of self control. The show just painted her in a surprisingly aggressive light...
Oh, and let's not forget Twilight Sparkle in all this conjecture. I know I'm not the only writer who put forth the idea that Celestia takes pupils now and again. This episode didn't wreck that idea, but it did put a bit of a damper on it. We can be %90 sure, if not completely sure, that Celestia took Twilight as her student now simply because she knew that symbol on her flank. This means all the talk of "fate" in the final Season 3 episode has a source now: Celestia KNEW Twilight was linked to the Tree of Harmony somehow, and intervened. This move could be pure, to train and make sure Twilight was %100 ready, or Machiavellian, to control that element of the future which may become even more important to Equestria than she herself. I can see a whole new crop of stories popping up from that tidbit too...
So yeah, it's a good thing I split off my girls from the show officially at the end of Season 3. There's no way I could have worked in the whole "what's in the box?" routine, unless the box holds another set of Elements. Also, the whole "What's in the Box?" bit just reminds me of Borderlands 2, and Jack screaming "What's in the Box?!" when I found some poor girl's decapitated head....
Okay, switching gears here, simply because I feel like blabbing about it, is Pokemon. Yes, for those who care, I have Pokemon Y. If I know you, I'm willing to swap friends codes, tho you'll never see me online anyway. %99 of my playtime is while I'm at work, and I can't use their wifi for it without getting busted. So yeah, unless I'm hitting up the Wonder Trade, you won't see me.
That said, I'm now on my 3rd try in the game. I've restarted twice now...
I restarted the first time because I made a huge mistake. Y'see, in the options menu, you can reset the shoulder buttons so that the left one equals the same as the "A" button. I've done this since they first allowed that option, simply because it makes my life easier at work. Unfortunately, what I didn't realize, was that it removed the functionality already programmed onto the shoulder buttons. For those who played, you might see where this is leading. I went through ALL of the gyms, and was on the way to Victory Road, and still wondering where the hell this "Amie" mode thing was! I couldn't find it! I kept expected Sycamore to hand a device to me to allow me to do it... I literally didn't see those tiny little arrows at the top of the touch screen until on the final route. So when I clicked it I immediately started swearing and face palming. I'd been looking for that function since the first stop in Lumiose, and it'd been right there the whole time?! Yeah.... I'd have gotten fired if anyone heard me, I was cussing up a storm.
That said, my first team beat the League (Chesnaut, Aegislash, Blastoise, Marowak , and a Talonflame as my main team, with a Gardevoir late catch still too low a level to truly help) and stormed through the post game stuff with minimal problem. I didn't EV train or Amie with them at all as a team. Personally I disliked the Amie thing a good deal (still do) for the inane "games". Sorry, but "Berry Picker" is just a matching game with a punishing timer, "Head It" is just is terrible, and makes my eyes go all wonky after 30 seconds (and if I'm the least bit tired, it has the same effect on me that infinite runner games do, the way it uses my eyes literally puts me to sleep), and the Puzzle mode thing I forget the name of would have been fun... if it wasn't TIMED! Seriously... I didn't mind occasionally petting or feeding the 'mon, but this mode is the pits. It's almost literally a torment. I will admit that the EV training stuff is fun, but way WAY too repetitive.
So I literally ran out of things to do with the first playthrough (I don't care about heavy breeding or IV training), and given my massive error, I decided to start over. This time I chose a Fennekin as my started, and started storming through Kalos with a very different team. Come the defeat of Team Flare, I had a Delphox, Gardevoir, Pangoro, and a Blastoise on the team. Notice anything missing? Yeah, me too... my favorite type, Flying, is missing from that set-up. That meant no "fly" unless I co-opted another HM slave. More, I was getting fussed about having two psychics on the team. I always try to develop teams with no crossover, to cover as many different situations as possible. But I refused to get rid of the Gardevoir, that's one of my all time favorite Pokemon in the games! How many other 'mon look like they're wearing an evening gown? Hell, their Mega-state looks like she's wearing a ball-gown! So yeah, this team was slowly blowing up in my face. I couldn't find a flyer I liked that didn't give me a boatload of crossover. It pains me to admit it, but using a Hawlucha as an HM slave specifically for Fly was killing me. I tried getting my hands on a Noibat to fill the role but... ugh. Seriously? Noibats, the inheritors of 2 very physical types (Flying and Dragon) is a SPECIAL striker by default?! That killed me right there, and I reset the blasted thing. It didn't help that the Delphox' appearance was killing me. It was so damned CUTE as a Fennix and Braixen, what the hell happened?!
So I reset again. This time I went with the froggy starter. Bit rougher to start than the other two, but I'm going for some early catches I missed that first playthrough. I already have a Ralts (Champagne) and stumbled over a Riolu (Currently named Lucky, but I plan to change that). That's three, I need two more. One is going to be a Charmander... which leaves me an open slot to play with and find a 'mon I like but doesn't cross over. If the Riolu doesn't work out, I know where there's some Croagunks I can scum for a combination I like...but I can't imagine them being very "cute" in Amie mode. I'd go for the Hawlucha, but that'd be two flying types in the party, which violates that no crossover rule....
Also, I must make this aside for a moment. Gamefreak? Please, PLEASE, stop with the enemy teams! Seriously, just stop. Team Rocket was the only success you've had in this regard, and unless you plan to bring them back, JUST STOP! The last one was okay, but the prior teams have been abysmally bad, and team Flare? Ugh, they are the most idiotic band of halfwits ever to run amok on the countryside. They're so ineffectual that you barely know who they are by your second big encounter, and are completely forgettable. The only design that's ANY good on that team are the female admins, which look sharp in their snug white suits, but otherwise they're glaringly and painfully horrible. Please, Gamefreak, just stop. Really, we don't have to save the world EVERY TIME we visit the world of Pokemon!
Anyway, that's me randomly spouting off nonsense. Have a good night everyone!
- Polecat
Okay, first off, ponies. If you're anything like me, you're jumping for joy that Season 4 has finally dropped! The wait seemed interminable, but we finally made it. We also got some wonderful world building on the side. While I loved every second of it, I can't help but think that it's a damned good thing that I split off my "New Breed" story prior to the end of Season 3. For those not keeping track, I split it off from the official timeline at the "Magic Duel" episode, which could never have happened and stayed true to the way I had been writing Trixie in my story. I also had to divorce myself further from the canon as "Magical Mystery Cure", since "Princess Twilight Sparkle" went counter to my own story as well.
Well, the new season kicked off with a bang. I had hoped the show would help revitalize my desire to write, so I could get this last book running, but instead it sent me into the realization of how far I will have to go to set myself up as different FROM the main story now instead.
First though, the good. Discord... Discord is obviously NOT fully reformed, which is a good thing, but on the path to it. It was nice to see they listened and retconned his change of heart a little from "Keep Calm and Flutter On". It also acted to confirm my view on Discord, that he played the joker and idiot, but he really has an eye on the long game too. The fact he planted those seeds, hell, the fact he even had them ready, when Celestia and Luna came at him shows how on his game he is when it comes to planning for the future. This reflects well on the aspects I gave him in my story, and his long term plan with the alternate elements...
Ah yes, the Elements of Harmony... boy did I whiff that one, eh? In my story, I posited them as ancient artifacts, around even before Celestia and Luna, and which Celestia gave credit to her own creation and the creation of the world. Six elements, the six days of creation myth (and on the seventh, God rested), etc etc etc.... Seems I was too clever for myself, for now we have a root of all magic in Equestria, the Tree of Harmony. Boy, I did NOT see that one coming at all. Now I will note that being the "root of all magic" is a bit of conjecture on my part, but I'll admit that I have scary mental images now of Grimdark fanfics galore about how Twilight has to "water" the tree to rejuvenate it with her own blood... I feel for my former prereader colleagues in Equestria Daily having to deal with THAT flood.
I was disappointed with the episode in two things. One was how the arc of how Twilight's friends saw her in a different light was resolved so quickly. That really should have spread over a few episodes, rather than just be resolved instantly like that. The other was how Zecora was used. Talk about plot device! She was literally only there to serve as a walking plot device for the potion! Ugh... but the potion did give us some wonderful glimpses into the past and some awesome world building. I mentioned some of it above with Discord, but the other...
Nightmare Moon. How many of us wanted so badly to see this? I know I did... and yet the act OF seeing it ruined a lot of the mystique of the event. We have a relatively unbiased view (our own) piggybacking with Twilight to see these events. It destroyed so many ideas and thoughts on it... how Nightmare Moon might have been a possession of Luna... it was a transformation brought on by her own actions. More, while the show tried to paint Luna's actions as selfish or cruel, all I could see was how Celestia was treating her little sister. There was nothing that indicated they were equal in ANY way, Celestia treated Luna as the younger and "lesser" sister even in the modern day! This really spoke poorly about Celestia's character. What's more is we didn't get any sort of "lunar war", which many of us hypothesized about, but instead Nightmare Moon became some great evil IN UNDER AN HOUR! That's a new record, or something. Seriously, Discord had years of rule, at least, and got stoned. But Luna had one night of misbehaving because she wanted equal treatment, and Celestia banished her?! Sure, there was the whole "nearly killed her" thing... Celestia got her flank handed to her pretty solidly by the more aggressive Nightmare Moon/Luna, but that should have gone to show Celestia that she needed to regard this enemy more seriously and work her own advantages against her. This could have lead to revelations about a Lunar War, or even a flash further down the timeline for a second confrontation... but no. Celestia gets up, wounded and battered, grabs the elements, and without a second thought banishes her sister to the moon.
What. Even. The. *bleep*?
Seriously, that was... wow. It put Celestia in such a negative light that it's forcing me to rewrite her entire character in my head! As I wrote her in my story, she was always the diplomat. Cool, calm, collected, and dare I say, motherly with everyone she meets. She has an almost formal way of speaking (I go out of my way to eliminate the use of all words with contractions in them) and only rarely looses that veneer of self control. The show just painted her in a surprisingly aggressive light...
Oh, and let's not forget Twilight Sparkle in all this conjecture. I know I'm not the only writer who put forth the idea that Celestia takes pupils now and again. This episode didn't wreck that idea, but it did put a bit of a damper on it. We can be %90 sure, if not completely sure, that Celestia took Twilight as her student now simply because she knew that symbol on her flank. This means all the talk of "fate" in the final Season 3 episode has a source now: Celestia KNEW Twilight was linked to the Tree of Harmony somehow, and intervened. This move could be pure, to train and make sure Twilight was %100 ready, or Machiavellian, to control that element of the future which may become even more important to Equestria than she herself. I can see a whole new crop of stories popping up from that tidbit too...
So yeah, it's a good thing I split off my girls from the show officially at the end of Season 3. There's no way I could have worked in the whole "what's in the box?" routine, unless the box holds another set of Elements. Also, the whole "What's in the Box?" bit just reminds me of Borderlands 2, and Jack screaming "What's in the Box?!" when I found some poor girl's decapitated head....
Okay, switching gears here, simply because I feel like blabbing about it, is Pokemon. Yes, for those who care, I have Pokemon Y. If I know you, I'm willing to swap friends codes, tho you'll never see me online anyway. %99 of my playtime is while I'm at work, and I can't use their wifi for it without getting busted. So yeah, unless I'm hitting up the Wonder Trade, you won't see me.
That said, I'm now on my 3rd try in the game. I've restarted twice now...
I restarted the first time because I made a huge mistake. Y'see, in the options menu, you can reset the shoulder buttons so that the left one equals the same as the "A" button. I've done this since they first allowed that option, simply because it makes my life easier at work. Unfortunately, what I didn't realize, was that it removed the functionality already programmed onto the shoulder buttons. For those who played, you might see where this is leading. I went through ALL of the gyms, and was on the way to Victory Road, and still wondering where the hell this "Amie" mode thing was! I couldn't find it! I kept expected Sycamore to hand a device to me to allow me to do it... I literally didn't see those tiny little arrows at the top of the touch screen until on the final route. So when I clicked it I immediately started swearing and face palming. I'd been looking for that function since the first stop in Lumiose, and it'd been right there the whole time?! Yeah.... I'd have gotten fired if anyone heard me, I was cussing up a storm.
That said, my first team beat the League (Chesnaut, Aegislash, Blastoise, Marowak , and a Talonflame as my main team, with a Gardevoir late catch still too low a level to truly help) and stormed through the post game stuff with minimal problem. I didn't EV train or Amie with them at all as a team. Personally I disliked the Amie thing a good deal (still do) for the inane "games". Sorry, but "Berry Picker" is just a matching game with a punishing timer, "Head It" is just is terrible, and makes my eyes go all wonky after 30 seconds (and if I'm the least bit tired, it has the same effect on me that infinite runner games do, the way it uses my eyes literally puts me to sleep), and the Puzzle mode thing I forget the name of would have been fun... if it wasn't TIMED! Seriously... I didn't mind occasionally petting or feeding the 'mon, but this mode is the pits. It's almost literally a torment. I will admit that the EV training stuff is fun, but way WAY too repetitive.
So I literally ran out of things to do with the first playthrough (I don't care about heavy breeding or IV training), and given my massive error, I decided to start over. This time I chose a Fennekin as my started, and started storming through Kalos with a very different team. Come the defeat of Team Flare, I had a Delphox, Gardevoir, Pangoro, and a Blastoise on the team. Notice anything missing? Yeah, me too... my favorite type, Flying, is missing from that set-up. That meant no "fly" unless I co-opted another HM slave. More, I was getting fussed about having two psychics on the team. I always try to develop teams with no crossover, to cover as many different situations as possible. But I refused to get rid of the Gardevoir, that's one of my all time favorite Pokemon in the games! How many other 'mon look like they're wearing an evening gown? Hell, their Mega-state looks like she's wearing a ball-gown! So yeah, this team was slowly blowing up in my face. I couldn't find a flyer I liked that didn't give me a boatload of crossover. It pains me to admit it, but using a Hawlucha as an HM slave specifically for Fly was killing me. I tried getting my hands on a Noibat to fill the role but... ugh. Seriously? Noibats, the inheritors of 2 very physical types (Flying and Dragon) is a SPECIAL striker by default?! That killed me right there, and I reset the blasted thing. It didn't help that the Delphox' appearance was killing me. It was so damned CUTE as a Fennix and Braixen, what the hell happened?!
So I reset again. This time I went with the froggy starter. Bit rougher to start than the other two, but I'm going for some early catches I missed that first playthrough. I already have a Ralts (Champagne) and stumbled over a Riolu (Currently named Lucky, but I plan to change that). That's three, I need two more. One is going to be a Charmander... which leaves me an open slot to play with and find a 'mon I like but doesn't cross over. If the Riolu doesn't work out, I know where there's some Croagunks I can scum for a combination I like...but I can't imagine them being very "cute" in Amie mode. I'd go for the Hawlucha, but that'd be two flying types in the party, which violates that no crossover rule....
Also, I must make this aside for a moment. Gamefreak? Please, PLEASE, stop with the enemy teams! Seriously, just stop. Team Rocket was the only success you've had in this regard, and unless you plan to bring them back, JUST STOP! The last one was okay, but the prior teams have been abysmally bad, and team Flare? Ugh, they are the most idiotic band of halfwits ever to run amok on the countryside. They're so ineffectual that you barely know who they are by your second big encounter, and are completely forgettable. The only design that's ANY good on that team are the female admins, which look sharp in their snug white suits, but otherwise they're glaringly and painfully horrible. Please, Gamefreak, just stop. Really, we don't have to save the world EVERY TIME we visit the world of Pokemon!
Anyway, that's me randomly spouting off nonsense. Have a good night everyone!
- Polecat
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