WELP, it's been a year since I found this fandom on Know Your Meme. I didn't actually start to draw stuff for another two months but I did start watching a year ago. One of the best decisions I've made. Definitely changed my routine up a bit and introduced me to terms I had never heard of, such as 'head-cannon' and 'shipping'. I've never really understood how fandoms worked, I mostly just watched a show or played a game and that was it. From an outsider perspective it looked like a bunch of people on one badly made site talking about their favorite moments of the show/game/story. But this last year has shown me that fandoms are very much different to that. I know this is quite a large, vocal, and active fandom in comparison but the premise is still the same.

Anyway, I'm very glad to be here and part of this one; and I don't see myself leaving anytime soon, this fandom is awesome.


Poni
- I'm working on a few things right now: a comic, a very long picture (1:5 ratio), and an OC thing for Tumblr. Hoping to have finished the comic by Wednesday as it's only 3 frames long and all the sketching is done. Followed by what ever comes first.

- Anyone planning on attending Ponycon next year? If it's at all possible I WILL be there.

Non-Poni
- Mann Vs Machine! It's finally out, and it is awesome. Valve's game finder system sucks though. I have never successfully found a game using it. Every time it's a 20+ minute wait, followed by it either trying to join an out of date server, joining a password-ed server (to which I don't have the password), or in one case just failing to connect. It would then send me back to the game's main menu. So I use the server browser now and it takes about 10 seconds to find a game. If you're having trouble with Valve's game finder try that instead. I'll definitely be playing this game-mode for a while.


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Ok so I'm currently stuck inside a pickle because I am terrible at making decisions.

At the moment the idea for this weeks comic consists of two parts, or two punchlines. I think the second one is funnier however it doesn't make sense without the first one. I'm wondering whether it would be better to split it into two comics (pt 1 and pt 2) or keep it as a single, lengthier comic. The problem with the longer comic is that I'm not sure how it would play out hitting the punchline mid way through and then continuing on.

What do you guys think: Single comic? Or a two-part comic?

Been a while since I made one of these.

---Poni---
No episode last weekend so no comic this week, although this works out nicely because I cannot draw this week anyway. I have two assignments due at the end of this week and another one I have to work on due later. So no time for drawing this week.

This next episode(s) is the season finale which looks interesting. I have a vague idea of what I'm going to do after. I will still be making comics just not every week. I will be going back to more time consuming detailed pieces, and some small fun ones. So far I have planned 2 more bot pictures, a large Octavia piece, and a comic which I'm surprised no one has done yet (or maybe they have and it was so bad no one wanted to speak of it) which will make you facepalm....with the desk (facedesk?).

We already know there is going to be a season 3 but does anyone know when it's starting? As in, how long is this break going to be?

---Non-Poni---
I have a new computer which is something I've wanted for about a year and a half, not what I was hoping for but definitely good enough on my budget. What this means of course (apart from no longer using a computer which has had its graphics driver crash several times a week and takes 30 minutes to start up) is that I can finally catch up with the gaming world and play everything I've been wanting to but haven't been able to. Such as Skyrim, Mass Effect 3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and some others which I played on 15/20 fps but want to play again properly. So I have a lot of catching up to do.

I just realized the other day that all 3 of my assignments are programming assignments. I don't know how that happened because only one subject is programming. Oh well, I like programming anyway so this is an awesome semester.

:3  <--- Random cat face


aaaand that's all.
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1 - It's been a terrible week for drawing, I just havn't been able to pick up the stylus and draw. And whenever I foced myself to do something it always turned out really bad :/. I think it's passing now, because I felt like making a silly Derpy gif today and I managed to finish it. I'll upload it after this. So if you're wondering where this weeks comic was...there was no comic. All the good jokes have been done now anyway, and all the good chemisty jokes argon.

2 - Tonight's episode (A Friend in Deed) looks interesting, we may get that 'Smile Smile Smile' song which was leaked a while back that everyone who listened to it said was awesome. I didn't listen to it though so it'll be interesting to hear what it's like. Also I think 'Ask Surprise' puts what will happen after this episode best: [link]

Non-poni:
3 - I mentioned in my last journal that university would start again soon. Well that 'soon' is now 10 days, the countdown has begun. My timetable looks pretty good apart from a 4 hour gap between lectures on wednesday >_>.

4 - With all these Doctor Whooves jokes and paradies running around I thought I'd try Doctor Who. I had only ever heard about it but always wanted to try it.  By about half way through the first season it had been placed above Stargate in my list of favourite sci-fi TV shows, making it my favourite sci-fi show. It has everything I love; an eccentric main character, time travel, a large stroy arc covering all the episodes while keeping each episode watchable by itself, it's also not afraid to do big things. A space ship crashing into Big Ben? Sure! A third of the human race being wiped out? Why not? The universe ceasing to exist? I'm sure we can fit it in somewhere. Also If you're wondering I'm talking about the new series, no idea where you would even get the old series from anymore.

Short journal is short.
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^ I'm good with titles am I not?

I have returned to whence I started after leaving to visit family. It was a ton of fun; went fishing, saw a movie (Hugo, it's fantastic go see it!), got to catch up with a friend who lives there. Now, onto this year!

1: I'm very late right now with drawings/comics. The comic for the last episode has only just been storyboarded so it'll most likely be done around Friday or Saturday. The picture I have been working on is pretty much done. I'll upload it in an hour or two, I just need to double check I havn't forgotten anything. Then I've got to work out what to do next, I've got too many ideas, too much stuff to do >_<.

2: Speaking of the last episode (at time of writing this), 'Baby Cakes'. I wasn't really a fan of this episode, I did laugh a few times at Pinkie's antics and that horror scene was awesome but I found the explanation to why the two young ones had such powers to be quite weak. At that age they shouldn't have any powers really. I can understand if they just periodically released small amounts of magic, but they had near perfect control over it and an understanding of what they were doing. Lauren Faust offered the explanation that they could control the magic through 'instinct', but for something as complex as magic I don't think 'instinct' would work. I know I'm over-analysing but that's what I do, it's how I come up with most of my ideas for comics. It's also why it can be hard for me to enjoy movies and even some books; I will over-analyse the crap out of them, then point to the crap and say "Here's where you went wrong". Anyway, I have an idea for this episodes comic which combines two parts of the episode. One of which has already had a comic and several jokes made about it.

3: I have a Tumblr blag! I'm mostly using it to follow the 'ask x' pony blags but I'll also be using it as a personal blag for anything that doesn't make it here. This includes sketches, stuff I wont finish, and non-pony stuff (there will be very little of this). It will also be home to my OC which I've been very tempted to get. I know there can be a real stigma around OC characters so I'll be putting a damn amount of effort into this character to make sure they're made properly. I can understand (and have no problem with) over the top, 'mary-sue', blindingly colourful OC's who are alicorns with batwings IF they are kept within the area of the person who made it (as in the back of their computer), but this one will be pretty much be the face of my blag (Similar to what Slugbox's OC Cteno started as) so I have to be more careful. I'll be looking at the successful OC's (like Cteno, Velvet, LittlePip) to see what they did right and also be looking at what to avoid. I know OC's aren't everyone's cup of coffee so that's why it will be on my blag and not here. You will not see my OC on DeviantArt! If you're wondering 'Why do you need an OC?', two reasons: One, they can be really fun if done right! Two (the more important reason), I really want something to draw when I don't feel like drawing anything cannon or fannon, but which is still pony.

I havn't done much with it yet but if you want to follow it or be a lurker you can find it here: [link]

4: Uni starts again soon, once it does it'll mean less time for pony >_<. Hopfully it won't take long to get into a routine which will make things easier to balance.

5: Number of watchers has doubled in the last month 0_o.......the watchers have been doubled! Sorry.... : D  Anyway the ball's in my court now, I must not disappoint!


That's about it;
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