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I thought since I have over two hundred watchers (!), which (I consider) is an extraordinary amount for a writer to have, I would give all of you a surprise. But first, a few caveats. The first is that I did not draw this. I am a writer, not an artist. And the young lady (mintii, mintiii, or mintiiii were her various dA appellations) who did draw this has discontinued her dA account. Now I have already had a ruling as to the legality or propriety of this, and the official dA position is that if I didn't pay the artist, which I didn't, and she didn't post it to her dA page, which I'm pretty sure she didn't because she was doing this for me because she liked the backstory, then copyright does not apply (she told me specifically that she didn't want to be paid, because she wanted to interpret the story in her own way without any editorial flak from me. And if you pay close attention to the nuanced grace notes and other visual cues of the characters, she was more into making this a test of gamesmanship between the characters than I had originally intended). So before any of you hotheads (and you know who you are) start screaming for the mods to have my head on a stake (a la Oliver Cromwell), simply consider that I have done my due diligence beforehand and that no untoward behavior is needed or recommended here.
Having said all that, why am I posting this? Because it has been up for a while on my blog and it is part of the third book ("A World Full of Lobsters," here is the first page carolynmarks1.blogspot.com/201… ) in my science fiction series, which is being shopped as a graphic novel all over the world by pageturner (check out www.joanhilty.net/ if you're curious). As to copyright infringement with Hasbro and other parties, I don't believe it applies for the same reasons I state on the first page of "Rarity's Wedding," which you can peruse at your leisure on my dA page. These are not the same characters; they are humans of the far future who can assume any form they wish, if appear at all (if this confuses you, see "Errand of Mercy" on Star Trek tos for a reference; they are humans in the same vein as they have evolved and we have not. For all of you science fiction fans out there who may be curious about what comes after us, Arthur C. Clarke and some mathematician whose name escapes me presently wrote at least one book on what humans evolve into after we destroy ourselves as the dominant race on Earth a la "On The Beach," 9/11 or some combination thereof; see your local public library for more details). So these science fiction characters who just happen to have the same names (I could have easily changed their names a la Mad Magazine to the likes of Apple Jerk or Shutterfly but notice here, and otherwise on my other pony stories, they all refer to each other via nicknames as was never expostulated on the show) as mlp:fim are my creation. And if that distinction is too fine for you to swallow, then join Hasbro and the rest in a class-action lawsuit and collectively sue me all the way to the Supreme Court. I am confident I will prevail in the end.
Now about the story: as the new pages will make clear, Tia and Twi have been time traveling without Luna's knowledge or assent. And they've been visiting our world to see what's what. And their discoveries are astounding to them. Not to give away the plot, as they view what we consider historical epochs and battles from what we refer to as the past, they are simply entranced with our world, as there have been large gaps in the collected history of the Earth between now and when the far future humans are living (think numerous earth-shaking but not necessarily world-destroying cataclysms such as global thermonuclear wars. various ecological disasters such as climate change, et cetera). So if I have intrigued you and you simply can't wait, the short story that this is based on is posted to my blog. Here is the link: carolynmarks1.blogspot.com/201…
Let the games begin.
P.S. Page 2 is up: here's the link--------> www.deviantart.com/11thinv/art… . Twi and Luna are having a long-overdue heart-to-heart about their relationship. In the previous story, "Rarity's Wedding," Equestria almost went bankrupt, even as The British Isles suffered the same fate at the hands of Germany after WWII in the wake of the Battle of Britain. In this story, the one consolidated television network in the far-futured so-stipulated nation of Equestria on the air put the pony pseudo-reality series back on programming & the regular schedule and actual pony toys (such as what we have here in our world) start selling again and the profits from the sale of said toys save them all from otherwise certain financial ruin. Kind of like the US is selling Treasuries presently to finance America's being the world's policeman (where the US's military budget is greater than the whole world's collective military budget combined, including the CIS [the Commonwealth of Independent States, as they are known as the 'former Soviet Union,' on websites such as cia.gov/worldfactbook et cetera]; btw, while you're at it, look up Cuba on the same cia website and see what they say about it. Look up 'creator [or inventor] of hydrogen bomb' on any search engine; it doesn't say Andrei Sakharov (whose memoirs I have in print edition, btw, where he claims to have invented the hydrogen bomb), I can tell you that. If the US government's lying to us about that, what else are they fabricating to us about [certain classified 1963 JFK assassination documents will remain 'secret' in national archives until 2027; what else don't they trust us with?]) The same way the casualties from the American Civil War (numbered at over 5% of the total US population at the time collectively dwarf altogether all the other US wars or conflicts, even WWI, WWII, the Vietnam War, the two Gulf Wars and Afghanistan combined [!]), but that's a whole other kettle of fish. I fully expect to be disappeared anytime soon, but I'm good. The same way that the Herbert Matthews story for the New York Times newspaper (this is a fantastic chapter in a novel that Matthews and company has written, was the way the Batista regime had officially characterized the reports of Fidel & Raul in the Escamrbay mountains) because if they really had been in the Escambray mountains to the east by Guantanamo Bay, the reporter would have taken pictures, which he had, but the newspaper hadn't published until the next day. By then what little credibility the Batista regime had was out the window. When news of the rebels' victory in Camaguey was reported Batista by all accounts had panicked. He knew the ship was sinking and caused so much havoc that he left with his family and totally loaded the airplane to the Dominican Republic with as much ill-gotten dollars and gold as he could carry. Sorry for the soapbox; I'll be patriotic from now on. I promise.
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Description
I thought since I have over two hundred watchers (!), which (I consider) is an extraordinary amount for a writer to have, I would give all of you a surprise. But first, a few caveats. The first is that I did not draw this. I am a writer, not an artist. And the young lady (mintii, mintiii, or mintiiii were her various dA appellations) who did draw this has discontinued her dA account. Now I have already had a ruling as to the legality or propriety of this, and the official dA position is that if I didn't pay the artist, which I didn't, and she didn't post it to her dA page, which I'm pretty sure she didn't because she was doing this for me because she liked the backstory, then copyright does not apply (she told me specifically that she didn't want to be paid, because she wanted to interpret the story in her own way without any editorial flak from me. And if you pay close attention to the nuanced grace notes and other visual cues of the characters, she was more into making this a test of gamesmanship between the characters than I had originally intended). So before any of you hotheads (and you know who you are) start screaming for the mods to have my head on a stake (a la Oliver Cromwell), simply consider that I have done my due diligence beforehand and that no untoward behavior is needed or recommended here.
Having said all that, why am I posting this? Because it has been up for a while on my blog and it is part of the third book ("A World Full of Lobsters," here is the first page carolynmarks1.blogspot.com/201… ) in my science fiction series, which is being shopped as a graphic novel all over the world by pageturner (check out www.joanhilty.net/ if you're curious). As to copyright infringement with Hasbro and other parties, I don't believe it applies for the same reasons I state on the first page of "Rarity's Wedding," which you can peruse at your leisure on my dA page. These are not the same characters; they are humans of the far future who can assume any form they wish, if appear at all (if this confuses you, see "Errand of Mercy" on Star Trek tos for a reference; they are humans in the same vein as they have evolved and we have not. For all of you science fiction fans out there who may be curious about what comes after us, Arthur C. Clarke and some mathematician whose name escapes me presently wrote at least one book on what humans evolve into after we destroy ourselves as the dominant race on Earth a la "On The Beach," 9/11 or some combination thereof; see your local public library for more details). So these science fiction characters who just happen to have the same names (I could have easily changed their names a la Mad Magazine to the likes of Apple Jerk or Shutterfly but notice here, and otherwise on my other pony stories, they all refer to each other via nicknames as was never expostulated on the show) as mlp:fim are my creation. And if that distinction is too fine for you to swallow, then join Hasbro and the rest in a class-action lawsuit and collectively sue me all the way to the Supreme Court. I am confident I will prevail in the end.
Now about the story: as the new pages will make clear, Tia and Twi have been time traveling without Luna's knowledge or assent. And they've been visiting our world to see what's what. And their discoveries are astounding to them. Not to give away the plot, as they view what we consider historical epochs and battles from what we refer to as the past, they are simply entranced with our world, as there have been large gaps in the collected history of the Earth between now and when the far future humans are living (think numerous earth-shaking but not necessarily world-destroying cataclysms such as global thermonuclear wars. various ecological disasters such as climate change, et cetera). So if I have intrigued you and you simply can't wait, the short story that this is based on is posted to my blog. Here is the link: carolynmarks1.blogspot.com/201…
Let the games begin.
P.S. Page 2 is up: here's the link--------> www.deviantart.com/11thinv/art… . Twi and Luna are having a long-overdue heart-to-heart about their relationship. In the previous story, "Rarity's Wedding," Equestria almost went bankrupt, even as The British Isles suffered the same fate at the hands of Germany after WWII in the wake of the Battle of Britain. In this story, the one consolidated television network in the far-futured so-stipulated nation of Equestria on the air put the pony pseudo-reality series back on programming & the regular schedule and actual pony toys (such as what we have here in our world) start selling again and the profits from the sale of said toys save them all from otherwise certain financial ruin. Kind of like the US is selling Treasuries presently to finance America's being the world's policeman (where the US's military budget is greater than the whole world's collective military budget combined, including the CIS [the Commonwealth of Independent States, as they are known as the 'former Soviet Union,' on websites such as cia.gov/worldfactbook et cetera]; btw, while you're at it, look up Cuba on the same cia website and see what they say about it. Look up 'creator [or inventor] of hydrogen bomb' on any search engine; it doesn't say Andrei Sakharov (whose memoirs I have in print edition, btw, where he claims to have invented the hydrogen bomb), I can tell you that. If the US government's lying to us about that, what else are they fabricating to us about [certain classified 1963 JFK assassination documents will remain 'secret' in national archives until 2027; what else don't they trust us with?]) The same way the casualties from the American Civil War (numbered at over 5% of the total US population at the time collectively dwarf altogether all the other US wars or conflicts, even WWI, WWII, the Vietnam War, the two Gulf Wars and Afghanistan combined [!]), but that's a whole other kettle of fish. I fully expect to be disappeared anytime soon, but I'm good. The same way that the Herbert Matthews story for the New York Times newspaper (this is a fantastic chapter in a novel that Matthews and company has written, was the way the Batista regime had officially characterized the reports of Fidel & Raul in the Escamrbay mountains) because if they really had been in the Escambray mountains to the east by Guantanamo Bay, the reporter would have taken pictures, which he had, but the newspaper hadn't published until the next day. By then what little credibility the Batista regime had was out the window. When news of the rebels' victory in Camaguey was reported Batista by all accounts had panicked. He knew the ship was sinking and caused so much havoc that he left with his family and totally loaded the airplane to the Dominican Republic with as much ill-gotten dollars and gold as he could carry. Sorry for the soapbox; I'll be patriotic from now on. I promise.
P.P.S. page 3---------------------->

Mature Content

page 4------------------------>

Mature Content

and finally,
page 5------------------------>

Mature Content