Sing O Muse . . . .

Now back to the fan project. It features a song written by the PonyPhonic, a group (duo?) that writes MLP fan-songs and animation by a group of fans headed by WarpOut. It took 2.5 years to complete, coming out in May of last year. Both are based on the background of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, specifically Celestia's feelings about Luna's fall into Nightmare Moon and subsequent banishment to the moon.

Understandably, given the subject matter, it isn't very happy. I cried the first time I watched it. But it didn't feel like a bad cry. Just appropriate.

Both the song and the animation are beautiful.

Grab your tissues and please give it a watch.

DIALECTICDREAMER

I first encountered the Dreamer while reading the comments on the posts of the Wordsmith. They were thoughtful and thought-provoking so it didn't take great effort for me to transition from reading her comments to reading her own posts. I think one of the earliest one's I've read was May 22 2014 entry “What's Said Is Said.” I don't know if that is first one I read – I do know that is the one that made me bookmark her blog so I could find it again.

Since then I have been a frequent reader but a seldom commenter. Not because the posts weren't worthy of comment, they were but because it can sometimes take a while to organize my thoughts into something understandable and by then the evil monkey in my head had played the self-doubt tape enough times to make me hesitate and ultimately decide to keep my thoughts to myself. But the few times I did comment, I found the response timely and enthusiastic. With time, that (and maybe this blog) will help take the wind out of the evil monkey's sails.

Now let's talk about the Dreamer's writing.

NON-FICTION

The Dreamer discusses her reactions and thoughts about entertainment – how it is, how it was, and how it might be improved. She also brings up other non-entertainment topics. All of these are thought and thought-provoking. She asks questions to herself and to the audience. She makes me think. Since I enjoy thinking, I enjoy those questions even when I only answer them to myself.

FICTION

Her works of fiction are roughly divided into two parts – the works for the shared worlds that she is creating and the works set in the shared worlds created by others. Of the later, these are the worlds created by the Wordsmith but we'll get to them in a moment. Let's start with her worlds.

Heliodrax – Shapeshifting dragons that have lived side-by-side with humans since the beginning. Mostly demifiction (fictional pieces written as if they were non-fiction, like the fake news stories in Iron Man) about the Heliodrax but there are some short pieces featuring these intriguing dragons. Interesting for its unique take on the shape-shifter dragon. I cannot recall anything similar to the culture and family structure of these dragons. I hope to see more and longer pieces for this as the pieces so far have been short, giving us only short glimpses into that world.

The Voices of Engines – Alternate history steampunk or clockwork (or combination). So far only small glimspes into the gaslight streets of the inhabitants of that Boston but those glimpses promise a very interesting world.

She also writes The Storm Series which I haven't read yet through it does sounds interesting. After all, it isn't often that what the winter storm drags in a small village is an alien.

As aforementioned, she also plays in the sandboxes of the Wordsmith in the Polychrome Heroics, Frankenstein's Family, and Schrodinger's Heroes in the form of demi-fiction and stories. Her stories are prose, rather than poetry, but I think they still fit nicely beside the poems.

MAGPIE MONDAY

A new feature, one Monday a month she opens her blog for writing prompts.

TO CHECK IT OUT

Here On Dreamwidth: http://dialecticdreamer.dreamwidth.org/