Questions for my loyal readers

Dear loyal readers:

Do you think that my spiritual name is - or at least should be - “Dances with Ponies”?

I’m starting to read Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons.  Do you think that the adventures of Blackjack, a unicorn security mare from Stable 99 will be as entertaining as the adventures of Littlepip?

Have you ever noticed that I like ponies and unicorn mare ponies most of all?

Are you as excited as I am that Season Four of My Little Pony:  Friendship is Magic is starting this Saturday?

Have you read any of the Conversion Bureau fan fiction stories?  This is fiction where humans of Earth drink magical potions to be converted into ponies and then to immigrate to Equestria.  If I drank the potion, what kind of pony (Earth pony, Pegasus pony, or Unicorn pony) do you imagine that I would become?

Sincerely yours,

Your generation four, My Little Pony fan author, James

Fallout: Equestria!

Good morning my loyal readers:

This morning, I finished reading Kkat’s “Fallout:  Equestria”.  This is a fusion of Fallout and the magical land of generation four of My Little Pony.  This story is one of the best fan fiction novels that I have ever read!

Kkat is a genius for turning a concept that should have become a lemon into a stunning success.  No wonder this story has a legendary rating on Equestria Daily!

If you have not read this masterpiece, start reading it today!

Sincerely yours,

James Buchanan

P.S.  Fallout:  Equestria is an adult novel.  The story describes adult activity, drug abuse, coarse language, and intense violence.  Reader discretion is advised.

Thank you, Lauren Faust!

Dear Lauren Faust:

The one reason why I become interested in My Little Pony:  Friendship is Magic was that you developed that series.  As I liked “The Powerpuff Girls” and “Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends” I wanted to see what you could do with a series that I had until then had avoided like the plague.

I had intended to watch just the first episode.  But, as that episode ended in a cliffhanger, I watched the second.  After I had watched the first five episodes in a row, I was a newborn brony!  That happened late February, 2013.

On Friday October 25^th, 2013 my friend Kathy and I drove to Hot Topic.  There, we picked up two Fluttershy plush dolls, one for me and one for my friend Kathy that I had ordered days before.  Much to my surprise, the Hot Topic sales women addressed me by my name.  After my purchase, one of the sales staff gave me a thank you brohoof!  That makes sense, as I have bought about three hundred dollars worth of My Little Pony:  Friendship Is Magic goods from Hot Topic.

I’m embarrassed to admit this.  Before I become a brony, I had never shopped at Hot Topic, believing it was a gothic girl’s shop.  I only started shopping there, as the nice lady at the Miller Hill Mall information desk told me that Hot Topic has the largest collection of My Little Pony merchandise in the mall.

Thank you for giving all of us the fourth generation of My Little Pony.  It is a groundbreaking, transgenerational series.  Without you, neither I nor my friend Kathy would have become pony fans.

Also, you have inspired me to work harder on my own creativity.

Sincerely yours,

James Buchanan

Mystery Poster

This “mystery poster” was created by my friend Howard Hendrickson.  Please examine it for hidden clues before reading further.

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According to Howard, the Duluth map represents the setting of my web comic.

The superimposed unicorn represents the unicorn ponies and is an iconic tie to the WASS story.

The poster proposes an alternative history where intelligent cabs were manufactured in the first decade of the 1900’s.  This was many decades before the “Magical Cab Awakening” happened in the cannon comic.  The poster is for an early incarnation for the Choleric Coach Company.  Choleric is an anachronistic word for ill-tempered.

In the lower right you can find an invitation for me to come to Duluth to experience this coach company’s automated driven coaches - known for their distinctive, if foul tempered artificial intelligence.  This also supposes that I was born in the 1880’s, have automobile mechanics skills, while living in another city, such as Chicago, Illinois.

This invitation is from my friend Nikola Tesla who invented intelligent cab technology.  Only Nikola Tesla and a few trusted scientists who work for him understand the mechanism that creates intelligent cab technology.

In the upper left, if you look you will find a message in Morse code.  If Howard got it right, it is a happy anniversary message for my comic.

This poster opens up possibilities for an alternative universe, where angry cabs were manufactured in a steam punk universe, instead of created by an unknown force that made ordinary cabs into intelligent beings.

I thank Howard for this poster.  It was not what I expected, but I’m thankful for his artwork and the ideas expressed within it.

Note:  The cab in the cannon story only becomes angry when Abigail Adams’s family that feared and hated intelligent cabs sent him from New York City to Duluth, Minnesota.

Note:  Some of my readers have asked me if intelligent cabs can drive themselves, why these cabs need human drivers in the first place.  Because, that is the way I wrote the story.  I suppose that intelligent cabs need human drivers to interact with other humans, such as helping people and their luggage into and out of the cab, collecting fares, filling out tax forms, and so on.

Note:  “Washington's Army of Sorcerers and Sorceresses” (WASS) was created on April 19, 1775 by George Washington.  Working in secret, WASS Sorcerers and Sorceresses made great contributions to defend America.

For example, in 1776 they summoned storms and then a fog that made possible Washington’s retreat across the East River.

During the British attack on the city of Washington in 1814, WASS Sorcerers and Sorceresses summoned a severe thunderstorm and a tornado that helped to extinguish the fires set by British soldiers, while persuading them to evacuate the city.

Note:  In this world, most people are aware that magic exists and most use minor magical artifacts.  Yet, few know how common it is or how to control it to their advantage.

Two Twilights

These two Twilight Sparkles watch over me eight feet from my writing chair.  Yes, I measured the distance with a metal tape measure.  I suppose that attraction to detail, which most people would not take to the time to consider let alone do, is what makes me and my fictional counterpart Twilight so adorkable.

Pony dreams

The sun was setting during late evening.  Jim’s friend Kathy stood in Jim’s living room.  She surveyed the room’s many My Little Pony merchandise collection before looking down at the palomino coated, unicorn stallion pony sitting like a human in an armchair.  The pony looked down at his fore hooves, a hand towel draped on them.  The only noise in the room was the pony’s low sobs, followed by the pony’s awkward attempt to blow his nose into his hand towel.

With an almost imperceptible frown of her lips, Kathy said, “Jim, didn't you know that you are what you eat and become what you think?”

With his hand towel, the pony wiped tears from the checks of his sad face.  With a dejected voice, Jim said, “I know, but I didn't think that would literally happen.  I didn't think that if I spent too much time thinking about ponies that I’d become a pony.”

Kathy patted Jim’s large head and then stroked his long flaxen mane, resisting a sudden urge to brush it and then braid it with colorful ribbons.  “Don’t worry; in elementary school my daughter Megan wore the body of a Pegasus pony for seven days before she turned back into a human.”

Kathy then added, “As these human to pony and pony to human transformations only happen when someone is sleeping, there was no chance that my daughter would transform back into a human in the middle of class.”

Jim gave Kathy a worried look.  “How am I supposed to write with hooves?”

“Today, don’t worry about writing.  Just enjoy your time as a pony, as you can always write after you turn back into a human with hands.  If you must write, use your horn magic or use voice to text software.”

Is this the start of a romantic comedy?

This chapter concludes with an unexpected budding romance between Larry the Pegasus stallion and Fluttershy the Pegasus Mare.

Real Larry’s reaction to this comic page is “Cool! A romantic comedy?”

In the first two panels, Larry is steadying himself with his left hoof while sitting on the sofa.  The reason is that Larry is not accustomed to sitting down on his pony rump.  Also, the ragdoll was too big and cumbersome to fit into Larry’s high back chair.

One of the most talked about criticisms of web comics is that they have too many chatty explanations and there is not enough action.  I hope that my comic has the correct balance of talk and action.

So far, fictional Larry started this comic as a human shopkeeper and is now a Pegasus stallion and secret agent.  Just imagine the possibilities for adventures when Larry starts his flight training in Cloudsdale and his friendship with Fluttershy.

A few of my fans have asked me the reason why the title character, “Angry Cab” is a secondary character in his comic.  I need to rework the character and redefine Angry Cab’s relationship with Abigail Adams.  What I will not do is use overused, dumb and sexist clichés, such as “break the cutie” or the “damsel in distress” plot devices.

Original Angry Cab Story Copyright © 2013, James Patrick Buchanan

My Little Pony:  Friendship is Magic, Copyright © Lauren Faust, DHX Media, and Hasbro Studios

Garry's Mod Copyright © Garry Newman and Facepunch Studios

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