More Equinox Bey bey-by pictures

Equinox update. Baby pony remains completely adorable, and as he grows, which he is doing at a truly prodigeous rate, I am starting to get to know who he is. It's especially fascinating to watch him grow, since I also raised both of his parents from foals. I would say that he is somewhat more emotional and skittish at this age than Dancer was, but nowhere near Bey, who didn't like to be touched at all as a foal. X-pony (heh) loves his pettings, but he is still very particular about when and how, and does not so much like me to approach him as the other way around. This is, of course, perfectly natural, and I am doing my best to guide him gently into trust. I think that he will have a fair measure of Bey's Arab fire, but (especially as a mature gelding) will be a bit more level-headed and less opinionated than his dam. We'll see.

It feels like I'm also bonding with him a little more every day. I love this little horse (hard not to!), and as we approach one another as alien beings, predator and prey, I find within myself a shyness almost mirroring his. Bending myself to this monumental, dangerous, careful, intimate task: bringing up a young horse so that he is happy and comfortable in domestication and is relatively less likely to hurt me in our many years of working together, an animal who, if all goes well, will be my riding buddy for the next 30 years or so. Sometimes, each little velvet sniff on my fingers feels monumental.



( whinny whinny )

The Bone Shard, 2 new pages

Work on the comic proceeds apace.

Here, have a page 14 and a page 15.

I feel a little compelled to apologize about how slow the pacing on this is; I don't feel that it works as well as a serial as it will as a complete story, which is how ultimately I intend it to be read. I still really appreciate everyone who is reading it as I go along, anyway, and am having fun taking my time developing the thing. Now that a lot of the preliminary introductory first-bit-of-story is winding up, things are about to heat up a bit, and that's enjoyable to work on.

For those who are lately arrived, 'The Bone Shard' is a graphic novel that I'm working on. Furry, Victorian-AU, lesbian romance ghost story. Link to the beginning is on all the pages, it will eventually be rated NC-17 though we haven't gotten there yet (see above about slow pacing) and y'all are welcome to read or ignore it at your leisure.