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Welsh Mountain Ponies

Ariadne & Dionysus

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Vladimir Bobri, Illustration for Sleepy Book, by Charlotte Zolotow, 1958

“And then there’s a customized copy of PONY PALS, a gift to you on your 14th birthday from the slippery Mr. Strider. Each page contains lovingly hand-written commentary on the deeds of this intrepid young horse. Later, about halfway through the book, rather than see the gag through to the bitter end, Strider began pasting over entire pages of original text with his own completely rewritten version of the story, while keeping all the chapter titles. His revision is a tough, emotionally draining read. But it’s cathartic, in all the worst ways possible. He tends to get carried away with his projects.” x

The Homestuck Epilogue(s) Happened and I’m Gonna Write About That

When we speak of the production of the meta-narrative, that is, of the text which is aware of itself, there emerges a question regarding the text’s ideology of itself. All text is ideological - all production is - but the standard model of textual ideology is outward facing - an interpretation of material reality. The meta-narrative distinguishes itself by explicitly engaging in a discursive ideology which constructs itself as a unified subject/object complex. The text emerges as an act of self-interpretation and as the material which is interpreted. I explore this process in the context of fan works in the essay Opposed Meanings in Detective Pony, but here I will elaborate on further principles regarding the application of a critical schema to the “canonical” meta-text of the epilogue(s).

Milestone 11/19/2017: Finished principal photography on “original” footage

The three held hands and took that all-important step forward.