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Ask Dark Nebula

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Hello all denizens of this...ponynet! I am Dark Nebula! or simply "Nebula"! A Black Star pony from the darkest depths of space! The world has changed greatly since my creation and I wish to learn more about you and your intriguing new "technologies"! Please come closer! I won't...bite.
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The short answer to that is “No, just on the tail end of a long unannounced hiatus.” The long answer is well, longer. To begin with I want to say sorry for just vanishing for over a year without so much as a word, and thank you to everyone who put up with me through this. I generally really don’t like to talk about myself, I’m the kind of person who’ll refuse to admit something’s wrong no matter how much I need help. I’m gonna have to in order to explain all of this and the future of this blog though so, here we go. I’ve been suffering from depression for a very long time, well before even starting this blog. It’s pretty much always just been a fact of life for me but it slowly grew to the point where I just couldn’t motivate myself to do anything creative. Regardless of what it might be, drawing or writing, pony or not, I just couldn’t work myself up to do any of it. Over the past year and change I’ve spent most of it talking through my problems with a therapist and working myself back up to the more mentally healthy mindset I’m at now. Which led up to the past couple months where for the first time in a long time I’ve found myself actually wanting to draw and write and having fun with it again! That said after over a year of not drawing ponies, and much longer still since the last time I drew something that wasn’t a cartoon horse, I’m understandably somewhat rusty. As such I’m working on sorta relearning to draw again. I’m also taking the chance to try and address some issues I’ve found looking over my old art. Specifically trying to make my drawings a little less rigid. I’m not sure how long it’ll take me to get my art style back to a point I’m comfortable with to start posting again, but I feel pretty confident it’s not too far away. So yeah, not quite back yet but almost!

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I’m going to be going through a change at work in the near future that I’ll probably need some time to adjust to before I can get back to anything resembling a proper drawing schedule. So I’m just going to make it official and say that I’ll be going on a short hiatus for the rest of the month. That’s about two weeks or so from this posting. Good news is, this change should actually give me more free time to draw once I've settled into it, so there’s that! And for once it actually lines up neatly with another little change: I've bought a new art tool! It’s essentially a tablet with its own screen to draw on, so here’s hoping it works well since if it does it should hopefully cut out a LOT of steps in my art process and speed things up.

I’ll be spending this break i’m going on practicing with it and seeing how it works, which leads to the fun part. If any of you have any thing you’d like to see doodled feel free to send a little message with it. Want a picture of your OTP? Sure. How about a drawing of Luna with a dapper mustache? That’s fine too! A picture of your OC riding a shark? Go nuts! Just a warning ahead of time though, these will be me practicing with a tool I’ve never used before so they might suck and will almost certainly be pretty basic. It’s practice after all. I might not draw every request either, especially if I feel comfortable enough to get back to work on the main posts, so there’s that to be aware of too. Still just a bit of fun. TL;DR? Work schedule’s changing and I got a new drawing thing. Gonna take a break till May because of it. Gonna draw some stuff to practice during that so if you want me to draw something for you, lemme know. No promises though, also it might suck. You've been warned.

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Happy belated Birthday to Little Eris! Made it Halloween themed since, well it IS the season and I thought Nebula taking Eris trick-or-treating would be cute. Hope you like it! Little Eris the not-so-headless horsemare riding on the Nightmare! Though considering it's Eris, she probably could just swap out her head with that pumpkin if she really wanted to.

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Remember when I said things were stabilizing? Nope! Family in the hospital, broken car, and more schedule weirdness at work. Now, to cap it off, after over a month of BSOD crashing at the drop of a hat more and more frequently my computer has finally given up the ghost and refuses to even turn on.

Please bare with me while I get a new one and try to sort out my life. Sorry for the ever expanding wait.

Good news is, the new computer should be here fairly soon.

Till then I just have my phone.

I could answer some questions in text form if you guys would be okay with that I suppose. Better than dead silence I figure.

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Only bad little Star Ponies go to Dark Space… Only bad little Star Ponies go to Dark Space… Only bad little Star Ponies go to Dark Space… Only bad little Star Ponies go to Dark Space… Only bad little Star Ponies go to Dark Space…

Didn’t mean to… Didn’t mean to… Didn’t mean to… Didn’t mean to…Didn’t mean to… Didn’t mean to…Didn’t mean to… Didn’t mean to…Didn’t mean to… Didn’t mean to…Didn’t mean to… Didn’t mean to…Didn’t mean to… Didn’t mean to…

(( Woah, look at that. A wild update appears! Sit very still so we don’t scare it away, shhh… ))

"I know exactly how you feel." ((gotta say, I love the chalk line look for these posts, it adds a nice element of creepiness!))

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Woof! *pant* *pant*

> Cerberus seems very pleased.

"Such a good boy! Such a good fire-breathing puppy, yes he is!" ((When I was playing P3 portable, Nothing could get between me and taking Koro-chan walkies!  What's that Mitsuru-senpai? Sorry, can't hear you, I GOTS ME A PUPPY!! ANDHEHASAVESTANDWINGSANDCANFIGHTWITHAKNIFEK'BYE!"))

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