My Little Po-Mo: Unauthorized Critical Essays on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Season Three and Derivative Works is on its way! Content is now completely finalized, it’s fully formatted for print version, and I’m working on formatting for e-book. The cover designer is working her magic, things are humming along. I’m hoping to have it available for purchase by Black Friday, but I’ve learned never to guarantee a release date.
Have the TOC:
- Dear Princess Celestia… (Introduction) – Fully rewritten from the one used in past books!
- I’ve finally figured out why you’re having so much trouble being liked! (The Crystal Empire) – with expanded coverage of Sombra as a Shadow archetype to several characters!
- Maybe something less over-the-top and not so super-hyper (Too Many Pinkie Pies)
- I’ll be embarrassed, shamed, disgraced, mortified, humiliated… (One Bad Apple)
- You will never have the amazing, show-stopping ability (Magic Duel)
- Actually, Twilight Sparkle, I’m the main singer tonight (Sleepless in Ponyville)
- The Wonderbolts will never let a loser like me join! (Wonderbolts Academy) – revised to examine the ways Lightning Dust pushes Rainbow Dash to be better!
- Now hold on, everypony. We’ve done our best to improve supply this year. (Apple Family Reunion)
- That’s future Spike’s problem (Spike at Your Service) – revised to be hard on Spike as opposed to brutally unfair!
- Sometimes it can be hard for a shy pony like me to stand up for myself (Keep Calm and Flutter On)
- SPIKE WANT! (Just for Sidekicks) – see “Spike at Your Service”!
- I’m bored. (Games Ponies Play)
- Princess Celestia Is Best Pony
- I don’t know when she changed, but she changed! (Magical Mystery Cure) – revised to make at least 20% more sense!
- I wonder where I’m going now/What my role is meant to be/I don’t know how to travel/To a future I can’t see (Magical Mystery Cure)
- Alchemical Fandom: A Case Study in Doctor Whooves – revised from my guest post on TARDIS Eruditorum for a pony audience rather than a Doctor Who audience
- Last Survivor of Gallopfrey (Time Lords and Terror)
- Save Derpy (Doctor Whooves and Assistant)
- Fire the Orbital Friendship Beam (Double Rainboom)
- [Pony] Is My Waifu (Snowdrop)
- Welcome to the Herd (Friendship Is Dragons) – revised with more arcs of the comic, more coverage of the development of the campaign comic genre, and more accurate history of tabletop RPGs!
- Confound These Ponies (Friendship Is Witchcraft)
- Haters Gonna Hate (My Little Po-Mo: Unauthorized Critical Essays on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Season One) – completely replaced with a piece by my editor about what a POS that first volume was before he got his hands on it!
- The Glorious Lunar Republic (The Lunaverse, Season One)
- Princesses as Celebrities in Equestria
- Mods Are Asleep (The Return of Queen Chrysalis Part 1-4)
- To the Mooooooooooooooon! (Nightmare Rarity, Parts 1-4)
- Big McIntosh is Best Pony
- Hit Its Weak Point for Massive Damage (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Volumes 3 and 4)
- Solar Empire (Reflections) – Book-exclusive coverage of comic issues 17-20!
- Hate Detected (Turnabout Storm)
- Ponify Everything! (My Litle Investigations Case 1: True Blue Scootaloo)
- Get Equipped With Magic (Mega Pony)
- My Favorite Background Pony Is Applejack (Background Pony) – heavily revised to be more analytical and less caustic
- Glorious Pegasus Master Race (Rainbow Factory) – also heavily revised for expanded discussion of the theory of the grotesque
- Apples and Apple Accessories (Ask Jappleack/Pony.mov) – Book exclusive!
- RIP Golden Oak Library (The Elements of Harmony)
- From a feminist perspective, has MLP:FIM changed the world? – significantly expanded!
- Gak (Equestria Girls) – expanded to discuss the theme of mirrors and the parallels between Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer
- I Watch It For the Plot (Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks) – Book exclusive!
- …Today I Learned…
ETA: Corrected what “Glorious Pegasus Master Race” is about–I had the wrong fic listed originally.
For “Welcome to the Herd,” will I need to get the book in order to see the updated analysis of my comic? 😉
If you promise not to share it (updated content being the main selling point!) I’ll send you that chapter once the book is released. (There’s precedent, I sent Mark the chapter of vol. 2 that I interviewed him for, and I have a stripped down just-the-fandom-studies version that I have sent to researchers and journalists that asked for help.)
Sure thing. I’ll give you a plug when it comes out, too.