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Childhood Cassettes - Clover Plays the Keyboard and my first ever MLP fanfiction

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Channel: Skylark24 · 2012 · People & Blogs

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I am in the process of converting all of the cassette tapes I recorded during my childhood to MP3s and making slideshows of photos from the time to go along with them.  Yes, I had quite possibly the loudest, most precocious common English accent of all time as a child!  Most of my tapes are a mish-mash of general stuff I liked at the time.  I don't expect people to find these of much interest, but friends have been asking me to share, so here they are!

This tape dates from around 2000, so I must be eight or nine.  The tape includes:

00:00 - "Clover's Music".  Clover, my beautiful dutch rabbit (RIP), "plays the keyboard".  Clover was obsessed with that keyboard and would go mad, scratching at it and holding his paws down to hold long notes.  Any other rabbit would have been terrified by the noise, but not Clover!  He seemed to be fascinated by the sounds it made.  I only wish I had a video of him playing with it, but this tape recording is all I have as a memory. :(

01:35 - "Desirée, Come, Trouble!"  My first ever My Little Pony fanfiction, introducing The Black Pony of Darkness, who later became a big name in my pony world and had a series of 27 cassette tape stories written about him.  I find it amusing that I keep referring to "our last episode" when this was the first story I ever wrote.  I guess I figured I'd go back and write a prequel at some point, but I just launched straight into writing a series about him with no relation to this original story.

I was quite lazy with the photos on this one as none of my old pictures really fit in with a fantasy MLP story.  The customs of Lancer and The Black Pony were made just last year, but the clay model you see standing guard over "Nightmare Castle" is one I made around that time.  The photo dates from 2002... the clay Black Pony has since lost an ear and a leg but I believe I still have him somewhere!

Oh, and I shouldn't have to say this, but I know I must... No nasty comments against G1 MLPs here, please.  We know that you like G4, but this was my childhood and I LOVED My Little Pony...it's what originally made me to want to get into voice acting/singing and also inspired me to write many (admittedly childish) adventurous fanfiction stories back in the day.  There was no G3, let alone FiM back then.

Thanks for listening, guys!  Hope it gave you a giggle! :)

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