...so this blog may get a few views...

There's some things I need to say before we begin.

First: I'm not going to be using names. The central party in this story has been banned, and I could freely trot out their site identity without having to worry about breaking any rules about attacking other FIMFic members. They are, to the best of anyone's current knowledge, gone. But there's still someone here: their intended victim -- and that could have been so much worse.

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It's probably easiest if I just link you directly into their blog.

I may have started a trend.

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...I never start trends.

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...I mean, never. It just doesn't happen.

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...RUN.

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...so in near-instant retrospect, I shouldn't have tried for a 3% increase on the Ko-Fi goal percentage. It should have been at least 7%. Or, to really get it over with, 73%. Which, plus the extant 27%, would have reached goal, and then I could have posted Extra Time as a subgoal for the rest of the year and started making trip plans --

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...sort of.

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Not quite this desperate.

(But give it a week.)

The Ponicon/Tokyo Ko-Fi drive is at 26% of goal. And will be less harmful to my sanity than trying to figure out how to get that handle under a bridge.

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It's that time again. The regulars know how this works. The new arrivals may need a quick course.

(Yes, much of this is a straight paste from the last time. Maybe I can't format or code to save my life, but I can occasionally paste without breaking a file.)

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In the present, I've been trying to focus on a future which, in the best case, is more than a year away. The possibility of making it to Tokyo for their MLP convention in (approximately) May of 2025, and the gradually-advancing marathon run of trying to reach the required total.

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The headline:

That's a name which probably isn't familiar to those outside the States, along with a number of those who live here. It may take a few minutes for you to catch up. And once you come to know him, there's a very good chance that you won't exactly like him. Not liking him is sort of a bipartisan thing.

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This isn't a pleasant story. In telling the group about what happened through the medium of this blog, I'm hoping to make a few people think. Passing on the details of events -- or rather, mostly doing so. Because in writing this, I'm not going to include any names. Not just yet, anyway. Those who want an ID on the self-assigned 'victim' of the tale are welcome to come into the chat server, and we'll be happy to fill you in. (Not that the primary online ID may still be good -- but if you

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The questions you ask yourself on Kickstarter...

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