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Dusty Sage


I've been writing online for thirty years. One of these days I might actually get good at it.

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  • 333 weeks
    Falling behind

    I'm getting to the point where just keeping up is beyond my dwindling capacities. I'm not sure what's going on, but I suspect I'm not going to like it when I find out.

    Anyway, I apologize for having been such a lousy correspondent this year.

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  • 347 weeks
    Having gone wandering off somewhere

    Of late, I seem to have been overtaken by events: my health has taken a turn for the worst, I wrecked my car, and the guy they hired to help me out at work has moved away. (Another guy has drawn the short straw.) I'm still alive, but it's not something I much feel like bragging about.

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  • 388 weeks
    A night at the beer garden

    I mean, I'm not allowed beer anymore, at least not until I get off some of these damnable medications, but our little table had massive fun discussing Jenga, photography, classic and modern weaponry, beer (of course) -- and ponies. Apparently they'd read my stuff. Who knew?

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  • 400 weeks
    Newer avatar

    Regular visitors will remember that I'd asked the estimable LeekFish to knock out a sketch for my, um, OC. I posted it here, and it was well received; our own Twifight Sparkill came up with an idea, and heck, there's no reason you shouldn't see it here, especially since she's revised it to give me a more, um, scholarly look. (The LeekFish original is still in the sidebar at

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  • 402 weeks
    Back in the Real World

    I think I would rather spend two weeks in the Everfree, trying to avoid everything that can kill me, and in the Everfree I assume everything can kill me, than one more minute in a hospital room.

    That said, their definition of "on the mend" doesn't quite coincide with mine.

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Mar
30th
2014

Perils of youth · 1:16am Mar 30th, 2014

Being incredibly old and therefore more or less in charge of my own destiny, or something like that, I have a tendency to forget that this fandom contains rather a lot of folk a long way from reaching that happy point on the scale.

And then a reminder comes from out of the blue:

Dear readers,

I know many of you have been waiting for new chapters of different stories. Unfortunately, my parents have forbidden me to go on this website ever again. I'm not even supposed to be doing this now. I wish I could do more but I cannot. So, I will no longer be posting stories or new chapters to previous stories. I am EXTREMELY sorry for everything. I wish my parents didn't care about me watching my little pony and me going to this website. But they do and I am forbidden. My most sincere apologies to all of you waiting for new chapters. This will be the last activity of bricann forever. I am sorry again to all of you and I truly hope that this will not be the entire end. BMAGIC678 is working and continuing When the Moon is Full for me. I am hoping you all can understand and I appreciate all of you who have supported me throughout my time on FimFiction.

My Sincere Apologies,

bricann

I suspect that for every one we hear about, there are several others who simply disappear into the mist, their stories occasionally read, their user pages never updated.

And I really hate to lose someone whose stuff I'd read. (I did like one of her stories, This Day Has Been Just Perfect, which poses the question of what would have happened had Twilight and Cadance never made it out of the caverns below Canterlot.) I suppose nothing lasts forever, though temporary taxes come closest.

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Comments ( 3 )

That sucks. I'm just glad that won't happen to me. Considering my dad watches Glee, I think I'll be fine.

1965389
It does at that. If she'd said that her grades were suffering, maybe I'd have understood the parental demand -- but she didn't say that, only that she wasn't allowed to get near the pastel ponies anymore. (The use of "she" is an assumption, based on the one reference to her I could find by another user.)

1965404
Some parents are just bad people. Hers clearly are. Any parent who would deny their child of a harmless activity - the creation of art, of all things - that makes them happy isn't a parent at all.

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