Senpai notices you, CSquared.

A grateful shout-out to the Seattle's Angels team for featuring a second story of mine, The White Horse, in their most recent site blog post, and for saying generally nice things about it. And for forgiving my flailing incompetence in continuity matters.

They're a cool bunch, Seattle's Angels, and they do a good job of highlighting lesser-known decent fics (not that I'm biased at all), and excel in all things faffing-related. Check out more of their blog posts and podcasts if you don't already.

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[Csquared08]

I think I've been out-matched.

Well played.

[Carabas]

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Let no-one say I don't deliver.

[Csquared08]

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Oh?

So how 'bout The Devil's Details?

[Carabas]

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That ... that's an entirely ... um ... the thing there is ...

Stop exposing my hypocrisy and failings, damn your eyes.

[Csquared08]

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[Sable Tails]

Excellent work as always, Carabas. You deserve the feature.

And for what it's worth, I couldn't care less about the continuity "error." I've always appreciated stories willing to bend canon a bit in the name of better storytelling. Equestria's history can be a bit pat and dull in its canon portrayal, anyways. ~ Sable

[Carabas]

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Thank you! I suppose the key factor with quality canon-bending is whether it's purposeful pushing at canon's boundaries to try and deliver a better story, outright reversal of canon to create an AU, or a simple oversight like Sombra's presence in The White Horse. Not too huge a factor, though, and at least it hasn't seemed to spoil the story for most who've commented.

[Sable Tails]

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Right. I've bent canon before in ways that most people either didn't notice or mention, but bothered me because they were oversights. If it's systemic to the story and therefore can't be easily fixed with an edit or two, I usually try to lampshade it somehow in later chapters. You know, bring it to the foreground along with a (hopefully) sensible explanation of how or why the story (seemingly) deviated from canon, therefore making me look like a planned-it-all-along Clever Author instead of a head-scratching goof.

...Of course, this technique works better with multi-chapter, ongoing works than with one-shots. Maybe everyone else's canon-compatibility error is really just your cunning sequel bait?

"Memoirs of a Princess: Why I Totally Lied about the Crystal Empire's History."

[Carabas]

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I like your style, I ought to adopt it.

"Celestiaaaa. Why do these history books have a profound deficiency of Our badassery? Celestiaaaa -"

"Not this again. Luna, for god's sake, you've spent most of history on the moon. You haven't actually done much."

"But Celestiaaaa -"

"Look, would you like me to say you helped me beat up Sombra? Would that do?"

"...as a start, We suppose."

[Sable Tails]

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"Luna was such an adorable little thing when she began what I've come to think of as the Long Pout."

"I'm sure most ponies can relate. Your sister is being stubborn, it's late at night, sleep comes slowly. You think it would be a good idea to tease her a little, maybe something about a prophecy. Get the paperwork started on a new holiday. By morning you've forgotten all about it.

"Fast forward a few hundred years, your sister is a goth, and the whole country has lost its mind. I can't help but think that she planned this somehow."

"For many years, I would try to convince guests that I was the original inventor of that new thing, 'photoshop.' I even thought I was being clever as I hung a plaque outside the hall of windows titled 'History: A Creative Accounting,' but nopony ever seemed to get the joke.

That's when I began to miss Discord."