Life, words, and odd thoughts · 9:18am Dec 3rd, 2015
Thanks everyone for the wonderful response to 'The Floor is Lava.' I'm gratified to see that most readers seem to enjoy it, and the comments have been particularly encouraging. 
I'm sorry to have not responded to as many comments as deserve it. Rest assured that I've read them all (usually multiple times) and appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts.
Unfortunately my replies are about to dry up for a spell, as I'm going to be out of the loop for a few weeks. After several years abroad, I am currently sitting in the cabin of a ship that is about to take me back to the US.
I'm afraid, that's also interfered with me donning the appropriate holiday avatar apparel. I have a picture from last year, but the PC it's on is packed up, and I can't seem to find an archive of the image online. (The aforementioned journey has taken me to China, and I'd forgotten about the firewall, which has been giving me fits. Not only no Google Image search, but I still haven't seen the season finale 
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Fortunately, fimfiction is available (if slow) so I've at least been able to amuse myself (though the finale spoilers are an ever-proliferating minefield). It has prompted my current odd though, though.
I'm presently reading 'Celestia gets mugged' in the cabin of a cargo ship. I'm pretty sure some of 'Onto the Pony Planet' was consumed on the shinkansen. I've read pony on business trips, at 30,000 feet above the Pacific, and during moments salvaged around various incomprehensible meetings in Tokyo skyscrapers. It's always a little funny for me to reflect on the incongruity of it all.
I wonder if the authors ever imagined that their words might reach across to such a moment? Furthering that line of thought, what's the strangest place you've read a pony fic?
Dude, I am sure once you get stateside you can unpack and grab the piccie then.
As for strangest place, in the internetless lands of the north at my grandmothers house. It was quite fortuitous to convert some stories to pdfs for my kindle.
Still that was one cute story...and I don't use that word often to describe something.
I've heard of that story.
I never really thought of my writing gaining an international audience ... or any audience, to be honest. But now I've got a pre-reader in England, I've done pre-reading for a guy in South Africa, and I've had readers checking in from every corner of the world.
Nothing exciting here. At home, at work (don't tell the boss), and a few other spots in the US and Canada.
Where and how I've written stuff is mildly more interesting, I guess. The latest chapter of OPP was edited at the San Diego airport, I've written and published stuff while waiting to go on stage. I wrote one chapter of a story by lamplight on a picnic table in the Hiawatha National Forest, and another in a van headed to a naturist resort. I've used desktops, laptops, tablets, cell phones, typewriters and legal pads to write my stories.
It was a nice heart warming story, not only for being fun and well written, but for whatever reason pre-alicorn Twilight Sparkle seems to be almost entirely forgotten let alone pre-Ponyville Twilight. Having a bit of background to show why Shining Armor is BBBFF great.
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I am not sure if this site is accessible from behind the firewall, but VPN Gate is a free and great tool.
Some current mirrors:
Mirror sites list of vpngate.net (Updated at 2015-12-03 16:24:01 UTC):
http://112.187.116.100:26422/en/ (Mirror location: Korea Republic of)
http://202.78.227.111:37946/en/ (Mirror location: Viet Nam)
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http://122.155.168.29:58477/en/ (Mirror location: Thailand)