Not a winner, but I had a blast (pictures will be available in a future post), and I made some headway on Turnabout Storm chapter revamps as well. No less than four updated chapters were posted last night, meaning the entire story through Part 37 is now updated. Aside from the usual edits, I added some additional details in several places, including how and why Pinkie is able to do metalwork and regarding how exactly Twilight summoned Phoenix and The Judge originally:

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Finally got my vacation and I'm spending a week-plus in Las Pegasus Vegas starting two days ago. How is it? Hot and dry. Temperatures forecast to be 110F later this week, but they keep the giant poker rooms at the Rio conference center they use for the WSOP (World Series of Poker) so cool I had to buy a sweatshirt. How am I doing? Played three daily tournaments and hit the money (barely) the first time, just missed it the second, and did very badly on the third thanks to one stupid

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The Derpy/Ditzy/Bright Eyes and Lenora chapters have received their editing passes and overhaul. Mostly minor changes, including the usual merciless removal of all usages of 'violet unicorn' and easing off on elipses, but among other things, I finally

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There are some fairly major changes this time, especially to Part 30 - Judge Off Court.

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No major changes this time; just the usual editing pass and some minor description and dialog improvements, including making Apple Bloom just slightly more stubborn and Twilight’s efforts to buy her off a little more overt. I also gave a better reason for Fluttershy to have held onto her half of the resignation letter and not have told anyone about it.

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Well, it's been 10 days since The Lawyer and The Unicorn (T-rated version) was released, and the response to it has been extremely tepid at best. To this point, in fact, it's underperformed even my low expectations, garnering less than six comments and an even worse upvote-to-downvote ratio than TLaTU-M. I wasn't expecting a blockbuster performance by a T-rated rerelease of an already-completed M-rated story, but I also didn't think that readers would be so few.

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The T-Rated version of The Lawyer and The Unicorn has been released. Nine chapters are now posted, and I plan to release one new chapter a day from here on out.

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Initial launch will comprise a prologue plus eight chapters, with additional chapter releases occurring at the rate of one per day after. At that rate, the story will reach the start of the trial by this time next week with plenty to read in the meantime.

Here’s what to expect:

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You know, I've thought about it, and there's really no reason for me to wait until the entirety of TLaTU is converted to a T-rated story before releasing it. Especially when I can convert the first six or so chapters in a matter of hours.

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I asked for ten yea votes to do it, and I got nine. But there were also two yea votes by different readers for the T-rated version for the trial, so counting those, that makes 11. Threshold exceeded, so as promised, a T-rated version of The Lawyer

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A couple weeks ago, I asked if folks would be interested in a T-rated version of The Heart's Turnabout, the trial that takes place during The Lawyer and The Unicorn. I got just three yeas, which was marginal for doing it, while others told me it wasn't worth it.

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Parts 24 and 25 have been revamped, and this includes some major changes to Part 24 - Double Blackmail, the second meeting of Phoenix with Sonata where he breaks her psyche-locks.

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It was unsolicited, but still welcome, and I'd like to thank the reviewer, darksymphony777, for running it past me first before simply posting it to the story comments. His review is twenty minutes long and a bit on the stream-of-consciousness side, but definitely worth listening to as he addresses all the major parts and issues of the novelization in turn.

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With the M-rated Lawyer and The Unicorn side story/follow-on now finished, would there be interest in a T-rated version of the 12-chapter trial that occurs in the middle of it? Called "The Heart's Turnabout", it settles the question once and for all of whether what Twilight and Phoenix feel for each other is real. The premise is that following a fight with Phoenix, Twilight is the victim of an attempted dreamtime possession by The Nightmare, the same entity that once possessed Princess Luna and

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Progress is slowing on the TAS revamp as chapters lengthen, sorry. But have an excerpt of the updated part 21 so you can get some sense of what we're doing:

“Hey! YOU!”

Phoenix froze when he heard an extremely familiar voice and accent, quickly spinning around to see who was calling him. “Huh?”

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Aside from the usual edits and dialogue/detail additions, I made two major changes: first, I dropped Pinkie’s fourth wall break when she told Phoenix to go to Fluttershy’s cottage based on what was in the script, since I don’t want to imply this story isn’t really happening, replacing it with a different Pinkie-sense based explanation. Second, I changed Pinkie’s reason for missing the trial to something a bit more acceptable and much more in keeping with her character.

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Continuing my few-a-week pace, the next three story chapters involving Phoenix meeting up with Pinkie Pie and searching Ace’s hotel room/first encounter with Sonata have been updated and undergone a full editing pass by my prereader production crew of AJ_Aficionado, Silentwoodfire, and Denim_Blue.

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Updates and editing passes have been completed to parts 13-15 of Turnabout Storm, which take the story through Phoenix's first encounter with Pinkie and second interview of Rainbow, including breaking her psyche-locks and getting the truth from her as to what she was doing near the crime scene that night.

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Everything through the end of the first day of trial (part 12) has been completely revamped. The chapters have been carefully edited and expanded to include additional detail and dialogue, and use a lighter touch on the early shipping. I also dramatically cut back on overuse of Lavender Unicorn Syndrome (or Violet Unicorn Syndrome in this case--it really made me grimace rereading this how often I did it back then), fixed some of the more stilted lines, added a few additional Ace Attorney game

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Like updating Turnabout Storm. The prelude plus first five chapters have been redone and reposted. Updates include a careful editing pass, lot of dialogue additions and changes (honestly, the first video part’s dialogue was a bit stilted in places), fleshing out and adding additional details and graphics, and toning down the early shipping. I also added some things to make the story mesh a bit better with what

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