But of more interest is the emergence of 17-year cicadas in my area. Big, ugly, red-eyed insects that are the size of your thumb but basically harmless, as long as you can get past all the shed skins they leave behind on leaves and the everpresent and disconcertly loud background sound they produce as a mating call. Fortunately, the outbreak in my area seems pretty limited. There's a few around, definitely, but they're not everywhere, and the noise is basically a low hum instead of a constant,

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I’m waiting a couple more days to give the rest of my prereaders more chance to hit it. Be warned that I did decide to break up the chapter again, so you’ll essentially be getting part 1 of Queen Moly vs Dragon Lord Vesuvius with a lot of additional commentary—and a major revelation or two—from the Humane 6 peanut gallery as Sunset continues to tell the tale.

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It’s going to be draft complete by tonight at what I'm guessing will be somewhere around 11k words, at which point it's off to prereaders following one initial editing pass. But as so often happens in my writing, the chapter got too big for its wingboners and I couldn't put everything I wanted into it without doubling the length. I suppose I could do that, but as my general clopfic philosophy remains that heavy M-rated chapters should be careful not to do too much at once, the griffon chapters

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Though I’ve been tempted in the past to do joke chapters of my more serious stories for April Fools Day, when it comes down to it, my writing talents simply don’t include effectively pulling off that kind of parody. In fact, the only author I ever knew who was good at that kind of humor was the long-gone and still-lamented Denim_Blue. I asked him once or twice if he could write an April Fools Day prank chapter of Firefly as a guest author of sorts, but he declined and then eventually

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Ok I know I just threw a blog post out a couple minutes ago, but something else just came in that demands immediate sharing: cover art for the upcoming Time Enough For Wub!

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Next Week's Episode Was Put On Daily Motion

Amazon ended up releasing the new episode of season seven (season 7 episode 18) by accident. Someone uploaded it onto DailyMotion. If you search for it on DailyMotion, you will find it.

The episode has Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Daring Do. It goes into one of the legends from Equestria's past and it is awesome! I totally recommend checking it out if you can.

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Manehatten was just a name.

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Hello, everypony~!

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It will launch when I get up on Memorial Day, which is Monday morning (a three day weekend! ). First full editing pass on the ten chapter side story is complete, and a second one is planned. I also need to flesh out the final two chapters by about 1000 more words to bring them up to what I consider ideal clopfic chapter length. That aside, I've already got the story cover prepared:

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... is Testosterone. I think I’ve mentioned before that mine is chronically low, so every four months, I get a fresh infusion of it in the form of implanted pellets a couple inches to the left or right of my tailbone. It starts with a series of lidocaine injections to numb the area for the small incision it requires, meaning Fortrakt would faint to see it.

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Prereads are in, and they’re favorable, with the chapter currently weighing in at 14.8k words. So I’ll be launching the chapter tonight after one more editing pass. And looking ahead, the next C&C chapter is at 7100 words and growing. It’ll probably be double that when all is said and done, at least for the M-rated version. Just as before, the T-rated version will be considerably less, but still have substantial content that shows the (figurative) climax of the Gilda vs Cipio battle, and set

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Every once in a while, your muse kicks in, and then you get on this writing roll and can’t stop. Today was a such a day, as I took my new Firefly chapter from 1600 words all the way to draft complete at 9300 words. So at this point, you can expect it to launch by midweek and probably be in the neighborhood of 10.5k words after all prereads are in and all my editing passes are complete. As this is the fifth of six promised chapters by summer, this also means there should be no issue with

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First and foremost, I’d like to offer a warm welcome to all new Feathered Hearts readers following the Sunday’s release, which featured for several hours and resulted in a slew of new likes and tracks.

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Hello, everybody!
It's me again! I know it hasn't been all that long, but this chapter isn't all that long either~ Chapter 11: The Final Wall is now released! It isn't the end yet, but it is still an important chapter by all means~ Given, I haven't edited it that much with everything going on with my college classes, but I think it's just sweet enough to be a good chapter. Be sure to check it out~!

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S'up, bitches? Guess what! Or, well, don't, because I spoiled it in the title!

The Ponyfest Panels are up!

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I’m pleased to say the latest Firefly chapter was very well-received, so I’m going to officially say that I did Denim_Blue’s changeling lore and characters proud. Queen Lepidoptes has basically turned into the anti-Chrysalis as far as Changeling Queens go, so I’m now making plans to bring her descendant-led hive into Feathered Hearts.

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The time has finally come, dear Brethren. I'm sincerely glad this one is over and done with, given it was a headache to get through!

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