So. It’s been almost two months since I last updated something on my end, right? “Where’s the Letter updates?” “Are you going to write anything else soon?” “Are you okay?”

“Are you okay?” There’s a question I can answer.

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Hello, dear readers! It's been a few weeks since the last update on Letters. I haven't said anything about the sudden absence, and for that I offer a small apology for going dark.

Long story short, family matters + writing burnout = massive shift in priorities for a while, but now I'm back to a relatively normalized state and ready to get to work again

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Six seasons of Letters with Celestia hammering on Twilight to not jump to conclusions, and now she's a hypocrite.

This will be a very interesting letter to write.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've some rage to contain in something less fragile than a glass bottle. Like a thermos.

And boy, I wanted it so badly. At last, I can take a week off!

Or two. Or six. It all depends on how intense job training is at my new vocation, but I won't be writing much of anything for a while. But when I get back to it... what's next?

"Bar Hoppers, maybe??"

Okay, okay. If anything I've written deserves a revisit during this hiatus, it IS that. Don't worry, I will get something done for it.

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Heyo, dear readers. I've got some news that's directly affecting Letters... or is it indirectly? I mean, what's going on isn't directly related to the story, but the time available--

"Get to the point, TOM."

Right, sorry Tia. Uh, job opportunities! Change in career! Even tighter time management during this transitional period!

"That's... well, that IS to the point, but you could have spared SOME detail."

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Simply put, I've finally watched the episode today. Normally, I would have watched it yesterday, but a few outstanding life circumstances completely dashed any chance of me seeing it yesterday.

Thus, the Letter may come out Monday, it might not. If it can't, expect it Tuesday.

Happy trails, dear readers.

Oh, and a quick tl;dw: Discord finally gets over himself in the geekiest way imaginable.

Dear Readers,

Celestia here, writing on behalf of TOM. He's having a... small existential crisis at the moment, mumbling something about changeling rocks. He'll be back next week, but in the meantime, he wanted me to conduct a survey for him on his behalf, one regarding the current status of Letters.

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There won't be a Letter this upcoming Monday. In fact, there probably won't be a Letter next week at all.

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Princess Twilight,

I came to a conclusion today, as I sit in this bathtub warming up my frozen ribs that the Crystallization process seemed to skip over. Luna's also in the bath. It's a big bath.

I came to the conclusion that every one of us were morons. You, Cadance, Shining, and especially Luna and myself. Why?

Because we could have done so much better than what we did. And there's no excuse for why we couldn't.

So, about a month and a half ago, one of my readers went and drew a certain bird.

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So last night, I got a sore throat. It was small, nothing too bad. Popped some cold medicine, slept on it.

Today, I felt absolutely miserable. Illness sure knows how to put a huge dent in my plans, and it's so awful I fear I won't be able to push out a letter by Monday.

Therefore, dear readers, if a Letters update doesn't come tomorrow, you know why.

HOWEVER, I will persist and get the letter done by Tuesday. Come hell or highwater, it'll be there.

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...what's next?

Well, first off, my writing schedule is almost fully dependent on episode releases now (outside of bonus letters I may write). Simply put, when a new ep comes out, expect a letter up to two days after it, unless extraneous circumstances cannot allow me to do so.

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My schedule's been eating hours left and right these past few days, and today, it finally peaked by completely occupying all of my available time.

I essentially woke up, went to see Jurassic World, and now I've a long work shift ahead. I haven't even had a moment to sit back and watch the fabled hundreth episode, and likely won't be able to see it until tomorrow.

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While Tia's busy having her moment, I'll just quietly open the mailbox here. Leave your questions as per usual, dear readers, and she will answer them when she gets around to it.

No answers will be given today, for what I should hope are obvious reasons in the letter.

Ah, season four. Came to a close at last, and now that my schedule's freed up nicely, these responses have been long overdue.

I'm certain I've missed some questions, however, so if it hasn't been answered and you know it was in a previous response session, kindly drop it off here and I'll get to it posthaste.

"I heard that. You're terrible at keeping track of this stuff."

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Right, so with Season Four well and truly underway, I've realized the description of the story, as it once stood, didn't quite capture enough scope of what the Letters had established in it thus far. I tweaked the descriptions a bit to keep that in mind, but there's a rather large problem staring at me with angry eyes.

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Incredible. Truly incredible. I can't believe it's there. Still can't, even with the number right in my face. But there it is. One thousand. I never thought I'd see it get that high.

Honestly, my reaction can be summed up perfectly in a single gif:

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It won't be for that Pink Apple episode.

"Wha--but it's the next episode in the series! Did you skip a letter again?!"

That was ONE TIME, people! Although, I don't know how many had noticed I skipped it at the time...

Ahem. Anyway, I'm fully aware it's the next episode, but I wrote a different letter instead. One integral, nay, CRUCIAL to this series!

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Welp, what a mess it's been for Knighty, but at least it's over. On the plus side, he did get Cloudflare set up, which I've found to be quite useful on the sites I know use it, so hey, quicker load times for everyone!

Anyway, Letters hasn't been affected by the servers going down--this was one of my off days, after all--so the next one will be posted tomorrow on schedule.

Ah, fanmail. You're piling up on this desk almost as much as neglected noble complaints. Well, out of those two piles, Tia's willing to work on one of them.

Also, a notice to other readers that may have posted fanmail questions in the comments of the story so far. If you've done so, I ask that you repeat the question here, just to be sure I don't miss them. I keep track of questions asked only in these blog posts simply because it's easier to do so here than there.

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