Uh uh Trixie you didn't change a bit.

Im glad to see that duet again.

Ah...So Trixie can copy other's acts now. Good, except for the whole 'not having Leech for an assistant' thing.

Well, things could be worse. She could have been forced to audition here.

Woohoo trilogy continuation gooooooooooo!  

Stalker Leech in the picture, but I can't wait to read this!

yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes!

Aw, poor Trixie, put in such a hard spot like that...

I'm glad to see you went through with this story You're a better writer and character maker than you give yourself credit for. In all honesty, Leech is probably the most entertaining changeling OC I've ever read about, and at this point, I've read quite a few of them.

I'm interested to see where this goes. I already have a theory as to what that green glow is, and if I'm right, it's pretty cool, and Trixie needs to see if she can schedule some sort of meeting with Twilight Sparkle.

Keep up the good work

Leech as a reporter? Dear god, this will not bide well for Canterlot. Does he know how to use a camera?

I can't help but love Leech, always a lovable character.  Now I am wondering if affair love happen at all if they taste like that.  Is it the sex part than?  Perhaps perhaps.

Best wishes you awesome person you!

You have to give Leech credit. He actually knew how to use the camera this time. Granted, he has no perception of what is news worthy, but I have a feeling he's going to do a story on a certain unicorn friend of his...

At least his disappointment tastes delicious?

love that referance you put in to Team Fortress 2's Meet the Pyro. "I fear no creature... but that thing... it scares me."

>>13217591321759

Hehe... I always include at least one TF2 reference in all my stories. No idea why.

There's actually a second one in this particular story... Snap Happy's preferred drink is DeGroot's Rum 1680...

Well it seems I've finally gotten my lazy rear in gear and gotten around to reading this! And I must say, it looks just as promising as its predecessors! I look forward to more!

Well, I suppose Slap Happy DID get a scoop...all 200 of them...

Brilliant TF2 references right thar. I didn't notice the DeGroot one until you pointed it out. Hidden references are fun, aren't they?

Looking forward to more. Leech, we'll make a semi-competent reporter out of you yet!

ANOTHER amazing chapter keep up the good work

>>13219391321939

Although unintentional, looking back I suppose Leech's obsession with his hat could be seen as a reference to the TF2 players themselves...

Oh Leech, you are best Changeling.

Love it. As always, it all (sort of in a way) works out in the end... even if, in future, Leech doesn't learn how to be a reporter.

Finish reading one chapter, "1 new notification"

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"Leech hazz planzz"

You could not imagine how much I laughed when I read that.

Keep up the good work, mah boi. Gold star!

The Horse-Sh*t Cabaret? You, sir, have officially won the internet. (And no, unfortunately, I don't speak French, I only know a handful of words.)

I hope there are no other side effects when Trixie uses her talent. Like, for instance, her starting to turn back into a changeling.  

>>13301631330163

Subtle references are fun, aren't they?

>>13305041330504

I was wondering when someone would pick up on the bar's name, surprised nobody saw it in the first chapter. Yes indeed, Trixie's got herself a contract with Horse Shit. She really knows how to pick an employer.

Now, where shall I spend my Internet...?

It's going to go to her head. Let's just hope there are no ursas around this time...

Can I get a link to the originalz plz

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Oh dear. This shan't end well. I'm guessing there's some sort of catch to her show-stealing abilities. Too much at the same time perhaps, or maybe she'll start changing into some kind of grotesque fusion of the ponies she's stolen talents from? Hopefully she'll figure this out before she goes too far.

>>13615491361549

Waitz nevermind I forgot that I could just go into ur stawrys

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Damn dem words be sexy!.

This show is going to be perfect!  

The kind of show Trixie's dreamed of since she was small!

This is a nice twist!  Also, I would like to see the poet do a verse about, mmm, bananas.

>>13615531361553

I don't know what you're talking about... everything always goes according to plan for the characters in my stories!

(I don't want to give too much away, but there's actually a seemingly throwaway line in this chapter that's going to become more pertinent later on!)

What amazing timing I have

Trixie...didn't defend Leech's honor?!

The shenanigans in chapter three is overwhelming. Yay!

Seriously I think this was the funniest chapter so far in the entire trilogy. So also have saucy celestia face.

Oh dear...Trixie's turning back into her old self, minus her contempt for Leech. That was a brilliant idea, however, tricking Twilight like that. (Though again, it wasn't very nice.) I wonder how long until Trixie realizes that she's not using any of her real talent.

Fancy Pants.  I am disappoint.

Poor Leech, he doesn't know better.  Trixie really should have explained not to use slang around him.

>>13776801377680

Changing back?  I don't think she ever stopped.

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Oh Trixie.  You done goofed bad.

Awww poor Leach... Buck you Trixie! She's still just a selfish unicorn.

Nuff said...

I knew it. Trixie was slowly beginning to forget what she learned back at Ponyville. I think this incident is serving as a reminder.

I'm a little worried for her health, also. Her horn sounds like it might be suffering from some kind of overload. Hopefully it won't explode.

As much as I hate the fact everyone seems to love using Blueblood whenever they need a stuck-up noblepony snob, I'll look it over this one time because this story is too good for one little peeve of mine to ruin it.

Those feels for Leech... Right in the heart! Nay... Right in the everything!

Make blog post complaining of writer's block.

Write 2 chapters in one day.

Seems legit.

A Jellybean puzzle? Brilliant! (As was the brand name)

I wonder why Blueblood was at the performance? Might this be some kind of hint of a future event?

>>13980451398045

If you've ever tried doing one those those types of puzzles (jellybeans, baked beans, rice grains etc) you'll know how utterly frustrating... yet oddly addictive they are. They're really the perfect device for keeping someone distracted.

>>13979691397969

Sometimes, things become cliched for a reason... because they work really darn well. I mean c'mon, in the show the guy got bent out of shape just because he tasted something that Applejack had made!

I needed a stuck-up noblepony and didn't fancy shovelling yet another OC into the already OC-laden Gizmoverse. So, Blueblood it is.

Jigsaw puzzle?  For some reason I was expecting a Rubik's Cube.

>>13981061398106

True, Blueblood doesn't always have to be a reasonable/sympathetic character. Sometimes, an ass is simply an ass.

>>13982801398280

Indeed. Yet whilst Blueblood's an ass, Chrysalis of all characters is reasonable/sympathetic in this particular universe.

Why? Because it's the Gizmoverse. It's not meant to make sense.

"What manpony created this thing?"

Or maybe he was, a ponyman, or...

Maybe he was just a pony...  But he was still...  TROGDOOOR!!!

Or maybe a madpony (like Twilight is soon to be)  took pleasure in spreading mental misery to celestial students.

Good show, jolly good show!

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This is why I hate jigsaw puzzles.

I used to not cry like you, then I took a feel to the knee.

>>13981061398106

It's not "something Applejack had made;" it's "common carnival fare..." At the Grand Galloping Gala... One might as well eat McD's for Thanksgiving dinner... Granted, his reaction might have been over the top, but he is a noblepony and a prince--the other guests probably think very similarly to him, they just weren't "shown" as much. (That, and there are some pretty nasty things to be said about Rarity's attitude and actions that night, but of course no one thinks about that...)

>>13982801398280

Sometimes an ass is just an ass? That's a rather simplistic, naïve view that spares one from thinking about uncomfortable things, isn't it?

.

Anyway, great chapter as always. The "broken picture" line was genius.

>>13986821398682

At which point Twilight went on a rampage - burninating the countryside, and burninating the peasants in their THATCHED ROOF COTTAGEEEESS! But thanks, I've fixed that particular mistake now.

>>13993471399347

Well, if it's any consolation, he doesn't really play much more of a role in the rest of the story anyway. So he won't be getting his character assassinated any further.

Trixie and Leech remind me of

>>13982441398244Yesh, but a rubix cube is easy compared to 1000+ pieces of almost identical puzzle pieces.

Lol the He-Man reference and monocle cracked me up.

PointlessGizmo.....You are shiny...you are the shinest shiny... of the my list of shiny.

I read out-loud your first story featuring Leech to my 8 year old niece as a bed time story and she loved it.

The second story...she loved it.

Now.....She's loving it.

You are and will always be awesome in my eyes and in my niece.

Stay shiny!!

>>14767831476783

I shall try my best to remain shiny for you and your niece.

>>13763821376382 how did you link somthing to your words?

- Don't update story for over a month.

- Finally add a chapter, it's the longest yet.

- It's all setup, nothing actually happens.

On the plus side, for anyone who'd noticed that this story was lacking any antagonists...

.....I can't remember what happened throughout this series.... Guess what I'M doing tommorrow?

Silly Tattle-Tale, there's a perfect scandal sitting right under your nose. Leech saw it!

Now if only Leech actually understood what he saw...

>>15947151594715

Yeah... that'll be my fault. Sorry bout that. It's what happens when I leave a long time between updates, and pepper my stories with horrible, bitty little subplots that are instantly forgettable. In all honesty, even I don't know what's going on anymore, I'm winging it.

>>15948141594814

The Indy Ploy is infallible, I wouldn't worry too much.

Is it bad I want Tattle-Tale to die in a fire?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYOU'RE BACK!!!!

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So glad to see this story up and running again! Words cannot express~

>>15948931594893

That's the sort of reaction to him I was looking for. I genuinely detest 'gossip' media and the sort of things they routinely get away with, he's kind of supposed to be a caricature of that, an OTT incarnation of everything I hate about gossip culture. How successful I've been in portraying that so far is a subjective matter of course.

"Zzso, Tattle-Tale hazz thingy that only exizztzz to churn out horrible zzstories? Zzseemzz a bit of a pointlezz gizzmo to me."

What you did there. I see it.

>>15950851595085 I recall though, that Snap would not have hesitated to publish scandalous pictures of Fancy Pants.

Words cannot describe how happy I am that this has returned!

You know, I always wondered if Trixie could actually handle the pressure of being a celebrity. Even without Tattle-Tale and his 'Pointless Gizmo', there's still a lot to deal with. Seems she might end up with a 'You got what you wanted, but you lost what you had' scenario.

Ahh, gossip-gutter-trash.  How I hate thee

>>15956891595689

Indeed not. But it wouldn't have been completely made-up like the majority of Tattle's stories are.

Yep. That'll do. It's got absolutely nothing to do with me forgetting that little detail. Honest.

>>15975361597536

True or not, it's still gossip.

>>15975541597554

I'll try and work in an explanation later in the story.

Just need to think of one first.

>>15975591597559

>>15951661595166

Self-depreciation. It's an art form.

With my help, you could be making... ze magicks.

I, Photo Finish, have arrived.

To teach you- da accentz!  (De is another interpretation, I guess it's similar to a/an, but w/ definite articles)

:  Zat is enough!        ...I go.  *Whoosh*

A fruit machine?  I ain't nevah heard it called dat before, pal- I like it!  (Also, is a slightly Istallian accent that of Bronclyn?)

I enjoy this buildup, because the bigger they are, the harder they fall.

>>15996441599644

Fruit machine... it's the British name for them. Glad you picked that up, must change to "Slot Machine" so rest of world doesn't think I'm an idiot. Trying to Americanize everything over here, isn't always easy!. Also thanks for the accent pointers - I am absolutely terrible at transcribing (and indeed correctly identifying!) accents. I should probably stop using characters that have them.

After Trixie got invited my fancy pants I imagined her reaction to be thus.

>>15946221594622

I don't mind a long chapter of nothing but set-up; it can actually be fun, when it's done well, in making the reader imagine all the horrible (for the protagonists) possibilities! And this one is definitely getting me wondering...

>>15999001599900

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Come on, be proud of your heritage!

Oh Leech, you silly Changeling you, and oh Fancy Pants you jerk, you're not as good as you're made out to be, and I'm surprised as Fluer is quite a beauty.

Take self-made accidental plot inconsistency, attempt to weave it into the story and make it into character development. And what's more, it almost works!

As I said on the blog, this is as far as I can take this story until the next episode on Saturday. Just as I worked my own inconsistency into the story, I'll need to see what new elements and aspects are added to Trixie in the show so I can adapt the story as necessary to accommodate these. That's one of improvisation's plus points, a near infinite degree of flexibility!

Ah, Trixie has found fame...and now is trying to apply a little bit of brake to it.  Good luck!

Oh dear...Looks like Trixie did indeed 'got what she wanted, but she lost what she had'.

And I love the way you described Leech's thought process.

Oh thats good...

Saturday....

Brace yourselves, retconning incoming. Or not, you never know.

>>17003421700342

I remember that episode.

>>17024731702473

I'm going to try and avoid retconning* where I can, anything of significance in the new episode will be worked into this later on. That's the theory at least, a bit of flexibility will go a long way - hopefully.

* Apart from the bit where I retconned my own inconsistency. Speaking of which, I don't think that went too badly all things considered.

>>17029211702921

Yeah, I saw what you did there.

This can only end well

Oh god. Poor Leech.

I mean, sending even an ordinary Changeling in there is cruel, but sending in Leech, Spirit of Incompetence in there?

Life is going to suck for Leech, and he knows it.

Uh...Oh...I think I have a pretty good idea as to who's going to follow 'Trixie' home...

"In my line of work, image and reputation are everything. If your associates are of ill-repute, some of that ill-repute will rub off on you. Imagine if I'd opened my first store with a manticore stacking the shelves!"

He's got it all wrong. Having a Manticore working in your store would be awesome.

With every second of this night, it seems Tattle-Tale's job is getting easier and easier...

Picturing Iron Will as a stockcreature in one of Hoity Toity's stores.  "IF THE SHOE DOES NOT FIT, YOU MUST FORCE IT!"

I cant possibly see how this can backfire. This is by far your best plan yet Tixie

I laughed hard at the TF2 reference. I was holding my laugh back a bit and I ended up sounding like Pyro laughing.

It is great to see Leech's shenanigans again. Good old Leech.

>>17281551728155

Huddah huddah huh!

FLAWLESS VICTORY ASSURED

I confess when Leech raced off and Snap happy didn't explain I was thinking something like this might happen XD Nicely done. I also like the idesa that Twi's parasprite affecting spell hasn't worn off.

>>17213231721323 I love the title! He needs a protrait of him looking proud and the title underneath proclaiming: Leech: Spirit of Incompletence *dies laughing*

Awesome series, I'm really enjoying it. I wodner if it could work that Leech does the trick and Trixie can learn it from him. It'd certainly save her a lot of trouble. Though I wouldn't mind seeing her get some magic lessons from Twilight too. That could be a fun dynamic to address.

Trixie's next trick will be making Leech disappear! Foreeeverr...

Well, this is an awkward and somewhat sorta-kinda accurate rumor everyone's least favorite "journalist" has dug up.

Oh poor Leech. He tries so very hard, but he just can't help messing up everything he touches.

Oh-HO! Trixie is going to be wanting the Alicorns Amulet, and she needs it fast. Here we go~!

Aaaaand, HERE'S the part where the story diverges from its original path. Yes, the next stage of the plot is going to be cripplingly obvious...

Oh, and see the first half of this chapter? That is the nearest thing to clop you will EVER get from me. I felt thoroughly disgusted with myself for even implying it. But alas, I was running out of original derps for Leech to make, and walking in on a couple doing... well, 'that'... whilst disguised as Trixie? That's certainly something he hasn't done before.