I mean, honestly. 'Accoutrements.' That gives the whole creator identity game away right there. There is a suspicious batting of false eyelashes behind this product, and I give said batter about three seconds before dear sweet test model Opal goes for her face.

http://tinyurl.com/unicorncats

Next up: tiny wings in all sorts of designer fashion colors! You know, once she heals up enough to consider work.

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To whomever in the McDonald's promotions department decided a $10 Electronic Arts no-stack, limited-choices, site-only coupon would make such a good Monopoly prize as to place roughly four million of them in the game,

DIE.

Sincerely,
Estee

P.S. I was prepared to let you mostly live until I got the eighth one.

So. As of roughly three minutes ago, I now own Equestria Girls. Which I did not catch in theaters. Which I didn't watch any downloads of. Which, in fact, I have managed to remain pretty spoiler-free about outside of anything that was already in the trailer and yes, that took some work.

*looks at disc*

Now what?

There is such a thing as a Piano Defense League.

They are numerous.

They are organized.

They have voices in the halls of power.

They have ivory and they're not afraid to use it.

...

Dear Friend just went over a thousand views.

I am now waiting to be targeted for scroll abuse.

The Parchment Anti-Defamation Society has never been known to take prisoners.

Dear Princess Celestia,

Popularity has inertia.

Any state of popularity will tend to maintain unless new forces directly interfere. If it is at rest, it remains at rest. Should it somehow be in motion, it may continue rolling forward for a small amount of time before fading out.

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Sometimes ideas come which almost have to be dealt with, if only so you can fix your own mistakes. That was the origin point for A Total Eclipse Of The Fun.

(Insert self-humiliating pause here.)

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It's becoming increasingly clear that with the exception of the CDA, several of my stories to date are running along the same trail. Take the Deportation Agency out and some of the others share aspects and elements which appear to put them on the same timeline.

Triptych: takes place at the latest date, but was/is the launch tale and defines parts of practically everything that came after.

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I'm still pretty new around here and trying to figure out how aspects of the system work. It took me a while to get what 'referrals' meant, mostly because I kept seeing it as something local related to invisible forums. 'Hey, go check this out. It only moderately sucks!' (And partially because I didn't get any for a while.) Once the first one turned up, I got it: someone offsite linking to the story and number of clicks following that link. Fair enough, although I have no idea how

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Everyone knows the drill by now: on the count of three, head to your own FIMFic homepage to see if anything's happened to your Follower count in the last twenty seconds.

(No, really. Betcha it jumped by six while you weren't looking.)

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So. Raise your hand if you've tried to check the Statistics on one of your stories and nearly wound up Reporting yourself.

...just me?