I'm launching the 2024/5 all-followers MLP convention poll tomorrow. This is going to mean struggling with Google Surveys. And I've been wondering: would I rather battle against a program which is designed to torment the user, or try to cross Sicily via mass transit again?

...
...I swear I'm thinking it over.

September 24th

Hello, insomnia. So much for hoping you'd gotten stranded on the other side of a border.

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Announcement for the few people who read the travel blogs: I'm going to start the all-followers poll and Ko-Fi drive for a 2024/5 MLP convention destination on March 1st. The recaps will resume and wrap on the other side of that date. I just don't want to put off poll launch beyond that point.

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The past is another country. They do things differently there, because they don't know what's coming.

For starters, they still think trusting their tablet's GPS is a good idea.

September 20th

In my hometown...

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In the present, I've been trying to consider the near-future.

The 2024 ('25?) convention destination all-followers voting poll will launch almost immediately after the travel blogs wrap up: I'm hoping for March 1st there. It'll run for a week, and will determine where I try to go next. Y'all pick that. I get one vote and break any tie, but the follower votes are the actual determining factor.

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Closing update: Dusk has been contacted by both the welfare check group and a friend. All clear.

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...one at a time, I guess.

SilverNotes goes first.

I won't try to summarize their full situation. Even making an attempt feels like I would be doing something offensive.

It's that personal. That harsh. It took a lot for Silver to bring those words into public view, and I won't trim a single syllable. You need to see what they said. Not me.

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That's what I said in the last cover art reveal blog: that the next one would complete the set. Which means that it's now time to talk about what that indicated.

Over the course of creating these covers, for the Mane Cast, Harwick has rendered 'verse versions of Twilight, Pinkie, Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy.

We're two short.

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"Loathe."

Travel: that state in which nothing works out exactly as planned. For better and for worse, occasionally at the same time.

I tried to plan, and the universe laughed. But I was still out there. And the most you can ever hope for is that moment of purest beauty.

September 18th & 19th

One last bath for the road.

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Yes, this got a huge time divide from the last. Let's try to wrap them up in February because in March or so, I get to try and learn whether y'all are willing to put up with this sort of thing again. We're not going to seriously talk about the possibility of a 2024 convention until after I finish telling you about what happened in 2023.

So go back with me. Time and mileage...

September 16th & 17th

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