Trouble in Tiatarta is in many ways a story that really shouldn’t have worked out as well as it did. It’s directly following on two very short, simple stories that have nothing to do with each other, Queen Chrysalis Reforms (Accidentally) and Midnight Rendezvous. It’s based on like three or four different story ideas I had, each of which could maybe work on their own, but instead I welded them together into what should have been a literary Frankenstein. And of course the

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There is a wintry mix of rain, sleet, hail, and snow coming down outside my window right now. Also? Thunder and lightning.

New England. If you don't like the weather, wait a half hour.

Yeah I know that thunder and lightning are possible during a snowstorm, but they're still weird to see and hear because you really don't associate them with it.

So I play a game called Magic: the Gathering, and there was this one time where me and my friends got our hands on an entire box of unopened packs of Magic cards from a very early set entitled Fallen Empires. We decided to have a booster draft - we’d grab X many booster packs each, open them them, and use those random cards to build decks. And over and over again while picking out cards we kept uttering the same three words looking at these early, unbalanced,

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So something occurred to me about Cozy Glow today. She's a pony.

Wait, hang on, I'm going somewhere with this.

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For my listening pleasure, but maybe there's some stuff that you'll want to put on your own playlists here.

1. "The Addams Family - Main Theme", by Vic Mizzy
2. "Bad Moon Rising", by Creedence Clearwater Revival

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So I’m at work for most of the morning and afternoon and thus can’t actually watch the series finale live. Typical, really. But that being said, a number of plot points were spoiled for me. Or rather I spoiled them for myself. I like knowing things, and I think I’ve been doing a good job keeping a lid on things.

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So Queen Chrysalis Reforms (Accidentally) is one of my more popular stories, and Midnight Rendezvous went over rather well. I've been wanting to write a story featuring Ocellus and Smolder going on a friendship quest for awhile now; and I had a spare story idea left over from Bronycon from a Tails of Equestria game I didn't get a chance to run.

So I'm mixing them all together.

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I made a few edits to the epilogue of The Glass Kingdom. The original version represented an earlier version of changelings that I was contemplating for the Lunaverse, where the changelings had a bit more mind control overtones as to how Chrysalis kept control over the Hive.

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Yeah, despite the pretentious title to the blog post, it's just me commenting that I've been listening to this song on repeat for the past hour. I think it's a genuinely great villain song. And it's from friggin' Turn Off the Dark, which, if there's a bigger joke in modern Broadway history, I don't know what it is.

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