I was reminded tonight of two important things that I should always keep in mind when commenting on the internet.

1. Don't take anything anyone says personally.

2. There are real people on the other side of those words, just like me. They have feelings too.

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I don't think any of us were expecting that.

Wow.

Kiss your headcanons goodbye, folks.

And I was considering skipping this one.

I've been fighting a lack of motivation for writing (as if you couldn't tell), but something weird happened last week that fixed it. Kind of.

I found myself watching "Welcome to the Show" from Rainbow Rocks and realizing that, wow, that finale was actually pretty spectacular. Then the song "Got the Music In My Heart" got stuck in my head. Usually when that happens, I just listen to the song again to shake it out. And then I watched it again.

And again.

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The first thing people seem to want to do is misspell words on purpose so that the words will be read in the same way that she speaks them. This is most commonly done by replacing “I” with “ah” or, strangely, “Ah” to keep the punctuation correct. I’ve also seen, “Mah” (my), “Thang” (thing), and “allus” (always).

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Interesting how the end of the season always seems to bring on a rush of creativity. To that end, I bring a post for a story that some of had perhaps given up for dead: Applejack's chapter of 'Youth and Growth'! Wow, has it actually been two years since I updated that silly thing? Yeesh.

On an only semi-related topic, I've got something else in the works, too. It'll be up here soon, don't worry. Also, how come you guys never told me how much fun it is to write Luna?

I was genuinely nervousited all week. And now...

I'm okay with this. This, the MOST UNBELIEVABLY MIND-BLOWINGLY AWESOME SEASON FINALE OF SEASON FINALES!

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Alright pony peeps, it's story time. Way back in August of 2011, a younger ArcheonZ was strolling the never-ending pages of TV Tropes and kept coming across references to another version of My Little Pony. Her knowledge of such heretofore had been the original G1 series and the various spinoffs that followed in the 90's and late 2000's, like G3.5 (*shudder*). Running under the subtitle of 'Friendship is Magic', our protagonist mentally stamped it as 'lame' and paid it no mind.

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Because I apparently like wasting my sleeping hours of a school night in front of a computer, I found something I posted over a year ago in a Reddit MLP thread. The topic was, "What would you like to see happen on the show?"

My answer:
I want to see how the princesses saved Equestria from Discord. Also how they discovered the Elements. And how they overthrew King Sombra. More Princess vs. Ancient Tyrant action! (Disney, eat your heart out.)

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I was cruising through the 'Top-All Time' story list you can find up there in the header and got a fun little surprise. 'A Moment in the Sunlight' is on the seventh page. I know, it's not much. But it wasn't there before, and how many of you can say you've pulled that off?

More than I think, probably. I don't know where it will rate tomorrow or next week, but still! It's there and that makes me happy. Just thought I'd share.

Mine was tricky. Being that I have no income and in possession of zero dollars (which became negative dollars when I discovered an unscheduled charge on my bank account that they didn't warn me about first, thanks a lot, TD), I had to make all of my gifts this year. It didn't go over too badly (the t-shirt I custom painted turned out to be a size too small for its recipient, among other misfires), but everyone was polite and said thank you anyway. And what I received was not too shabby,

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