Well, anyone who read my previous blogs could probably see this coming, but... I have now drifted sufficiently far from the fandom that I no longer feel motivated to actually read new fics, and the old fics I stopped reading a while ago.
Literally the only thing keeping me coming back here are the blogs of smart people, and people who lead interesting lives.

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I've decided to give up reading incomplete fanfics. In fact, I'm not to sure about complete fanfics either. Still, if you want me to read something, finish it, and give me a shout. If you really want me to read something, make it an e-book before you call me.

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You read that right. I won't be fanficcing anymore.
For the past ... always, I have treated the authors and stories I have subscribed to as something of an obligation.
I approached them with the same attitude I brought to normal books - 'I got this because I like it, so I _will_ finish it'.

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So, those of you who have somehow managed to stumble upon my page my have noticed that the number of bookshelves I have is slowly multiplying.
So, in my eternal quest to procrastinate, I have come to the decision that I may as well explain my shelving system.

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Ooh, a new feature! What could it be? What could it be?

...

Seriously?

So, after that rubbish where they combine our 'tracking' and 'favourite' functions, as, apparently 'everyone' just uses favourite, they give us our tracking button back and have the nerve to call it an update?!
No, damn it! Restoring the status quo _is not_ an 'update'!

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So, as I've probably mentioned somewhere before, if I dedicated all the time I spent reading fanfics to reading for my course, I'd have the entire reading list for every one of my topics done in a month. No lie - I read crazy fast and crazy lots of fanfic.
As someone else pointed out to me, this'd net me a 'Summa cum laude' almost guaranteed.
So, with Uni kicking into high gear again, Ponyday is, once more, Sunday. If I keep everything together.
See you all then.

Now, this may be a surprise, but on occasion I do like to read fanfics on other sites. From other fandoms, even.
Now, I know, what some of you are saying - 'But you have so many stories on FIMFic, how can you read more?'

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So, uni's starting back up now (technically, it started last week, but they're only starting to give us work now).
Which means an unfortunate slowdown on the progression of Beati Mortuis.
It also means I shall once more be instituting my ill-maintained 'Ponies on Sunday' rule.
So, I'll see you all on Sunday, then.

So, after... some time, I glanced at my own page. And rediscovered the resolution by which I freed up a significant amount of time for work. Sunday is Ponyday.
I really shouldn't have forgotten that - it would have saved me rather a lot of trouble.

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Okay, so somehow, I got it into my head that Pony was what I was giving up for Lent. On the plus side, I can say that this was the most successful Lent I have ever had (because I discovered that, strictly speaking, Sundays don't count). On the negative, as soon as Easter came, I Ponied hard. I must've spent almost an entire week deep buried in the depths of FIM- and fan- fiction.net

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