Small changes have been made: these do not require re-reading, but could probably be noted.

- Luna acts slightly different in her scenes, but not much different as she is speaking to her sister and not their subjects.
- The letter to Rainbow Dash's family that alerted Gilda was sent by Princess Celestia herself.
- Trixie knew what was happening in Ponyville because of information provided by Prince Blueblood.

So yeah, nothing too important but I wanted to mention changes.

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This is stated very carefully as to not spoil those who haven't seen the Luna episode.

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This is the thing I promised in the comments where I explain the order of events in the chapters so far. This basically explains where everything happened in that big time loop. You won't understand this if you haven't read the whole thing up to chapter 9, and shouldn't really read it until that point to prevent spoilers.

Time Loop Timeline

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I just wanted to make sure people following this story knew that it's also up on Equestria Daily at http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/09/substitute-harmony-update-chapter-5.html and if you like it here, I'd really appreciate a nice vote there as well ^_^ The votes there were reset when I rewrote the first five chapters, so if you voted before then, you'd need to re-vote.

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Chapers 1-5 are re-edited. I am just having a few ponies pre-read over them.

Present total word count is 44,417, so near finishing PonyWriMo. Just editing has given me a decent amount more I think.

Progress is being made; please do not think I forgot. I've got 40,853 words don't for PonyWriMo, and am concentrating entirely on getting the first chapters ready for re-post at the point rather than keeping up with the monthly thing. Once I'm done with the five, I'll have a few people pre-read them just to be sure, then re-post and start full editing on six. There will probably be around 17 chapters total.

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I'm going to be re-working these first five chapters based on feedback given by readers so far. If you want to be heard, please comment and let me know what you're thinking, because I am taking feedback seriously.

I'm also still going to be typing on future chapters, at least enough to keep up with PonyWriMo, but as of now I'm well ahead so that shouldn't eat at the editing time too much.

The chapters are coming up okay, but the thing is the information in them could be put out in either order, so I'm deciding which direction to proceed in. I have two cliffhangers to resolve, and am not sure which order to do so in. I'm also honestly a bit down at the assumptions made by people on the whole Celestia thing, and it's given me sudden writer's block. These chapters just aren't writing themselves like the previous ones did.

I made some changes to the first three chapters. The vast majority of these were just to fix my crappy grammar, but I also added an important character to the end of the big fight in Chapter three. Feel free to read the part after Celestia shows up again for the Derpy details.