So when I was in the process of finishing up the previous story, SigmasonicX posted the Pride and Positivity event. While that story technically fit the bill (and is part of the event!), I felt a little bit like I was phoning it in, and wanted an entry specifically for the event.

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I was inspired to write this little* thing after reading AlphaRidley's I'd like to soulmate with you. I thought it was a fun idea, and thought, Oh hey, I'm going to try to put my own spin on that. It'd been a few months since I'd written anything, and I was getting nowhere with the outline for the Luna in Manehattan story.

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The world is kind of on fire right now.

Protests in every one of the 50 states, and various places around the world. People angry at systemic racial injustice and police brutality being met with... more police brutality.

And nazis and racist shitheads on websites about cartoon ponies.

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...which I used for a grand total of two lines in my latest story.

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As I hinted in my previous blog post, I had a story kicking around in my head for Twilight Prime from For Want of a Horseshoe and the local version of Shining Armor giving each other grief. I hint at this encounter in FWoaH, and here it is.

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For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the message was lost.
For want of a message the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

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When I began writing this story, it flowed almost effortlessly. The plan was to post an update once a week, and have a nice bow tied around it by the end of April.

Then chapters 5 and 6 happened.

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This chapter was a real hairball, and I had an entire two thousand word first draft, most of which I had to junk. You can find it below:

The beginning of the chapter was mostly the same--Nightmare standing on the balcony before entering her room and opening the portal to Celestia.

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