Since I posted this long-overdue update to A Very Minty Summer Sun Celebration, it's been interesting to see the response. It was the first time ever that one of my stories has hit the featured box (albeit briefly). It has picked up 36 faves, over the course of yesterday and today. It picked up quite a few up-votes too. Sadly, it also got its first ever down-vote in the year-or-more since I began it. I guess it's true that you can't please everyone.

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I've watched the season finale twice now, and it's time to tell it how I see it.

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For the sake of this blog post, I'm assuming that "rumor" over there on EQD is indeed accurate.

So... A spinoff show with humanized ponies? My first impression is that this sounds like the most stupid idea possible. It doesn't offend me, though, if they want to try it. I mean, Hasbro/Hub produce new shows all the time that mean nothing to me, so why not just file this one in the same category?

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After roughly two weeks I finally got the awaited response from EqD... and it came in the form of a three-page essay about everything that's wrong with A Very Minty Summer Sun Celebration.

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Ah, the long-awaited Season 3 opener! Here are my impressions...

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I finally launched into the first chapter of Black Angel on Halloween... and submitted it late, and it ended up going live at about 2 AM on the 1st and then being almost totally ignored. It's a bit frustrating when I posted something I think is pretty good and it barely even makes a ripple in the pond -- especially when stories that seem flawed or trivial pop up and go straight to the feature box and get dozens and comments and vote-ups. And then the self-doubt begins... and I begin

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Sometimes I try to do things but it just doesn't work out the way I want it to, and I get real frustrated, and then like I try hard to do it, and I like, take my time, but it just doesn't work out the way I want it to.

It's like, I concentrate on it real hard, but it just doesn't work out. And everything I do and everything I try, it never turns out.

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So, I was just reading Around the Bend, which is basically a vehicle for Chatoyance to explore how some episodes and events in season two seemed to break the world setting and characters that had been established in season one. That story led me to discover her blog entries on this subject, which I wish I'd seen earlier. I've just been reviewing those blog entries, and I agree with most of what I find in them.

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Trixie barged into the room where three stallions were chatting. Interrupting them without a moment's concern, she addressed the brown stallion; he was wearing a tie, so it was a good guess he was the boss. "Greetings! I am the Great and Powerful Trixie! But I probably did not need to tell you that."

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Today we finally got some kind of word from somebody who actually knows something about why and how the decision to edit Derpy was actually made. See here: Amy Keating Rogers Response to Derpy Hooves

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