It's been a fair bit of time since my last update, both fic-wise and blog-wise. I'd stepped away from the fandom for a bit, IRL, thanks to G5 not really inspiring me and a host of other reasons. I also fell into the Frozen/Parahumans rabbit hole for a bit, wrote a few things on AO3, and generally re-centred myself.

You can thank Mockingbirb for my return.

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With the announcement of Cyberpunk Contest winners I can finally talk about my experience judging a contest with a material prize (no insult to the Sunset X Villain contests of course).

It was, in all honesty, a really fun time that I'd love to repeat in the future. Working in a team, seeing the vibrant multitude of stories, the sheer amount of angles taken...

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Allegiance delves into the murky past of my Reflection-Verse, showing one of the first major long-term deviations to FIM canon. As I've highlighted before, the intent has been to roughly follow the events of the show. Sometimes things happen differently in the episodes, but the ends are more or less the same.  Other characters may replace canon ones, and the means to ends may change, but the episodes finish roughly the same...though it may not always be as literal. Thematic endings are

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I mentioned on a blog post of Silver Notes that i'd blatantly crib their style of data tracking posts. Both because it looks fun, and it's a good way of keeping up to date. First though, I thought it'd be nice to give a general update on how things are going.

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Two blogs ago, I mentioned having a May Pairings fic completed. Well, this is it!

Everybody Needs Somebody (inspired by the Dean Martin song of the same name) came from an idea in an abandoned fic that never got off the ground. Namely that Equestria Girls Kibitz (still an assistant to Celestia, albeit in a more mundane sense in the human world) was sweet on Granny Smith.

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I'll cut my usual preamble and get to the blogs point. Three Steps Back is going on a semi-indefinite hiatus. This may be dissapointing to you, especially considering this is the second fic I've put on hiatus recently, but both have good reasons and they're interlinked.

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My authorial intent has been hitting something of a brick wall lately. While in my blog post two weeks ago I suggested I'd focus on Three Steps Back, I instead opted to use the May Pairings contest to advance some EQG 'verse plot lines I'd been working on. These failed spectacularly, with 4k words that...aren't *awful* but severely bloated and info dump-y. So, that went on the back-burner. This in turn led to Monday To Friday, 9 to 5 which is also a mess, but one I

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So, since As Time Goes By won the SunsetxEqg villain competition I got to choose the next theme. I didn't need long, having had an idea for a long while.

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Like many authors, I tend to be drowning in ideas. Notes, snippets, story outlines. Far too many to do anything with, or that I feel I can do justice. Thankfully there's excellent people like Silver Notes out there who can take these bare bones (in this case "What if Wallflower found the Pony of Shadows instead of the Memory Stone") and put flesh on them in

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Like all fans of...well any media, I'm a shipper. I also like minor characters and crack ships, this gives me a lot of options. One minor character I rather like is Micro Chips, the guy's a cliche nerd straight from a 1980s high school movie and built a death bot, what's not to like? Despite him being a minor character he's had just enough scenes to get a vague outline of his character, especially some interesting characterisation. Take his ending in "All the worlds off stage", where he commits

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