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Investigative wordsmith leaving no idea unexplored and no shoe unsniffed.

Jun
17th
2016

Ancient Pony History · 3:47am Jun 17th, 2016

People like to speculate on where in the distant past G1 occurs. That is to say, there's got to be a time long before Twilight and long before Equestria, when ponies and humans walked together, and witches were motivated merely by who could be the most evil. Well, here's my take on the whole prehistoric G1 theory.

The Moochick is an interesting fellow.

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May
10th
2016

Behind the Feeding Problems · 6:05am May 10th, 2016


"Is there a bug in here?"

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Apr
20th
2016

Writer's Block · 2:19am Apr 20th, 2016

I was looking here and, sadly the author won't read this since they haven't been heard from in over 2 years now. But it brings up a very important point about writer's block. Trying to write makes it worse.

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Jan
23rd
2016

Season 5 Finale · 9:39am Jan 23rd, 2016

Well I finally got around to watching the season 5 finale. I have to say, I was astonished when Twilight Sparkle was no longer a princess. I never thought they would go there, but they did! It wasn’t just that she wasn’t a princess, but that she awoke in an alternate universe! A strange reality, where nopony remembered that she was a princess, and she had never made her friends at all. It’s clichéd, yeah, but it’s way darker than I would have expected! Yes, yes I know the season 4 finale was

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Jan
1st
2016

Busy Holiday Family Times! · 11:08am Jan 1st, 2016

Yep, it's that time of year again, when all my elaborate Christmas preparations for the many members my dear, loving, supportive family come to visit take up all my timebahaha no just kidding I don't have any supportive family worth spitting at. I just got sucked into playing a game called Minetest, while sitting around by myself all winter wishing I had some. So, sorry. I don't enjoy that game. I wish I could figure out how to stop playing it. But, if I do, it usually means I'll end up

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Nov
28th
2015

Book 2? · 3:39am Nov 28th, 2015

I may have mentioned Feeding Problems is the only story I've ever been able to finish in my life. You might get an idea of why, if I tell you that at 191,000 words Bloom Filter has surpassed Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in sheer word count, and that's not counting the 46,000 words I haven't published yet, for a current total of 236,892 words, roughly*, which

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Nov
19th
2015

Meddling With the Natural Order · 9:40am Nov 19th, 2015

hmm hmm hmm, just putting the finishing touches on chapter 27. Yep, that's looking pretty good. Maybe I'll just start on chapter 28 a little before going and posting it.

Wait, didn't I do that exact same thing already, when I finished chapter 26?

Uh oh. I was just going to start on 27 a little, before posting 26, and then I went and finished 27! I forgot to post 26, and just moved on to 28! Sheesh, I'm gonna lose readers at this rate.

>latest chapter
>Chapter 21: Twilight Sparkle

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Oct
21st
2015

What is my life · 7:08am Oct 21st, 2015

I was just about ecstatic when I saw episode 18 today. Yeah I know I'm way behind, whatever. But it was a great episode! I couldn't possibly have been happier with how it turned out! And then... I went to get something out of the fridge. And I started thinking about what their special talent was. And then I realized what their special talent was. And all those memories from those cramped little offices of frustration and pain just came rushing back to me.

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Oct
20th
2015

Canon Pandering · 7:08am Oct 20th, 2015

Canon Pandering is a fascinatingly tricky idea. You'll see it pop up here and there. An episode will air, and then suddenly every story that featured Bonbon in it will add a chapter that retcons in how she was a secret agent working for Princess Celestia. This happened with Twilicorn a lot, with authors going so far as to edit past chapters, and artists deleting and redrawing their own illustrations, to ensure that their pony was properly princessified. Seeing this invaribly irritates me, which

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Jul
22nd
2015

So, what do we do now? · 10:50pm Jul 22nd, 2015

So Feeding Problems draws to a close, begging the question what to write next. I have a metric ton offew ideas, of varying levels of appeal, some with actual chapters written already just to see if it was worth writing. But I’m curious if anyone is actually interested in reading any of these ideas in particular, so could you let me know? Open to other ideas too, or infinite variations of any of these.

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