Um.... hi, again. I was working on a chapter for I Love to See You Smile when I got a little message

RazedRainbow is watching you

12:32am

That moment when another of your favorite authors thinks you know what you are doing.

That also happened to be number 900... So um... thank you all.

I'll be over here, trying to justify your opinion of me...

It was brought to my attention by a very well meaning individual that the sex tag on Green may be misunderstood by casual readers as meaning Green is a clopfic. Upon reviewing Fimfic's FAQ, it seems in the last year the wording of when a sex tag is required has changed.

When should I use the 'sex' and 'gore' tags?

This is simple enough: use 'gore' when there is explicit description of violence/grotesque imagery in your story, and use 'sex' when there's... well... sex.

While the story does have sexual themes (which is what the teen rating plus sex tag combination used to be for), there is no explicit description of sex/sexual imagery in the main storyline (the side stories exist to avoid just that issue). So, in order to avoid confusing new readers, I have removed the tag.

So... either they made a new movie, or this was the trailer we needed to see months ago.

This is more like it. This is what I needed to see to be assured that we are in fact still seeing something related to Equestria. The guy/gal who edited the first trailer... probably needs to be fired. Let's hope if they made the second it saved his/her job.

That is all.

Well, lack of days off and the whole EQD situation have not helped, but nonetheless I am about  5700 words deep into the current chapter, and I have what may end up being a five day weekend to craft this mass of words into a neat and tidy update. Sorry it's taking a while, but the days when 5000 words seemed adequate are gone now, too many plot threads need resolution.

Looking at the votes I see a couple of you who voted down reversed your decision. Whoever you were, if you are reading this, thank you for giving me a second chance. Of course to the.... good lord 1475.... of you who voted up, thank you all. I'm doing all I can to make this ride entertaining, thank you for coming along with me.

Well hello there. I just wanted to take a moment to tell you about a funny guy I have been enjoying recently.

His name is Twow443. He is an author on the site, but also does riffs of various stories, both good and bad.

What is a riff you say? Well youngin, a riff is when someone is taking a piece of fiction and adding comedic commentary to make you laugh. It helps make a bad story bearable, and a good story better. If that sounds like fun, please, go check his page out.

I...

Shy, calm down, it just means I get another shot.

...

You're adorable.

Guys, I want to thank everyone for your kind words when this happened. I want to stress again, EQD was not wrong to reject my story. The only wrong that was done was to reject it for its final strike, and... that was reversed. I'd like to say I am very happy with the staff of EQD for stepping up and acknowledging that they need to make some changes in how they handle rejections. They are just people in the end, trying to find the good stories from amongst all the bad submitted. Bless them for slogging through what has to be countless stories that aren't even close to being readable.

Green will be resubmitted. I intend to address the issues my last prereader mentioned, and we'll see how it is received in this round.

Also, on a side note to Prereader Amacita. You're a big man, my friend. You didn't have to apologize, if anything I felt I owed you one for airing dirty laundry. That was wrong of me, and I hope you can forgive me for that as well.

Sorry this one took a bit guys. Its finishing out at around 8k words, and just needs a final editing pass from Star which should hopefully happen this weekend.

After this is put out I will be in planning stages for chapter 21, and I should also begin planning for my next chapter of my Raripie mature story, I Love to See You Smile.

Again, I apologize for the delay between chapters. The stuff with EQD killed about 2 weeks by itself (still no word from them) but I put them out as soon as I feel I have a chapter worthy of your attention. Thank you for reading along.

And now, for no apparent reason, dancing.

If any of you feel the current practices need to change, click here.

So, a while back Tchern and I were chatting about the Winningverse, and its deplorable lack of our OTPs.

i so, so, so, soooooooooooooooooooooooo wish that life and times of a winning pony had appledash instead of pinkiedash and rarijack. Then it would be pretty much perfect

[19:38:47] Steel Resolve: >.> preaching to the choir man

[19:39:08] Steel Resolve: all I can think of is "Shy, go to Rarity! Oh wait... damnit."

[19:39:57] Steel Resolve: I can't even have Kickershy in that story, because god help us if we end up with a love rhombus.

[19:40:38] Steel Resolve: It's gotta be Derpkickerforth instead

[19:40:45] Steel Resolve: no room for shy apparently.

[19:42:04] Steel Resolve: The minute that universe shipped pinkiedash the whole thing got fucked for my normal otp's

[19:42:52] Steel Resolve: Well, maybe we'll finish up with some Twishy.

[19:42:58] Steel Resolve: that might redeem it.

[19:45:24] Tchernobog: maybe D;

[19:46:41] Tchernobog: it's not like it being pinkiedash or rarijack even have relevance to the story, being centered around Cloudy as it is

[19:46:56] Tchernobog: but noooo had to be the worst two ships possible! :P

[19:48:12] Steel Resolve: Well, Pinkiedash was the start of the whole universe...

[19:48:31] Steel Resolve: so by default, Appledash was out.

[19:49:26] Steel Resolve: We could have still had twijack and rarishy, but no, Cloudy got to shy back when she was still in flight school, so that was out.

[19:50:26] Tchernobog: well yeah

[19:50:38] Tchernobog: it's an easy fix though, just make that pinkiedash fic an appledash instead! :D

[19:51:19] Steel Resolve: ... If AJ was courting Dash, Dash would not be so oblivious.

[19:52:12] Tchernobog: MINOR DETAILS SIR

[19:52:15] Steel Resolve: AJ would just straight up tell Dash "Hey, we're dating now. Pick me up at seven."

[19:52:25] Tchernobog: you know

[19:52:32] Tchernobog: that would make a hilarious fic

[19:52:41] Tchernobog: AJ just plops that on Dash

[19:52:57] Tchernobog: the rest of the fic is dash going "wut?" and trying to catch up but failing hilariously most of the time

[19:53:56] Steel Resolve:

"W-wait! Don't I get a say in this?"

"Sure, you kin hoofwrassle me over where we go to dinner. You win Ah'll pay."

"Okay that's fair..."

[19:54:14] Tchernobog: Something like that XD

Appologies to Tchern for borrowing his text but yes, this is precisely the conversation. Now Tchern is of course a proactive guy when it comes to Appledash, he makes it happen. Enter Jondor into the fray. He actually made this silly idea into a fully realized story.

Pick me up at seven. It's pretty damned hilarious. You should go check it out.