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Scramblers and Shadows


Politicians prey on the vulnerable, the disadvantaged and those with an infantile sense of pride in a romanticised national identity which was fabricated by a small to mid-sized advertising agency.

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  • 344 weeks
    Cold Light is complete

    .... and I'm two days late in announcing it, because my life is hectic and not very fimficcy nowadays.

    Still, I want to make a note of this. I started Cold Light to see if I could actually write a genuine fantasy novel. Three bloody years, it took, but I did it. I finished it, and it's one of the three stories on here that I'm actually halfway proud of.

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  • 417 weeks
    Why I'd rather write something pretentious than something good

    Okay, I'll own up. That's a deliberately confrontational clickbait-y title. I couldn't help myself.

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  • 448 weeks
    Five ways to improve Equestria Girls: Friendship Games

    Friendship Games is a middling sort of installment. Better than Equestria Girls, worse than Rainbow Rocks – but given the latter was so great, and the former so abysmal, that's no real surprise. How did it fare on its own terms? Again, middling: Better than it might've been, but still not quite as good as it could've been.

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  • 459 weeks
    What is the value of fiction?

    It's characteristic of fiction writers that we tend to be good at bullshitting. Something of a necessary skill, really. And it's characteristic of everyone that we tend to be pretty bad at judging our own importance without some self-aggrandisement.

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  • 460 weeks
    An important anniversary

    (With any luck, this is about political as you'll ever see me get on here.)

    And coming up next: Talking about the value of stories. Or another go at criticising critics. We'll see.

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Dec
23rd
2013

Announcing: Frivolity · 8:18pm Dec 23rd, 2013

So hey, I guess I'm announcing upcoming fanfics now? Coming soon, my first foray into actual shipping: Frivolity, a RariPie romance.

You can blame Intelligent Shipping Discussion for this one. I don't ship any of the ponies, have an OTP, or owt like that, but when I was trawling through the archives I saw it supposed that Pinkie Pie is really difficult to ship. And thus it was decided.

So what do we have here? A reversal of the usual RariPie dynamic -- Rarity is the confident one here, and Pinkie gets the POV. Lots of Manehattan scenes with fun worldbuilding. And (I hope) some character-heavy adorableness with more than a few feels. It's not quite a getting together story, focusing on the problems at the start of a relationship rather than mucking around with the "Oh no does she like me?" stuff.

You'll see it posted on the 27th. Probably. I'm pretty excited, I must admit. Also, yes, I know I'm terrible at naming stuff.

Oh, and for those who celebrate it: Merry Christmas, kids.

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Dat title.

Side note, Yahoo seems to be having some difficulty displaying my emails, so I can't see any Gdoc replies to anything I say. I don't know what the problem is, except evidently it isn't just me. Just FYI.

Oh, and I am going to be off for the next 12 days from work, starting tomorrow. :pinkiehappy:

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