Everypony's Working For The Weekend!

I know I have been.

Ante Up is finally live and in the submission cue. Again, I must apologize that the first chapter is so set-up-y, but context is important to me. My plan is to have a chapter ready to drop every Friday, so at least you can have that as a schedule. I realize now that I've probably just screwed myself over by putting it down in writing, but I'll do my best anyway. I'm shooting for a total of five chapters for Ante Up, and so far, things are looking good. Enjoy it, just don't ruin your keyboards, people.

There's a few other items to cover as well.

- I doubt many people have noticed it, but I added a progress meter of sorts to my user page. If you have any questions about what I'm working on or how close it is to being finished, check there.

- In the future, expect some clean stories from me. I've got lots of ideas, and I want to mix things up a bit with my writing.

- Speaking of which, I have a very short story featuring Luna ready for publishing. I actually hesitate to call it a "story", because it's really more of a scene from my headcanon, but I still like it. That'll be coming out sometime in the first half of next week, once the hubbub from Ante Up has died down (so, what, like, two hours or so? )

- I also have something of a surprise. One of my favorite writers on this site is the now-departed OtterMatt. I've been chatting with him for a while now, and one of the things I mentioned was that I'd love to try my hand at fanfic riffing. OtterMatt had a good riffverse going, and he regretted that it was just sitting idle and abandoned, so he gave me permission to take over OtterRiffs: The Continuing Adventures of Matt and Rainbow, as well as to clean up and continue what he started with his characters!

Because of FimFic's standing policies, the story itself will be unpublished. I'll do blog posts about new riffs, and there will always be a link to the riffs on my user page, so look forward to that. I'll be posting remastered versions of OtterMatt's original riffs, and then it's on to new content! I'll also be updating the TV Tropes page and PonyRiffs archive page for OtterRiffs as well.

I can't rightly say how excited I am by this. Riffing is awesome fun, but to be trusted with someone else's work and characters is pretty damn cool, too.

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You readers are important to me, so I'd like to just ask your opinions here. Would you read my story riffs? Would you be interested in seeing me take on other cliche genres? Admittedly, I feel myself being drawn towards HiE/Romance, which is about as cliche as it gets, but I have a few ideas. How about the CMC playing DND with Rumble and High Score/Button Mash (depending on how seriously you take the canon naming)? Is there a genre you think I should try out? Should I just stop typing already?

Stay gold, pony people.
- LAE