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Icy Shake


There is a time to tell stories, and there is a time to live them.

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  • 245 weeks
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    This is a review I did for "Luminaries," a now-defunct project I was invited to contribute to: getting a number of reviewers together to each write an in-depth essay on one of their favorite stories, each covering one by a different author. I jumped on The Descendant's The Railway Ponies: Highball as fast as I could, and as far as I know was one of only a few people (along with

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    From Pratt St. to Pratt St. and Back Again: A Bronycon Report

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  • 247 weeks
    Bronycon 2019

    In the airport, will take off in an hour. Looking forward to another con, hope to catch up with people from last time, meet some new ones. And pick up some books. Probably too many books.

    Also looking for suggestions of either things to do solo in Baltimore, especially Wednesday and Sunday nights, or info on open-invite/public/whatever con/pony people related events to check out if possible.

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    Happy Halloween, Ponyfolks!

    Have fun, stay safe, party responsibly!

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Jul
19th
2016

FIMFiction Milestone? · 1:26am Jul 19th, 2016

Running a search on all stories, I ask: did FIMFiction just cross 100,000 approved and still-published-and-available/up stories (100,011 at time of search)?

Making FanOfMostEverything's "Exotic Goods" the 100,000th?

(Subject to change as old stories are taken down, of course. Now, how to find the 100,000th story to be approved, though, if it's not among those that's been taken down?)

Comments ( 3 )
PresentPerfect
Author Interviewer

So that means fewer than 1 in 3 is actually published. :B

4100337 Yeah. For a while I'd wondered why stories were given numbers and the main form of URL before approval. But I guess it's easier than tracking them separately.

On the number itself and the identity of the 100,00th story, though, the search is imprecise and inconsistent, sadly, or something weird's been going on tonight: just ran again and it was down to 100,006. Don't know why there'd be more stories going down than up in that time.

PresentPerfect
Author Interviewer

4100404
Authors are very capricious. Unpublishing within hours of publishing is a regular sort of thing around here. :B

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