And, here’s December. Christmas is approaching again fast. So much to do, not enough time. Got gifts to decide on and buy, a Jinglemas entry to write, other fics to at least not fully pause work on, plus video games to play and Ponyfics to write and review. A ghost’s work never dies, you might say. But, you know, I’m okay with it. I like being busy enough to not be lazy, without being so busy it gets to be too much. If that makes sense. I’ve at least already read and prepped

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Nice advantage of a Bank Holiday Monday is I don’t have to have Monday Musings^TM ready to go on Sunday night, owing to not working up to nearly posting time of 6PM UTC (distinct from GMT, which doesn’t account for time zones). Meaning I can, and am, throwing this together shortly before pressing submit instead. Not a bad side bonus to national holidays always giving the following Monday off.

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I don’t know about America, but the price of travelling is going up more and more here. Just got booked in for UK PonyCon in October, nearly six whole months ahead, yet the hotel (same as last year) wasn’t even £10 less despite getting there two months earlier. Not even offsetting the £8 increase in ticket price. Then there’s the flights and if train prices will be different by then… yep, the worldwide travelling cost spike in the wake of COVID sure isn’t slowing down!

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Hey guys, i recently got involved in a fan project to reboot or more specifically finish the show, My Life as a Teenage Robot. It's actually a pretty solid production, with a fair number of artists and voice actors.

However, we still need more voice actors for certain roles and have a current casting call in place for those interested.

Here's the video with the info if you are interested.

PS, that's me as the Mudslinger doing the announcement just to let you know.

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Once again, I am remiss. I haven't been keeping up with new episodes and/or leaks, so ... yeah. Part of it is 'cause I've been fairly busy, and part of it's 'cause I'm subconsciously hoarding random pony eps to randomly watch on Netflix so they'll at least be New-To-Me. Like, I'm pretty sure there's a handful of random episodes from seasons 7 & 8 I still haven't touched yet.

BUT.

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Saturday night, and I'm on the internet talking about the last episode of a magic pony cartoon.

Seems legit.

In my defense, I gotta work early tomorrow morning, so it's not like I can really go out and party and whatever. SO HERE WE ARE.

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Watching some movies, trying to get back to the roots of what makes me want to write. You will observe that most of them are dark, gritty, 80s cartoons about animals and mythical creatures. Imagine that.

Rock and Rule, possibly best soundtrack in a cartoon ever.

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Cartoon Network has released the first of four anti-racism PSAs featuring characters from Steven Universe, but what is mind-blowing is that it has more dislikes than likes.

My TV Show Rating Score:

5/5: It is an awesome show!
4/5: It’s a good show with minor flaws
3/5: It’s overall okay/guilty pleasure
2/5: It’s bad but not awful
1/5: Look, up in the sky! It’s super bad!

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You know, after a holiday season where I let a lot that had happened throughout the year get to me, and keep me not quite as relaxed and joyous as I could or should have been, I think I’m feeling more at ease with things. Deliberately taking a week off not just from the more high-maintenance hobbies (fic writing, etc.), but from even thinking about them, did me some good.

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End of the month, author spotlight time. We got us another new-ish* author that’s amassed a decent following in their time here with a body of work that’s been acclaimed by quite a large handful of folks as largely reliable and consistent, with a chunk of reasonable yet disposable stories, yet when there’s a knockout, there’s really a knockout. That being mushroompone. Don’t worry, they’re not the toxic variety of fungi.

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Sorry, for the VERY late Question of the Week blog. I must have contracted some sort of bug, and as the week went on, I developed a head cold... so I forgot.

Well, I may still have a head cold, but here is the question of the week.

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Fifteen weeks strikes me as a reasonable break between Author Spotlights. And with the end of the year upon us, let’s look at an author whose work nearly always makes me laugh and/or smile. Not that this guy needs the promotion, with nearly 2,800 followers to his name (it’d be even more were it not for that immortal enemy Real Life^™ – more on that later), but round here, what the ghost says goes. Thus, I give you Aragon.

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Yes, I have seen Make Your Mark. No, I won’t be discussing it here – I learnt my lesson from my review of A New Generation on rushing out clunky reviews that I end up largely revising and redoing later. A lesson you’d think I’d have learnt from years of animation YouTubing… Expect something on it round the week’s end, or on the weekend.

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