Hey, y'all! I continue to exist!

Here we are nine-and-a-half months into 2023, yet this is only my first blog of the danged year. As usual, I have been writing a lot; finishing things has been another story, I'm afraid, and that one's yet to be told. I've been content proofreading fellow users' works-in-progress in the meantime, and past a certain threshold, I got my hands so full with theirs that I couldn't carry mine.

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One of the ways to describe music is as sonic emotion. The emotions of joy, anger, fear, sadness and so forth, expressed as musical notes in chords and harmony. Various genres of music are often associated with various emotions. Country and Western is often associated with determination and melancholy. Classical music is associated with elegant manners. Rap with outrage and defiance, and so forth and so on.

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Alright, it's high time I did another Top Shelf blog. These are always tricky to do because I haven't read these recently, and on rereads I always find I've forgotten a lot of important things, the sorts of things I need to remember for these blogs. That's why I was so lazy on "If Horses Had Gods" and pretty much just copy/pasted my story comments. So let's go with the easiest one I have left to do, since the others are both HUGE. This one I can at least skim through to remind myself of what's

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Wow this is awesome 90 of you strange people watch me. It brings a tear to my eye, thanks so much for all your support.

So onto my update. So first the farmer and the princess is doing great and is almost finished just needs the last chapters edited.

A rise of a new kind of magic just needs typed

Miss. Martini *Aka Applejack is on its way.

Sort of just giving you guys a quick update. An remember I am always up for suggestions.

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Like I mentioned in my last one of these, I've stopped reading through three at a time because I've been getting much busier, and will only be reading and giving my thoughts on stories that either get requested or recommended to me directly. So there's only going to be one story in this one, I'm afraid.

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A Diamond and a Tether has been on my to-read list for a long time now, and I finally got around to reading it and wondered why I hadn’t done so before.

So many things are so easy to do in retrospect, and yet, we let months elapse before we do them.

In totally unrelated news, I’ve been working on editing Mistletrapped, sprucing up the last couple chapters before I ship them off to my editors.

Today’s stories:

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Yes, I realize this is somewhat of a weird post. After all, Jungle came out just two weeks ago. If anything, I should be pushing you to read that.

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Hello again folks. Because the story here is a bit longer than what my tragically stunted reading speed can allow for, I'm only going through the one story today, by Horizon. It's called Fang and Flame, and initially came to my attention when the author pointed out that it was the only other Ember related story. What amused me especially was that it was in the War category.

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Well, I've gone two months into 2022 without posting anything here. Let's change that!

…So, yeah. January was a surprisingly busy month for me IRL, so I wasn't all that productive on the writing side of things. I was planning to get something done during the month's tail end, but the one-two punch of Seattle's Angels and the Royal Canterlot Library closing their doors knocked that wind right back out of my sails. It's been billowing on and off ever since, I'm afraid.

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Potatoes and Space Travel. Two things that very few people would associate with each other. At least that is until a few years ago when published an interesting book about a marooned astronaut that wound up becoming a best seller and later, a highly popular film.

I speak, of course, about The Martian starring Matt Damon with the story written by Andy Weir.

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Copy pasted from my comment on BronyWriter's blog post https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/995303/underrated-musicals-not-musicals

I've got two for you. Shout out to my cuddle buddy for turning me on to the equal parts hilarious, legitimately moving (I cried I admit), and incredibly cleverly and elegantly constructed musical Twisted.

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Hello again. Trying to get back into the swing of regular reading and stuff, since I'm out of practice. Last time I had finished two short stories, both okay and worth a look if they were of the sort that tickles your fancy. Today we have two more, also hopefully good. First up is the highest rated story in the Peace category of the contest, so that's pretty exciting, and then a story about Luna, and everybody likes Luna.

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Since I very rarely actually take any time to read things outside of TGB stuff, I always like doing brief reviews and/or recommendations of other stories that appear in contests, particularly the EFNW contests, since they often have nice convenient word limits I can easily digest. So, that's what I'll be doing now: taking a look at some of the contest entries and giving a few thoughts on them, as well try and recommend them to anyone who might be interested. So, let's dive right in! See below

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The competition has finally come to its conclusion. The final results are in!

In third place was Baal Bunny's charming mouse world tale, To Drive the Cold Winter Away.

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Now look here. I am going to tell you all about my very favorite comedy podcast, whether you like it or not. It's called Wooden Overcoats, and it's about undertakers. The storyline is fairly simple.

Rudyard Funn runs a funeral home in the village of Piffling Vale. It used to be the only one. It isn't anymore.

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Hoo boy. If you haven't heard of the McElroy family by now, then let me tell you straight up front that you have an excellent journey ahead of you, full of goofs and chicanery. These guys have just so many podcasts, and if you don't like podcasts, they also do some great YouTube work (scroll to the end for that). It's great, and there's probably at least one that you'll like. I even got my mother to listen to one, and it's more or less the only piece of media that we both enjoy. But we are not

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Alright y'all, listen up. I'm slow as fuck and haven't been writing for reasons I'll explain in another blog, but for right now? I don't care what you were planning to do today. Whatever it is isn't as important as reading these amazing stories. I may have mentioned a few of these before but dang it they're all super incredible in their own unique ways and Deserve More Attention Gosh Dang It.

TMagica Ex Dolori

• Equestria Girls
• Dark
• Drama
• Tragedy

A wave of suicides sweeps through Canterville. Sunset and the girls can't stop it. But maybe Wallflower Blush can. She just needs someone to show her how. A crossover with Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

• Violence
• Suicide / Self Harm
• Death
• Crossover
• Human
• OC
• Sunset Shimmer
• Wallflower Blush

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So I know I said that I wasn't going to do these anymore. However, I feel that to not make any mention of one of my very favorite cartoonists would just be morally wrong, given how much joy she's given me over the years.

Her cartoons: Ozy and Millie, I Drew This, Raine Dog, and her current project, Phoebe and Her Unicorn. The last one has the most unicorns, so feel free to skip ahead to that section if you like.

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(Not an essay this time, I swear)

Well, school has started for me - virtually. That means I get to stay home and sit at my desk waiting for class to start. That also means I am in a unique position where I can read stories during class and not get caught!

(Don't do that, kids. I don't even do that. It was a joke. I make those. Sometimes. Heh.)

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