It's that time of year again! Go slap a Santa hat on your avatar, if you're the kind of person who thinks that's fun! If you're the kind of person who thinks that's sorta dumb, then feel free to not do that thing, though. I can relate; sometimes I think things are sorta dumb, too. But personally, I kind of like this tradition, and even if The Descendant's not around to pimp Santa hats, I'd be happy to see it keep being A Thing.

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I'm back home now, and I suppose it's time to retire the santa hat for another year. Oh well; into storage it goes!

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If you don't religiously track my blog, One Man's Pony Ramblings, then today's your lucky day! Head below the break to see all the exciting things you missed, and to catch up! Or to see all the boring things you missed, and skim past them. Your mileage may vary, I suppose. But hey, I thought they were all pretty interesting posts...

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We're edging closer and closer to the end of summer. I don't have any particular comment on that, other than to say that I'm against it on principal. I've never understood the "after a few weeks off, I'm ready to go back to work" crowd; it's not like I hate my job, but would I rather be able to sleep in, see my friends, and get some reading done? Uh, yes?

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So, how's everyone's bracket doing after the first week? I, uh, might have had Louisville in the finals, so... yeah. Hey, at least I don't need to pay too much attention for the rest of the month!

Which, of course, means more time for review-reading! Head down below the break to see what I've been up to on my blog, One Man's Pony Ramblings, over the past few weeks.

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I recently competed in the writeoff minific round, and you know what that means... I'll be publishing a new story soon! Or, I'll have a new chapter in my minific collection. Could be either-or, really; look for To Be Forgotten to show up later this week. I'll probably blog a little bit about it too, even if it's just a "by the way, it's here now, go read it" dealybob.

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It occurred to me, as I was assembling screenshots of Carrot Top from The Gift of the Maud Pie to include in tomorrow's blogpost on OMPR, that I do a lot of stuff with Carrot Top. Which is fine, of course; I wouldn't if I didn't enjoy it, and she is definitely the cutest representative of a race/cartoon defined mostly by their/its cuteness. But it all happened gradually enough that it kind of snuck up on me; my most popular early

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It's been a long weekend. A good one, but a long one, visiting friends and family. And getting home much later than I planned to, and barely making it to work on Monday as I continue to try to make up the sleep and energy deficit I'm running. I can't even tell myself I just need to make it to next weekend, because that's the barbershop district convention... that my barbershop chorus is running. So next weekend will be herding a few thousand old men around and trying to make sure everyone

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Hey guys. Like I mentioned in a blog not long ago, I mentioned I was considering doing a sort of 'authors notes' on Titanium Jack, since the story went through a lot of iterations and changes during writing, from the initial concept to the actual writing. What I'm going to do (for those who are interested) is look at some of the stuff I thought about and worked through. Who knows! Some of you might find it interesting.

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So it turns out I've never actually used the blog feature before! Huh. My blog posts list is all shiny and unused, but it's time to break that mint condition and actually write something.

So hi! I'm Wanderling. I'm female, from the UK, early twenties and an absolute Twijack devotee. (That's how you introduce yourself even after being on the site for four years, right?)

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I only just found out about this now, so don't blame me that I'm 8 days late. Anyway, Crystal Wishes challenged everyone to write about somepony (or ponies) that you don't normally interact with, but admire, look up to, or just want to praise.

And, yes, there's an and, I hereby challenge you to do the same!

So, here we go!

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Yep, finally put one up here. As the author notes say, its not a new one, its an old one, third version actually. Each version has been longer, the second only by a little bit as the changes were minor, but this one was a ground up re-write that grew by some 350 or so words. Nothing really great there, bit of BDSM, not real surprising considering my other writings (look for Fluxxx on FA and Mr Phibb in various places on the web), but still something fun.

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What's this? I wrote another piece for this crap pie? I should post it.

On a serious note, I've been looking over some of the characters in the story and taking note on a few things. One, I'm doing my best to stay true to season one Twilight as I can. In doing so, I'm afraid I'm almost ruining her. Whatever. Doesn't matter.

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Before I get started, I wanted to thank everyone who has been reading since the beginning, and everyone who is just now catching back up. It really means a lot to me, and I hope you're all excited to see where this ride goes next. As of right now, I've got one little arc to finish up, and one more arc to write before I'm done. Conservative estimates are around 7 to 8 chapters, but knowing me, it's going to be more.

Spoilers ahead for the latest chapter of Filly Friends, Wub. Duh.

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Okay, I want to start this off with a challenge: anyone commenting on this blog, try to do so without commenting on whether or not Scoot's parents were right or not. I saw the discussions way back when it aired first, I only today saw the episode itself, I have made my own mind up on the matter. Resist the urge to get your dopamine hit by trying to illicit a knee-jerk reaction. In fact, no comments on any of the season's quality or lack thereof. Got it? Good.

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Ok, I guess I read a lot of Rambling Writer's stuff because I really am not planning to do so many by him at the same time...

Anyway, here are today's reviews:

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Hiya! Just littering some words here, about story updates, life, music and other things I can think up off the top of my head.

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So ever since I started watching MLP:FiM, I have oscillated quite a bit about who was my favorite pony. Even after re-watching seasons, I couldn't seem to decide. I hopped from Fluttershy, to Rainbow Dash, to Pinkie Pie, then back. About the only thing I was certain of was that it was one of the Main 6, and it sure as heck wasn't Twilight Sparkle (sorry hon).

But then for season 5, an idea started to formulate for me. Who rose to the top?

Applejack and Rarity.

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screaming into the void
mindless thoughts from pandora

What will someone see if they look into my eyes?

Hope? Blues and greens intertwined, a brightness and attention that feeds light inwards and out? The conscious watchfulness of a listener hand in hand with the hermeneutic disassembly of my ego? Id?

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