Alright, so, I vanished off the planet for a while. A couple involuntary moves, a con, and general Ebonosity.

But! I finally, finally got a moment to read everyone's stories, and they were great! Since there were only four entrants, (not four entries as previously stated,) I'm happy to award each of you $75 each.

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THE LEADERBOARD (Unspent/Total Trick Points)

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THE LEADERBOARD (Unspent/Total Trick Points)

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Congratulations to Light Striker for winning the last contest!

TThorax the Red-Nosed Bughorse (and Other Hearth's Warming Carols)

• MLP: FiM
• Comedy
• Random

The gaudiest bughorse of them all invites you to sing along to all your favorite "Why, FiM, why?!" moments!

• Profanity
• Sex
• Celestia
• Main 6
• Starlight Glimmer
• Flurry Heart
• Thorax

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Story: Thorax the Red-Nosed Bughorse (and Other Hearth's Warming Carols)
Chapter: The EQG Song
Quote: With every movie skin gets more Caucasian

I am finally sending out the invites tonight*. Whew.
(* = Tuesday night, not Monday night)

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Congratulations to Light Striker for winning last week's contest!

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Story: Winter Heat (M)
Quote: "Yes. Come now, you knew this would happen," it said.

CONTENT WARNING for today's contest: Suicide

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Congratulations to Light Striker for winning the last contest!

TFriendship is Replicable

• MLP: FiM
• Drama
• Horror
• Tragedy

Twilight and Starlight learn about Thorax's new plan: spreading friendship across Equestria by transforming everypony into changelings.

• Non-con
• Sex
• Fetish
• Twilight
• Trixie
• Changelings
• Starlight Glimmer
• Thorax

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Story: Friendship is Replicable
Chapter: Imago
Quote: "Yes," I s​aid. "Th​-​this is good. I de​serve t​his."

QTC is back! However, I'm delayed in responding to a lot of people because right now life is crazy. I'll post an update on my status later this week.

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Congratulations to Fylifa for winning the last contest!

TBroken Symmetry

• MLP: FiM
• Romance
• Drama
• Sci-Fi

Somepony is sabotaging Moondancer's research. When Twilight offers to help, the two friends discover a dangerous secret.

• Violence
• Narcotics
• Profanity
• Twilight
• Celestia
• Luna
• Starlight Glimmer
• Moondancer

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Story: Broken Symmetry
Chapter: The First Experiment
Quote: Even after we'd both said it, it still seemed unreal.

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Congratulations to Fylifa for winning last week's contest!

EColts Will Be Colts

• MLP: FiM
• Comedy
• Drama
• Slice of Life

A little colt is afraid of everypony except Scootaloo, but what makes her so special?

• Scootaloo
• Diamond Tiara
• Silver Spoon
• Other
• CMCs

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Story: Colts Will Be Colts
Quote: Sweetie shrugged. "Well, I didn't know for like, a week after we met."

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THE LEADERBOARD (Unspent/Total Trick Points)

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Welcome to the first contest day!

A rules refresher (click here for the full list):

• You may only look at the stories via Fimfiction (no searching local storage, using the book, etc).
• Using "find in page" in your browser is fine (but might not work due to how I'll post the quotes).

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Congratulations to mishun for winning the last contest!

TAshes

• MLP: FiM
• Dark
• Drama
• Sad

Princess Celestia is missing her memories, but some buried things weren't meant to be unearthed.

• Death
• Suicide / Self Harm
• Twilight
• Celestia
• Luna
• Starswirl
• Tantabus

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Story: Ashes
Chapter: Ashes
Quote: "I understand why she did it. I just can't believe it."

NOTE: I'm going to post about my Lovely Darkness print anthology later tonight (probably around midnight) as I've been getting requests for a reprint.

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Congratulations to fylifa for winning the last contest!

ETrick's Flashfics

• MLP: FiM
• Drama
• Slice of Life
• Anthology

An anthology of flash-fiction stories, 150 words long each.

• Death
• Violence
• Celestia
• Luna
• Main 6
• Maud Pie
• Moondancer

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Story: Trick's Flashfics
Chapter: Twilight Sparkle Falls in Love with Moondancer (by Moondancer)
Quote: To Twilight's surprise, only one pony met all of her very scientific criteria!

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Check out the official topic!

Howdy y'all!
Sure has been a while since we last held a contest.
Almost exactly a year, it seems.
Hm. That don't sound right.

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NOTE: The next contest will be held SUNDAY AT 3PM Eastern Time!
We'll try doing Sundays from now on, basically.

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Congratulations to mishun for winning the last contest!

TForever Young

• MLP: FiM
• Dark
• Drama
• Slice of Life

Rumble has a chance at eternal life, but it comes with a price: eternal youth.

• Sex
• Fetish
• Alt. Universe
• Twilight
• Cheerilee
• Other
• Thunderlane
• Rumble

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Story: Forever Young
Chapter: Cheerilee's Lesson
Quote: "But only one pony in history ever did that, right?" said Pipsqueak.

The QTC announcement will be coming this evening, for realsies this time.

Now it's time for contest 32!

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THE LEADERBOARD (Unspent/Total Trick Points)

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THE LEADERBOARD (Unspent/Total Trick Points)

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THE LEADERBOARD (Unspent/Total Trick Points)

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Congratulations to mishun for winning the last contest!

EVeneer

• MLP: FiM
• Drama

After the Great Change, King Thorax is the last bug in the Hive to learn an important truth: something obvious he overlooked in his zeal for sharing love.

• Changelings
• Thorax

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Story: Veneer
Quote: We can look like anything.

Wow, we've done forty of these! With the occasional breaks, that means this has gone on for about a year now. We might take a break for a couple of weeks after this one since nopony has spent any Trick Points yet.

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