My apologies for the lateness of this feature posting. Rest assured, I have sacked myself. -Ed.

Our recent "Correct the Record" contest asked readers to help us choose authors whose previously spotlighted stories weren't the best showcase of their writing strengths.  Today, we're offering a double feature with two of our three contest winners!

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Special thanks to Aragon, who took the time to make this masterwork of a comic, thus proving that not only can he write and joke everyone out of the water, but he's working on going after the artists' thunder too

luv u bb

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“Fly Hard is not your favorite Hearth’s Warming story.”

Rainbow Dash blinked. “Uh, yeah it is.”

As impurturbably as before, Twilight repeated herself. “Fly Hard is not your favorite Hearth’s Warming story.”

“Uh, yeah it is. That’s why I said ‘Fly Hard’ when you asked me what my favorite Hearth’s Warming story was.”

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A few months ago, I had a vague recollection hit me about a weird blogpost Aragon wrote.

Yeah, yeah, really narrows it down, I know.

Anyway, the specific weird blogpost I vaguely recollected was one about how he wrote a gruesome cannibal story when he was a kid for a school assignment. I couldn't find it in his blogposts easily, so (after PMing him to ask if he'd even done such a thing, or if I was legit going crazy), I forgot all about it.

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Do you know Nobody? He’s my best friend,
Once befriended, we'll be friends 'till the end.
He’s right there when I wake up in my bed.
“Hey, have a nice day, Ben,” Nobody said.
Nobody and I, going out to town,
Don’t feel lonely ‘cause Nobody’s around.
We go to the shops to try some new clothes.
“Looks good,” says Nobody, keeping me close.

Night-time: the club with Nobody and I,
Nobody watches me, keeps a close eye.
Nobody helps when I dance and I drink.

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So Galacon, that lovely German convention that I along with a host of others will be attending*, has just opened up ticket sales here.

This is partly to remind folks I'm going, partly to remind folks many other cool people are going, and to let aforementioned people to buy tickets and make needed arrangements.

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To something E-rated! Check it out and give the author some love.

ETwilight's Life As a Red and Black Alicorn

• MLP: FiM
• Comedy
• Slice of Life

Having gone through a phase all alicorns do in time, Twilight must now deal with the annoyances her new outlook brings her.

• Twilight
• Celestia
• Luna
• Cadance
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Mystic Sunrise · 11k words  ·  109  25 · 2.5k views

So I've been reading pony fanfiction for over four years now. That's... about a quarter of my natural life.

Fuck, I've wasted my life the best years of my youth gone I don't even-

Okay, that out of the way.

I'd like to make a compilation of some of the authors that made me want to be the author I have not yet become.

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It has been a while since I did a set of Read It Now reviews. I actually started this one all the way back in March, and then forgot about finishing it out until this weekend, when I decided to get another review set done and actually read some recent stuff.

Today’s set contains a pair of episode reaction stories, a story with an interesting premise about Celestia and her ability to see the future, a story about Chrysalis sending Cadance a letter, and a story about… well, wingboners.

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I felt that the last Bronycon deserved remembering, recalling and recording in detail. To preserve for posterity as full a picture of it as I can manage. Because its like will not come again. That doesn’t mean the fandom is done, or that there’s any less love involved. I will be here for years to come. So will you. For all I know, the best days of FIM fanfiction are yet to come. And, after the con, I feel more connected to it than ever before.

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So, this blog will be like your mother in bed -- quick and dirty. 'Cause it's 4am and I need to go to bed, but I want to do it already so I can sleep without regrets.

So like your mother again, I guess. We always end up there, what can I say.

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So Songbird has finally been released, with updates coming daily. At the current pace, the last chapter will be up on Tuesday. It’s a relief to finally have it out there, but the story is an exemplary example of one thing:

I hate the deep editing process. I'm sure a few folks are sick of hearing me say that.

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I've never tried stand-up comedy.

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It has been a while since I put out one of these, but I’ve been reading up a storm in the last few days and decided to stop being lazy and start writing reviews again. I’ve got about half of another review set done at this point as well, so hopefully I’ll have more soon. Possibly even some stories, as I have a couple which are presently in editing stages.

But enough of the future, it is time for the recent past!

Today’s stories:

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This is a filler blog, hi. Not dead yet. I caught my flight and so on, didn't crash, barely broke my arm fighting the flight attendant, etc.

So, I'm going to do another big fuck-off bronycon dramatization roundup blog thing soon, but I'm currently in Budapest, partially because the name is similar to "Barcelona", I am not very good at reading, and -- as I just said -- I got into a pretty big fight with a flight attendant back there at the Baltimore airport.

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My friend has an apartment
A trade
A conventional relationship
With a good girl to settle down with
She's lovely, really
And when we talk he gives me that smile
That smile
That laugh
That says he's grown up
And he's waiting for me to catch up

And it hurts because I have nothing he has.

But then I think
He's the same as he was in highschool
He'd finished growing then
So he thought
His highschool sweetheart
His highschool job
His highschool ambitions

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... though not for lack of trying. In between a layoff and a vacation at my new job, I've been working the work of three people. (At least I've been earning double paychecks due to all the OT.) The death march hopefully should ease up this week.

As a reminder that I'm still around, new story in the morning! A minific that started life in one of the Quills & Sofas speedwriting competitions back in like ... mid-August.

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Did you know according to Spanish law, you can exercise legitimate self-defense against a kid, but not against a cow? One day I'll do a comic about Equestrian law, and I'll make it completely accurate to reality, and it'll come off as the stupidest shit I've ever written.

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Day One!

Alarm went off at 6:45. Hadn’t slept badly, and felt pretty ok. Excited for the con! No more sensation of still being on a plane, either, which was nice. No one else up yet. Had a shave and didn’t cut myself – great success. Not that I often cut myself shaving, but sod’s law says that when that does happen, it’s on an important day. So an important day where my face survives the morning intact is off to a good start.

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