Much digital ink has been spilled over what defines a Mary Sue. Wikipedia says they're an idealized, too-perfect character, often an author insert or serving as wish fulfillment. TV Tropes suggests it is a character "who is important in the story, possesses unusual physical traits, and has an irrelevantly over-skilled or over-idealized nature". Bookplayer suggested it is a character whose

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Working on a side project that hopefully turns into an actual story. It is gonna be Twilight - Sunset Shimmer oriented. What will it be about? Welp

I hesisted to make this decision because well, people do seem to like it.

I already wrote this on my the Lineup thingy on my main page, but I doubt people read that as often as they these blog posts, so here goes:

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Please read this.

It's about plagiarism, and reasons why people who have been accused of it are actually innocent. (falsely accused, like my good friend Mat, who got banned for something he didn't even really do)

Time for the annual ritual of removing the Santa paraphernalia.

EDIT: NOBODY SAW ANYTHING
NOTHING HAPPENED
NOTHING TO SEE HERE

(New icon by @MousBones.)

I'm currently working on a fic to be published under my 2nd alt.

No, I won't tell you what it is or where it'll be. EDIT: or when, either.

It's nice to write without having to think about how it connects to a larger storyline. :)

^

The other day, I was in a chat with a good friend of mine. She's a big fan of the Equestria Girls, particularly of Rainbow Rocks because of its presentation of Sunset Shimmer's redemption, and because of the Sirens. However, when I lamented in-chat that Sunset Shimmer would be an Equestria Girls-exclusive character, and then she commented that she prefers it that way... that's when the dam broke.
Sunset Shimmer is best human-shaped pony

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Just a "thank you" from me personally. This is a big milestone for me, as you could imagine.

I really don't have anything planned for 50, mostly 'cause I'd never thought I'd get 10, so I've been caught quite off-guard.

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I'm about 7k through chapter 4 give or take a few hundred words. It's went places that I definitely didn't expect I'd get to, but its definitely nearer to a climax point for the chapter. This continues to be fun to write but boy everytime I do cute stuff in this story like the next chapter has to have like a dark moment that just kind of blindsides me out of nowhere. Thanks brain lol.

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For some reason, I find this to be one of the best final boss songs in a video game ever...

I love this.

They Might Be Giants made a song many years ago called Why Does the Sun Shine? which starts out with "The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas". It is a catchy song.

But, you know, that isn't really accurate. The sun isn't made of gas, it's made of plasma.

So they made a new, scientifically accurate version, Why Does the Sun Really Shine?

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I don't have a whole lot of time, since I still have schoolwork to do and a research paper to research, but I just thought I'd make a post celebrating two years of being on the site.

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I’m am unreasonably happy about lesbian raptors-

LOOK HOW CUTE THEY ARE AAAAH

Okay, I've needed to get this blog post out for a while, for a whole big bunch of reasons.

First of all: thank you everybody for the kind words! I've gotten a lot more comments and messages lately on Maternal, most of it good and prompting me to continue. I'll get to that!

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Coming out later in 2016, probably around December
HYPE

There's been some talk of a bookstore at Bronycon. A number of authors have already committed. It's an exciting idea, but practically speaking, I've been on the fence as to whether I might actually make a Horizon publication happen, for a few (mostly logistical) reasons.

… Let's just say for the moment that there are external forces conspiring to push me off the fence in the publication direction.

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the 2 updates from Ice Spoopy Star’s Enemy of Mine in a discord voice channel

Also gonna react a bit to what I’m reading so bonus

The first post got deleted, but welcome to my Annual (so long as it's only me writing for west) collection of CTS stories set to feature CTEW, Home of the Clocktower Colts! if you're planning on writing a story featuring part of west, DM me, and i'll feature your story next month! but until them, here's some current and upcoming fics set at west, and how they've both progressed, and maybe even a few spicy hints for the future?

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