In a rare upset, Jake the army guy has published the new story and it turns out he still has what it takes to do good writing. https://www.fimfiction.net/story/475524/best-left-unsaid

Best left unsaid, is a story about a young pony empathizing with another over certain shortcomings in life. And it's up to this young Colt to show the way. This is an absolutely fantastic story and a good pick up from such a long hiatus.

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Act two begins! Get ready for more Marigold over the fall and winter. Now, there is the bonus of the ratings no longer being disabled. Please be sure to give these stories a thumbs up if you enjoy them. My M-rated stories tend to get very few upvotes and many downvotes, and they're certainly not related to quality. Upvotes will also help make this story more visible across the site and to prospective readers, so all in all, you're just doing me a huge favor in showing appreciation for my work.

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I'm still alive. I'm just very, very tired. Having a disease like ME/CFS is not much fun.

Teaching is very difficult with my disabilities, even with a reduced load. I'm pretty sure I'll make it through this semester, but I'm not sure what I'm going to do to manage this in the future. I have Summer off. I'll need time to think. I don't have that time right now.

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I remain alive, and as of June 13th am now the number of symmetries in a cube.

I will be at Trotcon.

Please contact me if you're there! (Or even if not, that's okay too.)

I might do an author party. I'll announce it with another post. Signal boost would be useful.

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I wrote a set-theoretic mini-textbook in the comments of one of Shakes's stories.

I need a better hobby.

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Heyo,

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I posted a new flashfic for the Pride-themed Flashfic contest. It's called Pride Included:

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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It tackles an issue important enough that I am tempted to expand it into a short story at some point.

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From Ryan Grim at the Intercept:

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As a follow-up to my most recent story, I thought I'd expand a bit on some aspects of the story that folks have been asking about. Join me after the break, won't you?

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To give people a better chance at getting points from the Quotable Trick Contest, winners will now need to skip the following contest. This way somepony besides mishun will be able to get points.

funfunfun has 'unf' in it twice, tiny man-horse

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