Near to my heart is the topic of Scootaloo's family. The poor filly suffers from Shrödinger's Family Tree; because we have next to no data on her home situation—we didn't even know if she had a home until Season 4!—it's entirely up to the author's interpretation. I like to think she has two loving (and living) parents, one of whom is Dizzy Twister, but that's sadly far from the norm for her.

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Do you like stories that demonstrate how anypony can be a badass? Do you appreciate affectionate jabs at comic book narrative tropes? Do you like reading about well-rounded, well-realized OCs? Then I have a treat for you.

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Yeah, YOU, BlazzingInferno.

1. Tell us about your current project(s) – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?

My real current project is a thing called Sunrise. It's a novel. The summary is, "And that's how Equestria was made!"

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Dave Bryant is a fascinating and woefully underread author here on Fimfiction. He writes from angles I see few if any other people explore: the social worker assigned to the disempowered sirens, Equestrian worldbuilding that picks a time period and sticks with it, and perhaps most

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Firstly, in case you missed it, you might want to check out Go, Emps! It's the latest Oversaturated World story in both the Doylist and Watsonian reference frames, and wonder of wonders, it actually involves a straight ship. (In this fandom! In this continuity! I'm as surprised as you. )

Now, on to the reason for this blog's title.

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I’m not sure why I think this way, but it makes me laugh anyway.

Do you like crossovers? Do you like crackships? Do you like winning money?

If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, Thought Prism's Ultimate Crackshipping Contest might be for you. Ship Nintendo (and Sega, Capcom, Namco...) icons with ponies for a chance to win fabulous prizes. Sign up today!

Long ago, in the distant days of 2015, I wrote a reaction fic to "The Cutie Map" wherein Discord delivered an ultimatum to a freshly deposed Starlight: Abandon your quest for vengeance or face the consequences.

"The Cutie Re-Mark" aired. I followed through on his promise, taking Starlight to a world of true equine equality, where the only legacy ponies left were the mass-produced love batteries that powered the changeling nation of Omnifaria. And that would've been the end of it.

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I wrote Team Cohesion... about a year and a half ago now. Wow. Anyway, it was for a ship-sinking contest, in that case deconstructing Soarin'/Spitfire by way of the Wonderbolts' tabloid awareness meeting. Well, River Road's gone and showed me up with the quasi-official sequel, Breaking (Down the) News. It's an entry in not one, but two contests, featuring the continuing adventures of

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You may have noticed a sizable influx of stories in the past few days, including my own Heir A-pear-ent. The due date for Tumbleweed's Springtime Sequel-Slash-Sandbox Switcheroo arrived, and we all agreed to post everything at roughly the same time so everyone could find out who was assigned whom together. But I didn't write this blog solely for self-promotion.

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So, this is kind of embarrassing. See, a while back, HapHazred asked me for advice on a contest, which I was happy to provide. Said contest then went live... and I kind of didn't say anything? So let's fix that.

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If you're looking for up-and-coming new authors, TCC56 has picked some out over here. There's something for every taste between the three of them.

(And if you're looking for old authors, I just put out a story. Just saying. )

In April, I made this blog post: "Where That Story Went Today."

After a newly posted story of mine was analyzed and critiqued in considerable detail by an especially skilled writer whose thoughts I took (and still take) seriously, I unpublished the story while it was still very new.

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If you like seeing Sunset atone for her misdeeds and/or take Twilight's place as Equestria's resident flank-kicker of friendship, you may be interested in Sunset Shimmer is Not an Alicorn.

Really, she isn't. Not at all. Honest.

If you're following Never the Final Word (Vol. 2), you'll have noticed I have a contribution in it this time around. I'd like to take the opportunity to further plug the source story for my little drabble. Being Juniper Montage is, without question, the best use and expansion of Juniper's character I have ever seen. Of course, when there are only four stories on the site with her tag, that's not saying much,

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After closing last year on such a low note, let's begin this one with a happier one. A story full of innocent adventure, loving sisters, and a horrific abomination from beyond the sane reaches of reality.

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Almost two years ago, I let you all know about a not-so-little story called Songs of the Spheres. Well, as of yesterday, it's come to a close, and...

TSongs of the Spheres

• MLP: FiM
• Equestria Girls
• MLP: Movie
• Adventure
• Drama
• Sci-Fi

Twilight Sparkle comes across a strange black ball with the power to travel to other worlds.

• Violence
• Gore
• Death
• Profanity
• Crossover
• Human
• Sweetie Belle
• Other
• Main 6
• Sunset Shimmer
• Starlight Glimmer

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I don't like to tell people how to have fun, but given how a certain group is celebrating Mother's Day, I will cross-promote SockPuppet's Father's Day Not-a-Contest. (A nontest, if you will.) Goodness knows we don't see a lot of male characters in pony as it is. This should be fun.

If for some reason you aren't reading Kris Overstreet's brilliant odd-couple science adventure/condensed history of spaceflight/footnote fiesta/narrative Let's Play story Changeling Space Program or the daily serial crossover sequel The Maretian, you may at least be interested to know that I did what I do best: I made a card out of the latter.

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TAustraeoh

• MLP: FiM
• Adventure
• Random

Rainbow Dash flies east.

• Alt. Universe
• Rainbow Dash

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I've seen this series around for long enough, and I've followed the alt of SS&E for long enough. I'm gonna aim for one chapter per day at minimum until I manage to catch up to the current state of things.

All this, and I'm still not starting FO:E. Goodness I am worthless.

~Leo