Did you know that I have a history of being depressed on my birthday?

I doubt I’m alone in this. For me, a lot of it has to do with my age, my financial status and other aspects of my life. I tend to get a little depressed around Sunny and Primary (my two daughters)’s birthdays, too. I feel like I’m losing time, that I should have done more in the last year, that I should be present for more things.

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Outside the Jinglemas, I was part of a smaller secret Santa exchange. Which means I also wrote this story for Monochromatic. Well known RariTwi shipper isn't satisfied with her two faves, had to get greedy and throw in a third. Now, you might think that it's actually 50% more shipping, but a ship between two people creates one relationship. A three way ship is *three* relationships! This is, mathematically, 300% more ship for your ship.

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I feel like this weekend could basically be summarized with the following...

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With season 5 over, it is time for people to release their reaction fics. I expect that this season finale will be fertile ground for fanfics for many months to come. I myself have some ideas, but I am going to try and push out a lot of stories I’ve got in my pipeline first.

Of course, there’s another writeoff coming up in just a few weeks, so maybe it won’t be such a long delay after all…

Today’s stories:

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I actually wrote this the same day as I finished up Read It Later Reviews #88. It’s been a long time since I actually got ahead on review sets. It’s crazy! What’s next, me actually publishing another story?

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So guys, today I came home to find some no doubt dashing and handsome stranger had left me a package! But that's not all! This most probably charming and brilliant man left me a package sent to me from the Russian Federation!

Well. Only one way to solve this! Better open her up!

Hmm. Something down there. And it's purple! What could it be?

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This could also be called “four shipfics and a random story”. In my Rarity shipping kick, I read the rather strange Every Mare Needs Her Stallion as well as three RariLight pieces. Then, just to round things off, I read one of the highest rated stories on FIMFiction, Discord Applies for Citizenship Papers, which happens to also be extremely short.

How did they all stack up?

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Today’s stories:

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I was going to write a blog post about the finale, but having gotten about halfway through it, I’m not really sure what it was going to add to the discussion – to a great extent, it felt like a rehash of the episode, rather than adding anything of value.

But I do have things I want to say about it, so I will have to reformulate my thoughts.

In the meanwhile, I actually started reading stories again. And, well, as long as I was reminiscing… what about another review set?

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...No, I'm not opening commissions. This is for someone else. Lucky Seven (who also has regular commissions open) and kairipancakes (who does art commissions) are moving, and if you donate just over $9 to Seven's Kofi, he'll write you a story.

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Today’s Read it Now Reviews are brought to you by procrastination. Procrastination – where you get everything done except the thing with an actual due date.

Though at least it finally made me catch up on SS&E’s recent works, read a few RariLight stories (a ship that I have long-neglected to read many stories about), and make more progresss on Mistletrapped.

Today’s stories:

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That's right lads, ladettes, and general non-binary lad-like folks, your favorite fimficcer is doing another Ponyfest Panel!

Yep, Monochromatic is back baby!

And I will also be there!

We will be going over:
- Some broad psychological vectors on which relationships form and function

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I missed my username too much sob

I've been wanting to try out a new username for a while, so I've gone from Monochromatic to Jupiter XVIII!

Might switch back in a few weeks, but for now, my old username will link to an alternate account where I post stuff I don't want here for one reason or another.

It has on okayish raritwi story, and a really nice unrequited twishy story.

Procrastination on writing creates a surprising amount of motivation to review stories.

Today’s stories:

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Ordinarily, I do only five stories at a time in review sets unless I’m reviewing short story collections, but I decided to do six instead of five in this set so as to avoid compelling myself to try and read four more recent stories in lieu of some older ones I’ve been putting off reading.

Today’s stories:

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My goal for this week is to get at least one set of Read it Now Reviews done, one set of Read It Later Reviews done, one new story posted, one piece of original fiction sent off to a publisher, and one video game to be played.

So far, I’m at one for five.

Today’s stories:

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Find the first blog here and the second here!

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there is no way i will be able to write the fic i wanted to
my writers' block is back, and i can't get the story to flow at all
so yeah
my hopes and dreams of writing a stressed-out halloweeen rarity fic are basically circling the drain right now

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