I'm not gonna lie y'all, this has been a rough month, and things are not setting up to get any better.

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Part five is finished and ready to read.

Enjoy,

Valete.

That's basically it.

I'm getting tired of debunking only Mykan. But here we are again with... wait...

This isn't a blog post by Mykan, this is a forum post by... not Mykan! Not only that, but it's a group dedicated to... well, not Anti-Bronies like Mykan. But basically a group for anyone opposed to everything past Season 3, if not earlier. So let's see what we have...

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Hi,

Let me start with the good news. I begin my Hasbro internship on Friday. I am very excited, and I can't wait.

Now, for the bad news. I got a call from my sister today. She told me that the cleaning lady threw out BOTH OF MY PONY PLUSHIES!!

To be clear, that's my lifesized Nightmare Moon, and the 18" Starlight plushie.

I am livid. My mother got me the NMM after I tried to kill myself 5 years ago, and Glimmer was after my cancer scare. I CROWDFUNDED for Glim!

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I expect to give a talk on the structure of fimfiction at Trotcon this weekend, assuming I finish it in time. It's basically what I posted in Author clusters question.

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Hey guys! Max here with a weekly news post, and buckle up, because we’ve got some big updates to talk about.

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Kept you waiting, huh?

Business first. XXXI: Of Resurrections is being released alongside this blog. Nine months is a long wait, and it shouldn't have taken me this long, but alas here we are. I think it's a pretty good chapter! It's been reviewed by no less than five of my editors, with a sixth unfortunately being too busy with work to get more than a quarter of the way through it. I'm very excited to see what everyone thinks.

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Hey there guys, gals and enby pals! So, as you may have intuited from my previous blog post featuring cover art by incomparable pixel-wrangler and all-around amazingly nice guy NadnerbD, my novel-length mad science everypony crackfic Contraptionology! is getting a full-on paper version, containing fewer typos but the exact same number of dated early-fandom and pop culture references!

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Instead of anything interesting, we are dragged through Theresa’s time at college. Boston College, to be exact. This is in alignment with the author’s Christian beliefs, Boston College being a Jesuit institution. We are then treated to a whole page’s worth of infodump about BC which Boutin seems to have gleaned from the introductory paragraph on the college’s wikipedia page. There is no reason for us to know any of this, unless the story concerns exactly the number of how many undergrads there

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So, haven't seen much from me for a bit, and there's a reason for that:

I've been rewriting and reworking the prologue chapter for Future Tactics - The War Games! The original Prologue was around 12 500 words, but considering how much I desperately needed to rewrite it, to bring it up to my current standards, it's coming along well! About 3000 words into the rewrite, and it should help fix some of my glaring issues that still come up from the original.

Now, on to other things:

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Okay. Whew! The story’s back on track. No more interviews or BBC montages to fill in exposition. Here’s a tip for anyone who decides to write a story with a first person narrative: the entire story happens from the perspective of the narrating character. This means that there’s no room for exposition to fill in any blanks that the character might not know about. Theresa even says at the beginning of the story that she doesn’t know how some things happened because she wasn’t there, even though

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Would you kindly consider helping out a friend? xjuggernaughtx has a story in the running for being featured in the Royal Canterlot Library for their second anniversary, and I'd love to see him win for his story. It's for a story he wrote called The New Crop, which he put a lot of time and effort in to, but just sadly didn't take off much in the way of views, despite being a very interesting tale. If he gets the spot, that might

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That Princeton fan-fiction course that covered "The Magician and the Detective" finally posted my interview on their blog… 2 weeks after the course ended, so nobody read it.  But you can!  It was posted here, but no point going there.  You can’t leave comments there, and the slightly-improved version is right here:

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Because the rough draft took longer than expected and the final draft needs another week to cook, I'm pushing back the upload schedule.

New chapter will be up on the 26th at the latest.

The awesomely-talented Sipioc, who drew up the cover art of "Just a Bad Colt", also drew this amazingly shippy pic! In case you haven't read the fic yet, take a look; the pic is kinda spoilery.

Shown here is the fic's lead, Stormy Knight, and his new friend, Sunny Skies, sharing a tender hug under a tree:

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Hello again, everyone! You've probably all been wondering where the clopfic that I mentioned a post or two ago is? Well, you can once again sleep easy knowing that it's almost done! It currently clocks in at a little over 8k words, but when it's finished, I'm expected closer to or over 9k words. If any of you like Twilestia, I'm sure you'll get some form of enjoyment out of this (one way or another ).

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Yes, that title is pungent. As was that. Gotcha looking though, I hope. Because it's time for the news update! There are a couple of things to bring up, from an injury, to new fiction, to progress on Jungle, Patreon, and info on a Rolling Sale! So keep reading!

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Number seven is up. Get it while it's hot.

Cranky Doodle went to town, wary of the spoilers!

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