This video proves that the Star Wars burnout is already here and I have been predicting this for a while.

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If you ask someone a yes/no question like "Want to go see Rogue One?" and they answer with something like "I had to wake up at 330 to go to work", then you can make a few assumptions.

1. They're passive aggressive
2. They're a fucking moron.
3. They can't use their big boy words to just say no like an adult.

Of course my reply was "Good for you, so you beat traffic!"

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Recently, I've had to chance to preread for a chapter of one of my favorite stories on the site, and you should give a look too! We all know how much I adore the Luna/Sombra ship and the amount of effort I've put into writing it, but I'm not the only one.

Yoru has written some fantastic Lunbra stories too, filled with all sorts of goodness: beautiful imagery, fun characterization, and f e e l i n g s.

The prequel is here!

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Well, I'll say this: I'm less dead than I look.

Anyway, today I'd like to take a moment to talk about opening lines. We've got an Original Short Story Writeoff finishing up this evening.[1] I've spent a lot of the last week reading and reviewing, and beginning some revisions on an original story of my own. Going through this month's Writeoff entries, though, got me thinking about one of my favorite topics in fiction—and one it seems I've never blogged about before—opening lines.

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Tis the season for all sorts of stuff. Whether it's shopping, shipping or heading to church there's something that you're going to be doing. I can't offer much in the way of advice as to what to do at church though if I followed the rules set forth for me it was, "Sing when they sing, don't talk or fidget and drink what they give you."

"But dad," I'd say, "It's blood!"

"You're a vampire now son! Drink up!'

"And the cracker?"

"That's his flesh."

"How BIG was this guy?"

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Hello, hello! First off, if you missed it, a Patreon blog about a topic and character near and dear to my heart went out rather late last night, and that would be Sunset Shimmer! So maybe give that a read if you want a crash-course on what things of mine she’s been in and my opinions of her development in canon.

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