As the Royal Canterlot Library says farewell to Chris, we welcome RBDash47, creator of the original Pony Fiction Vault, to our fold!

You're destined to like tonight's story.

Wyrmlysan
[Tragedy] • 3,322 words

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The first two weeks of the fantasy football season, I lost both of my games... and I lost both of them by a single point

But this week, we're trying something new! Specifically, we're trying "get your fanny beat in a blowout;" as I type this, Jordy Nelson just scored a last-second touchdown in the Packers/Bengals game to make my fantasy score 75-107... and my opponent still has two players left, to my none. Looks like it's gonna be a winless September.

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If you weren't paying attention to the last couple of blogposts from me, this is the first of a new twice-a-month update post I'm doing. If you follow my blog, One Man's Pony Ramblings, then this is all stuff you've seen before. But if not, or if you're someone who just needs to be reminded that things outside of FiMFic exist, here's what I've put up on my review/writing/ponystuff blog since last Monday:

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It's that time of year again! Go slap a Santa hat on your avatar, if you're the kind of person who thinks that's fun! If you're the kind of person who thinks that's sorta dumb, then feel free to not do that thing, though. I can relate; sometimes I think things are sorta dumb, too. But personally, I kind of like this tradition, and even if The Descendant's not around to pimp Santa hats, I'd be happy to see it keep being A Thing.

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I'm back home now, and I suppose it's time to retire the santa hat for another year. Oh well; into storage it goes!

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If you don't religiously track my blog, One Man's Pony Ramblings, then today's your lucky day! Head below the break to see all the exciting things you missed, and to catch up! Or to see all the boring things you missed, and skim past them. Your mileage may vary, I suppose. But hey, I thought they were all pretty interesting posts...

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We're edging closer and closer to the end of summer. I don't have any particular comment on that, other than to say that I'm against it on principal. I've never understood the "after a few weeks off, I'm ready to go back to work" crowd; it's not like I hate my job, but would I rather be able to sleep in, see my friends, and get some reading done? Uh, yes?

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So, how's everyone's bracket doing after the first week? I, uh, might have had Louisville in the finals, so... yeah. Hey, at least I don't need to pay too much attention for the rest of the month!

Which, of course, means more time for review-reading! Head down below the break to see what I've been up to on my blog, One Man's Pony Ramblings, over the past few weeks.

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I recently competed in the writeoff minific round, and you know what that means... I'll be publishing a new story soon! Or, I'll have a new chapter in my minific collection. Could be either-or, really; look for To Be Forgotten to show up later this week. I'll probably blog a little bit about it too, even if it's just a "by the way, it's here now, go read it" dealybob.

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It occurred to me, as I was assembling screenshots of Carrot Top from The Gift of the Maud Pie to include in tomorrow's blogpost on OMPR, that I do a lot of stuff with Carrot Top. Which is fine, of course; I wouldn't if I didn't enjoy it, and she is definitely the cutest representative of a race/cartoon defined mostly by their/its cuteness. But it all happened gradually enough that it kind of snuck up on me; my most popular early

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It's been a long weekend. A good one, but a long one, visiting friends and family. And getting home much later than I planned to, and barely making it to work on Monday as I continue to try to make up the sleep and energy deficit I'm running. I can't even tell myself I just need to make it to next weekend, because that's the barbershop district convention... that my barbershop chorus is running. So next weekend will be herding a few thousand old men around and trying to make sure everyone

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Hey, what with my vacation, I let this get away from me. Well, no more! If you've been impatiently waiting for an update on what's been going on at my review blog, One Man's Pony Ramblings, then wonder no more! Here comes nearly a month's worth of what you missed, including both the usual mix of reviews and commentary, and guest posts from while I was gone! You'll definitely want to give the latter a look, if you haven't already; there's

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Today's Review Roundup covers three weeks, instead of two. Why? Because I had it in my mind that this week was two weeks out from the last post, rather than last week. Granted, all I would have needed to do to see the error of my ways was look at the dates involved, but obviously I didn't do that. Well, here's an extra-large look back at what's been going on at One Man's Pony Ramblings recently:

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Remember to get your March Madness brackets in this week! Well, do it right now if you're in one of those moronic "you have to pick the play-in games, too" pools, but regardless, this is the week to pretend you've watched a single college basketball game all year! This is the week to nod sagely when someone mentions "RPI" and act like you know what it stands for! This is the week to pretend you aren't just picking teams based on whose mascot is prettiest!

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Sorry that this is coming out a few days "late;" between a barbershop chorus leadership conference I went to over the weekend and MLK day, I just didn't get around to putting this roundup together until tonight. Still, it's not like the fanfic reviews on my blog have suddenly become obsolete since then, right? Right. So here's a quick recap of what I've reviewed in the last two weeks:

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Since the Iowa caucuses start tomorrow, this seems like a good time to remind all of you who 1) are U.S. citizens, and 2) are over 18, or will be by November: don't forget to get registered to vote! This site can help you out with telling if you're registered, and finding out how to fix that if you aren't. And don't forget to vote in your primary or attend your caucus; if you're not sure when to

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After more than a month, Obs' Secret Santa story compilation is finally a thing! Thanks to the author of At Least There Was Good Coffee for writing me a perfectly silly story about Gusty (the Whinneapolis delegate from

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Do you ever have people start noticing a particular story of yours, seemingly for no reason? Because I've had four or five people add The Showmare's Tale to their libraries in the past couple of days, and I have no idea why. I mean, I guess it was probably linked to somewhere, but I don't know where. If any of you happen to have the answer, I'm always curious to see what people are saying about my writing, even if it's some of my older stuff.

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I was going to post this on Sunday... but I've been a busy lad all weekend. Blerg.

BUT! On the un-blergiest note possible (and if you're already a regular visitor to One Man's Pony Ramblings, you've already seen this, but it's worth looking at again): behold!

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