So I'm actually quite looking forward to The Rings Of Power, the soon-to-be cinematic series based on Tolkien's Middle-Earth lore. The Lord of the Rings is probably my favourite film trilogy and, while it's debated to this day, I really enjoyed The Hobbit series.
And there's something I feel I need to say...
I get that Amazon is...not a perfect company run by perfect people. I won't say anything else about that because frankly...I don't consider it relevant.

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Instead of working on a story, I instead spent all evening reviewing stories. I’m not sure if that counts as procrastination or sideways efficiency. But hey, I managed both a set of Read It Now Reviews and a set of Read It Later reviews this week!

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Hello to all my new followers!

For those of you who who are new, I periodically review stories and give my own personal recommendations on them. The stories are taken from my voluminous “Read It Later” lists, or alternatively are drawn from various places around the site. I am somewhat notorious for “hating everything”, but I assure you, there are things that I love.

Just not many of them.

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Yeah, I know, I'm like a week late with this announcement. I'm aware that I've been getting more and more scarce on here, but that doesn't mean that I'm not interested in some Fimfic events from time to time - and this is certainly, certainly no exception.

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"It's funny 'cause she's drunk!"
"Haha, they're making fart noises!"
"sexual innuendo"

I understand that different people find different things amusing, but what I can't stand is miscategorization. This isn't adult humor, this is the humor of the obnoxious kids back in middle school. It's fine if you enjoy middle-school obscenity humor, but don't pretend it's "mature". It's not.

I’m awfully serious on this blog. I’m tired of it, have something completely inconsequential I’ve been working on for the last couple days. If you read my blog posts for half-baked discussions of “art” as it relates to fanfiction… this isn’t that. You can head on your way if you are.

No, no, no. Instead, this is going to be something different.

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So, yeah...

This just happened. I am a little shocked by this.

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IN WHICH I DO NAUGHT BUT EXIST

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Was supposed to bring out a chapter this week... that's going to be a no-go, unfortunately. However, I'm still working diligently. Please be patient.

It's totally not because I've been pissing about, watching old LPs online, and playing "The Last Guardian", which I just got earlier this week. Totally not because of that...

... ... I'll get back to work now.

So... Yeah, I'm stroking my own ego a little with this one, but I realised earlier that I've published over 100,000 words of pony fiction on this site in the last six months. Considering that this is my first writing venture (like seriously, before Fimfic the closest I had got to creative writing was lyrics) I'm quite pleased with my progress. When I started, I didn't expect things to go this quickly, especially considering the quiet months between March and May (where I posted like two

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It's finally time folks. Let's find out who the ringleader is!

EHow Not To Use Your Royal Prerogative

• MLP: FiM
• Comedy
• Mystery

After going to Coloratura's concert, Sunset gets both good news and bad news. Somepony stole her identity and is running around with her face. That's the good news.

• Alt. Universe
• Minuette
• Sunset Shimmer
• Coco Pommel
• Moondancer
• Coloratura

Amber Spark · 67k words  ·  324  7 · 4.4k views

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-Novel

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Y'all better watch the movie already and prepare yourselves for more CMC & Button Mash related shenanigans 'cause my next story is gonna be OFF THE CHAIN! Get ready for more Love Tap! Some Capper! Some Princess Skystar! Glim-Glam! The GaPT! Spike! The cutest edgehorse we've seen yet! And a very special pony Princess who has to try to keep things from getting out of hoof!

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I've never really looked at my own body of work and tried to suss out a general theme. As far as I know, I don't really have an identity as far as what I write, at best having one for how I write. I don't know that you could sum my work on Fimfiction up in one sentence, the way you could say that Majin Syeekoh writes irreverent comedy with intermittent navel-gazing, or that Carapace and friends write fluffy romances about the contrast between sour and sweet. Of course, if you can, feel free. I

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Fair warning: I cried a ton during this chapter.

EHow Not To Use Your Royal Prerogative

• MLP: FiM
• Comedy
• Mystery

After going to Coloratura's concert, Sunset gets both good news and bad news. Somepony stole her identity and is running around with her face. That's the good news.

• Alt. Universe
• Minuette
• Sunset Shimmer
• Coco Pommel
• Moondancer
• Coloratura

Amber Spark · 67k words  ·  324  7 · 4.4k views

Share and enjoy!

-Novel

Yep, it's my birthday! 🍰 (Oh, who am I kidding with that cake emoji... 🍸)
First off, the next chapter of The Iron Horse is going up today, in the early evening! And after that, there are just TWO chapters left!

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So..."Grief is the Price We Pay"...

...at the time of posting this, it stands at...

...98 chapters...

...609,417 words...

...802 upvotes...

...63 downvotes...

...4,572 comments...

...took a year and a half to write...

...and now it is finally finished.

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well it did
and that story can be found here and the review can be found here.

now i never said it was a positive review so don't go there expecting too much praise mkay

In a sudden fit of productivity, I decided that it was time for me to actually finish a story yesterday and post it. It won sixth place in the last write-off, out of more than fifty entrants, and was within just a few fractions of a point of second place. I thought it was a bit unlike what I usually write - a metafic comedy, referencing the recent stories about fatal teleportation, Saturdays, and various other silly things - but Bradel thought it was in line with The Stars Ascendant in

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