I can't post the Fanfiction Friday poll while at work, since the login for Strawpoll is done through Twitch, and good luck getting a video streaming site focused on gaming through a corporate firewall. Look for the poll tonight or tomorrow.

So for reasons, I needed to have an idea what kind of calendar Equestria would use.

Being fairly familiar with calendaring and having an armchair researcher's understanding of the history of them, I set about researching what we knew about the Equestrian calendar and built from there.

Facts we know:
* Our calendars are based on the sun and moon's movements through the sky

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So this chapter is turning out to be a LOT bigger than I thought it would. What seems in the mind's outline to be a simple few scenes can require a LOT of additional dialog and narrative to stitch them all together. I'm torn at this point on whether to split the chapter or just post one really long one.

So, for the story I thought of, it started with a what if. So, for my what if I thought: What if Zephyr become an alicorn?

I know that seems oddly, because stallions can't be alicorns, to which I understand. But I wanna show you my ideas I came up with, and if you have critiques I'll like some.

• Within the au, I wanted to do something where Zephyr would think that finding artifacts is his calling. 

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Granted, not alot of work, but some was, indeed, done.

Good news: I'm finally able to get back to Trixie (one of them) with this chapter.

Bad news: Thanks to my ex-wife's shenanigans, I was only able to get a few paragraphs in today.

I want to get some ideas out of my head before too long, so I will be doing more work on it before the weekend is over, I'm just not sure when I'll be able to post the update.

We are headed into the home stretch here, as we now approach what I can only guess is what most of my readers have been anticipating.

I hope it doesn't take me terribly long to write the next chapter, but if it does, so be it, because I want to absolutely nail it.

Kindred Pairs - Chapter 9 (Fanfiction.net)

As always, thanks for reading and reviewing!

Got a friend who has just gotten into ponies and the fandom. I've been introducing her to music, video and art, but so far no fanfiction. I have put together a list of the stuff that I really like and think is among the best in the fandom; but along side that, I'm also looking for recommendations for the perennial classics. Stories that have been around a while, that are well-known, that have become a substantial part of the fanon "extended universe" if you will. Iconic stories. Mind you,

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I guess I'm alive, then.

Hey, guys, it's me. A lot has happened in the past nearly three months that has kept me from both writing and this site. The bad news is, obviously, I haven't gotten any writing done. The good news is, it looks like I'm part of a new radio station that plays "geek" music. :3 So my life has finally been improving.

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Hello and welcome my fellow fans to a place of wonder, a place of mystery, a place of excitement. Welcome to...my shit writing journey. I have been made painfully (emphasis on painfully) aware that I need an editor for my fanfics. If anyone would like to do so, and help a starving artist (AKA an eternally struggling author with no real skill.) out, I would very much appreciate it, yeah? Thanks in advance and sorry in advance for all the crap you may have to read before we can polish this up.

1. About what fraction of the fiction you read is fan-fiction? How has this changed over time?

2. About what fraction of the fan-fiction you read do you read on your phone?

3. In what ways is printed / professional / paid for fiction better than fan-fiction? I don't mean paper versus ebook; I mean the stories themselves.

4. In what ways is fan-fiction better than professional fiction?

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...Yeah, it's not happening. At least, not yet. Due in part to apathy and in part to Labyrinth of Touhou and Pokemon Sun & Moon taking up a large chunk of my time, I don't have any desire to write fanfiction for the time being.

Just wanted to let those few of you who are reading this know.

I'm in the finishing stages up episode 2 of my Satirical Drama "Runaway, Houses, City, Clouds". I'm trying to make the episodes longer, and I intend on toning the unnecessary blue humor down a notch. Since the fic is also very music-oriented, I'm making a playlist on Youtube with every song or album I reference, or any songs that had a part in influencing the tone of my fic.

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Two things:

There are precisely two options, which means it's gonna be a poll between my numerically least read fic and a fic I haven't even written yet. I'll go ahead and post the poll this coming Friday.

As for what I'm working on in the meantime, I'm pushing through some writer's block for Fission, which was a Patreon request.

So, yes, historically I've posted a Fanfiction Friday poll the first Friday after publishing a new chapter. This has worked fairly well and gotten a decent amount of progress and two new fics out the door that I wouldn't normally do.

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Welcome to Saturday! (as though I actually woke up early to post this...HAH!)

Here's the current standings; In the lead by an OVERWHELMING majority is Lost Little Wolf. Seriously, LLW has as many votes as all the other candidates combined!

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This week's poll is up! I'll be setting up Patreon tomorrow (when I don't have a full work schedule behind me and an evening wrangling my daughter in front of me) to allow for extra votes. I'm aiming for having my Paypal account set up by the end of the weekend if you want to just flat-out commission a chapter (or a whole story).

In the meantime, voting the truly old fashioned way: Strawpoll is back!

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Just letting everyone know work does proceed at a slow but steady pace for the next chapter of Lost Little Wolf. Though I'm not getting as much done as I'd really like, I'm not suffering any sort of writer's block with this one like I did the last one.

I'd say I'm about 1/4-1/3 the way done with this chapter.

So the Swarm will not be denied; A Hive of Queens is currently in the lead with three votes, followed by Fallen Star with two. Tied for third is Fission, The Mafia's Saints, and Statutory Consequences.

At least another 24-hours remains until the voting ends, so if you haven't had a chance to vote, do so before voting closes tomorrow!

CLICK HERE to vote: https://poll.ly/#/LWMWkrlD

It’s quite possibly a dream of any writer or creator to see someone take their creation and work it into their own works. Call it fanworks, fictional adoption, derivative works; but it always puts a smile on my face. I write to entertain, that is why I have never opened up something like a Patreon or tipjar. So if I can entertain enough that someone decided to take the time and effort to make use of settings, ideas, or topics I assisted to put out there with their own creativity and drive, I

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"The amount of creativity hidden in something like fan-fiction is enormous. This is like the dark matter of play."

- Simon DeDeo, "The Data Science of Play":

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