I'm a slut for well presented maps and statistics and charts and infographics. https://howmuch.net/ has a fuck ton of those, mostly focused on global wealth and population stuff. I mean, look at these beauties!

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Rating Scale:

12/10—a complete masterpiece; flawless and outstanding
11/10—Excellent, near-perfect film
10/10—the standard rating; awesome film with a couple of flaws
9/10—a wonderful film with several flaws
8/10–a great film with numerous flaws but not enough to ruin it

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Nothing much to announce today, folks. The one big issue I'm facing at the moment is that I have a lot of long stories (200,00+ words) coming in the next month of reading. normally this wouldn't be a problem, but with my current lack of time due to job searches and the like I am starting to think I eventually won't be able to keep up. That's not really a problem today, because I ahve all the reviews set up for the next two three weeks, but at that point I may have to consider posting review

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I saw the G5 movie. Izzy's so cute.

It kind of reminded me of the first time I ever saw a black in real life.

That day was weird.

Seriously, I don't think I'd seen one of their kind before, so it was a noteworthy experience.

Nowadays, they're everywhere, so bleh...

That's putting it politely.

I generally do not have the same dream twice. I can count the number of such dreams at a total of 3 and almost never more than one repeat. Out of these one was absolutely agonizing because I woke up, and then I woke up, and then I woke up...about 137 times..

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happy, that's how you made me feel
many times
but now, i feel like you're ignoring me
(couldn't think of a rhyme)

why? you refuse to tell me
though you used to
please answer my question
what did i do?

is it something i said?
is it something i did?

is it something i'm doing?
is it something i'm trying?

you're one of my best friends
or you were
friends don't do this to friends
you're not her

you're not the perky, fun girl i met last year
you're someone i don't know

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Putting off reading stories and then doing lots of stuff less interesting than reading stories is stupid.

I still managed to procrastinate by wasting time on Reddit.

But I did get some stories read!

Today’s stories:

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So I'm watching Lavalantula on Syfy and during the ad break...this.

Really? Really?

Did advertisers learn NOTHING from the banned Quiznos ad?

Gonna be a quick thing here:

• This summer was admittedly not that great for writing. I think I have maybe 40k of words from various chapters/not quite complete updates and the like that I managed.
• I don't have much to show for it, but I'm on the last (and biggest) part of the Actual Next Update. Even if I wanted to rush it (and, uh, I don't) I have a lotta boxes to pack and a whole-ass move to college in 48 hours.

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I once told my good friend Professor Plum that I could make any Rarity ship work, damn it, and he asked if he could put that to the test by commissioning me. Even though I don't take commissions, I agreed because I wanted to see if I could do it.

I figured I'd preview it for y'all.

EDIT: Thanks to FOME for suggesting changing Prada to Rara in the title

...I dislike Rarity episodes. Quite a bit. I like the series and its characters because they're not superficially girly-girl and stuff, but the Rarity episodes move off in that direction more often than not by the very nature of Rarity's profession. I wouldn't exactly say it's a BAD thing for the show to cater more to its target audience, considering I and most people here are decidedly not such, but I literally do not care about the fashion aspect of this universe. As such, I'm not

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Is Yu-Gi-Oh a thing again? I keep seeing Yu-Gi-Oh fic popping up in the new stories feed. Also, can we just acknowledge that the GX theme has stupid lyrics. but great music.

I KNOW IT'S STUPID, SHUT UP

This, being this.

Marsupials likely have questions.

I might have some answers.

So, without further ado...

1. Yes. It's back.

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Rating Scale:

12/10—a complete masterpiece; flawless and outstanding
11/10—Excellent, near-perfect film
10/10—the standard rating; awesome film with a couple of flaws
9/10—a wonderful film with several flaws

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First off, the previous shuffle's finished. That looked like a good one; I wouldn't be against doing that again.

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Not super feeling it right now, guys. Got a meeting this late afternoon/evening and another tomorrow morning, involving co-workers, a performance review and a meeting about our current product. (The performance review should, honestly, be fine, but that's not going to stop me from worrying.)

I could have typed stuff during the con, but, well - it was a wonderful convention and i want to gush about it later.

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So, the show is officially over. Its time has come. I'll definitely say this:

I can't believe they reformed Starlight. What a battle!