http://ghost.market/

Go there and buy a "pony autograph." If he sells 400, he'll watch an episode of MLP, guaranteed.

"Kill your darlings," Stephen King Hemingway Faulkner Arthur Quiller-Couch said to young authors, in his 1914 lecture "On Style":

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Good evening everyone! Been a good day for MLP. Latest episode came out and I got railroaded by the feels-train, MLP has been out for five years officially, and, coincidentally, my new story is out.

It's relatively short at around 9 pages and it is complete. If you check it out to the end, there's a little preview relating it to "The Iron Horse" that you might enjoy when the next chapter comes out. Anyway, what's the story about?

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While those paintings from my post “We Didn’t Start the Fire” are fresh in your mind, I want to talk about the relationship between modern art and medieval art. Modern art is often thought of as something new, but in many ways it is a return to the medieval artistic tradition. It began with a strong influence from primitive art [1], and it is not at all coincidence that

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I was wondering when people would start noticing the characters that I used in my Equestria : 1940 story looked familiar, for those of you who know history (or Google Wikipedia). Some of them are obvious, like the historical FDR, while some may be familiar to my readers as Laminia is. Some references are oblique, like ‘Soap’ MacTavish or the William Goldman derived quote (which was accidental by the timing, but intentional for the quote). So just for the fun of it, take a spin through the

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Gentlemen of the Jury: The best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people

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What if Mumakil existed on Earth and humans used them as war beasts? Those giant elephants from LOTR. What affects would they have on human history? Would nations who have mumakill be powerhouse empires?

Some examples; Hannibal and his army crossing the alps with a least a dozen or so Mumakil (instead of War Elephants) into Rome. The Persian Empire has mumakil. (If the Persians used mumakil Battle of Thermopylae) India has Mumakil. Africa has Mumakil.

What Mumakil look like.

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This Saturday is the 50th anniversary of the first manned Moon landing.

There's a great website showing video from the landing module of the moon landing, synced up with their communications with ground control, altitude data, and Neil Armstrong's heart rate: http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com

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"Karl Marx's London-Memorial Vandalized for second time" from The Guardian.

I wouldn’t like to say who or why someone did it but it was clearly someone very critical of Marx & that part of history. I am just surprised that somebody in 2019 feels they need to & do something like that.

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Let's just say Italy was never unified, it was always divided by city-states. There are Celts, Greeks, Carthaginians, and other groups squabbling over it in endless wars. With Rome neutralized as a threat, who would rise as a superpower instead and fill the power vacuum?

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So, what was I doing last weekend, you might wonder? Well, not much pony wise. No, I was off at another Civil War Reenactment, once again manning the cannons of the Statehouse Battery. The reenactment was in Zoar, a small town with an awesome historical district full of building from the early and mid 19th century. The community was originally one of the many kooky religious societies, and was founded by German immigrants. The society had a hard time adapting to life in the US initially and

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I know I try to avoid politics, but wow. The USA just... well, Roe v. Wade just got overturned.

Source Link.

What does this mean, if you don't know already? It means that abortion is no longer protected at the national level, but something that each state can ban or uphold as they wish.

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In 1862, the country of Mexico managed to score a victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla. Later in 1865, the United States lent money and guns to the Mexican liberals in support, forcing France and Mexican Conservatives to surrender.

Hello everyone! My name is SuperKamek, but chances are you probably already knew that, and today we'll be talking about Canadian history and all of its historical historical-ness!

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Still not the next post on the survey, but two postscripts to How theme suggests what characters to use. The first is about why views might be expressed as characters; the second has to do with medieval stories.

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This video just went up, I think some of you might get a kick out of it,

Might give you some ideas as well.

So. It's 12:41 AM, and I'm not tired at all right now. I've got some soft orchestral music looping in the background, and I already wrote my usual pile of horsewords into Pony-Me's in-progress chapter. Heck, I even got a few more unread chapters knocked off my tracking list. So what now?

Well, about Pony-Me. It's got quite a few versions of its narrative.

Let's turn back time a bit, shall we?

Pony-Me 1.0

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Yes, you read that right. After what I've read about the topic, I am indeed a Nazi, because I find Aryanne fics both cute and hilarious. That makes me a Nazi, right? But people are saying that Aryanne should be banned, and so should all of Ze Nazis be kicked out of ze fandom. Clearly liking Aryanne fics is a sign of being a Nazi.

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