DATELINE: the American Midwest. An innocent man struggles to find parking in Local Biggish City, child in tow, wife waiting at home--and all feeling desperate. Back home, the fridge is empty, save for leftovers of dubious vintage; and the pantry is that curious mix of stuffed-to-the-gills yet containing absolutely nothing. To make matters worse, he is ill, and has taken to wearing one of those uncomfortable blue mask thingies for the good of his fellow man.

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Fun fact, this chapter that I've just posted was surprisingly fun, and my second most recent chapter. It was also a chapter I did at byootfick in the dead of night, cranking out roughly four fifths of the entire chapter in one go (roughly 4000 words). I had NEVER been that motivated. This is ALSO a chapter my editor and best friend highly enjoyed, which surprised me a bit. He certainly likes my work, but this was much higher praising than I was used to, which made me a little suspicious, but

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Happy New Year! For my first post of 2021, I've got something special: the music that inspired (or was referenced by) The Iron Horse: Everything's Better With Robots! Check below the break for over two hours of auditory, robot-friendly bliss!

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by Melanie Martinez

Hey girl, open the walls, play with your dolls
We'll be a perfect family.
When you walk away, it's when we really play
You don't hear me when I say,
Mom, please wake up.
Dad's with a slut, and your son is smoking cannabis

No one ever listens, this wallpaper glistens
Don't let them see what goes down in the kitchen.

Places, places, get in your places
Throw on your dress and put on your doll faces.

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Something that might surprise most of you is that, when I try to humblebrag, I barely talk about the obscene size of my penis. There is nothing humble about it. It’s just generally a great thing.

No, what I always talk about is the fact that—and this is true, fucking warped as it sounds—even though I am the dumbest motherfucker on this website? I sometimes need to put, like, real effort into convincing my readers that my prose is shit.

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I haven't done an AMA in a while. This blog is meant to rectify that. Go on and ask me something in the comments! However many questions you want, I guess. I don't care. Though, don't ask me about story updates. Those are in progress! Please don't ask me to spoil my stories either. If there's some sort of lore that you're interested in that is a spoiler you really wanna know about, PM me.

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I know my existence on the site has been sporadic as fuck lately. For months I've been in lurk mode more than anything else, and this has been applying to a lot of my usual discord friend groups as well. I just wanted to let y'all know that I am (obviously) alive and that I haven't retired or quit my writing. However, a lot has gone on in my life and it is to blame for why all seems rather quiet on Ice Star's front. I'm not going to quit writing and I'd be glued to my keyboard (or at least the

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No, really, I can. Even when I haven't had much of anything to show for it lately, I'm writing and that does mean that I haven't quit. I've never been the best at using these blogs to connect to people like other users on the site, but if you had been worried that I had forgotten something, downgraded to a lurker, or something else, then I haven't. What I have been doing is working on packing and everything else that comes with a move, and have been working on various tasks for this over the

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why is that even still in my calendar

uuuuuuuuhh
feel free to leave questions ig? i'm likely gonna be super bored later [unless some stuff happens idk] so i'll prob pop on again and answer them [i'd also be down to just like, conversing or smth]

also like
what are we feeling for what to do while i'm here all day in May? i have no plans it some times it feels like it's coming fast haha

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I will revise it later on when I'm not wanting to scream my head off about how much research I had to do on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I've seen too much death in one evening.

It’s fast, yeah!

The mobile version is going to be ticking me off for a while. Can’t even begin to figure it out.

The emojis make me cry on the inside. Please, make it stop.

Some of the page stuff and typing thingy blog toolbar whatever looks okay.

But the rest? The new look.

Not digging it one bit. It’s actually really confusing to my eyes and just looks... ehhhh.

Guess I’ll see where this goes?

so i was SUPER DUPER pumped for halloween tomorrow
i was going trick or treating w/ two of my friends, one whom i hang out with ALL THE TIME, the other whom i havent seen in awhile, owing to the fact that i only ever saw her at vball but the season's over and she's homeschooled.
and the latter friend, the homeschool girl, was going to be castiel and i was going to be dean (from supernatural)
but
she won tickets for 5sos concert tomorrow night
so naturally she's going to that instead

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So, finally got around to watching the movie today. I won't lie, I was kinda worried I'd have wasted money on a dud film and end up cursing my fan devotion to the series, especially after hearing such mixed reception. But, like dropping into a boiling hot tub, once I was in, I was able to properly relax.

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my mom was asking me for possible examples of what i mean when i said i wanted short hair
so i showed her this example of troye sivan

and then she started yelling at me "SEE THIS IS WHY YOUR FATHER AND I DONT WANT YOU TO GET SHORT HAIR LIKE THAT! BECAUSE IT'S GUY HAIR! THERE IS NO WAY I'D EVER LET YOU GET A HAIRCUT THAT LOOKS LIKE A GUY!"

and aaaaaaa that is very unpleasant

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“When this is over, I will see her burn for what she’s done.”
— Wind Rider

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Okay so I'm getting this wig for Christmas for a Sunset Shimmer cosplay

But the thing is, I'm not sure if I want to cosplay old Sunset (from EQG and EQG:RR)

Or the Sunset revamp!

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Hi everybody!

I hope you've been having nice holidays if you celebrate them, and if you don't, I hope you've been having a wonderful week. Since it's very unlikely TEK will update before the year ends, and since my end of year blogpost won't be till later, I just wanted to share with y'all a comic ArcticWaters gave me for Xmas which is AMAZING and depicts the first time Twilight sees snow after a thousand years.

Putting it under the cut

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ok so actually i might delete this

but do u remember in like december or whatever when i said i had a kinda bf

well i broke up with him

yeah

*pretends to listen to single ladies by beyonce*

*actually watches downton abbey like the dweeb i am*

It's probably been a while, or maybe I'm just too quiet lately. I'm not sure. Either way, let's talk story updates. Even though I can't write in the same way I used to (mostly because I'd need, like, more three of me to keep up with all the shit I want to do in general) I've still been getting stuff done! It may not be three stories updating near-monthly or a hecking bunch of more substantial new one-shots popping out every few weeks, but it's something. Get those below the break!

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So, as a lot of you have noticed, I have an abundance of stories on this site. Problem is, a lot of them are random one-offs that tie into my main story, "The Not-So-Normal Adventures of King Sombra and Pinkie Pie." Now, the reason this is a problem is because... Well, here's all the one-shots...

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