This. My active reading journey has come to this. "Sixteen Ways To Defend A Walled City," by K.J. Parker.

After making several attempts to comprehend old-fashioned siege warfare, through various odd works of fantasy that feature sieges, various books covering historical wars, such as the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage, and the videos of YouTube channels like "Shadiversity," it's finally come to this. A novel that is completely devoted to a city in a siege.

I can hear the torches being lit from here with a title like that. Like the Beacons of Gondor, save instead of summoning riders, they’re summoning an unhappy bunch.

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Chapter 19:

“Wow! The crack is totally gone now. To be honest, I was kind of worried about it. I even asked my brother if horns can heal if they break and he said nope. But never mind that! When did you find out that you can use magic again?”

*evil laughter intensifies*

Apple Bloom facehooved. “From our class!”

Be more specific Applebloom even I as a reader thought you meant the first ever

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I don't blog about readings all that much, but when I get ones that really raise the bar, I do like to show them around a bit. This one is definitely one of those.

Read by Skijarama, it includes sound effects, atmosphere, musical bits... and basically everything I would want in a good reading.

So, give it a listen! Kid Twilight is still cute, isn't she?

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Strap yourselves in, kids, we’ve got a few here. Playing catch-up for the last week or thereabouts . . . .

Been a lot going on, you know. Like Cherry Berry being assaulted by bad apples.

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Hey everypony! Guess what? A & B covers and the synopsis for issue 2 of IDW's My Little Pony comic series has been published. Our heroes new adventure is about to begin soon!

Here is the description of the synopsis of MLP #2 Variant A:

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First up: Beta Emails have gone out to prior Beta Readers for Axtara 2! If you are a prior Beta Reader, check your email inbox!

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Hey! *poke*

Skijarama is starting a War Does Change reading. Go give it some love, and maybe revisit an old post-apocalyptic favourite...

You know, some nights. Others I don't know because he's either out late working (all the freaking time), giggling with his girlfriend (all the other freaking times), or inexplicably not home. You know, regular roommate stuff.

Except that he's freaking Ponky.

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Y'all remember how I wrote a tribute to Cold in Gardez's "Lost Cities" a couple weeks back[1]? And if you follow Illya Leonov's fanfic readings on YouTube, you may be aware that he also did a series of readings for the original.

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Mrrp

I've been debating it for months now, and I've finally decided to set up a PayPal-based tip jar for all the editing I do, the link to which can be found on the right hand corner of my profile page if you scroll down just a bit.

Anything and everything helps, and is greatly appreciated!

A unicorn overhears from a hunter that this is the last forest where a unicorn roams. Distrought and worried, she sets out on a quest to find what has befallen the rest of her kind.

A simple plot, but the movie puts it to excellent use. My thoughts behind the cut.

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Dear Loyal Watchers, Interested Visitors, and Confused Passersby:

A user named Jim Davis (not the creator of Garfield... I think) has approached me with a kind offer to turn my sole Human-In-Equestria work into a live audio play! I've also managed to interest a noted artist in the fandom, Stainless Key, in on this so I really, really look forward to seeing what happens with the project.

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Yo! What the heck is up with the download versions?! I wanted to use the epub or txt files so my brother could help me with my story, but when I printed either one all the bold and italics text was normal. So I say again, what the heck?!

Hello guys & gals,

As some of you might probably remember, Angel Wings started the auditions for a fanfic dramatic reading of an Apple Scratch toward the world. It took her quite some times, but she's almost managed to gather enough people for all the necessary roles!

I say almost, because sadly she's missing four more people for four central roles in the story.

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Just what does this title mean? Well, some of you may have heard or seen me reference a project I've been working on lately. And some of you may have been quite curious to know what it is. Well, wait and wonder no longer. For here it is...

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.... But you're stomach hurts too much to stay focused.

And that's before the Thanksgiving dinner. I suppose that's one of the occupational hazards of having a wife that cooks the damn finest dinners out there.

As you may have noticed, I have a habit of not delivering new chapters when I promise them. I will take partial blame for this as you may also noticed I'm a bit of an emotional twat sometimes.

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Surprise, folks! I've just released a new Five Star Service chapter for your reading pleasure, showcasing Five Stars' remaining time with John, her first human lover. In it, reference is made to the following scene from my growing war epic Before the Storm: The Rise of Firefly. I'm excerpting it here to show exactly what Five Stars was referring to in the opening section when she said she had to

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