Grrrrrrrrrreetings, friends! It is I, Mystic Mind, once again for my continued review and analysis of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, seeing how the show evolved and changed over the years to become an animation juggernaut, defining the 2010s era of animation. Today, we are tackling the first Slice of Life episode of season 1, being "Ticket Master". No, not the price-gauging concert ticket website, but the fued over who gets to attend the Grand Galloping Gala!

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Six years.

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So, I had a time this year.

Let's start at the beginning. I was in the middle of a gap year in my studies. Basically, I didn't finish a singular math prerequisite fast enough, so I had to wait a full year to get into courses that are only offered in the fall. Two semesters idle, not really moving forward in pursuit of my dream career. I wasn't in the best emotional place a year ago.

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I've been putting this off for a while now, but now that the submission period for The Discovery contest is closed, I figure it's high time I did a little chatting about the creative process behind the story and such.

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Grrrrrrrrrrrrreetings everypony, and welcome back to Deconstruction is Magic, my Retrospective/Review/Analysis of every episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is magic ever. Today, we have a strange one, showing us that only the strangest of ponies knows how to handle a Parasprite plague: it's Swarm of the Century! Without wasting any more time, let's get on with the analysis! I am the Mage of Mind, reminding you, as always, that even a

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It took all of three days from the time The Dusk Guard: Beyond the Borderlands first appeared on Fimfiction for someone to make a comment wondering and predicting when the Dusk Guard were going to show up.

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As I’m sure most of you are aware by now, The Silver Standard finished yesterday last week a week and a half ago (darn you, work-induced procrastination). I originally planned on a longer retrospective of how long it took us to get here, let you in on some old notes, and spell out a couple of theses on characters and the obtuse floriography symbolism that I threw in because it’s my fic and nobody can stop me.

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For me, the show ended a long time ago. The season four finale was the last contiguous episode I watched. The show had become predictable and stale. The sincere optimism and slice-of-life tone that I had enjoyed no longer entertained me. The jokes no longer landed, and the plotlines failed to surprise me. And the writers had started to run out of ideas even then; at the time I joked that they had gotten DBZ in my MLP, given the laser dogfight that ended season four.

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I'm doing things different this time around. I'll tackle the stuff I wanted to accomplish this year in this blog, and post my resolutions tomorrow. Let's see how I did this time.

1) Get a second job/pass classes with at least a B. Check!
2) Reach 100+ followers. Not quite. Got 92, though, and that's more than I thought I would have when I started on this site.
3) Reach 200,000+ words total. Almost, but not quite.

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