While I don’t have an update on word count for The Friendship Initiative, I would guess it is somewhere around 60,000 words or so. The exciting part to me is that I finally have written the climax of the story, so it shouldn’t be much longer before I’m working on the second draft and can start posting.

I have no idea how long that will take, but we are definitely getting close!

This week, it’s back to the Moon for more play-by-post fun with Woona.

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I like to call these pieces a "ramble", as it's mostly just me going on a tangent about a certain subject, collecting all we know about it and try fit the pieces together to form a theory about the concept. Usually keep these on tumblr, although been a while since the last one.

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I’m half-tempted to just post this link to Atop the Fourth Wall and move straight to the card designs. I’m not going to, but Linkara does do a very good of breaking down many of the comic’s failings. That said, he does it from the perspective of an outsider looking in. He’s tried Friendship is Magic and it isn’t to his taste. I respect his opinion, but there are aspects of it that elude him.

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In this penultimate week of Season 8—going by the US release schedule, anyway—we get the closest thing we may get to an answer to one of the series’s biggest questions.

I really hope it doesn’t turn out to be the closest thing we get.

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I must admit it actually took me a bit to come up with that title, true as it is. Hey folks, Max here with the weekly update, and as noted above, this week it’s full of dragons. Why? Well, because I’ll be talking about two dragon books today.

Furthermore, the first one I’m going to talk about is not my own.

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What does the former have to do with the latter? Nothing except to remind myself that despite being recently diagnosed with high blood pressure (for which I’m on medication and have altered my diet), my heart is strong and stamina is growing. I can do a 10k with ease now, I hit 8.22 miles today without a problem, and I may consider seeing if I can run a half-marathon (13.1 miles) before long.

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A little christmas post and message for everyone.

Hope you have a good time. And if you think this is a time where there are also too many misfortunate people... try to reach out and help instead of wallowing into despair and whining.

Well, the Equestrian Department of Plausible Deniability got back to me, and I’ve been cleared to release the following classified information on the condition that it not be disseminated to any ponies of interest. I think we’ll be able to handle that much.

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I've long since expanded, my sis has her mark.
I just saw her walking in the park.
I said, “I’d like to do stuff if you don't mind.”
She said, “I’d love to, sis, if I could find the time.
“You see, my new job's a hassle, and this colt needs a stone
“But you’re always my favorite pone, Rare.
“You’ve been ever my favorite pone.”
And as I walked to my home, it occurred to me
She'd grown up just like me.
My sis was just like me.

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It’s time to deal with the Opaline situation.

Yes, in the middle of the chapter.

No, I’m not kidding.

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Tell Your Tale hasn’t quite told all the tales for this year, so we’re dipping back into G4 for a bit. Specifically the next round of Classics Reimagined. No prizes for guessing who’s in the great and powerful titular role, but we’ll get to that when we get to it. First we need to get out of Horse Kansas.

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The first chapter draft for C&C is off to prereaders, weighing in at a whopping 17,775 words. So far I’ve gotten one of those prereads back with another in progress, and the initial feedback is favorable. As I’m still picking at it and slipping stuff in, it’s likely going to be approaching 19,000 or more words when all is said and done. But I don’t think I’ll reduce its size by splitting it this time. It’s a climactic chapter, so even as a clop chapter, it will be of climatic chapter length.

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Now that I’m more or less up to date with d20 Pony, let’s look at a different pony webcomic. Indeed, let’s look at one of the first.

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Heyo, folks. Just wanted to let you know that the next Eros chapter is now with prereaders. Weighing in at 10,000 words, it's actually a little light on sex after the initial section, but as the reason involves some character development and worldbuilding, hopefully you won't mind too much. But that's not the only thing I wanted to mention.

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Hello all. Today marks the beginning of the Stretch for Time Fortnight my rambling about the short lead-up animations for the movies, a welcome change in terms of ease of viewing. After all, Hasbro put these on their own YouTube channel. I’ve provided links, since odds are these are far from fresh in anyone’s memory.

You’d probably think I can’t get much out of shorts that aren’t even three minutes long each. You would be wrong.

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To thank everyone who replied on my previous blog. The outpouring of support I received was very much appreciated, and very much needed for the mood I was in. I will take pains to reply to everyone that commented in the next few days, but first I wanted to make an announcement that I’m sure a significant number of readers will be eager to hear:

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It’s that time again. Let’s cap off the latest addition to the dynasty with collectable cardboard representations of each entry, as per tradition.

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Thanks in part to one final comment that came to me over PM last night. It wasn't a mean comment. In fact, it was nothing but a simple, politely asked question from a reader I hadn't heard from before: do you have to read the griffon chapters to understand what comes after?

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Hey, folks. Here’s my weekly writing update. I’m tagging this as C&C since that’s what the teaser below is about, but the blog is about both it and Unleash the Magic - Midnight Rising.

Unleash the Magic - Midnight Rising

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