Late Thursday evening I checked my fimfic notifications. There were... a lot of them. And the first 9 were comments on my stories, all by PaulAsaran, all saying "You can has review!" He spent 9 of his 10 story slots this week on me.

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This is the funniest story ever posted to this site. Bad Horse is a genius.

Behold: The Saga of Dark Demon King Ravenblood Nightbalde, Interior Design Alicorn

I recently finished 2 books:  The Worst of Bad Horse (described here) and Stupid Unicorn (a picture book).  Both will be available both at Bronycon, and by mail (which costs more because shipping).  (I might possibly have copies at Trotcon or Capclave this month, but I won't be selling them in the dealer's room.)

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This index to not-bad blogs will always be on my user page. Each list is mostly in chronological or reverse-chronological order.
I've added a few good blog posts by other people.
I put a '*' in front of the ones I think are most-important.

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The Ministry of Image, a group of Russian bronies who print hardbacks of famous pony tales, is coming out with a great new anthology of stories about Celestia: "Tales of the Sun".

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Just finished it. Probably one of the best surveys I've ever taken. Only a small handful of questions where I couldn't find a choice that I liked.

I took it. So should you. Data collection analysis is fun and good for society!

Back in 2013, I learned that my name means "peaceful god, lover of horses".

This year, I learned that my Chinese zodiac sign is the Fire Horse.

Derp. I forgot to post that my talk is "The Structure of Fimfiction" in Salon A ("Reverie") at 7:15pm Friday.

Bad Horse is spreading around this fanfiction survey.

It'd be really cool if we could get some people to click his bubbles. Thankies.

And I know you love sharing your opinions too.

So, Bad Horse has put together a nifty survey that you should all go take, so we can hear your opinions loud and clear!

If you're game, make a blog post to spread the word, we're trying to get as many folks as possible onto this thing.

Trotcon rescheduled its cancelled summer convention to December without telling anybody.

I've attended Trotcon for years, and they have my email and my address, but I got no notification that the con was being held, but moved to December. Just found out a few weeks ago. Forgot to post anything on fimfiction because I don't do much on fimfiction lately except check my notifications once a week bcoz knighty made notifications disappear after a week. Sorry!

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I went to an anime con last weekend & cosplayed a character from a famous anime.

Not one person at the convention recognized the character.  Do you? They called me "horse guy" all weekend.

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The Worst of Bad Horse
Thanks to the tireless work of RBDash47¹, and to me being unemployed, I'm coming out with a big book at Bronycon.  It's 730 pages, with 54 stories, scripts, and poems. You've seen all these before, except for:

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darf recently made public that he is also NTSTS, so I can finally show you this tree I made using stylo back in 2014 of some fimfic authors:

Look closely at the darf / NTSTS entries:

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In case you weren't aware[1], Bad Horse does these amazing posts regarding the history of art and criticism leavened with insightful leaps from one field of study to the next. They are great fun and not one hundredth as dry as you might suspect. He was recently laboring on this amazing post regarding the

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BronyCon was a lot of fun, and most titles in the bookstore (not just PFP titles -- everybody's!) sold out.

Direct purchases will be available soon, but for the following two titles, we need to unload the remaining bookstore stock before we can make their direct purchasing links live.

The Worst of Bad Horse

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Bad Horse is doing a thing for fandom research purposes and you should totally contribute! It's fun!

Super Happy Funtime Wow Fanfiction Pony Survey Thing!!!

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...but not from me. Bad Horse made an absolutely gorgeous story featuring Dotted Line: The Gathering. It's absolutely wonderful in all the best Bad Horse-y ways and also wonderful in Dotted Line-y ways and wonderful in a few ways all of its own. It's quite, quite short and will, guaranteed, make your day better. I ask humbly that you give it a read as soon as you can: you won't be sorry you did, and it will

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Note: collateral to the story discussed here, I was drawn into some of the online offerings of historian Ada Palmer. Consider this also a recommendation of her stuff, staring with her series on what led to Machiavelli writing The Prince and in the process inventing modern political science and consequentialist ethics, her "Sketches of a History of Historical Skepticism," and her

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I'm giving / helping give 3 talks / panels / events in the next 2 weeks, at Trotcon and Bronycon:

Trotcon, Columbus OH, Fri July 20, 11:30 AM: Aristotle vs. Fan-Fiction

Humans are weird.  Sometimes they like to do painful or frightening things: ride roller-coasters, eat the extra-hot buffalo wings at Duff''s, climb mountains, watch horror movies.

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