Just a minor delay, last bit of this chapter is taking longer to get out of my head and on the screen than I expected and I keep scrapping what I've written since it strays so far from where I'm going with this while not going anywhere... If it were a matter of the tangent actually resolving a storyline, I'd keep it, but it just seems to be trying to wander away with the story.

Fanfiction Friday will be delayed for 1 week so I can get this chapter out.

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So I woke up this morning to find my little fic Deviation went from struggling to stay ahead of the haters (majority downvotes on the story) to the most faves for a story in a 12 hour period since I first posted Double Trixie Trouble back in 2015!

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(click the above image to go to the poll)

So here we go! Time to get down and dirty, this is where the fandom shows their true loyalties!

(Also, where I wax hyperbolic to try and gin up more attention, but pay no attention to the princess behind the curtain!)

For those who need a refresher on the choices:

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...and as predicted, bronies kinda stole the election. Maybe that had something to do with me only posting this first poll here...?

Naaaaah!

Moving on, a quick preview of the possible fics to vote on this month that are all MLP:FiM related:

• Gently Streams the Sunbeams
• The Last Little Unicorn
• Crossing the Streams
• Voice of Rage and Ruin (part 2 of My Empire of Dirt)
• A Town Called Tavern

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...'cause why not?

So, for my new readers who came in during my (shall we say) "blue period," I didn't always work on one fanfic at a time. My initiation of the project that turned into My Empire of Dirt and Music Box Blues and the resulting sabbatical from the rest of my work was detailed in the Author's Notes blog post here, so I won't rehash them.

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So we're nearly done. I had been hoping to wrap everything up in time for a Thursday release and do the first-time-in-over-two-years Fanfiction Friday, but my day job had people calling out sick (at least a few diagnosed with COVID-19 in one variant or another) in increasing numbers all week with no appreciable decrease in the workload, so by the time Friday rolled around, I hadn't had any of the extra time I usually would have at work to do the non-writing tasks associated with being an author

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So the winner, with 13 votes, is Fallen Star.

"But wait," you say, "The poll results only show 3 votes for Fallen Star."

Ah, you're right...unless you count the votes from the Patreon supporters, where each dollar represents a vote, and Fallen Star got an additional 10 votes thanks to that.

So if you dislike the results of this poll, get over to my Patreon page and become a patron.

...and that's all I'm going to say about it until I get home tonight.

Being serious, I don't have access to the poll at work (thanks Corporate Overlords!), so I won't be able to show the totals until I get to an un-firewalled network.

That said, BIG CALENDAR CHANGES COMING...in the next post. Stay tuned, my little bronies!

Go vote!

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When my mental creativity dam breaks, there's a flood...

So Fission Chapter 8 has exceeded my original expectations on the length, so I'm running a poll on my Patreon page to vote on whether I split the chapter (which would allow another Fanfiction Friday vote) or power through and make Ch. 8 the single longest chapter of fiction I've ever written.

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Two things:

There are precisely two options, which means it's gonna be a poll between my numerically least read fic and a fic I haven't even written yet. I'll go ahead and post the poll this coming Friday.

As for what I'm working on in the meantime, I'm pushing through some writer's block for Fission, which was a Patreon request.

With poll results that didn't really change in the slightest over the last 24 hours, A Hive of Queens takes this week's FF poll. As this will be my first chapter produced from start to finish while at my current job, I'm not sure exactly when it will be posted, but I'm aiming for posting it before Septem...no! No, I'm not going to do an overused meme! By September 31st.

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This week's poll is up! I'll be setting up Patreon tomorrow (when I don't have a full work schedule behind me and an evening wrangling my daughter in front of me) to allow for extra votes. I'm aiming for having my Paypal account set up by the end of the weekend if you want to just flat-out commission a chapter (or a whole story).

In the meantime, voting the truly old fashioned way: Strawpoll is back!

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I can't post the Fanfiction Friday poll while at work, since the login for Strawpoll is done through Twitch, and good luck getting a video streaming site focused on gaming through a corporate firewall. Look for the poll tonight or tomorrow.

So, yes, historically I've posted a Fanfiction Friday poll the first Friday after publishing a new chapter. This has worked fairly well and gotten a decent amount of progress and two new fics out the door that I wouldn't normally do.

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...of the hottest heat since I started doing these polls! I was wondering when I'd see some actual action between the Swarm and the Fission fans, but when I pitted the Swarm against itself, whoah, momma!

Seriously, LLW edged out Hive of Queens by one vote! That's what I call a close race!

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Lost Little Wolf is back on the poll, but now the swarm must choose between TWO changeling fics, maybe this will give my other works a chance more than once every three polls?

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Fun fact, did you know there's some sort of sportsball game on today? I found out when I went to take out the trash and everyone in my apartment complex was doing cooking on grills and _*shudder* socializing.

However, that's not why we're here, we're here because the Swarm marched it's way into the poll, slammed their hooves down, and shouted, "MOAR!!!1"

Specifically, more changeling related fics.

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