Merry Christmas/Enjoy your Monday to one and all! I got fun books, more stylish clothes than I'd consider for myself (and socks that derive the Einsteinian mass-energy equivalence,) and Explorers of Ixalan, but the real gift was seeing everyone else's reactions to what I got them. I only started giving gifts a few years ago, and there's a great deal of joy in seeing that you got something they were hoping for, or didn't even know they wanted. As I write this, my mother and sister are reading

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Friendship is Magic's anniversary falling on my birthday is one of the more amusing coincidences in my life. (It's also Naruto Uzumaki's brithday, but that's far less relevant for my personal hobbies.) Happy Pony Day, everyone. I have a cake in the fridge for later.

(As for the blog title, my age hit a perfect square this year.)

During FoME's Imposing Sovereigns contest, iisaw and I made a bet about where his story, Waxing Gibbous, would be placed.

FoME saw fit to not tell us...

And so, iisaw came up with the idea of a sort of bingo. First to get 5 in a row, or closest to 5, wins the game. This blog will be monitoring my progress on said bingo game.

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Do you feel like the princesses (R63/comic/canon/films) are underappreciated? Sure you do!

You should go enter FanofMostEverything's new contest: Imposing Sovereigns

I don't usually discuss personal matters here, but this one is fairly major. To give you an idea how much so, let me tell you a story:

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Edit: The results are now in!

A bit of promotion for FanOfMostEverything's contest!

Blog Post: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/826046/contest-villain-exchange-program

Group: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/213898/villain-exchange-program

For the fans of parallel world shenanigans. The prompt is to Fish-Out-of-Water either a MLP villain in EqG land or a EqG villain in Equestria.

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Twelve years. Dang. A lot's happened since 10-10-10, but Friendship is Magic is still one of the best unintentional birthday gifts I've ever received. It must be if I'm still playing with it.

Here's to many more years of the horses.

Earth pony magic is the most subtle, most poorly defined part of equine thaumobiology, which is part of why I find it so fascinating. These ideas stemmed from the tribe’s namesake, earth. As anyone who’s watched Avatar knows, earth comes in a variety of forms. Suppose earth pony magic did as well. Suppose there was an adaptational aspect to it, with the magic responding to the environment and working to help the pony thrive there. What would result from that?

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All stories stop. Some are lucky enough to end properly.

(Before anyone panics, this isn’t goodbye from Fimfiction.)

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As the tags indicate, this is a sentimental blog. I'm giving a sendoff to a helper and friend that has been with me for years, but with which I must now part ways.

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I don't usually use this site as a venue for personal matters, but today...

Well, today I'm going to do what I usually do around here. Today, I'm going to tell you all a story.

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Chromelanin is a pigment protein that only occurs in sufficiently magical environments. Its structure is nearly identical to brown eumelanin. The difference lies in the complex isotopes* that compose the molecule, including carbon-11+i and oxygen-14+2i. This partially magical structure allows the molecule to reflect virtually any color.

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(Note: This post uses footnotes. Reading on mobile not recommended. The management apologizes for the inconvenience.)

Unicorns have often had a shaky relationship with science.

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As you may hve gathered from a few of my stories, the topic of magic in the world of technicolor stick people fascinates me. The topic leads to many questions, from the nature of cutie marks in that world to how Pinkie Pie functioned before being endowed with horse powers.

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While idly chatting about the recent character tag update, it has come to my attention that there may be a deficit of batpony stories.

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I am kind of having a moment right now. Ponies: The Galloping 2, a set of four out of the Mane Six (Twilight and Rarity were part of PtG 1) in actual Magic card form, is currently on sale. As part of that, the Arena online client has several pony-based cosmetics available.

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Seven years ago today, a young man stood in his bedroom. That day, the 13th of April, 2009, was his birthday. Though it was thirteen years prior he was given life, it was on that day that he was given the name Zoosmell Pooplord John Egbert.

On this day, his long, exceedingly strange journey came to a close. Barring an epilogue with no definitive arrival time, Homestuck has ended.
And best troll lived.

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Greetings from Bellevue! For anyone reading this, attending Everfree Northwest this year, and who wants to maximize their me-related activities there (for whatever reason you may have) here's where you can be sure to see me:

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If you've read Time Enough for Friendship, you've seen a timeline where Discord got paroled from petrification before the changeling invasion and, when Fluttershy asked him to help, shared his power with her to help her see the beauty of the chaos, creating the draconequus Serendipity.

So what would the other Mane 6 be?

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Been a while since one of these, but I had the idea and I plan on running with it, especially since this is one aspect of my headcanon that’s more or less managed to survive both the show and my own failure to write down background ideas outside of story notes. Today I’ll be discussing everything I derived from major pony holidays, leading up to what I feel will be a very interesting question that I don’t think anyone has posed as of yet.

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