I was going to write another multi-paragraph opinion piece on the debates currently happening since the gameplay reveal of Hogwarts Legacy yesterday, but this article explains things so much better than I ever could.

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So Hogwarts Legacy launches tomorrow for Deluxe Edition owners, and on Friday for everyone. As the review embargo lifted this morning, it has garnered an 86% average score, and a 96% recommendation on OpenCritic.

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Hogwarts Legacy broke the Twitch viewership numbers that Elden Ring had this time last year.

Come on already, hurry up and finish, so Gobblecock Tightbottom can go on his quest of seducing the entire Ravenclaw Boy's Dormitory.

"Hey kid, want to wave my wand?"

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When writing a crossover, one of the hardest things is to keep the characters straight. If you’re one of my editors, you will notice a scratchpad of info fragments that keeps getting pushed down the writing surface as I add things, but for larger and more populated stories, I have to make a separate document with characters, event timing, etc… I’d say “Just like JK Rowling” only she’s a much more prolific writer and can draw.

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Accidentally tripped over spoilers for Hogwarts Legacy last night. That was always a risk when I didn't vanish from social media for however long it takes me to beat the game.

But I'm not as mad or disappointed as I thought I would be. I'm just imagining that my character had a vision and he's not sure what to make of it.

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So there are plenty of headcanons out there on the Internet trying to sort the ponies into Hogwarts houses. It's all very interesting. Some people never cease to amaze (I just realized that Rarity is winking in this emoticon so there is a wink face emoticon after all, wow I am such a dumba**).

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I'm gonna write a Harry Potter and MLP crossover that basically just places MLP characters in the Harry Potter universe. I was mostly inspired by this animation:

I've added a little extra to the end of

Chapter 50: Number Twelve Grimmauld Place, London

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You may have noticed Nightmare Night, Windigo Fright recently, one of my Halloween story traditions that I started back with the duo City of Monsters and Child of Nightmares and Everfree. There are no cute adorable wild batpony children in this one, although there

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So, apparently Starfield's pronoun preference during character creation is making the right lose their shit in a very similar manner that Hogwarts Legacy made the left lose theirs earlier this year.

The lesson here is easy:
Extremists, on both sides, are perpetually miserable sacks of crap.

Haven't tried Starfield yet myself, waiting until the 6th when it's free on Game Pass.

I'm a Ravenclaw, in my personality and behavior I am a Ravenclaw more than anything else.

Wishing you and all of yours the joy of the Christmas season. I haven’t stopped writing, but I have slowed a little (so much chocolate and cake), so I thought I should give a quick status report, along with a seasonal Sweetie Belle clip I shared two years ago below the break.

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Seemed a little slow today, so thought I'd toss out a big chunk of Sweetie Belle - Hogwarts Exchange Student for you to look at. Remember when I said the complexity of a story is at least the cube of the number of characters involved? Did you ever wonder why JK Rowling made the section of Harry Potter where he gets his wand a one-to-one interaction with Mister Ollivander? That's why. Getting these three kids wands is likely to chew up chunks of three chapters in the story. See it below

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First, I’d like to encourage all of you to go over to Novel-Idea’s blog post on this years NaPoWriMo effort and marvel. If I got that much done in five years, I’d be busy. Applause! And thanks to everybody who participated this year, including Tumbleweed, who needs a few words of encouragement from you guys.

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Ponies in Hogwarts is now officially finished. Having spent so much time on it, I really need a break. That doesn't mean we won't see further crossovers into Hogwarts. At the moment I've several ideas and projects I've been toying with. I even went so far as to start a few only to come to a screeching halt when they started to deviate in directions I didn't want, threatening either mediocrity or just downright horrible without intending it to be bad. Part of what makes "A World Without A

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I'm continuing to write on a daily basis (got over 4k words written for my upcoming Sonic story last night), but interactions with others online is likely stopping for a very short time.

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For your listening pleasure, we have a delayed plug for Pony and Wolf Productions reading of Twilight Sparkle Lays an Egg, and a current plug for my Barcast interview on Twitch (currently under most recent videos).

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So, here I am, with a tiny platform and someone who's hardly made themselves that known at all for about the year I've had an account on this website. As people are aware, Hogwarts Legacy is a hot button topic. I'm a transwoman so this puts me right into the heart of the issue. For several years I've felt like I have little to no place in the transgender community because quite frankly, they have been far left and I don't like extremisms.

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Heading to our first event of the season. My kiddo refused a new costume — third year running we're in Hogwarts robes. Kiddo and I Ravenclaw, my wife Gryffindor.

You know what?

I'm fine with this. Hogwarts is a great choice.

Some of you may know that I tried to write on the above story during National Pony Novel Writing Month (NaPoNoWriMo) and did not make quite the impact I had hoped. The story of a young unicorn who travels to Hogwarts to make friends can not be complete without a winter break in which she brings them *back* to experience the love and joy of the Pony Hearth's Warming. Of course, when one of her friends is a perpetual cloud of gloom, that can be a little difficult... (Sneak peek below the break,

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