OK, seriously, I need feedback.

Some of you wanted me to space groups of footnotes throughout the chapters, at the end of each section they appear in. Others want the footnotes all at the end of a chapter.

So... which is it?

Going through the existing chapters and editing them for consistency of footnote placement is NOT FUN, so the next time I do it will be the last. I need to know which you prefer- scattered, or all at the end of a chapter?

To see the self-demonstrating version, go here

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I have *just* finished up re-editing and re-posting all thirty-seven chapters of The Traveling Tutor and the Librarian, making all the headers line up right, adding proper⁽*⁾ footnotes, and taking out all my Google+ pictures by turning them into TinyPic.com links (because Google+ is going away next month). If you haven't read it before, I'd encourage you to take a trip through it over the next few days, and

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For the non-self-demonstrating version, go here.

Footnotes*! To do them right, enclose (2) the number (c), and use exactly the same format in-text and at the footnote (4). Asterisks are right out*****.

*These things right here.

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Well, something about the site update seems to have broken all my nifty boxed footnotes.

...fixed just as soon as I figure out how to fix 'em.

This is Grammer a Week, the periodic blog program-thing where I address a frequently broken grammar rule and tell you how to fix it. This week's installment is about the ellipsis. The ellipsis, otherwise known as the "dot-dot-dot," is a piece of punctuation that is very easily overused. It's powerful punctuation, undoubtedly, but only in moderation.

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First, I came through Harvey all right. I was well away from the winds for landfall, and I was on high ground with good drainage for the 25+ inches of rain that fell at my house. And, thankfully, one of the roads leading out of where I live reopened just barely in time for me to travel to this weekend's convention for selling things.

Second, today I had yet another complaint about the footnotes.

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^[1]Canterlot Clarion Informal Poll for 2^nd Term Student Leader Election, published Juleon 26, 1443

Combined Command Candidate ------ Percentage of Student Body
Sunset Shimmer l’Etrat (3^rd Yr) ------------------------------------------------ 46
Marcel de Jeanne (4^th Yr) -------------------------------------------------------- 18

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^[1] Canterlot Clarion Informal Poll for 2^nd Term Student Leader Election, published Augusteon 16, 1443

Combined Command Candidate --- Percentage of Student Body
Sunset Shimmer l’Etrat (3^rd Yr) ---------------------------------------------- 43
Twilight Sparkle Haltrotsun (2^nd Yr) --------------------------------------- 35

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I have now uploaded some 3600 words of Author’s Notes to Time on Their Hooves, spread across the seven chapters, to provide further details on the science, history and other random references to real world trivia which were woven into this story, from Zero Longitude to Atomic Clocks.

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There is a concept for interpretation of the show, a sort of... potential headcanon, which I have contemplated (but never personally held) that I solves a number of inconsistencies and confusing elements in the show, but which is a bit too far from what show canon has told us to be considered perfectly consistent with existing canon; however, it's close enough that it wouldn't be entirely inconceivable for an author of the show to suddenly introduce it without completely

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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities, and vital system components¹ comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

1. Why is an entire LaTeX distribution not included here?

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Heyo! Just a blog for anyone who didn't check out that big schedule list a while back. This is to remind y'all who have been waiting since April that Enemy of Mine's latest chapter will be going live at 7:00 PM EST on Sunday. The rest of the month will be devoted to other Enemy of Mine related updates like interludes and the relevant shorts in Missing Pages & Scrawled Footnotes.

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If you're looking for and enjoyed the Lunbra chapters, or weren't aware that they existed, the Luna/Sombra shipping shorts now have their own little anthology apart from the rest.

TEndeavors of the Enigmatic and Eccentric

• MLP: FiM
• Romance
• Anthology

A short anthology of Luna & Sombra stories.

• Luna
• King Sombra

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And blog post 555! Woot!

My friend ROBCakeran53, who you might know from TURN DOWN FOR DERP, has written a story for me! Which I commissioned from him!

And in true pony style, rather than give him bits, I traded him a tool for his family’s fleet of rear wheel drive trucks and SUVs. Remember, kids, the barter system makes the world go ‘round.*

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Well, I'll say this: I'm less dead than I look.

Anyway, today I'd like to take a moment to talk about opening lines. We've got an Original Short Story Writeoff finishing up this evening.[1] I've spent a lot of the last week reading and reviewing, and beginning some revisions on an original story of my own. Going through this month's Writeoff entries, though, got me thinking about one of my favorite topics in fiction—and one it seems I've never blogged about before—opening lines.

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“So, Biscuit,” said nobody in particular, “how’s 2021 been going so far?”

Source

And we had a whole six days without incident, too.

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This is a part two! It's gonna be shorter than the first one, 'cause neither the discovery nor the repair took as long. Before you get started, though:

Source

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All the updates for the next few months are listed below! Check out when the next updates are going to be released! Thanks to an automated chapter release thingy, all updates unless noted (*) will be posted regularly at 7 pm EST!

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What it says on the tin, folks. The first chapter of my 100th(!) story will be dropping at 7 pm EST tomorrow. It's the start of my adventure anthology for all the lore and parts of the mythos that never quite got their own solo tales. There will be lots about the Alicorns, other divine, and the origin of many species. For the three people and their alts that follow Missing Pages & Scrawled Footness, you'll like this one if there's stuff in the main arc you wished to see even a bit of in

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