Consider yourselves warned: this whole post is a spoiler. We're well past the point that the only realistic thing is that Smoke is done, so for anyone who wanted to know what had been planned, well, may this post provide you some closure. I'm certain to have forgotten things or misremembered them. It's been a while. But Smoke has only relatively recently stopped attracting new readers. Some of you may still want to know where it never went. With this, I move Smoke

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As most of you know, Tumblr's banning porn on the 17th of this month. Since Smoke is pretty well dead in the water, I won't be bothering to relocate any of the images or other content from the Smoke Tumblr. If you came upon this story after I quit working on it and weren't aware there were images, here's your chance to see them before they're gone. Otherwise, it's your chance to archive them if you wish to do so. The Tumblr is "Smokefiles."

So, about a week ago, while naked and wet (just a shower, sadly...), I actually felt a little like working on Smoke again. I haven't yet, and don't know if I will. Let's start off with the honest disclaimers: if you've been here, you know not to get your hopes up when I say anything, and I know not to make any promises. Which is why I didn't post anything that night--I had to dig Smoke's Scrivener file out of cold storage, it was late, and what if I didn't get around to it the

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Current chapter is progressing terribly. Can't claim burnout since I've not put out a chapter in months, but something's not working. Chapter's going on the back burner while I put together a piece that builds Smoke's events in parallel with the main story. Style will be different, trying to shift gears. Sorry for the abysmal rate of updates, guys. Once that's done, I'll pick up the current chapter again.

1303 words today. That’s not great for how long it took, but the chapter is just shy of 8,000 words at this point. It needs completion and a fair bit of touch up before going to the editor, but Smoke is not dead. On life support, sure. But not dead. Yet.

owwwwwwwwwwwww

The storm that hit the east coast has annihilated my back, using a show shovel as its proxy. I feel like Done after Deep Tissue wrecked him. Moved about 240 cubic feet (6.8 cubic meters) of snow. Much pain.

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Holy. Crap. That took evenings from Monday, when I started queuing the first submissions, until this morning. Naturally, I worked and so on, but my evenings? The only free time I didn't spend on these was dinner and necessary chores (finances, that kind of thing). This is straight from Tumblr, with a few corrections for quotation marks that somehow got backwards, typos, and so on, except that where I used italics on Tumblr, they're not here. Because, sadly, FimFiction's text editor

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I won't post each question here as they go up on Tumblr--I can schedule them on Tumblr, and also it would be WAY too many blog posts. Here, though, is the first. The rest will come all in one post when this is over. Credit to Fable Wright for Shimmer's answers--I'm touching them up so she sounds like the Shimmer I write, but she remains his character, and I wanted to be sure she answered as she really would.

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Next chapter obviously didn't happen yet after all. Le sigh.

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As mentioned, I won't identify the winner in case they're one of my readers who likes to keep Smoke a secret, but the winner was picked at random (on a list of 14 entrants, the eighth was picked by a 1-14 roll on random.org) and has been notified.

Thanks to everyone who entered. A couple of the PMs in particular were really nice, and I appreciate that people put some time into them beyond just "My favorite part is the bit where the thing happened."

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(Edit: a few people have followed me before sending me an entry PM. You're welcome to! I'm not saying don't! But know that it's not necessary to be entered for my giveaway.)

My toe hurts. I clipped the nail wrong and tugged the remaining bit loose, causing it to bleed.

No one cares about that, though. The part that's relevant to anyone is this:

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I guess I earned this. After ten minutes of listening, Day handed me this notebook and told me to shoo. Not just like that. That mare can be as tactful as they come when she wants to. “Pirouette, I’m happy to listen, but sort out your thoughts first.” Something like that. I haven’t kept a diary since I was a filly. And mine had ribbons on it. Where are my ribbons, Day?

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Well, the ones in the USA anyway. Happy Thursday to to the rest of you. No turkey or anything for me. Family is too far, and I don't like cooking (or their company, really). I'll probably snag a burger from a gas station, grumble about their lack of fries, and and come home to start on a new chapter.

May you guys enjoy slightly better cuisine, at least.

...freaking lack of a mind controlled professional chef. Done Deal doesn't have these proble--oh, shit, the mic's still on!

The next chapter is finished and ready to go; I'm just holding off because sufficient bribes have not yet been received I hate being featured, and posting when the site is busier means more popular stories flood me off the front page quickly. I hope people enjoy this one. Some of you have complained that Pirouette is a nag. Some of you have wished to get to know her better. In a few hours, you'll see the Pirouette in my head, Done's best friend--the one that space constraints and her

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The next chapter is off to Fable for editing. Hooray, chapter! It's got no mind control! Boo, DG sucks!

Sorry. The chapter was going to be the tail end of Ladies' Night, but holy crap did that ever not need to be any longer. It's short, since it wasn't meant to be a standalone, but it's got a moment that several people have been hoping would come, and standing alone gives that moment more attention than it would've had otherwise.

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Filler post!

I’m working on the finale to Ladies’ Night that I mentioned (it’ll probably be its own, separate chapter; Ladies’ Night is really long as it is), and needed to stop for a bit to rest my brain (it gets tired easily…). Here’s a partial floorplan of Done’s apartment! This is what I provided Fishypony to get an idea of the layout for the art he did of Peach Pit.

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New chapter is up, and while it’s still first person, Done’s perspective, this one is all about the mares. It’s ladies’ night at The Tall Tail, and everyone’s invited! Actually, that’s a lie. Only Done’s mares are invited. But you can read about it.

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Holy. Crap.

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Due by Friday, even if it kills me. Not necessarily an unrealistic scenario, what with working 6 days a week, and spending my nights and day off writing. Anyway, currently at 10,138 words, and no sex. There will be sex, but I may have to double back and add it to this chapter. This one is all about the mares who work for Done. Lots of conversation, with lots of them present. That's something I haven't done much of before, and it's new and difficult.

...for a little bit.

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