Seriously, though. For an episode which prominently featured every alicorn Hasbro has managed to shove into the show, it's astounding how few actual lines Princess Luna got. Does her voice-actress charge some sky-high price or something? Or can the writers just not be arsed to remember the personality they gave her?

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"Battle Station Bass Cannon" made Equestria Daily!

Now I have to actually update this for once!

The opening act had started playing while they walked up the marble steps between tiers of lawn and reached their seats. Unfortunately, the opening act was driving Octavia to pondering as she reached behind her mane. Ah, yes, there was her and Vinyl’s blanket for the grass at their ticketed spot. And ah, yes, the opening act was indeed a punkish singalong called “‘Ere We Go!”, indeed by a Trottingham band called Da Dropkick Orkies.

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This one could very likely use some prereading, since it needs to work to maintain coherence with earlier chapters. Anyone out there?

Choice quotes so far:

“You actually got me tickets to the Sapphire Shores concert in Manehattan this coming weekend!”

Ok, now it was time to just let go.

“Yeeeeeeeaaaah!” her voice rang out, pouring in just a tinge of electric guitar. “And it’s two tickets, so we can go together!”

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Anyone and everyone who's been trying to talk to me in the past EVER, please send a private message. I have had my life consumed by real life. This is not a joke. This is a warning: don't let girlfriends and theses happen to you! Especially not live-in girlfriends where you both have a secret hobby that you each suspect is some kind of fanfiction writing and she just about caught you at it but you're both embarrassed and require total secrecy in which to TOTALLY NOT

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Please, I'm completely stuck, even when I can grab the spare time I can't think of what to write. I've read the "how to write fics" posts before, but does anyone have some advice or guides specialized to fight scenes?

I have started a vacation/visit tobeen captured by my girlfriend. I am allowed no privacy or spare time in which to write pony. All we do is cook, go on walks, play things, or occasionally drive to visit other friends. Very rarely, I am allowed to do actual IRL work.

There are about 3000 words of Chapter 3, and I have gotten to the part with the fight scene, and I am so, so sorry not to have it ready and out by now.

HELP HELP THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE ME PLAY MAGIC THE GATHERING.

The sun dipped below the horizon at last, and the moon rose in the east. A bright blue star twinkled into being atop the spire of the Crystal Capitol. Go time.

“I ASK THEE, MY LITTLE PONIES,” roared Princess Luna, “WHAT IS MUSIC!?”

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My semester and final exams finished! I am officially on Summer Not-Vacation, and can now work mere mortal workdays! In fact, even these mortal workdays are now 100% ALL RESEARCH ALL THE TIME: the grad-student dream! In another month I will even get to go on actual vacation, which I have not been on in more than a year due to spending last summer working at an internship FOR GREAT JUSTICE AND MONIES.

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THIS IS A THING THAT EXISTS. I will probably end up using at least some of it in the fic.

They even did a good copy of Libera me from hell.

So, two announcements:

1) I solemnly swear to have the next chapter of Battle Station Bass Cannon ready by the end of this week.

2) I'm gonna try to take vacation basically from the beginning of September to the beginning of October, to the East Coast of the USA, and possibly even parts beyond. HEY DOES ANYONE KNOW A PONY CON I COULD ATTEND TO MEET PEOPLE I KNOW FROM FIMFICTION !?

It's getting much more clearly fleshed-out now, and I mostly just have to write the second bit of it before posting.

On the upsides: I have a very busy and fulfilling Real Life right now, and there's a new piece of art. It's not fanart, but someone apparently came up with the same idea independently of me.

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Tonight, I skipped out from working on my thesis draft a tiny little bit to instead draft some of the next chapter of Battle Station Bass Cannon. I can assure you that the following picture will not be in this story:

It does, however, very clearly allude to where we're about to head with this fic.

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