I'm tagging out and about in this post because Charlie Stross, author of several sci-fi stories that I really like, just wrote a blogpost about how annoyed he is when, to put it in his own words, sci-fi authors write "Whitebread Middle American Suburbia to the Stars". And that was something I really tried to avoid writing this fic, and it was really difficult.

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Since a whole two(2) people have asked for it, here's the official out and about in the equestrian kingdom "ask me stuff and I'll try answer it" blog about anything you don't understand, didn't get, want to know about or what have you to do with the aforementioned story. Meta-questions also welcome. Stuff that happened off screen is welcome. Wild mass guessing is totally okay.

To start, let's see:

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Why the hell are you reading this? Why aren't you reading Out and About in the Equestrian Kingdom? Chapter 10 in particular?

Yeah, that's right. Come back here and discuss after. Bring your friends*

EDIT: and lo, he said to me, "it is done".

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I guess I should have asked somebody to run through my work before I re-uploaded, but my face has been agonizing ever since I got my teeth properly cleaned.

That shit's not fair. That's why I don't go to the dentist - every time they poke my teeth I get a toothache in my cheek from my wisdom teeth. It's been hell.

Anyway, It's like 4:30 am and I've rearranged chapters 1-6 of out and about to my satisfaction. Here are the changes:

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I've not been entirely happy with my writing in "Out and About in the Equestrian Kingdom" so far, so here's what I'm going to do.

I'm not cancelling it, it's not even going on a hiatus. I'm still very much writing it - I'm almost through with chapter 7 for example - but I am not happy with the flow of the story so far. Therefore, I'm going to give it a bit of a facelift in the next couple of days.

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