First, let's get excuses out of the way: Horrible roommates at school, worsening migraines (I'm taking care of those now), internship, family chaos, general laziness, alpha-reading an epic novel (seriously, check out Max Florschutz (aka VikingZX)'s

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Remember that one time I won a Sparity shipfic contest in January with a fic that topped the feature box on Christmas?

Well my prize just arrived, and she is definitely worth the weight wait.

(Pics below the break.)

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Image after the break, because I don't want to mess up people's mobile feeds.

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The "It" in question being the earlier chapters of Desert Spice.

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Less relevant nostalgia aside, I have some good news for everyone:

Desert Spice will update in the next few days.

More ramblings below the break.

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As the title may suggest, my life has been kinda wild of late. Details after the break.

A lot of details.

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For starters, I am seriously impressed by the tropes page. Like, it now takes a respectable amount of scrolling to get through. High quality work, that tropes page... If you haven't yet, you should totally take the time to check it out. Reading that page has made me want to reread Tastes Like Heresy, and I wrote the danged fic.

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So guys. Guys. Somebody actually went and did a thing.

And by "a thing", I mean somebody started filling out the Tropes Page for Tastes Like Heresy!

Thank you!

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Exactly what it says on the tin:

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Greetings, people who read things that I write! College life at BYUi continues to be excellent, and I continue to find myself with available time to write horse words between doing homework, building EDH Magic decks, and playing Overwatch. Last weekend, I even managed to release another chapter of Monster Hunter: Equestria, in case anybody that might have been interested failed to notice.

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It has been a particularly rough week for the Bugsydor. I won't bother you with the details (unless you ask me to, and my response would likely be in PM form), but I will give you a brief summary: The cops were at my place, I was neither a suspect nor a victim, some utterly unconnected things also sucked, and I was a nervous wreck for a few days as a result of all that. However, between the magic of friendship and the passing of time – along with a brief chat with a bishop – I'm feeling much

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Published the new chapter about twenty minutes ago (I think), and now Desert Spice is back to the top of the returning stories section of the feature box!

Evidence below the break, this time with a link attached for those who can't see the pic.

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Needless to say, the title of this blog post is almost entirely facetious.

One way or another, though, I will get the next chapter of Desert Spice up tonight.

Demonstration of the crap I have to deal with in order to do so below the break.

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The hard part's over, guys. I've filled in all the holes in the chapter's outline with upwards of 6k horse words. Every scene that I wanted to happen, has happened. Some happened in ways I wasn't quite expecting them to, but that isn't such a bad thing.

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Decided to take a page out of FoME's book and title the blogpost after one of my favorite magic cards I've yet to get to play.

More on topic, I just finished another scene in the next chapter of Desert Spice. I blame a combination of random inspiration striking, and FTL kicking by butt much more egregiously than usual (boarders on the first jump, or the first ship dodging four shots in a row while pouring missiles into my shields... It was more frustrating than usual.)

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So I finished another scene in Desert Spice last night. Only two, relatively short scenes are left to write before the chapter is finished.

More after the break.

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The bad news:
There won't be a new chapter of Desert Spice ready by Christmas. Between being stumped with how to continue the lunch scene (which, appropriately, is from Rize's perspective), having only recently discovered the glorious time sink that is Diablo III, and having my favorite sister visit us along with her freshly minted family, horse words just have not been put to virtual paper.

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The past few days have been pretty good to me. A friend of mine I'd lost touch with just gave me his new phone number and we've been texting a little, which is nice. I just found out that I made it into a college I actually have a chance of affording (BYU Idaho, for those who were wondering), which is even better. More relevantly to you, my delightful readers, I actually managed to finish that 1800 word scene in Desert Spice with Terra's Tabernacle of the Eternal Flame last night, which

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After far too long of off-and-on work on Desert Spice, I'm roughly halfway through the chapter. I've just been having so much trouble writing Horizon and his perspective... and I've also been prepping for the actuarial probability exam (which I failed, again), applying for colleges (which I've gotten into at least one of), and just generally being lazy when I wasn't doing those things.

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Still working on the next chapter of Desert Spice, in case you were wondering. I'm almost finished writing the first part of it, and I think I've gotten some useful insights to write the rest of it faster. For instance, I can decide to not get hung up on specifics of making a line perfect. Instead, I can get the gist of it down and move on to another part of the story and come back to it later. It may not be the secrets of rocket surgery I'm uncovering here, but it's still useful to me.

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