At long, long, last, I can set the status on Where They Understand You to completed. It's taken far, far too long (can you believe I started it before even Ra Ra Raspberry?) and I think that's had its effects. While I'm glad to have it out there and while the headcanon it covers is one I've wanted to explain in fic for a long time, I think the gaps between the last chapters do show a bit. This is,

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I now have a complete seventh and final chapter for Where They Understand You. After it's been checked over, it will be published. At last! This will definitely happen before the weekend, quite possibly tomorrow -- but it really is imminent now! I'll put up another post when it's out, in which I'll discuss what it's been like to write something quite far removed from my usual ponyfic output. I've learned quite a few things, including some things not to do in future.

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I'm on the mend now, but with the Easter holidays coming up I don't expect actually to be able to do very much for a while yet. On the plus side, chapter six of Where They Understand You is up (hey, it's only been seven months!) and, though my illness has meant that I'm not going to achieve my stated goal of finishing the story before S5 begins, it is at least now back to "Incomplete" rather than

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Chapter 4 of Where They Understand You is now up. I did say I'd try to get it done by the end of June, and (wonder of wonders) that's exactly what I've done! Read and enjoy, as the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's Literature Division might say.

It's going to be tight, as a lot of things have crowded in on me, but I should still get the fourth chapter of Where They Understand You published by the end of June. A big thank you to everyone who's stuck with me so far. I hope I can repay you by giving you a good story. As a reward for bothering to read this blog post, a sneak preview: in this chapter, Rainbow Dash gets a job!

My copy of The Journal of the Two Sisters is still in the post -- but according to someone who's already got the thing, it's explicitly stated that "Pinkie Pride" is Rainbow Dash's tenth birthiversary. It's probably impossible for me to reconcile the chronology of "Where They Understand You" with that, since I've been assuming that a) Rainbow is (just about) an adult by the time she moves to Ponyville, and that b) she's the last pre-Twilight Mane Sixer to settle there.

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