Art by Ruirik.

Arcus hefted a stone with the flat of his wing. It was roughly the size and shape of the captain’s head, which was why it had been chosen from all the rocks on that particular beach as the target of his exercise.

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“Star Swirl, what are we doing?”

The thirteen-year-old filly won a bothering of Star Swirl’s beard, and the old wizard also offered her a smile. “We’re going to meet a very, very old friend of mine.”

“In the astronomy tower?”

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The old gray pony scowled under his overgrown eyebrows, and leaned heavily on his staff. It wasn’t a walking stick; he had more than enough willpower to ignore his arthritis on his own, the same way he’d fought past the other ravages of age. He kept the dragon’s spinal column because it made his identity altogether clear. The wide berth that the commoners of the Crystal City gave him proved that the implement was doing its job.

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Dear Guardsponies,

I hope you’ll forgive me if I’m not as formal for this report as you’re used to. I’m a fiction-writer.

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Basically, I spent all of today writing a paper for cross-cultural interpretation of gender, and now I want to commit murder.

Ghosts 22 is almost done.

I swear, those two observations are unrelated.

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Hey, everybody.

Sorry about this, but unfortunately, this week isn't going to have a World Building blogpost. I worked twenty-four hours on Thursday and Friday (a 14 and a 10), and then turned around and had a test and a paper to finish for my online classes over the weekend. I tried to have the next Worldbuilding done for you, but I'm just too dead on my feet right now.

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Though ponies often refer to Equestria as a unified state, the ponies from opposite corners of the nation have very little in common with one another. Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and the currency of the bit are the only ties beyond mere treaties and agreements that hold the nation together―though one would be hard pressed to argue that these are in any way ‘weak’ bonds. In any case, Equestria is divided into nine formal domains: highly autonomous districts with their own governments,

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Quick Summary: A rewrite is coming for Honor Guard, and I'll be posting Price of Loyalty World-building blog posts leading up to it each weekend. Comment if you've got a topic you want to see addressed (but read the list first!)

Hello, folks! I've got some fun news.

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As usual, by the amazing and talented Ruirik

I should have noted this earlier, but it kinda slipped my radar when I was working on Lollypopth:

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So 24, Ruirik, and I have been talking, and they've just about convinced me to go to BronyCon.

If any of my esteemed readers is planning on being in attendance (Baltimore, Maryland. August 1-3, 2014), would they care?

Secondly, because I am "ape-shit crazy", I decided it might be a good idea to do cosplay if I do go. So if you care, give me your opinions on these:

1) Dead Reckoning (old)
2) Chocolate Malt (aka Night Guard)
3) The Commander (i.e. Hurricane's Armor)

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