I'm about to start writing the final chapter or two of the Brightly Lit saga, after which time I'm actually going to be going on vacation for a week. As in actual time off from my job and all other responsibilities. Which means no Twilight Learned this month, and perhaps not next month either as I reassess things in the wake of the end of writing roughly 350,000 words on one pair of stories set in the same universe.

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Over the past few years I've engaged in a practice of letting my patrons on Patreon decide what story I should update following the Brightly Lit update in the month, and I've noticed a bit of a pattern. Mainly that anytime "How Twilight Learned" comes up in the voting it easily wins. So recently I asked my patrons if they would like me to just concentrate on Brightly Lit and HTL until one of them was done.

And they said, "Yes"

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I debated long and hard about which story to write about this weekend. It finally came down to a pair of my all time favorites and the deciding choice between them was that one of them features both my favorite pony, Princess Luna, and a bucket load of archaic language not only used, but used well.

I speak of Parlous by Carabas.

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This week, I'm looking back at a special story for me. The story that got me into fan fiction and MLP fan fiction in the first place.

The Dresden Fillies: Strange Friends by Psychicscubadiver

I was already a fan of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher before I got into MLP. To quote one of the major characters in the series:

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So, I did take most of the month of August off. I did what I said I would do, including celebrating my son's 19th birthday, making arrangements to travel 1500km north in October for my grandfather's 100th, hit the local rivers and lakes and played a lot of video games. Just in case anyone is wondering what an old fart like me plays, my main games currently are:

- World of Warships (Mare_in_the_Moon)
- 7 Days to Die (highly recommended zombie killing, base builder)

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I'm going on hiatus for the month of August. I realized that I've been pushing myself to make deadlines and the self-pressure built up to the point where I put out an unfinished chapter to a story that cause great controversy among my readers because it left them hanging and wondering what the heck was going on.

It was a substandard product and I'm sorry.

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So, the overwhelming result of the vote for what story to work on in the last week of the month has been for a new chapter of Twilight Learned. An excerpt from what I have so far...

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