...if you're going to send me a PM asking me for advice, you should probably make sure that you haven't blocked my profile for some damn reason or other. That tends to inhibit my ability to reply to you.

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Here's my primary complaint: Scoots2 is a great friend of mine and a good person, and you fuckers absolutely ruined her day. (This text is only under a spoiler because it's going to show on my main profile page. Everything in the rest of the blog entry is going to be out in the open for people who click through and read the whole thing.)

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At last, after ages of writer's block and other complications, HiE Powered has finally been completed! Tasteful people weren't enough to stop it! Downvotes didn't stop it! A sternly-worded letter from the United Nations couldn't stop it! Finally, after all this time, you can read it from beginning to end and then say to yourself, "This? This is what took him over two years to finish?"

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...I'm actually getting to attend another fan convention this year, thanks again to the spirit of Rarity running through the fandom.

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"He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life."
-- Homer Simpson

(Warning: this is another post where I get all geeky about music. Kind of like this one, but with a different focus.)

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It was definitely a unique experience -- and I say this as someone who has been to a few fan conventions in the past. And it was wonderful meeting some folks from this very site out in the real world. It wouldn't have been half as fun without you.

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"Hey, Elric! Happy Birthday!"

"Thanks, SCOTUS!"

"We got you something!"

"Aw, you didn't have to do that. Nine presents?!"

"Well, one present. We went in on something."

"All nine of you?" Cheap bastards.

"Well... five of us."

"Five? The other four couldn't...? You know what, it doesn't matter -- what did you get me?"

"We got you a better country! Same-sex marriage is legal across the board now!"

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So, um, it turns out I haven't done one of these in like a year and a half. (Where does the time go?) So for those of you with no idea what this is all about -- which is probably almost everybody reading this -- here are the previous entries in this series:
- In which music of another decade is assigned to FIM characters as theme songs...

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(or "What Not to Do")

It has come to my attention that some users are trying to besmirch my name by saying that I "hate everything". Nothing could be further from the truth. There are a lot of stories on this site that I love; if you're spreading the rumor that I "hate everything", then you clearly wrote none of those stories.

Go read "The Battle of Fort Book". Go on, go read it right now. I'll wait.

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"I'm tired of everypony making fun of us for our names," said Biff, who was a pony.

"So am I," said Tad, who was also a pony.

"It's so mean," said Gavin, who was yet another pony.

"It's like they don't even know that these are perfectly respectable pony names," said Francois Hideki O'Malley-Singh III, who -- surprisingly -- was also a pony.

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