When Ross James is sick, I get to indulge in my magic blog hobby. Today, I'm talking about vampires!

You can find it here.

(Also I guess some elections happened last night but I feel more optimistic about those now).

I know. I'm gone for months and I come back to write the thing basically none of my followers are here for. I have broken the social contract.

Don't even care, this is going to bother me for months and until I get around to building a new platform and audience that does eat up this content, you are going to have to deal with it. And until I write this, I am going to be haunted by the specter of this. Freaking. Card.

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Neko Case is up in the running for my favorite artist of all time.

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I have a dilemma.

My most unpopular blog posts by far are my Magic: The Gathering related content, which relatively few of my followers read and which is not as widely recirculated by passing around links. This is usually fine with me even if they're some of my favorite posts to write - I'm on a pony site not a TCG-nerd site. This is the price I pay.

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I have no patience left for critical discussion that takes the term "Mary-Sue" seriously.

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When I was in high school, my family moved to a little rural town in southern Virginia to be closer to my grandparents. This meant going from the center of a bed town where I could walk basically anywhere I wanted to a "town" that was more accurately described as a post office. The shock was pretty intense, since it meant not only was I miles away from most of my old friends, I was now basically shackled to our property until I could learn to drive and get some wheels.

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So Cyne just dropped the canonical sequel to "The Safety Bell was Silent". It's straight up vampire smut.

I feel pretty good about this.

Please check out "Into That Darkness Peering" here.

It might be a bit early to call this, but I think the winter of our Standard discontent might finally be drawing to a close. For the first time since the bans began, not only is competitive attention divided between standard and other constructed formats again but standard itself is experiencing a mini-rebirth. Decks are evolving, new lists are breaking through to prominence, and for at least a little while the format diversity is pretty high.

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Hoo boy. This one might get heavy. Then again the only time things get heavy for me is if I blog about a story I don't like by a popular author who isn't Kudzuhaiku, so maybe not. I'm still preparing for [the discourse] because it is omnipresent and the source of all that is evil on the internet.

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Hoo boy.

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