...yeah. I told you we were doing this. I told you who was doing this, and that I'd set aside funds for the first two covers before everything started. So it's time for a couple of reveals.

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Every so often, if I want to make a bad day worse, I run a search for MLP:FIM Blu-Ray sets. Just in the event that somehow, somewhere, a complete series assembly was released and no one just bothered to tell us.

I need to clear this up immediately: I did not find one. Not even a bootleg homeburn version. What I did locate was a set which appears to be exclusive to Japan.

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This isn't the sort of story I would normally read or direct attention towards. For starters, it's very much part of the Friendship Is Optimal contest, and I haven't really associated with FiO all that much. I've read the original, and... that's about it.

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I'll keep this short. As some of you know, I have been trying to rent something which would let me receive and send physical mail under the name attached to my FIMFic account. The central purpose of this would likely be the mailing of signed bookplate stickers, effectively allowing me to autograph books via remote. And a few days ago, my best chance slammed a few hundred doors in my face.

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deep breath

Does a tennis ball over a horn only protect against eye injuries, or does it also prevent spellcasting?

What about other kind of balls (racquetballs, ping pong balls for foals, etc.)?

Do the balls wear out and need to be replaced?

Do hollow balls potentially store spells inside them, thus necessitating caution to avoid spell leakage when such a ball is removed?

...o-kay.

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Some of you really push your luck on these topic choices.

Can you give us an overview of thaumic fiction? Common tropes, subgenres, notable authors and/or series, how hard it tends to be in terms of what in-'verse magic can actually do, that sort of thing?

Pushing. Your. Luck.

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Which means it's time to revisit four considerations:

* The contents of each book
* Which publications should go first
* Pacing out the printings
* What should be depicted

So let's talk about all of that for a bit -- after I tell you who's agreed to take the commissions, one by one.

The style should look familiar.

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I'm posting this because I never expected to see The Legend -- at least, not without paying several hundred dollars for the honor. But someone made a PDF of The Legend. I just finished going through it. And now, I am offering it to you.

I have found The Super Dictionary.

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And share.

Thanks to CCC, FanOfMostEverything, and Kirtai for helping me in working out the process and offering storage space. (On a related note, @$#% you, Twitter. Turn everything into movie files, willya? I'm sure that helps everyone! Somewhere. For a given value of 'help'. Which equals zero.)

Let's just say I plan on using this one really soon.