Because when you're already taking a thousand years of history to the face, somepony might as well kick in a dictionary.

It's been a long day/month (more Patreon blog dictations, plus a reason for the delays, coming up tomorrow) and this story gave me what I truly needed: a laugh.

Consider clicking. Laughs have been in short supply.

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I'll just paste the relevant part of the request.

Who would win in a fight, Rarity or Rainbow Dash?

Well... it isn't as if they haven't gone a couple of rounds before this...

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*screams*
*screams some more*
*starts to get a sore throat*
*researches AMSLAN*
*extended hand screaming*
*finger cramps*

WHAT.
THE.
BLOODY.
@#$%!!!

Full nominee list. But why would you ever trust them again?

If I see one more heap of grammatical vomit, spellcheck-created compost pile, and nuclear cliche' overload masquerading as a Sonic The Hedgehog/MLP crossover fic today, I'm going to kill something.

Thank you.

P.S. No, you can't aim me.

This is one of those cases where I have to paste in the original request.

For my blog request, I’d like to discuss Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon. I know that you’ve said that you would never attempt to write a crossover, because of the difficulty involved. But maybe you could write about The Place?

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In the short form: a few FIMFic people are trying to drive a pony-related channel to the critical 1,000 subscribers number, which is now necessary in order to have their videos remain monetized after February 20th. (I first saw this through FOME.) This channel is The Barcast, which includes among its content:

* Author interviews (extremely extensive ones: often an hour or more)
* Story readings

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Happy birthday, Mr. Milne.

A few years ago, I read a bad book.

How bad?

This bad.

(Why? See the second half of this.)

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Perhaps there's an argument to be made, one which says the system was never sustainable. The concept of paying everyone, regardless of what they were producing... that couldn't possibly last. And to a large degree, the concept has been falling apart since the moment it was introduced, one piece at a time. But still, YouTube started by saying everyone who posted content on the site was their partner. They threw that term around a lot. They still do. It was in the update to

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Ponies forget. Even without centuries of careful storytelling, progressive distortions built up until only the barest tip of truth can be seen poking through the soil, ponies forget.

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