The author sent me a PM about this one, because it's a sort of response work to Five Hundred Little Murders. And...

...I don't review stories. On purpose, because I know what I'm like when I do it. So I'll just say two things here.

* Give it some time. The core scene is coming.
* Give it a chance.

It's right over here.

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So. Of the seven stories within that single posting, there are:

No hurtfics.

No comfort fics.

No permanent loss of limb or capabilities.

No tragic deaths.

No heart-rending confessions gasped out with a pony's final breath.

...well, no @#$% wonder it didn't catch on.

(Or it could have just been that whole "40k words at once, Completed or not, sends the New column into a fear frenzy" thing. But let's just go with the above.)

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Fan Of Most Everything did this one (pretty much out of nowhere), and it just went up. I haven't had time to listen to it yet -- working on Twilight's SLP segment, as promised -- but I wanted to take a moment and drop the link for anyone who wanted to check out the work before I could. So...

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I just had to toss an entire segment concept.

Here's the original idea for Rainbow's chapter:

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Imagine, for a moment, that you've been trying to get someone to visit FIMFiction for the first time, of their own accord. And that attempt has been in progress for several months. You've been -- easing into it.

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The following line is a very dark joke, but it's how I've started to feel over the last couple of weeks:

It seems like every time I sit down to write, it triggers a shooting.

There's been an emotional toll this week, and it just keeps being paid...

*sigh*

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I have S8 of Dexter. Not my greatest shame. I was with the series for its entire lifespan, and so I watched it die.

I have Cars. Not my greatest shame, because I don't have Cars 2.

I have the Lilo & Stitch sequel -- without having Lilo & Stitch. On the shame scale, that's pretty far up there.

I have Broken Saints. Watching it is not a great shame. Watching it in two days...

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First: no one is hurt. You need to know that immediately. The driver and her passenger are shaken, but that's the limit of any damage done to humans.

Second on up...

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I'm not joking.

I really wish this was a joke.

I'm going to go be violently ill now.

Paranoid Bullet Seed Attack, go!

(Obviously not a Grass type...)