I'm watching the collected episodes of the old cult classic The Persuaders (known as Snobbar som jobbar, "Snobs who work" here in Sweden). Now, in the episode "The Old, the New and the Deadly", Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis) gets invited to a Shady Nightclub in Paris for some negotiation by the Bad Guy's hired gun.

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Like fanart. Yeah, it's humanized, but I think the artist hit the characters pretty well anyway.

Thanks, wowzamorphous.

People often praise me for world building. That is not bragging, for two reasons. First, it's true, and second, I'm not particularly proud of it. For me, it is a rude and crude craft I associate with making campaign worlds for D&D, not actually telling stories, characterising people, putting together a plot, everything I actually admire about literature (or things passing for literature, like fanfiction). So, for me being able to do worldbuilding is nothing praiseworthy. Sure, it's nice that

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This has nothing to do with any of my existing fics, but might be used in little slice-of-life comedy starring Diamond Tiara, rated Everyone, coming soon to this user.

Humans (knowns as "yahoos" in rural slang) are domesticated animals kept by ponies and some other talking peoples. They are large, hairless primates who are fully bipedal, giving the a similar stance as minotaurs, actaeons and such peoples, but any closer look reveals them to not be truly sapient.

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I found out, by chance, that someone (I suspect the group's owner) added UtNL to the group My Little Over Analysis. (You aren't notified when someone adds one of your stories to a group, but you get all other kinds of messages. Huh.)

Its mission statement says:

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...yeah. FIMfiction is still getting to me, and I feel drained of creativity. Today I tried to work on the plot of Under The Northern Lights on my walk, but found the thought that I never wanted to touch it again. I haven't really found much reading to boost my spirits - I'm really grateful for you all who at least tried to help, but I have to tell a far amount of what has been suggested are either things I've already read, or exactly the things I told everyone in my last blog that was causing

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I'm considering going on a hiatus of undetermined length. It pains me, because this probably means Under The Northern Lights will never be done (though I could perhaps publish it on fanfiction.net or as a blog). That's how I function. But I'm getting more and more irritated at the fandom in general and fanfic in particular. If I go in here - and I have tended to do that a lot the last few months - I always get angry and sad.

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Here are some things no one asked about this fic!

King Ukko is very much based on Max von Sydow's small role in the first Conan movie
Y'know, as the drunkard King Osric: "There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child."

Kvalhissir got his name from a tabletop RPG module

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...as I'm sure you have seen. It is the longest chapter so far (had to be, though there'll probably be longer chapters overall in the future) and unlike other long chapters, if anyone complains that "nothing happens" it's because they are mental! ;)

This was the first time ever I wrote a fight in a MLP fic, and when I think of it, I've basically never written a fight in any of the other things I have done either.

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Of course, I messed up and used the wrong settings to the Google document I had sent them, so no one but me could see it. >_< That is fixed now, but was highly embarassing.

41 is nervwrecking. I've been planning this particular piece of the scenario seemingly since forever, but now I could finally put down in detail what happens. I'm not fully satisfied with said details, that they are plausible enough. Oh well.

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