Sometimes Blogger hangs briefly before it actually loads all of the posts at the Vault, and it looks like two years of work is just... gone. Then Blogger remembers that would be mean and loads everything in, but it's a terrifying few seconds.

Anyway, happy Friday everybrony!

I'm supposed to be building Vault ebooks right now. I'm finding it hard to concentrate because this will be the last night I ever do it. I'm getting choked up over not running an ePub formatter ever again. What is my life!?

Silence and then two posts in one day! Sorry for spamming your feed. A few points of business, if I may!

Firstly, the final Vault schedule has been posted. The last story will go up on 10/4; then there will be a few special posts the following week, ending with my own. And... that's all she wrote.

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I finally got around to watching that vid that's been circulating.

I laughed at a lot of it, and if like me you've been dragging your feet, go watch! It's definitely worth your time. Also nice that the PFA's existence wasn't completely forgotten; bonus! Tip of the hat to Carts.

I recently rewatched Firefly, because Netflix is a thing, and after burning through it in a day or two I just couldn't get the theme out of my head. I was also really enamored with the wavering tendrils of connection between it and Rainbow Dash, because ponies are also a thing. I ended up writing this to exorcise that particular creative demon -- I'd heard of people writing things "just to get it out of my head" and had never personally experienced that before. It was really weird. For a

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So we celebrated my birthday this weekend (judging by that poll I ran a while back, I'm older than at least two-thirds of you -- yikes), and Filly's been hinting for the last month or two that she was very excited about a particular gift she'd acquired for me. She had every right to be:

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I've been out of it for the last week or so. I realize that most people probably don't notice, because even when real life gets nuts, I almost always manage to keep the Vault running on time, so no one's any the wiser.

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In the wake of my announcement that the Vault will permanently cease active operations later this summer, I have two questions for everyone:

1. Bad Horse thought you all should be able to interview me. Turnabout's fair play, after all. Would there be any interest in my running an "Ask Me Anything" type deal in a blog later on? This would be in addition to me answering my own interview questions when the Vault shuts down.

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I'm doing what I should have done months ago and publicly acknowledging that PONY Legacy is "on hiatus". I plan on this hiatus ending when the Vault does.

Shut up, Jayne.

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