Forget Sci Twi. Sunset Scientist is here!

I've been writing for 10 years. I've been flamed, certainly. Sometimes, in hindsight, they were onto something; another author correctly pegged an early Yugioh fic of mine as "a self-insert with the author as his own Villain Sue," and it was. By comparison, folks here are usually pretty pleasant even when stating they didn't like something I wrote. The closest thing to a flame I've gotten here still wasn't really a flame, just a commenter being rather rude and vocal in their dislike of the

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Got no games to play, not in the mood to read or write, still job hunting...

She is vengeance. She is the night. She. Is. Flutterbat! That's all I know about this issue, Flutterbat Returns. Flutterbat Strikes Again. I'm fine with that, Flutterbat Forever!

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Fimfiction author's drinking game - every time GDocs bucks up your formatting on import, take a shot.

Everyone knows one. Everyone has read one. A lot of folks have written one; I've written three or four. Sometimes they die while we're reading and then it screeches to a halt, and like cartoon characters whose car just drove over the cliff, we hover in place waiting forever for something more that doesn't come, until we look back and finally realize what's happened. Or sometimes we find its corpse lying 45 pages into the category, a gem buried in the turds of more active but far less talented

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I just spent ten minutes looking up the name of a particular type of furniture so I could have Trixie refer to it by its proper term.

The things I do for you people.

And now just because there should be some actual substance to this blog post if only for humor value.

Did you know it's been scientifically proven that looking at pictures of Sunset Shimmer daily can increase the human lifespan by up to six years?

That's because it hasn't. But hey, you never know. So on the chance it's true, here's my contribution to your health. You're welcome.

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You guys... this fandom never ceases to amaze me.

http://site.starlightglimmer2016.com/

We've waited three seasons for a Luna episode after Luna Eclipsed. And I don't mean a cameo in another episode like the CMC trilogy. I wanted Luna to have an episode to herself again, to focus on her.

And at long last, we got it. And it was worth the wait.

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