I've had several of my fanfics translated into various languages over the years, and that's always something that tickles me pink. A good translation is at least as much work as writing a good story from scratch, and tends not to get nearly the recognition; when someone enjoys something you wrote enough to put the kind of time and energy necessary to render it artfully into a second language, that's a labor of love.

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Those of you who followed me on my blog surely know, since I mentioned it many a times, that I work in education. Some of that time I've been a teacher, some of it a basically-a-teacher-but-for-accounting-reasons-it-has-a-different-name, and most of it in the field of English learning, both ESL and Newcomers.

This year, though, is different. I'm still teaching, but at a new school, and now... sixth-grade Social Studies.

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A couple of weeks ago, one of my sister's friends recommended that I try watching a new anime, Akiba Maid War; I was bitching about what I didn't like in another anime, and he suggested that Akiba was well-animated, had a nice balance of violence and humor, and wasn't full of uncomfortably oversexualized underage girls.

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I don't get very many comments on my stories, these days.

"No duh, Chris," you say. "You haven't published anything in nearly two years, and you aren't real good at the whole 'engagement' thing--at least, not when it comes to your own fics. Why would you expect a bunch of comments on old stories?"

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So! Been a while since we talked. That's fine, though; as a wise man once said, "An ideal male friendship is someone who lives in a different city, and three times a year, you text them to talk about how the Bears are doing." That's more or less the stage my relationship with pony is, these days; be sort of around, read a bit here and there, and drop in with a funny blog every now and then. And I gotta say, I do love that kind of friendship.

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A few months ago, I had a vague recollection hit me about a weird blogpost Aragon wrote.

Yeah, yeah, really narrows it down, I know.

Anyway, the specific weird blogpost I vaguely recollected was one about how he wrote a gruesome cannibal story when he was a kid for a school assignment. I couldn't find it in his blogposts easily, so (after PMing him to ask if he'd even done such a thing, or if I was legit going crazy), I forgot all about it.

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Recently, Seattle's Angels closed its doors.

Even more recently, the Royal Canterlot Library closed its doors.

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So, Christmas is now two days in the rearview mirror, but perhaps you find yourself needing just a little more holiday ficcing to get your through until next December (or next November, or next June, or whenever they start putting up Christmas stuff these days). And perhaps you also speak Russian! If so, then have I got a deal for you.

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“Fly Hard is not your favorite Hearth’s Warming story.”

Rainbow Dash blinked. “Uh, yeah it is.”

As impurturbably as before, Twilight repeated herself. “Fly Hard is not your favorite Hearth’s Warming story.”

“Uh, yeah it is. That’s why I said ‘Fly Hard’ when you asked me what my favorite Hearth’s Warming story was.”

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We're scheduled for up to 17 inches of snow in the next 48 hours! If that's not enough to get us white through to Christmas, then I don't know what is. Pray for my poor, aching back; I'll be shoveling all night long.

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