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The Oversaturated World

The day after the Battle of the Bands, Sunset Shimmer's friends asked to see her about some changes that hadn't gone away after defeating the sirens. Things escalated from there into a full-blown AU. Check out the original story here and the group here.

WARNING: Pretty much everything after the first story contains spoilers for the end of it, so I recommend following that first link first.

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• As noted by the Discordlicious alarajrogers, not only should each new speaker in dialogue get his or her own paragraph, that paragraph should generally contain what that speaker (and only that speaker) does while speaking. See her highly detailed comment for further details.
• On a related alarajrogers-mentioned note, avoid "saidisms." Abusing synonyms for "said" will draw attention away from what's actually being said. (I admit that I'm guilty of this in some of my own work.)
• As noted by Professor Plum on the user page with the comment box, "princess" should only be capitalized when used as a title. (e.g. "Princess Celestia" gets the capital, while "the princess" does not.)
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• The soft-spoken jamlamin presented this well-structured guide to hyphenated adjectives.
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• TheGreatEater notes that when using an Apple Family phonetic accent, you should capitalize "Ah" when substituting "I." Same principle of capitalization, just on a slightly longer word.
• Snowy's self-demonstrating dissertation on footnotes found here is really all that needs to be said on the matter.
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Nov
24th
2014

Gathered Friendship: The FiCG Index · 6:08pm Nov 24th, 2014

One year ago today, I decided to share the cards I made of the Season 4 premiere. As such, this seems like the perfect time to provide a quick and easy way to access everything that's resulted since. The following is a hyperlinked rundown of every Friendship is Card Games blog, both those written and those yet to come. If you don't see something here, either I haven't gotten to it yet, or I've been a bit lazy in updating this particular blog. Feel free to yell at me about that if it isn't a

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Given how long I've been on the site? I couldn't even hazard a guess at this point.

It seems like every time I find an even remotely good story, you've commented on it! Would you care to guess how many stories you've commented on?

Thanks for addingThe First, The Last & The New to your Jinglemas collection.

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My wife just said "Rainbow Dash is going in the [Commander] cube."

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Oh, they are silly cards. They are also quite functional.

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Mar
17th
2024

Rumor Gathering · 4:00pm Sunday

While diminished from its peak, the Writeoff is still very much an ongoing concern. Regrettably, while I actually had an idea for the most recent prompt, my Saturdays are packed to the gills and thus I didn't have time to compose it before the submission deadline. As such, I have employed Dueling Keyboards for its original purpose.