Do you enjoy existential mysteries? Background humans? Morally ambiguous, enigmatic, plot catalyzing lovebugs? If yes to any of these, you're going to like The Fishbowl, Shrink Laureate's labor of love that's been years in the making. Going by what I've seen thus far, it's been worth the wait.

We return to the comics with a bang. Indeed, it’s the bang I was hoping to end the pre-Season 8 blogs on, but the timing didn’t pan out. In any case, the local answer to Sheogorath seems to be having a problem with his Jyggalag. Let’s see how that pans out.

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What I learned while looking for viable cover images for an upcoming stories:

• Searching for "higher dimensional spaces" will mostly get you wireframes and exotic geometry.
• Searching for "higher dimensions" will mostly get you the stuff the later parts of expanding brain memes are made of.

In any case, I think we're in business:

Update on the EU copyright law situation: The good news is that I jumped the gun. The bad news is that there's still a gun to jump. The motion passed the first hurdle and will be going out to the whole assembly on July 2nd. In the meantime, they've awoken something of a sleeping giant in terms of all the people who aren't pleased with this, ranging from founding fathers of the Internet to the UN's expert on human rights.

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Core Set 2019* previews are in full swing, and today we got a cycle of cards relevant to my interests in several respects. So relevant that I started coming up with little story moments for each of them, hence the Story Shuffle tag. It sort of counts.

*Magic core sets, like car models, use the next year so they sound relevant for longer.

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Just a notice that Getting the Band Back Together, my ever-so-gradually updating story of how the sirens came to work for Mr. Discord in the Oversaturated World, has updated again. I'll try to make sure the next chapter doesn't take five months.

We may be in an intraseasonal hiatus, but there’s still a week’s worth of animation for me to review before going back to the comics. The Equestria Girls shorts never stopped being a thing. Indeed, they’ve been a thing for long enough that even Hasbro’s sluggish YouTube release schedule has almost caught up to this article. Let’s get started.

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I found this compilation of a bunch of shorts I never knew existed while reviewing the shorts for tomorrow's Friendship is Card Games:

It's mostly a crash course in notable events and world building in Equestria, but there are some notable tidbits to take away from it:

• “Foals and fillies” remains a thing. Argh.
• Earth pony magic confirmed to exist, along with alicorns having it.

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Long ago, in the distant days of 2015, I wrote a reaction fic to "The Cutie Map" wherein Discord delivered an ultimatum to a freshly deposed Starlight: Abandon your quest for vengeance or face the consequences.

"The Cutie Re-Mark" aired. I followed through on his promise, taking Starlight to a world of true equine equality, where the only legacy ponies left were the mass-produced love batteries that powered the changeling nation of Omnifaria. And that would've been the end of it.

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I'm not usually one to post random YouTube videos, but this is amazing.